How can we master the Embiid whistle?

Post #1 » by **Calinks** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 5:22 am

What can our guys do to better get calls like this? It would hope so much?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/z0dj5e/highlight_a_compilation_of_joel_embiid_drawing/

winforlose · Post #2 » by **winforlose** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:02 am

Calinks wrote:What can our guys do to better get calls like this? It would hope so much?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/z0dj5e/highlight_a_compilation_of_joel_embiid_drawing/

Bribe the league to give us big star and big market treatment. Embiid, Harden, and others prove that the NBA is not a real competition. Some players are allowed to travel, offensive foul, defensive foul, loose ball foul, taunt, and play as physical as they want, while others can do none of those things. Even tonight against Miami, the refs allowed Miami to press into us more and grab us more than we were allowed to press or grab them. Different rules for different teams undermines the notion of equal competition and is by definition corruption of the game.

minimus · Post #3 » by **minimus** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:49 am

Towns need to be better:

1) improve footwork and balance in post. Embiid's footwork and balance are impressive
2) be patient, use footwork, timing and pump fakes. I am really impressed how Embiid can change speeds, use these timely pauses and pump fakes to throw defenders out of position, balance
3) please avoid obvious and disgusting flopping, dont argue with referees, but memorise situation and ask clarification later. Marc Gasol was awful in his first year in NBA, but he learned a lot from referees. He became DPOY by asking and improving his basketball awareness.

shangrila · Post #4 » by **shangrila** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 10:08 am

Move the team

shrink · Post #5 » by **shrink** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 2:54 pm

If the league is going to give him fouls anyway, there isn’t much incentive NOT to give him hard fouls.

Start Nate Knight on him, and just clobber him until the NBA realizes that calling non-existent fouls does not protect star players.

Grubie024 · Post #6 » by **Grubie024** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 3:31 pm

The NBA really is damaging their product with the preferential treatment.
Sixers games are almost unwatchable, not to mention the uneven officiating is infuriating.
I don't want an "Embiid Whistle", I want justice!

Sixteen · Post #7 » by **Sixteen** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:02 am

Grubie024 wrote:The NBA really is damaging their product with the preferential treatment.
Sixers games are almost unwatchable, not to mention the uneven officiating is infuriating.
I don't want an "Embiid Whistle", I want justice!

Minny actually shoots more free throws a game than the sixers. Not by much, but they do..infact, half of the league shoots more FTs than the sixers. Sixers are 17th in the league in free throw attempts. I guess that makes half the league unwatchable?

shrink · Post #8 » by **shrink** » Tue Nov 29, 2022 4:40 am

Phila Tough wrote:
Grubie024 wrote:The NBA really is damaging their product with the preferential treatment.
Sixers games are almost unwatchable, not to mention the uneven officiating is infuriating.
I don't want an "Embiid Whistle", I want justice!

Minny actually shoots more free throws a game than the sixers. Not by much, but they do..infact, half of the league shoots more FTs than the sixers. Sixers are 17th in the league in free throw attempts. I guess that makes half the league unwatchable?

You can’t really believe Embiid specifically isn’t getting more foul calls than he deserves, because of superstar treatment, do you? Did you watch the “fouls” in the link in the original post, “Phila Tough?”

I’m trying to decide if you are a rational human being who simply couldn’t follow the question, or whether you’re a rampant homer who cares nothing about the NBA, and should be patted on the head like a toddler and just ignored?

younggunsmn · Post #9 » by **younggunsmn** » Thu Dec 1, 2022 4:24 am

1. Move the team to a big city on the coast
2. Make/win the finals
3. Develop a transformational superstar.

The league making money is unfortunately hugely dependent on the national TV deal (if small-mid market teams relied on ticket and local tv revenue, they'd barely keep the lights on much less field a competitive team).

And that means it's part sport, part soap opera. The league cares about creating narratives.
This guys a superstar, that guys a loser.
With his body language and constant crying, KAT is playing the part of the loser, and the league is all about reinforcing that image.
Embiid is the villian. Greek Freak can just truck guys with no consequence.
It's not fair, but If we want them to change the narrative, we have to WIN something.

It may be too late for KAT, but if ANT keeps giving heroic efforts like tonight, and we can become a consistent winner, the league might eventually flip the script and start writing that winner narrative for ANT (give him the superstar foul call treatment).
Because he has enough charisma to put this entire fandom on his back.

TimberKat · Post #10 » by **TimberKat** » Thu Dec 1, 2022 5:46 am

Embiid didn't get the calls tonight vs Cavs. See his acting jobs at 1st Qtr 5:29 and 6:45. No one touches him and he falls to the floor. Towns just need to shut up and play. Don't act like you foul someone when you got hit.