You can see the change in the culture, and so I think the growth of that is there. For me, it’s time to go, and I meant that with everybody in the organization and overall, I thought we were starting to get it done. I’m talking about trainers, equipment managers, everybody.if you’re not on board, if you’re not trying to win and that’s not what you’re breathing every day. We’re bringing you in here to change the culture’ and he meant everywhere and he allowed me to come in and we looked through the whole organization. You can feel it all through the organization and Elton (Brand), when he brought me in, that’s what he told me like ‘Hey, this is not just about coaching his team. Rivers on changing the culture around the Sixers I just think we forget his age and we forget how we started in this league. When he does that, it’s gonna be hard to stop and I think he will do it. The next one will be making his teammates better. Jo, you can play tonight’ and now he’s up in games and so he’s doing that. He missed the first year and so fighting early on when I first got there was huge. Like when you miss two years and you’re sitting there all the time and you get used to not playing in games. We also forget his first two years he didn’t play and I’m telling you that sets a tone. And so I thought that Jo in the three years, you can see the growth there. Just be around the guys and spend time with your guys and let them know that you love them because they love you. Not just on the court, but also off the court. He’s just got to do that on a consistent basis. He has the ability to make his teammates better and when he does it, if you look at our games this year when he did that and dominated, hard to go away from Joel Embiid. Then the second thing is Jo and he has the ability, I stayed on him daily. The next year, he hits his face and tears ligaments in his hand, and then this year he has a knee injury and he was never the same once he came back this year. But a lot of that is due-the first year I had him he hurts his knee. Then number two for Jo, is he’s got to make all his players better in the playoffs and Jo, his numbers are unfair, because he’s really-if you look at his numbers in the last three years in the playoffs, compared to his regular season numbers, they’re not very good. In the playoffs and this was the healthiest, but he still wasn’t 100%.
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