The Legend of Joel Embiid

[Sixerscan]

One thing I find interesting is that, despite his bad turnover habits, the Sixers actually have a noticeably lower overall turnover rate with him on the court (16.5% on versus 18.9 off)

That would seem to lead credence to the idea that, with the current roster at least, letting him spazz out on the block sometimes is better than the alternative.

[cksdayoff]

hopefully he starts anticipating the late double/triple teams better. too bad we got no one to hit open shots tho

[Ericb5]

hopefully he starts anticipating the late double/triple teams better. too bad we got no one to hit open shots tho

It is a truism that it takes big men a while to mature on the court. Embiid is an exception to this rule to such an extent that it is easy to forget how little experience he has.

I think that he has made obvious improvements this year in recognizing and handling double teams, and playing more in control.

He still has a ways to go, but the improvements have been obvious from last year to this year, and he has still played only 62 nba games.

He doesn’t really need to do anything, but stay healthy, and keep improving at the same rate. If he does this he could be the best player in the league by the time he was 25-26.


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[76ciology]

Crazy about Embiid is he’s so talented that he can just copy moves he saw and then learns how and when to use them. The first time he did the euro step was flat out hilarious btw.

[Ericb5]

Crazy about Embiid is he’s so talented that he can just copy moves he saw and then learns how and when to use them. The first time he did the euro step was flat out hilarious btw.

And then he just incorporated it into his game, and it makes it so I don’t wince every time he pump fakes at the 3 point line and drives because that eurostep, or something close to it, is so much better than what he used to do.


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[Ericb5]

Pompey tweeted that Embiid thinks he will be allowed to play back to backs by the end of this month.


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[ivysixer2000]

Pompey tweeted that Embiid thinks he will be allowed to play back to backs by the end of this month.


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I was looking at this, cause we have quite a few back to backs coming up to end the season so that would be good news. If you noticed, we have played a hard schedule so far but we have played fewer games than most teams in the league. It will be made up with back to backs later, we have just had a very weird schedule.

That back to back at the end of the month is at the Thunder and at the Bucks, he will be needed in both and maybe thats what he's talking about. If we can get through January, which is hard, then the rest of the season will lighten up considerably. I wouldn't be surprised if we have the easiest schedule in the league from February to April, as from right now its already the 4th easiest.

[Ericb5]

Pompey tweeted that Embiid thinks he will be allowed to play back to backs by the end of this month.


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I was looking at this, cause we have quite a few back to backs coming up to end the season so that would be good news. If you noticed, we have played a hard schedule so far but we have played fewer games than most teams in the league. It will be made up with back to backs later, we have just had a very weird schedule.

That back to back at the end of the month is at the Thunder and at the Bucks, he will be needed in both and maybe thats what he's talking about. If we can get through January, which is hard, then the rest of the season will lighten up considerably. I wouldn't be surprised if we have the easiest schedule in the league from February to April, as from right now its already the 4th easiest.

I agree.

I think that Joel is physically ready to play in back to backs, and those two games make sense to start it out.

Just lower his minutes in the second game if you can.


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[Kolkmania]

Isn't it kind of weird that Joel Embiid is playing for the Rising Stars game as an All Star starter? I think I'd rather have him skip that one despite him being a sophomore. We have a rough stretch in terms of the amount of games we have to play after the All Star break.

[kuclas]

Isn't it kind of weird that Joel Embiid is playing for the Rising Stars game as an All Star starter? I think I'd rather have him skip that one despite him being a sophomore. We have a rough stretch in terms of the amount of games we have to play after the All Star break.

It’s not really hard core games. Almost like jogging and throwing up shots. Anyways. I doubt he plays more than a few minutes if he plays at all.

[mithrandir17]

Isn't it kind of weird that Joel Embiid is playing for the Rising Stars game as an All Star starter? I think I'd rather have him skip that one despite him being a sophomore. We have a rough stretch in terms of the amount of games we have to play after the All Star break.

It’s not really hard core games. Almost like jogging and throwing up shots. Anyways. I doubt he plays more than a few minutes if he plays at all.

Yeah, the all star game nowadays is just a glorified shoot around. No one wants to play defense because no one wants to hurt himself playing a meaningless game. The NBA should make the 3 point contest and dunk contest the main event of the all star weekend. All star Saturday is more entertaining than the Sunday event.

[Kolkmania]

Isn't it kind of weird that Joel Embiid is playing for the Rising Stars game as an All Star starter? I think I'd rather have him skip that one despite him being a sophomore. We have a rough stretch in terms of the amount of games we have to play after the All Star break.

It’s not really hard core games. Almost like jogging and throwing up shots. Anyways. I doubt he plays more than a few minutes if he plays at all.

Yeah, the all star game nowadays is just a glorified shoot around. No one wants to play defense because no one wants to hurt himself playing a meaningless game. The NBA should make the 3 point contest and dunk contest the main event of the all star weekend. All star Saturday is more entertaining than the Sunday event.

Oh it's not the actually wear from the game itself that bothers me, but more the time he could have had to prepare for the second half of the season. Guess it's more a personal thing, I kind of dislike the All Star thing in general and can't bother to watch it, far too commercial and uncompetitive for a non-American fan.

[CoreyGallagher]

Hadnt seen this, was actually funny.

[JojoSlimbiid]

Isn't this injury to Cousin's almost guarantee him the all nba first team? Health permitting of course.

[kuclas]

Isn't this injury to Cousin's almost guarantee him the all nba first team? Health permitting of course.

The more I think about it.

Voters will just shift Anthony Davis over at center

That way. They will get to vote Kd/Giannis/LeBron at forward. (One of them will be left off 1st team)

All NBa first team
Voting has been very inconsistent voting fowarDa and centers.

I remember when they put Duncan/Shaq/Kg (shaq was center). Duncan and KG were forwards. So the left out small forwards


Yet during Charles Barkley Career. He got screwed out of a few first teams all nba. Cause they wanted to put real small forwards like Chris Mullin and Scottie Pippen on all
First team nba and put Karl Malone as the power forward first team.

[Sixerscan]

Isn't this injury to Cousin's almost guarantee him the all nba first team? Health permitting of course.

The more I think about it.

Voters will just shift Anthony Davis over at center

That way. They will get to vote Kd/Giannis/LeBron at forward. (One of them will be left off 1st team)

All NBa first team
Voting has been very inconsistent voting fowarDa and centers.

I remember when they put Duncan/Shaq/Kg (shaq was center). Duncan and KG were forwards. So the left out small forwards


Yet during Charles Barkley Career. He got screwed out of a few first teams all nba. Cause they wanted to put real small forwards like Chris Mullin and Scottie Pippen on all
First team nba and put Karl Malone as the power forward first team.

Yeah, and hopefully this causes them to finally do away with the positional stuff and just pick the 5 best players. Especially because money is involved now.

But hey, if Embiid can play at a level that convinces a majority of national media members that he's a better player than Anthony Davis, I'm pretty sure we can handle the extra $5 million a year.

[Ericb5]

Isn't this injury to Cousin's almost guarantee him the all nba first team? Health permitting of course.

The more I think about it.

Voters will just shift Anthony Davis over at center

That way. They will get to vote Kd/Giannis/LeBron at forward. (One of them will be left off 1st team)

All NBa first team
Voting has been very inconsistent voting fowarDa and centers.

I remember when they put Duncan/Shaq/Kg (shaq was center). Duncan and KG were forwards. So the left out small forwards


Yet during Charles Barkley Career. He got screwed out of a few first teams all nba. Cause they wanted to put real small forwards like Chris Mullin and Scottie Pippen on all
First team nba and put Karl Malone as the power forward first team.

Yeah, and hopefully this causes them to finally do away with the positional stuff and just pick the 5 best players. Especially because money is involved now.

But hey, if Embiid can play at a level that convinces a majority of national media members that he's a better player than Anthony Davis, I'm pretty sure we can handle the extra $5 million a year.

Absolutely. It would be nice to be able to save the money, but if he is voted to the first team it will be a great thing for our franchise anyway.

Embiid is the franchise.


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[LongLiveHinkie]

Embiid playing tomorrow. Two ways of looking at this. It could either be a good sign he's gonna play his first back to back of his career, since beating the Bucks is more important to us in terms of playoff seeding, so if they were gonna sit him, it'd make sense to sit him vs OKC.

But then tomorrow is a national TV game and you know how this team is with Embiid playing on national TV, so it might mean nothing and they're gonna sit him vs the Bucks.

[76ciology]

Stat of the day.

Embiid makes the team's defense worse when's on court for January. While team plays below 90DRtg when Amir is on court.

[cool93]

Stat of the day.

Embiid makes the team's defense worse when's on court for January. While team plays below 90DRtg when Amir is on court.

We gave supermax to the wrong guy..

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