Maxey reveals how he’ll adjust to playing with LeBron

DETROIT — Tyrese Maxey is studying old film of Kyrie Irving and Dwyane Wade to learn how to play alongside LeBron James.

Playing with LeBron James is no easy task, Maxey said after a win over the Pistons on Wednesday.

LeBron James is a unique superstar with an incredibly high basketball IQ, and it takes a lot of work to be able to find a way to be effective out on the floor next to him.

Maxey has found a way to do so in the early part of the season.

The seven-year guard is averaging 28.0 points, 5.4 assists, and 3.6 rebounds while shooting 48.6% from the floor.

In the early part of the season, Maxey and James have found a way to dominate as the Sixers have a plus-7.1 net rating when the two of them share the floor per databallr.

It is easy to compare their partnership to James’ past duos.

The immediate thought is James’ partnership with Kyrie Irving during his days with the Cleveland Cavaliers as well as with Dwyane Wade while with the Miami Heat.

Watching those duos on the floor helped Maxey grow something similar with James while in Philadelphia.

“I was 16 years old and I watched probably every playoff game that they had,” Maxey said after a win over the Pistons on Wednesday.

“So, I was a big Kyrie fan growing up and I was a big D-Wade fan. So somehow I had to watch LeBron. But I did learn a lot from that because LeBron does a good job of getting those guys open.”

James is so fantastic at orchestrating things on the offensive end.

He picked the Pistons apart on Wednesday just by making sure everybody was in the right places on the floor as he was barking out orders and found his teammates with some eye-popping passes.

Just as he did with guys like Irving and Wade in the past, and even Steph Curry and Kevin Durant in the Olympics, he is doing it with Maxey in Philadelphia.

There have been plenty of instances in which James has hit Maxey right in his shooting pocket for an easy 3-point look or off a pindown screen or whatever action the Sixers are running.