Playoffs: First Round Game 1 : (8) Washington Wizards @ (1) Philadelphia 76ers l Sunday l 1:00pm l NBCSP/TNT

[Kobblehead]

No, I love reading your posts and wish they'd stop banning you and just let you post on the board

[Negrodamus]

Lololol, what an excellent start to the playoff game threads. Iconic to Sixers fandom.

[Skates]

Ben's aggressiveness this season rose and then waned with improved, then decreased success at the foul line. I don't give a rat's butt about three pointers, getting him confident at the line, using the backboard more down low and learning the floater they don't want Maxey to use would be huge assists to his game. Not going to down Simmons as his numbers across the Board were incredible outside of scoring and had shooters getting open looks and Tobi and Embiid a little fresher from battling on the Boards. I just hate to see his overall game handicapped by FT shooting, which seems to be in his head right now.

Looked like doc was feeling out the bench players and mixing and matching with starters more than in the regular season. It will likely be a hot hand and matchup situation in the bench rotation, and hope to see more Maxey as games roll along. His energy on offense is electric and opens up a lot for others. George Hill looked excellent today.

[kuclas]

It’s like the nets series a couple of seasons ago. Except we didn’t lose the first game. If Embiid didn’t pickup those two quick fouls. We might have run them out of the building early. But playoffs give plenty of rest. Next game is Wednesday. So we don’t need a blowout with Embiid resting the entire fourth quarter.

Harris kept us afloat in the first half. Embiid and curry took over second half.

Embiid almost pulled a Ben Simmons (remember Boston Celtics series in 2018 where Ben got the rebound and should have pulled it back out but he tried to score)

After bed tapped the ball back out to Embiid with 1 min 10 seconds left. He should have passed it back out and wasted another 9-10 more seconds. Low basketball IQ move. I know I’m picking on Embiid. He was fantastic down the stretch outside of that sequence and the ball bouncing off his foot with 24 seconds

But those two sequences are what cost Sixers the game 3 Boston in the bubble.

[76ciology]

We controlled the game from start to end. Fantastic coaching by doc. His rotation was superb.

[Kobblehead]

I get the milking the clock thing, but if my 280 pounder has the ball in the paint and two munchkins are in the vicinity (Westbrook and Beal), I don't mind him going for the bucket. Shame on the ref for bailing out the shrimp with the charge.

[Kobblehead]

We controlled the game from start to end. Fantastic coaching by doc. His rotation was superb.

What is the rotation, going forward? I thought the direction was cloudy.

[Mike82]

Kork can’t see time in the playoffs his motor isn’t fast enough Maxey needs his minutes

[thenbaman]

15 reb (8 offensive) and 15 assists (most by a sixer in playoffs in 30 years or something) by Ben. You want to trade a guy who can do that at 24 in his 4th year. Oh and he defends the other teams best player. Good luck.

Support your players you bunch of whiners.

THANK YOU....

[LloydFree]

Doc went far too deep on the bench for a playoff game. Hopefully he learns his lesson. Korkmaz has no business on the court, in a playoff game. Neither does Maxey at this point in his career. George Hill and Thybulle need to be out there more minutes, going forward.

[eyeatoma]

What is Jo doing on D though

Can you blame him,. he didn't want to continue picking up fouls and getting out of the game. I feel like people ignored that the refs decided the 1st half by calling bs fouls on Jo, so now he needs to play cautious on D. Bigger concern is Ben playing so poorly.

[LloydFree]

What is Jo doing on D though

Can you blame him,. he didn't want to continue picking up fouls and getting out of the game. I feel like people ignored that the refs decided the 1st half by calling bs fouls on Jo, so now he needs to play cautious on D. Bigger concern is Ben playing so poorly.

He didn't play poorly overall. He just bricked his FTs.

[eyeatoma]

What is Jo doing on D though

Can you blame him,. he didn't want to continue picking up fouls and getting out of the game. I feel like people ignored that the refs decided the 1st half by calling bs fouls on Jo, so now he needs to play cautious on D. Bigger concern is Ben playing so poorly.

He didn't play poorly overall. He just bricked his FTs.

If he made 4 of 6, he would be 10/15/15 so yeah, not poor overall, just so sickening that we're this far with the Simmons experiment, and he can't even shoot his fts. All that improvement, and the first game of the playoffs he lays an egg at the line.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

This team is WAY too Embiid-dependent.

I think it's quite normal for a team to be dependent on it's superstar player. How good would the Lakers be without Lebron? Well...We all saw.

Simmons with 4 points. The issue is that when Embiid is out or on the bench, Simmons has to become a scorer. If Harris was having his typical game right now this team would be down by 15+ points easily.

You said that the team is too dependent on Embiid and I simply replied that most teams that have a superstar player "are!" It shouldn't come as a shock that we struggle when Embiid isn't on the floor. Oh...BTW Fins Up!

[LloydFree]

Can you blame him,. he didn't want to continue picking up fouls and getting out of the game. I feel like people ignored that the refs decided the 1st half by calling bs fouls on Jo, so now he needs to play cautious on D. Bigger concern is Ben playing so poorly.

He didn't play poorly overall. He just bricked his FTs.

If he made 4 of 6, he would be 10/15/15 so yeah, not poor overall, just so sickening that we're this far with the Simmons experiment, and he can't even shoot his fts. All that improvement, and the first game of the playoffs he lays an egg at the line.

People are too caught up in the stat line. Ben Simmons was +18 on the game and the 76ers couldn't score when he was off the floor. If they don't score when he's off the court, then suddenly begin scoring when he's on the court, he's doing something right.

[ExplosionsInDaSky]

We controlled the game from start to end. Fantastic coaching by doc. His rotation was superb.

What is the rotation, going forward? I thought the direction was cloudy.

I think it's going to change a little bit on a per series basis. As of right now, to me it looks like Simmons, Curry, Green, Harris, Embiid, Hill, Thybulle, and Howard getting the majority of the work in the postseason. Milton was completely phased out today and Korkmaz proved once again that he simply can't get in on the action in the playoffs either. I do think Doc will go back and forth between Curry and Milton to find a hot hand. If he gets desperate enough he'll go to Maxey (who I think should be playing anyway).

[eyeatoma]

He didn't play poorly overall. He just bricked his FTs.

If he made 4 of 6, he would be 10/15/15 so yeah, not poor overall, just so sickening that we're this far with the Simmons experiment, and he can't even shoot his fts. All that improvement, and the first game of the playoffs he lays an egg at the line.

People are too caught up in the stat line. Ben Simmons was +18 on the game and the 76ers couldn't score when he was off the floor. If they don't score when he's off the court, then suddenly begin scoring when he's on the court, he's doing something right.

Fair enough, although a lot of that has to do with the fact that our offense is centered around Ben picking apart the defense and then kicking to shooters. We were down 1 at the end of the half because we were terrible from 3. But wouldn't it be way better to have a traditional PG who could score, instead of Ben. With Jo in foul trouble we let the Wiz into the game. I agree Ben did have a good overall game, but this offense issues is going to be alot worse further down the playoffs if Jo has an off game/foul trouble. This is the year tbh. We'll see, if we can get to the ECF. If we can't my money is on Ben being traded regardless of how good an all-round player he is.

[Mike82]

If he made 4 of 6, he would be 10/15/15 so yeah, not poor overall, just so sickening that we're this far with the Simmons experiment, and he can't even shoot his fts. All that improvement, and the first game of the playoffs he lays an egg at the line.

People are too caught up in the stat line. Ben Simmons was +18 on the game and the 76ers couldn't score when he was off the floor. If they don't score when he's off the court, then suddenly begin scoring when he's on the court, he's doing something right.

Fair enough, although a lot of that has to do with the fact that our offense is centered around Ben picking apart the defense and then kicking to shooters. We were down 1 at the end of the half because we were terrible from 3. But wouldn't it be way better to have a traditional PG who could score, instead of Ben. With Jo in foul trouble we let the Wiz into the game. I agree Ben did have a good overall game, but this offense issues is going to be alot worse further down the playoffs if Jo has an off game/foul trouble. This is the year tbh. We'll see, if we can get to the ECF. If we can't my money is on Ben being traded regardless of how good an all-round player he is.

I think he’s gone regardless - Morey is itching to trade him he doesn’t like non shooters.

[JudahMax]

He didn't play poorly overall. He just bricked his FTs.

If he made 4 of 6, he would be 10/15/15 so yeah, not poor overall, just so sickening that we're this far with the Simmons experiment, and he can't even shoot his fts. All that improvement, and the first game of the playoffs he lays an egg at the line.

People are too caught up in the stat line. Ben Simmons was +18 on the game and the 76ers couldn't score when he was off the floor. If they don't score when he's off the court, then suddenly begin scoring when he's on the court, he's doing something right.

Exactly people take for granted that Simmons gets all the guys good shots!

[syntax]

If he made 4 of 6, he would be 10/15/15 so yeah, not poor overall, just so sickening that we're this far with the Simmons experiment, and he can't even shoot his fts. All that improvement, and the first game of the playoffs he lays an egg at the line.

People are too caught up in the stat line. Ben Simmons was +18 on the game and the 76ers couldn't score when he was off the floor. If they don't score when he's off the court, then suddenly begin scoring when he's on the court, he's doing something right.

Fair enough, although a lot of that has to do with the fact that our offense is centered around Ben picking apart the defense and then kicking to shooters. We were down 1 at the end of the half because we were terrible from 3. But wouldn't it be way better to have a traditional PG who could score, instead of Ben. With Jo in foul trouble we let the Wiz into the game. I agree Ben did have a good overall game, but this offense issues is going to be alot worse further down the playoffs if Jo has an off game/foul trouble. This is the year tbh. We'll see, if we can get to the ECF. If we can't my money is on Ben being traded regardless of how good an all-round player he is.

If your shooters hit their shots there is no problem. But I agree Ben has to be a better scorer.

You lose your 6'10" 240lbs PG and you are losing A LOT of all-round player.

Getting better shooters/role players would seem like a better option than trading Ben. Shake was bad, Korkmaz awful, Thybulle can't shoot and Curry was missing. You solve these issues before trading Ben.