I'm not ready to give up on this combo. But you're right, it's really up to Ben to make this work. It really feels like a team focused on Ben is very similar to building a team focused on Bron, basically, have a secondary ball handler/ shot maker and make everyone else a spot-up shooter whether it's Embiid, Love, or Bosh.
Either that or construct a team like Boston in the Rondo days, but Rondo was not the center of that piece.
I think a lot of it has to do with making those mismatches happen, and that's on coach to make it happen (which I don't think he's capable of doing).
They used to feed off each other a lot last year.