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76ciology wrote:
Without Jojo 106 DRtg
With Jojo 116 DRtg, not 111.
Sixers 114 DRtg for the season
Murray_17 wrote:76ciology wrote:
Without Jojo 106 DRtg
With Jojo 116 DRtg, not 111.
Sixers 114 DRtg for the season
Care to share where you obtained the with and without splits?
Doesn't make sense, Embiid DRtg should be the same as the team with him. Bballref and NBA.com have his Drtg at 111.
https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/e/embiijo01.html
76ciology wrote:I’ll say it again. You neither are playing small or playing big with Embiid and Tucker.
So because you play neither, you are vulnerable to teams playing small or playing big.
You are small and you are playing slow.
If you are small, you play fast.
If you are big, you play slow.
Do we switch? Why is someone playing drop on defense?
Which one are you?
Jay555 wrote:Biid is not the problem.
But Doc needs to get creative with the lineups. It’s clear the starting lineup is meh. Also Thybulle & Melton need to get a lot more playing time. Once Doc finds the right formula, this team would be ok. Not sure if Doc can pull it off tho..
The slow pace starting lineup is built for playoff tho when things slow down.
76ciology wrote:phillynative wrote:I would say it's more of the wing combo of Tucker and Tobias on both ends thats hurting us and the defense overall. Embiid is not really playing like himself due to lack of conditioning and ailments but we know he will be better.
but why when we played Melton over Embiid tonight, everything suddenly everyone is better on defense?
Tucker, Tobias, Harden and Maxey all were OK to good playing small ball defense. But when Embiid is there, suddenly they become worse?
The way to play with embiid is to surround him with guys who are fast to switch and rotate. Let opponents post them up, then you have Biid and another big sending help and crashing boards. Cavs, Bucks, Warriors and the Pacers are playing that scheme.
But there’s no way you can win if you have a Biid centric offense. Maybe if you face Plumlee and Cody Zeller on a nightly basis but no way will that work against the top defensive teams. either the 3s or TOs will beat you
sodmoraes wrote:It may be a coincidence, but it seems that every game Embiid misses we win and Maxey explodes... Not saying we should trade Embiid, but i think he should have less usage in our offense.
eyeatoma wrote:76ciology wrote:eyeatoma wrote:
Bro, I know you're joking, but you're just setting it up for the trolls to come on.
If you're not joking, then I'm not really sure what to say, because we've heard this talk before, and the last two seasons he was the runner up for the MVP.
It's just such a tired take.
I see no lie though. This team has played better without Jojo, so his opinion has reasons behind it and was not a lie.
If we had discussions like this about ben before, rather than trying to cancel/silence anyone who criticizes Ben, then we probably had cut our losses sooner.
Im not promoting trading Biid. But this team has played better without him and we either have to do something to use him while not hurting us or we need to explore some options that is hard to accept.
When did I say it was a lie? I'm saying it's a comical assertion. The reason they are able to have more movement, is because Embiid is not that type of player. Once the playoffs roll around if you only have Maxey and Harden this time is not a title team. I just think instead of blaming Embiid, maybe blame Doc for not prioritizing Maxey as the #2 over Harden on offense. At times Maxey is the 4th or 5th option on offense for the first few games.
As far as the defense, the reason it looked far better was because Melton started and Thybulle played much more minutes. Neither of that happened in the past. We lost one game solely on Maxey getting burned in the pick and roll in the 4th quarter. That was the game we lost to the Spurs where Embiid had 40. It's just too easy to look at what's missing on the day of the win and assume it's because of Embiid, when there are so many things wrong with this team that Embiid is not responsible.
Eyeamok wrote:I'm not going to lie it was great seeing Maxey go off last night and it was equally as great not hearing Kate scream mad Max mad Max all damn night.
FireMorey wrote:Anyone know what's up with Embiid? What is "right knee recovery" 6 games into the season?
FireMorey wrote:Anyone know what's up with Embiid? What is "right knee recovery" 6 games into the season?
eyeatoma wrote:You don't make the leagues former scoring leader with insane efficiency the #3.DCasey91 wrote:It’s easy make Embiid the third option and go all in on defence which he really should be if you think about it.
He needs the most adjustment because you cannot go through a heavy iso big that floats (11 shots outside 11 feet? Stupid at its finest) that’s not a great shooter and frankly a sh*t passer to go along with bad awareness when swarmed.
Doc mentioned before the season he wants to give Embiid even more shots... I couldn’t believe it. Max 20 shots that’s it that’s all you get if your not hot tough sh*t.
It should be Embiid
Then Maxey
Then Harden
Harden is still good, but he has off games far more often. Using the threat of his shot to get his teammates shots isn what he should do.
I do think Tucker has been a flop. Melton can help alot, so can Thybulle.
Still think when Jo comes we won't be great, not negate because of him but because of Doc's stubbornness with rotations and preferring certain players.
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Bum Adebayo wrote:Embiid is the 1st option on offense in the pecking order, and that's absolutely fine.
DCasey91 wrote:Bum Adebayo wrote:Embiid is the 1st option on offense in the pecking order, and that's absolutely fine.
No it’s not fine. If that’s the pecking order you won’t win anything. The offence should run through Harden/Maxey
If Embiid actually exhausted himself on defence and get more of a recipient role on offence (all goat level bigs did this fwiw) then our team will explode overnight.
Little guy sets up big guy not the big guy wanting to do everything all the time.