G27: Sixers v Spurs 12/23 7:00pm ET NBATV

[eyeatoma]

You guys are just as bad as the general board with these takes. Yeah he should have kept his emotions in check. Newsflash, that was the worst reffed game in NBA history. Every single player in the league would have a similar reaction if that had just happened. It just looks worse because of all the **** that has happened to Jo this year, which again, as an understandable response, when you have scum of the earth like Marcus Hayes existing.

The dude is 100% depressed because of the **** that has gone down in his career. There are far worse players in the league who don't get half the hate that he gets.

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This guy for example has an even worse temper than Embiid, and has actually injured a player because of his anger management issues.

[mjkvol]

While we’re at it, we need to replace Kate Scott.

If that was the only change the Sixers made in the organization this year, I'd still be thrilled. Not even not tanking and missing the playoffs and the top 6 pick could spoil that.

[76Love]

This board coddles Embiid too much. It’s not everybody but it’s the majority.

Embiid is not the first NBA player or athlete for that matter to suffer from depression. That does not excuse his actions. If he is depressed I hope he is seeking professional help if not I have absolutely no sympathy for him. There are plenty of people in this world who would love to get mental help but don’t have the means. You can’t say I’ll be better than go do this.

All you do is pull up bs from twitter and post it. It’s like the only backup that you have.

[Jailblazers7]

Oh great, a discussion about gender equality because a ref gave out a tech.

All the bullsh*t aside, that’s a dumb move by Embiid & would’ve been a tech whether that ref was a man or woman. He’s clearly in a bad mental space - which I assume is due to personal issues that we don’t know about. But big fella needs to get his head on straight or take a little absence from the team like Wiggins did.

[Mik317]

posting online is not coddling anyone.

Understanding that people go through **** differently is key here. I have had an awful **** year...and constantly feel like a bad day could end really poorly. And it can come from the smallest of ****. Biid HAS to be better and control his emotions especially now that the margin of error is much smaller but that is easy for us to say from the comfort of our own homes. Man's body is breaking down, the whole world seems to hate him in regards to anything he does, and he is coming back off of yet another face injury and here comes this ref power tripping... yes he should be better and not go **** but this is one of the aforementioned smallest of **** that can just snowball. Mental Health isn't something you just take care of once...its a constant struggle and you will have plenty of "relapses".

There is a difference between "Biid can do no wrong" and the constant "he sucks and should be traded asap". He **** up here and has to be better but context also shows that I understand from a human standpoint why he **** up...thats not "coddling" that just not freaking out over every event in an attempt to prove your already pre-standing feelings. I get so sick of the whoel "oh your coddling" athletes bit like our **** posts even matter that much...its just a cop out for "why aren't you as mad as me about this thing" IMO.

[eyeatoma]

This board coddles Embiid too much. It’s not everybody but it’s the majority.

Embiid is not the first NBA player or athlete for that matter to suffer from depression. That does not excuse his actions. If he is depressed I hope he is seeking professional help if not I have absolutely no sympathy for him. There are plenty of people in this world who would love to get mental help but don’t have the means. You can’t say I’ll be better than go do this.

All you do is pull up bs from twitter and post it. It’s like the only backup that you have.

Lol I provide evidence, and it's the only backup I have? That's literally what you do, to support your argument. All you are doing is bitching, and adding to the hive mind mentality of social media. He has some pretty significant depression.

2 red shirt years
4 face fractures
A litany of lower body injuries that would make a war veteran blush
The absolute worst luck in the league.
All time great MVP season destroyed because of public pressure being forced to play in Denver and Golden State
Brother killed in a car accident
Journalist uses it to **** on Embiid
Public skewers him for playing for USA
**** coaches
**** Co-stars who forget how to shoot
GM who called him out with a burner account.

But yeah, go seek professional help, you get no sympathy from me, suck it up butter cup, you're a privileged athlete, so you better figure it the **** out.

Not everything is as cut and dry as you want it to be. Lol seek professional help, but you get no sympathy. That's a copout as well lol.

Mental wellbeing is a western concept that has picked up in the last 5-10 years. Most of the world deals with it in their own way, and some who have access to go help go and get it. Might want to tune out of your closed world view and try to take in some perspective. The dude is also from an African nation where a lot of that stuff isn't discussed. Most Asian/African countries frown on that. There is probably a cultural component involved as well.

[76Love]

I am totally aware that posting online isn’t coddling anyone. WTF? lol. That’s not what I meant when I said that. But hey if the shoe fits……..

There are plenty of people who are going through worse **** than Embiid is going through. Lashing out on a female referee In the manner he did and then not even talking to the media afterwards is cowardly. Embiid has also said a lot of dumb **** in the past that also warrants the backlash he has gotten over the years. He has to develop tougher skin. He lacks self awareness at age 30. That’s a problem.

Eyetoma, all you do is bitch on the general board time and time again and even said yourself it’s hard to defend Embiid several times on here and the general board. I already know your schtick and it’s old. You still post a bunch of bs from twitter just to make yourself feel good cause you’re lonely overseas.

[Mik317]

Eyetoma criticizes Biid plenty.

Your issue is that he doesn't ONLY criticize him.

he's a sixers fan...of course he is going to defend a player on his team from fans who don't know the ends and out of it.

Again never understood this narrative lol. "Oh you only defend him because your a fan..."

yeah? And?

Again there is a place between the two extremes of "Biid is god and can do no wrong" and 'Biid is the worst thing ever and deserves worse"....

He **** up in this instance. He will probably **** up again in the future...its called being human. Doesn't make it right or justifies it. he should have been tossed. Half the league would have been (cept Draymond somehow lol). It was a really silly call to get up in arms about too. Which leads credence to it being less about the call and more about a dude who is going through it rn. AGAIN does not make it right and yes others have it much worse (which as an aside has always been a stupid thing to bring up...because yeah there is always someone going through worse things than you...doesn't make your current bad times feel any better especially in the moment..again very easy for you to say from your POV and as an outsider) but it is understandable. It didn't need to be yet another entry into why you think Embiid sucks or doesn't suck tho.

Thus the "defense" or "coddling" comes into the scene because IDK feels like a pretty cut and dry situation to me. He **** up. I get why he **** up. But he still **** up. Ball up top.

[Black Mage]

Honestly, I think the female ref blowing horribly her call and ejection of Drummond when Wemby flopped is what caused Joel to lose it.

We as fans were ready to be all over the ref for blowing a call and then ejecting Drummond for barely arguing. Players are just as aware of what a ref is doing as fans are.

Also, to me after a slow replay it does look like she makes the first tech sign and lifts her hands almost to show it to Joel's face. Inciting rather than defusing.

[eyeatoma]

I am totally aware that posting online isn’t coddling anyone. WTF? lol. That’s not what I meant when I said that. But hey if the shoe fits……..

There are plenty of people who are going through worse **** than Embiid is going through. Lashing out on a female referee In the manner he did and then not even talking to the media afterwards is cowardly. Embiid has also said a lot of dumb **** in the past that also warrants the backlash he has gotten over the years. He has to develop tougher skin. He lacks self awareness at age 30. That’s a problem.

Eyetoma, all you do is bitch on the general board time and time again and even said yourself it’s hard to defend Embiid several times on here and the general board. I already know your schtick and it’s old. You still post a bunch of bs from twitter just to make yourself feel good cause you’re lonely overseas.

Lonely overseas lol? Trust me I'd much rather be overseas than be around what's going on in this country right now. America is not the bastion of all that's good and just that it used to be, or people ever thought it was. That being said I'm also connected to this country as my sister has settled here, my wife is American, and my kids are US citizens.

I've been pretty disconnected from this team because of everything that's going on.
Doesn't mean I won't respond when this board starts taking a rabid Gen Z response. Context is key, which you lack. I'm highlighting the hypocricy of how other players do similar things and it's forgotten in a day, while with Embiid there's always a history, which is pretty ridiculous.

Way to bring up not being American, and not having "perspective". You realize I've been on this board long before Embiid was around, and I will be long after. Sounds more like you don't like Embiid, and want an echo chamber in here. If you feel the way you do, you should probably stick to the GB with your casual and borderline racist remarks.

[youngcrev]

You guys are just as bad as the general board with these takes. Yeah he should have kept his emotions in check. Newsflash, that was the worst reffed game in NBA history. Every single player in the league would have a similar reaction if that had just happened. It just looks worse because of all the **** that has happened to Jo this year, which again, as an understandable response, when you have scum of the earth like Marcus Hayes existing.

The dude is 100% depressed because of the **** that has gone down in his career. There are far worse players in the league who don't get half the hate that he gets.

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This guy for example has an even worse temper than Embiid, and has actually injured a player because of his anger management issues.

Ehhhhhh

There's a difference between reactions being understandable and being excusable. The refs were awful. That one in particular. Embiid can't do that. Drummond certainly didn't when he got tossed under a more ridiculous circumstance (which obviously added to the Embiid situation, but still).

Marcus Hayes may be a POS for writing what he did... Embiid can't physically go after him.

And then you're just bringing in what-about-ism as a defense. And no, at this point Jokic absolutely does not have more of these circumstances than Jo.

I don't think Embiid is a bad guy or deserving of the rhetoric surrounding him in places like the general board (that place is ridiculous)... But if we're having an honest, inside the family conversation about him without running into defend my guy mode, he can't be doing this type of stuff.

[Eyeamok]

Terrible look for Embiid and there is no excuse for it. Embiid has been in the league 11 years. You have to keep your emotions in check.

He is still immature and some people just can’t change who they are no matter how hard they may try. Then he cowards out and doesn’t even speak to the media afterwards. He knows it was a bad look.

Not talking to the media is probably the smartest thing he did. Not speaking when you are hot and the situation is still raw is not for the emotional. And Embiid is very emotional. Step away try and get some perspective and come back better on and off the court.
Adam Silver should not suspend him. He was out of line with a ref and the ref tossed hm out of the game.

[eyeatoma]

You guys are just as bad as the general board with these takes. Yeah he should have kept his emotions in check. Newsflash, that was the worst reffed game in NBA history. Every single player in the league would have a similar reaction if that had just happened. It just looks worse because of all the **** that has happened to Jo this year, which again, as an understandable response, when you have scum of the earth like Marcus Hayes existing.

The dude is 100% depressed because of the **** that has gone down in his career. There are far worse players in the league who don't get half the hate that he gets.

Read on Twitter

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This guy for example has an even worse temper than Embiid, and has actually injured a player because of his anger management issues.

Ehhhhhh

There's a difference between reactions being understandable and being excusable. The refs were awful. That one in particular. Embiid can't do that. Drummond certainly didn't when he got tossed under a more ridiculous circumstance (which obviously added to the Embiid situation, but still).

Marcus Hayes may be a POS for writing what he did... Embiid can't physically go after him.

And then you're just bringing in what-about-ism as a defense. And no, at this point Jokic absolutely does not have more of these circumstances than Jo.

I don't think Embiid is a bad guy or deserving of the rhetoric surrounding him in places like the general board (that place is ridiculous)... But if we're having an honest, inside the family conversation about him without running into defend my guy mode, he can't be doing this type of stuff.

If it was just left at that, and that he can't do that kind of stuff, then yes 100% agree. However we both know that's not how it goes on this board or social media. Hence my response. You saw some of that on this thread itself.

[76Love]

Now I’m being told how I really feel about Embiid and I’ve made borderline racist remarks

Dude has more posts on the general board than I do bitching about any and everything yet and looks like an idiot trying to defend him with tweets and nonsense. He will just go to his “we agree to disagree” line when he gets proven wrong.

You’re just as immature as Embiid yet you’re older than I am.

[eyeatoma]

Who is this clown?

[WentzerWuver]

Terrible look for Embiid and there is no excuse for it. Embiid has been in the league 11 years. You have to keep your emotions in check.

He is still immature and some people just can’t change who they are no matter how hard they may try. Then he cowards out and doesn’t even speak to the media afterwards. He knows it was a bad look.

Not talking to the media is probably the smartest thing he did. Not speaking when you are hot and the situation is still raw is not for the emotional. And Embiid is very emotional. Step away try and get some perspective and come back better on and off the court.
Adam Silver should not suspend him. He was out of line with a ref and the ref tossed hm out of the game.

She was way out of her elements.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Yq7NgR-sYyo?si=WF5YJ183ag0ztrYi

[Eyeamok]

Terrible look for Embiid and there is no excuse for it. Embiid has been in the league 11 years. You have to keep your emotions in check.

He is still immature and some people just can’t change who they are no matter how hard they may try. Then he cowards out and doesn’t even speak to the media afterwards. He knows it was a bad look.

Not talking to the media is probably the smartest thing he did. Not speaking when you are hot and the situation is still raw is not for the emotional. And Embiid is very emotional. Step away try and get some perspective and come back better on and off the court.
Adam Silver should not suspend him. He was out of line with a ref and the ref tossed hm out of the game.

She was way out of her elements.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Yq7NgR-sYyo?si=WF5YJ183ag0ztrYi

When you argue or someone argues for your limitations you get to keep them. Joel deserved to be tossed from the game. The ref sucked, but Joel needs to know and understand that he is the only person responsible for how he responds and acts.

[76ciology]

While we’re at it, we need to replace Kate Scott.

If that was the only change the Sixers made in the organization this year, I'd still be thrilled. Not even not tanking and missing the playoffs and the top 6 pick could spoil that.

I’d be more thrilled to replace Kate Scott than to land Cooper Flagg

[mjkvol]

Lashing out on a female referee In the manner he did ...

I didn't jump into this because I've become indifferent about this season, but your entire argument goes down the drain right here.

So, what "manner" would be the proper one for "lashing out" on a female referee? Should she be pampered and treated differently? Does that not fly in the face of the entire purported idea of having female refs in the first place?

Just asking for a friend.

[mjkvol]

While we’re at it, we need to replace Kate Scott.

If that was the only change the Sixers made in the organization this year, I'd still be thrilled. Not even not tanking and missing the playoffs and the top 6 pick could spoil that.

I’d be more thrilled to replace Kate Scott than to land Cooper Flagg

Amen brother, and it's not even close.

Only one is guaranteed to enhance our enjoyment of watching the Sixers on a night to night basis.