OhayoKD wrote:Impressive from Embid considering he can barely jump right now
He sure can kick though [and push].
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OhayoKD wrote:Impressive from Embid considering he can barely jump right now
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E-Balla wrote:LeBron is Jeff George.
G35 wrote:Lebron is not that far off from WB in trade value.
ShotCreator wrote:Well he just did 50/84 on 19 shots in what has been a much more defensive playoff season in both conferences.
Haven't watched the series but he's a big positive in the on-court +/- in each game. Philly has slammed NYK with him out there every game.
Peregrine01 wrote:It was quite clear that the NBA officials put away the "points of emphasis" for Embiid today. All the "marginal contact" that was getting let go for all of these playoffs was magically getting called.
f4p wrote:Peregrine01 wrote:It was quite clear that the NBA officials put away the "points of emphasis" for Embiid today. All the "marginal contact" that was getting let go for all of these playoffs was magically getting called.
well, when you release a L2M that basically says "oops, we gave the wrong team the game", you kind of put it in the refs minds that they better do something about it next game. on the other hand, how many calls were really that controversial (that gave him free throws, not the flagrant 1)? he got like 8 ft's at the end when the knicks were fouling and the 3 hartenstein fouled him on was obvious. if anyone was getting fouls that were supposed to be a point of emphasis, it was brunson with the trae young jump back into the defender move that he got called over and over.
Mickey8 wrote:Another must win game disappearance. How can 7"1, 280 pounds player be such a bad rebounder????
web123888 wrote:Embiid is an all time great regular season performer and a future hall of famer but will be known like Robinson, Ewing, Malone, Harden, Paul etc as being unable to deliver when it matters. Also hasn't led a team past the 2nd round as of yet which all the other players easily did, and in most cases the Finals as well.
OhayoKD wrote:Lebron contributes more to all the phases of play than Messi does. And he is of course a defensive anchor unlike messi.
Mickey8 wrote:A dirty,ugly player that is protected by the refs. None of those fouls on him were real fouls, it was Embiid throwing himself into defender. Embiid without NBA refs is nobody.
Mogspan wrote:I think they see the super rare combo of high IQ with freakish athleticism and overrate the former a bit, kind of like a hot girl who is rather articulate being thought of as “super smart.” I don’t know kind of a weird analogy, but you catch my drift.
lessthanjake wrote:web123888 wrote:Embiid is an all time great regular season performer and a future hall of famer but will be known like Robinson, Ewing, Malone, Harden, Paul etc as being unable to deliver when it matters. Also hasn't led a team past the 2nd round as of yet which all the other players easily did, and in most cases the Finals as well.
Yeah, to be fair though, a lot of those guys you mentioned only actually first made the conference finals around the same age (or, in a couple cases, even older) than Embiid is. Embiid is in his age-29 season, and Paul, Ewing, Robinson, and Malone first got their teams to the conference finals in their age 32, 30, 29, and 28 years respectively. So Embiid is not really off the trajectory of guys like that on paper, and all of those guys did subsequently make the Finals. The problem for Embiid is that he’s got so many health issues, and those sorts of issues don’t usually decrease with age, so it’s a bit hard to imagine things getting better for him in the future. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sixers used their cap space on a major star this offseason and the Sixers immediately started making Finals runs.
lessthanjake wrote:web123888 wrote:Embiid is an all time great regular season performer and a future hall of famer but will be known like Robinson, Ewing, Malone, Harden, Paul etc as being unable to deliver when it matters. Also hasn't led a team past the 2nd round as of yet which all the other players easily did, and in most cases the Finals as well.
Yeah, to be fair though, a lot of those guys you mentioned only actually first made the conference finals around the same age (or, in a couple cases, even older) than Embiid is. Embiid is in his age-29 season, and Paul, Ewing, Robinson, and Malone first got their teams to the conference finals in their age 32, 30, 29, and 28 years respectively. So Embiid is not really off the trajectory of guys like that on paper, and all of those guys did subsequently make the Finals. The problem for Embiid is that he’s got so many health issues, and those sorts of issues don’t usually decrease with age, so it’s a bit hard to imagine things getting better for him in the future. That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if the Sixers used their cap space on a major star this offseason and the Sixers immediately started making Finals runs.
rk2023 wrote:Mickey8 wrote:A dirty,ugly player that is protected by the refs. None of those fouls on him were real fouls, it was Embiid throwing himself into defender. Embiid without NBA refs is nobody.
I don’t even like Embiid and there’s a lot about his game that turns me off, but this gig just seems rent free lol.
TroubleS0me wrote:Mickey8 wrote:Another must win game disappearance. How can 7"1, 280 pounds player be such a bad rebounder????
Peregrine01 wrote:I see his game 3 as a gifted game to make up for the ref's mistakes in game 2. One, he really shouldn't have been on the court with all the flagrants and two, he paraded to the free throw line on cheap fouls.
Injury aside, the main recurring theme with Embiid is that he doesn't do well when the game gets harder. He looks like a world beater in the regular season when he gets such a friendly whistle that opposing defenders are scared of even guarding him but when the officiating shifts and defenses can key in, he just seems to disappear. Anunoby killing him on the boards in the 4th was a terrible look.
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