{"id":797562,"date":"2018-02-22T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=795059"},"modified":"2018-02-22T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T13:30:09","slug":"sixers-need-to-finally-silence-the-noise-around-markelle-fultz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/sixers-need-to-finally-silence-the-noise-around-markelle-fultz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers need to finally silence the noise around Markelle Fultz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the words and voice of one of my favorite video games (Street Fighter II):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRound 2. Fight!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second half of the 2017-2018 Philadelphia 76ers season tips off tonight in Chicago. After a successful first half (30-25, 7th in the Eastern Conference), the Sixers are gearing up for a playoff push.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Embiid is an all-star. Who he took to the All-Star Game for his date remains a mystery unless I do some serious internet research that I care not to do. The Sixers as a team have one of the easiest remaining schedules in the league &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/total-sports-live\/brace-yourselves-sixers-fans-because-a-run-is-coming\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">something that was brought up in a previous column<\/a> lending the possibility of a serious run.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Simmons has put up numbers to be the 2017-2018 Rookie of the Year. So far, Simmons scores 16.4 points per game &#8212; even if he allegedly shoots with the wrong hand (*waves to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kevinoconnornba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin O\u2019Connor at The Ringer<\/a>*), gets 7.8 rebounds per game, and dishes\u00a0out 7.3 assists per game. He\u2019s also better than anyone thought he\u2019d be defensively (3.5 defensive win shares, 3.4 defensive box plus-minus).<\/p>\n<p>(I mean no disrespect Utah Jazz fans. I like Donovan Mitchell. I liked him coming out of the University of Louisville, but Simmons is the Rookie of the Year. Let\u2019s calm down.)<\/p>\n<p>As fun and exciting as this season has been, there is one topic that always gets asked about both to me and anyone else that is a Sixers fan:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s really up with Markelle Fultz?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My most educated guess on this topic is that I don\u2019t have the slightest idea &#8212; mainly because something like what has transpired with Fultz is unprecedented.<\/p>\n<p>For those who have been under a rock since last July, here\u2019s a brief timeline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sixers draft Fultz #1 overall in July.<\/li>\n<li>Fultz goes through Summer League and training camp (where his shooting motion looked different &#8211; lower release point).<\/li>\n<li>Fultz scores 10 points, gets three rebounds and one assist in his first game vs. the Washington Wizards in October.<\/li>\n<li>Sixers pull Fultz indefinitely from lineups on Oct. 29 citing &#8220;soreness and scapular muscle imbalance in his right shoulder&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Nothing but columns and videos at practice since then speculating on his progress.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fultz continues to practice with the team, but he hasn\u2019t played in a regular season game since being ruled out indefinitely. Before the All-Star Break, Sixers General Manager Bryan Colangelo said in a press conference that Fultz\u2019s shooting range was \u201cinside the paint\u201d and no further.<\/p>\n<p>This news was disappointing to hear considering a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JCameratoNBCS\/status\/956940896578260992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video of Fultz draining a full court shot over his head backwards<\/a> surfaced prior to Colangelo\u2019s comments. Last week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g86D2a0Ibfs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zack Rosenblatt of NJ.com posted this video to YouTube<\/a> showing Fultz shooting pull-up \u201cjimbos\u201d (jump shots) from outside the painted area.<\/p>\n<p>That means that we\u2019ll see Fultz soon, right?<\/p>\n<p>Who knows? The Sixers haven\u2019t said anything to that effect. Neither Fultz nor anyone in his camp has said anything to that effect, either, so we\u2019re all in a never-ending cycle of limbo. Some Sixers fans are more patient than others. We did this with Nerlens Noel. We did this with Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons &#8212; the torturous waiting game.<\/p>\n<p>With the second half of the season starting tonight, the question remains: what now?<\/p>\n<p>There are really only two ways to go about this. One way is the clear right way, and the other is the absolute wrong way.<\/p>\n<p>The wrong way to go about this is throw Fultz in right now for the second half. I cannot stress enough how much of a bad idea this is. Conventional wisdom suggests that you let a shooter like Fultz shoot his way out of a funk.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I had a more intelligent way to say this, but that idea is completely stupid. The worst thing you can do to a player like Fultz who may have confidence issues is to put him in a situation where his confidence is rattled even further.<\/p>\n<p>The Sixers are in the middle of a playoff race, so throwing Fultz in that situation when he may not be mentally ready is a disaster waiting to happen. Don\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n<p>Note how I said \u201cmentally ready\u201d. Physically, I believe Fultz is fine. Sixers team doctors can feel free to forward me any information to the contrary, but if you have the strength to heave a full court shot over your shoulder, it makes one believe that whatever was wrong with the shoulder might be at least 80-90% healed. You don\u2019t do something like that with a bad shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>Fultz may just have the yips. There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, and that\u2019s something that can easily be fixed. Don\u2019t think, just play. Play on the NBA court the same way you would play on an outdoor court when you were a teenager &#8212; or a younger teenager in Fultz\u2019s case. (He is 19, after all.)<\/p>\n<p>If that is the case and Fultz has the yips, putting him in a scenario with an NBA team fighting for playoff positioning is crazy. Granted, I could be completely wrong. The Sixers could throw Fultz in now, and Fultz is extra spectacular. If that happens, I\u2019ll gladly eat crow.<\/p>\n<p>In my mind, there\u2019s only one way to go forward with this. Shut him down. The Sixers should just come out and say he\u2019s not going to play this season. It\u2019s definitely going to suck, and you\u2019re going to take a public relations hit. Is that hit going to be better or worse than the hits and haymakers you\u2019ve been taking since October, though?<\/p>\n<p>Let Fultz progress and get ready at his own pace without the pressure of playing with a playoff team. The Sixers signed Marco Belinelli before the All-Star break, so the team will be fine for the rest of the year.<\/p>\n<p>This year was never about competing for a championship. It was about (maybe) competing for a playoff spot &#8212; which they are. The long view is important, and a confident Fultz is necessary for that long view.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, there is a \u201cRick and Morty\u201d-like alternate universe where Fultz never figures it out and he becomes a horrible, terrible bust. There\u2019s also the possibility a universe exists where Fultz puts it back together, and he becomes the James Harden clone that he was projected to be.<\/p>\n<p>Fultz is neither of those things yet, so why not announce he won\u2019t play this season? It hurts no one.<\/p>\n<p>While you\u2019re shutting him down, here is an idea that I heard on a recent \u201cRights to Ricky Sanchez\u201d podcast &#8212; hosted by Spike Eskin and Michael Levin of Liberty Ballers.<\/p>\n<p>When Fultz is doing shooting drills and having private sessions with shooting coaches, shield him from the press. The last thing Fultz or the Sixers need is to have to explain why Fultz looks a certain way after a 20-30 second video.<\/p>\n<p>Leave the kid be. Fultz is still a 19-year old kid with great potential. There\u2019s no need to record and document every second of his shooting motion (however good or bad it looks). Fellow guard, J.J. Redick called the media\u2019s coverage of Fultz\u2019s shooting drills \u201cobsessive\u201d, and at this point, I agree with him.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t care what it looks like now because it might not be the finished product. Show me the finished product. This is a message to all media:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI, Adio Royster, columnist at Total Sports Live hereby no longer give a rat\u2019s behind about Markelle Fultz shooting drills. Post them if you absolutely feel you need to because you\u2019re desperate for clicks and website traffic, but you won\u2019t get those from me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leave the kid alone, and let him work on his craft that he\u2019s been preparing for all his life. Regardless of the situation, now, we have to finally put things in perspective that Markelle Fultz is a 19-year old kid who is having a rough go of things at his first job.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all been there, and many of us work our way out in one way or another. Sixers fans everywhere are pulling for you, Markelle.<\/p>\n<p>You do you, and we\u2019ll be here when you\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n<p>#TrustTheProcess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the words and voice of one of my favorite video games (Street Fighter II): \u201cRound 2. 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