Blue_and_Whte wrote:what it tells me is that you can’t win in this league without elite wing talent. Imagine if we had that WITH Vuc/Ag/Fournier/jizaymon wrote:pepe1991 wrote:
It's cherrypicking something to make a point.
Joel Embiid shoots 35% in this series. That's 35% overall. Had one good game, looked unplayable in two others.
They are winning because Raptors can't get anything from bench and because Jimmy Butler, in his own words is now "James Butler" .
But mostly because VanVleet and Powell have been disaster.
Raptors in this series are outscored by 35 points when Vleet and Powell are playing. It's almost impressive that Powell has net rating of -40,6. It's even more impressive that his offensive rating is 60. That's some next level of sucking.
When you look at Embiid highlights from his best game its obvious he didnt get half of the attention Vucevic was getting. On his buckets he was not once double, they dared him to shoot threes and he got lucky with 3/4 abnormal result, on pick and roll they all looked at Butler not Joel. Its so different from what Vucevic got its not even a disscusion. What we can take from this game though is centers are much easier to contain than guards and wings and you need to have very balanced team to leverage them, but the payoffs are great.
Another point is Toronto’s cerebral approach to defending Embiid which plays into what I’ve read on the Sixers forum and watching him play, if you let Embiid hit a couple of shots, especially 3’s, he tends to become a bit of a black hole which disrupts phillys offense.
Howard in the pick and roll got Jameer plenty of open midrange jumpers back in the day. The defense would focus on Howard and leave Meer open. I would assume the same applied to whoever ran the pnr with Dwight. So it’s not just an elite wing thing.
Lakers are turning into Knicks West.
