Embiid Absolutely Smokes Jokic and is Now 5-2 vs Jokic

[Hussien Fatal]

After a comeback win Embiid put an absolute beating down on Jokic posting 47pts and 18rbs nearly doubling Jokic’s points and overall production.

Embiid seemingly always dominates Jokic head to head and that says something.

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If Jokic doesn’t win his 3rd MVP it should clearly go to Embiid at this point. Also the Sixers and nuggets have almost identical records.

[eyeatoma]

After a comeback win Embiid put an absolute beating down on Jokic posting 47pts and 18rbs nearly doubling Jokic’s points.

Embiid seemingly always dominates Jokic head to head and that says something.

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[Up-And-Coming]

Jokic is great but AD also plays well against him and has presented challenges to him in the playoffs.

[Mickey8]

Embiid have played total of two games in Denver in his career, let see if he ducks playing there again in March Regular season games don't mean much especially none conference games. I hope they meet in the finals , that would be a real measure stick for them.

[Jazz9]

Embiid seemingly always dominates Jokic head to head and that says something.

That says absolutely nothing.
This isn't tennis.

[Mickey8]

Jokic is great but AD also plays well against him and has presented challenges to him in the playoffs.

Dwight Howard was hacking Jokic in that series and Jokic was in the foul trouble in every game , some horrible one sided referring in that series too.

[Statlanta]

Joel should be dominating this matchup. It's a 3rd draft pick vs. a 42nd draft pick.

[Cubbies2120]

After a comeback win Embiid put an absolute beating down on Jokic posting 47pts and 18rbs nearly doubling Jokic’s points and overall production.

Embiid seemingly always dominates Jokic head to head and that says something.

Read on Twitter

If Jokic doesn’t win his 3rd MVP it should clearly go to Embiid at this point. Also the Sixers and nuggets have almost identical records.

If Embiid manned up and guarded Jokic in the 2nd half I think the Nuggets win tonight. He hid behind Tucker because Jokic was doing whatever he wanted with Embiid on him. Great defensive strategy by Doc.

Embiid shot 31x tonight, this game clearly mattered to him a lot (he has shot 30+ 4x in his entire career).

[LessEyeTest]

I would hope Embiid would be winning the team matchups considering how stacked his teams have been throughout his career?

Butler, prime Simmons (basically Great value LeBron), peak Redick, superstar Harden, star Maxey.

Jokic has never had an all star teammate btw.

[baldur]

it has been a travesty though 76ers never made the finals with embiid up until now with all those stars paired up and deep, talented rosters.

[GiannisAnte34]

I would hope Embiid would be winning the team matchups considering how stacked his teams have been throughout his career?

Butler, prime Simmons (basically Great value LeBron), peak Redick, superstar Harden, star Maxey.

Jokic has never had an all star teammate btw.

now you're talking nonsense. Jokic has Porter, Murray, and Gordon any of these 3 have/will make All-Star teams

[bradybunch]

Embiid got haters scrambling like Saturday morning eggs.

Embiid beat that yolk.

[Karate Diop]

Prior to tonight Embiid's FG% in games which Jokic played was like 40%... It's jumped to 45% after tonight, but let's not make dude out to be some sorta alpha killer.

He's more like Andrew Tate than Rocky Balboa.

[Statlanta]

Embiid got haters scrambling like Saturday morning eggs.

Embiid beat that yoke.

There are probably more Embiid haters than Jokic fans to be honest. Nobody really cares about an athlete who can't jump or really
move well. There's a reason he's not captain of the All-Star team and not in the top 15 jersey sales.

This thread is more neutral fans vs. Philly/Embiid fans.

[Infinite Llamas]

I would hope Embiid would be winning the team matchups considering how stacked his teams have been throughout his career?

Butler, prime Simmons (basically Great value LeBron), peak Redick, superstar Harden, star Maxey.

Jokic has never had an all star teammate btw.

now you're talking nonsense. Jokic has Porter, Murray, and Gordon any of these 3 have/will make All-Star teams

Lol that’s quite a take.

[Mickey8]

I would hope Embiid would be winning the team matchups considering how stacked his teams have been throughout his career?

Butler, prime Simmons (basically Great value LeBron), peak Redick, superstar Harden, star Maxey.

Jokic has never had an all star teammate btw.

now you're talking nonsense. Jokic has Porter, Murray, and Gordon any of these 3 have/will make All-Star teams

So why they didn't make it by now??? Gordon is having the best statistical season because of Jokic. Murray is the closest thing to the all star player but he's too inconsistent throughout his career, even without injuries .

[celticfan42487]

That's the kind of stuff that can get you on the all-star bench

[Up-And-Coming]

Jokic is great but AD also plays well against him and has presented challenges to him in the playoffs.

Dwight Howard was hacking Jokic in that series and Jokic was in the foul trouble in every game , some horrible one sided referring in that series too.

Okay I guess since you say so AD plays well against Jokic when they matchup even after Dwight Howard.

No need to get defensive about it. Jokic is great but when the Lakers matchup against the Nuggets and specifically on the possessions AD and even Lebron are on him they seem to do a good job pressuring him.

[AleksandarN]

After a comeback win Embiid put an absolute beating down on Jokic posting 47pts and 18rbs nearly doubling Jokic’s points and overall production.

Embiid seemingly always dominates Jokic head to head and that says something.

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If Jokic doesn’t win his 3rd MVP it should clearly go to Embiid at this point. Also the Sixers and nuggets have almost identical records.

Care to put that small sample size in context? What games were there and where did they play? What years? I doubt you will bother. But go ahead. I will tell you this embiid played better than jokic this game that’s for sure. You won’t get arguments from me

[zeebneeb]

And here i thought Jokic was up 2-0.