brettski wrote:eyeatoma wrote:Sgt Major wrote:?t=-Y9YQ1WLF_Q3DZA07kDl3Q&s=19
Embiid was nursing a sore hip the first game, and it was an issue for 3 or 4 game. For the next one he was sick and was a last minute decision when he was warming up, but yeah continue with that narrative. Explain this to me, how was the entire team sick, including Maxey, and the entire team sans Tobias missed games, but Embiid is the one that is ducking?
Is this the new narrative you guys are going for because you can't attack anything else about Embiid in the regular season?Right now the separating factor between Embiid and Jokic is the playoffs, that's it. That's a big one, but that is it. These made-up conspiracies of him ducking are truly amateur hour on this thread.
You guys are trying to make something out of nothing. if this was a legitimate concern, why hasn't a credentialed author talked about this?
You guys should write to the NBA about this, like that redditor made a big deal about JJRs blocks being higher in Memphis.
LMAO, ya'll need to go outside and touch some grass. Time to take the tinfoil hats off.
The best part of this, is the tweet comes from a Nuggets fan... Hmm I wonder if he has any bias in this...
Is your memory so selective that you think this is new??? Its a multi-year long trend of him ducking match ups. Plenty of examples in this thread provided by others of it happening for years. There was also plenty of talk end of last year (whem MVP was a 2 horse race) about Embiid not facing Jokic in Denver but being available when they played in Philly.
He has been load managed since he was a rookie.
He missed more than half a season, since he missed missed those two years because of a torn meniscus.
He had Covid which took 3-4 weeks for him to come back from.
I memory isn'[t selective, I've known this all along, but I use logic, as opposed as some weird thing where he's ducking players. As I've said the odds are higher for him to miss a road game than a home game, because you have your own trainers and your own facilities so he can get treatment when he needs, and doesn't have to go take a red eye to go half way across the country. Unless he's missing games in the playoffs "ducking" this is a non factor, and is as innocuous as Kawhi, or LeBron load managing. Ya'll know that Embiid isn't the only one who load manages right?
Trying to find a pattern here, is so ridiculous, especially because Embiid has dominated these players. Embiid has been the worst against the Celtics, but rarely if every misses the a game (missed one this year because he caught something that the whole team had). Shouldn't he be ducking that matchup the most?
The players you are saying he ducks, are players he has won against and pwned numerous times.
