Game 33: Sixers @ Wizards

[Bum Adebayo]

Yeah it isn't a great look only when players I don't like do it, but when the centrism happens with players that I like, such as Jokic, Doncic, etc, then it's all fine and dandy.

[Jailblazers7]

I have seen too much of Harden bricking terrible step back 3s in huge playoff games to pretend giving him the ball in crunch time will solve our problems.

[Bum Adebayo]

Ok so I'll help you out guys.
Westbrook was at 55% TS in his best 2 seasons, outside of these two seasons he was at 53% TS or below most seasons. We are talking about a guy who was scoring on below average league-wide efficiency almost every season. If you don't understand the difference between a centric offense around a mediocre scorer and a centric offense around a 64% TS scorer, then you don't understand basketball.
Simply put, 33.7 PPG on 64% TS deserves a centric offense around him, he is THAT good.

[mjkvol]

Putting two and two together it isn’t a great look.

Remember when Doc said it’s priority number one to give Embiid more of the ball preseason, that isn’t the solution it’s part of the problem imo. It’s an enabler effect

The effectiveness in playoff situations isn’t good it should be Harden as the steering wheel, pnr play but Doc is the coach so it’s on him to learn because Embiid at 36+min of game his decision making skills aren’t up to par and it’ll be the same again in the playoffs.

It’s like giving a drug addict his drugs whenever he wants it. It’s basically the opposite of how to fix it to make it better lol

But more of a problem is Tucker. These last 5 games or so he’s been found out as basically useless. Poor rebounder just adds to already the issue of been a below average rebounding team on the whole. He isn’t a young player so you can’t chop and change at the trade deadline. I still don’t understand the list makeup at all. The Harrell acquisition is also as much of a head scratcher but gets hidden because he’s on the bench. It’s limiting Reed’s playing opportunities when he already has more upside.

Honestly we aren’t championship quality so no use crying over split milk but to me it’s just Groundhog Day each year. We still haven’t solved the wing position, backup C, primary guard (once Harden goes old man syndrome lol). It’s the same problems as it was when Embiid started his career. It’s truely unfortunate because I believe this will be the first time fingers crossed that Embiid will be fit and ready to go when the real thing starts.

Anyway rant over, just fleece the Blazers for Hart and make a go of it.

Agree with much of what you say, but while Tucker has looked useless it's also because Glenn is completely obsessed with regular season wins and is clueless as far as pacing veterans and understanding when they are at their most useful. Tucker is a guy who will earn his money in the playoffs, not playing 38 minutes against the Pistons in December

[rocketsfan100]

The Wizards just smoked the suns 127-107 with Beal…

[Mik317]

Biid is more efficient than Westbrook ever was and is the main reason this team is a top 5 defense.

yeah he makes bad decisions down the stretch sometimes but even thats improved....see all the other close games we clutched out lately.

[phillynative]

It's not about our bench being trash, or Tucker scoring 0 points, or 3pt% being terrible. No, it's about our best player scoring 48 pts on 63% TS being bad on the glass and weak with the ball.

[phillynative]

First game I've watched in a while and it ends with Joel turning the ball over in crunch time multiple times.

Amazing player, but that's exactly how another 2nd round exit looks like.

Hopefully it doesn't come to that. Guys weren't hitting their outside shots last night like they normally do. Also rebounding killed us again per usual. Finally we were still missing another shot creator in Maxey to get to the paint when the outside shots aren't falling. Fortunately that will change come Friday.

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[phillynative]

Biid is more efficient than Westbrook ever was and is the main reason this team is a top 5 defense.

yeah he makes bad decisions down the stretch sometimes but even thats improved....see all the other close games we clutched out lately.

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