mike76 wrote:kuclas wrote:2. Embiid can take gasol one on one. That’s not the problem. The problem is the other team help defense. Even look at last year Celtics playoffs. The cheat help defense. Embiid sees it. It makes him hesistate. Which is bad for ball movement. And guess who the cheat defender is guarding??? Simmons. In Toronto series. Leonard would have been called for illegal nba defense had this been the 1990s. He was cheating over all the time. Baiting. Waiting. Unfortunately. It’s hard to play dominant post offense in this era with no true nba illegal defense. Embiid has to make his move within 1 second. Or it’s too late and the cheat defense covers.
Except the Raptors weren't doubling Embiid that series.
Our last two playoff losses against the Celts and Raps are because we don’t have a favorable mismatch. And in both series, Embiid has shown that he isn’t as effective at the post as in regular season.
Just like Shaq or D12, teams would eventually catch up and prepare for you. They will stack up bigs to slow you down. Raps showed it when they traded JV for Gasol.
The addition of Horford was a stroke of genius. It doesnt just fill our biggest need, a RELIABLE back-up C. But it creates all kind of mismatch advantage for Ben, Tobi and Biid. Unless teams will play twin tower with a 6’10 backcourt player, we will always have a legs up with our match-ups.
P.S. Embiid can’t take Gasol 1 on 1. And by the definition of “take”, it’s not scoring a bucket but by getting his 25-26 a game regular season average.
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