Joel Embiid - The Prophecy is Realized

PLO · Post #601 » by **PLO** » Sun Oct 21, 2018 11:14 pm

PLO · Post #602 » by **PLO** » Tue Oct 23, 2018 4:54 am

The usual hilarity in this GQ interview, which is a good one.

BigSleep333 · Post #603 » by **BigSleep333** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 5:04 am

just 5 games in, but im very happy with his progress on his to rate. hes up to 35 mpg this season compared to last years 30, but reduced his turnovers to 2 per game compared to 3.7 last season.

marcush · Post #604 » by **marcush** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 10:05 am

Yep, he looks great to me too.

thejuice17 · Post #605 » by **thejuice17** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 11:32 am

marcush wrote:Yep, he looks great to me too.

most tired superstars in leauge

Ericb5 · Post #606 » by **Ericb5** » Thu Oct 25, 2018 2:38 pm

BigSleep333 wrote:just 5 games in, but im very happy with his progress on his to rate. hes up to 35 mpg this season compared to last years 30, but reduced his turnovers to 2 per game compared to 3.7 last season.

Agreed.

His stamina is better too.

phillynative · Post #607 » by **phillynative** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 4:12 pm

I wonder what him and reddick were jawing about? I know its nothing serious im just nosey

papajoe · Post #608 » by **papajoe** » Sun Oct 28, 2018 8:05 pm

Our best player.

VDT · Post #609 » by **VDT** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 9:52 am

The General Board hasnt caught up to that yet but Embiid is averaging 28/12/4 on good efficiency playing with 3 awful shooters/non shooters in the starting lineup which statistically is what i was expecting from him this year.
He is still not as dominant in the paint as i wanted and settles too much for jumpers but this might be related to the spacing of this team.

I expect him to be arguably the best player in the league by next year if he remains healthy and continues in this trajectory and it wouldnt surprise me if he got there even earlier than that.

sixerswillrule · Post #610 » by **sixerswillrule** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 10:40 am

If Embiid plays at least 70 games he'll be in the MVP conversation. As long as the rest of the team is relatively healthy we'll get to 50 wins.

Ericb5 · Post #611 » by **Ericb5** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 10:51 am

VDT wrote:The General Board hasnt caught up to that yet but Embiid is averaging 28/12/4 on good efficiency playing with 3 awful shooters/non shooters in the starting lineup which statistically is what i was expecting from him this year.
He is still not as dominant in the paint as i wanted and settles too much for jumpers but this might be related to the spacing of this team.

I expect him to be arguably the best player in the league by next year if he remains healthy and continues in this trajectory and it wouldnt surprise me if he got there even earlier than that.

A lot of people simply dismiss him as fools gold because of his injury history. I agree with you that he is trending towards the best player in the league, and it isn’t that far away.

If his numbers stay at this level and the team wins over 50 games then he will get the respect that he deserves I think.

Just think, he had the one stinker of the game that is dragging down his averages. Outside of that one he has been incredible.

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Bum Adebayo · Post #612 » by **Bum Adebayo** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 12:00 pm

With him reducing drastically his turnovers so far, his only real weakness right now is scoring on tough matchups like Horford and Baynes. There is his subpar 3pt shooting too, but I want to see larger sample size to see what is his real percentage.
If he wants to be in MVP conversation, it cannot happen you can't score decently against certain players, you need to be that "nobody can guard him" type of player.

Kabookalu · Post #613 » by **Kabookalu** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 12:22 pm

This is from last season, but I thought you guys would enjoy this:

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Ericb5 · Post #614 » by **Ericb5** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 2:21 pm

Bum Adebayo wrote:With him reducing drastically his turnovers so far, his only real weakness right now is scoring on tough matchups like Horford and Baynes. There is his subpar 3pt shooting too, but I want to see larger sample size to see what is his real percentage.
If he wants to be in MVP conversation, it cannot happen you can't score decently against certain players, you need to be that "nobody can guard him" type of player.

He is already a "nobody can guard him" type of player. That doesn't mean that he dominates everyone every time.

Neither Horford nor Baynes can guard him one on one over the long haul. The last 5-7 games against those guys were mostly after his injury last year in the playoffs while playing with a mask on his face, and the first game of the year this year.

If we played a 7 game series with Boston today Embiid would win those match ups easily, even though the Celtics would win the series.

He had the one down game this year, but has otherwise been playing at an mvp level.

BigSleep333 · Post #615 » by **BigSleep333** » Fri Nov 2, 2018 9:58 pm

Ericb5 wrote:
Bum Adebayo wrote:With him reducing drastically his turnovers so far, his only real weakness right now is scoring on tough matchups like Horford and Baynes. There is his subpar 3pt shooting too, but I want to see larger sample size to see what is his real percentage.
If he wants to be in MVP conversation, it cannot happen you can't score decently against certain players, you need to be that "nobody can guard him" type of player.

He is already a "nobody can guard him" type of player. That doesn't mean that he dominates everyone every time.

Neither Horford nor Baynes can guard him one on one over the long haul. The last 5-7 games against those guys were mostly after his injury last year in the playoffs while playing with a mask on his face, and the first game of the year this year.

If we played a 7 game series with Boston today Embiid would win those match ups easily, even though the Celtics would win the series.

He had the one down game this year, but has otherwise been playing at an mvp level.

i dont think you can really blame that on joel. hawks seemed to set their priority on stopping embiid and not winning the game. he was doubled almost every single time he touched the ball. he just had to pass it to the open guys. (he only had 9 fga, while playing 30 mins and no foul troubles)

Post #616 » by **CoreyGallagher** » Sat Nov 3, 2018 12:00 am

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Ericb5 · Post #617 » by **Ericb5** » Sat Nov 3, 2018 1:02 pm

BigSleep333 wrote:
Ericb5 wrote:
Bum Adebayo wrote:With him reducing drastically his turnovers so far, his only real weakness right now is scoring on tough matchups like Horford and Baynes. There is his subpar 3pt shooting too, but I want to see larger sample size to see what is his real percentage.
If he wants to be in MVP conversation, it cannot happen you can't score decently against certain players, you need to be that "nobody can guard him" type of player.

He is already a "nobody can guard him" type of player. That doesn't mean that he dominates everyone every time.

Neither Horford nor Baynes can guard him one on one over the long haul. The last 5-7 games against those guys were mostly after his injury last year in the playoffs while playing with a mask on his face, and the first game of the year this year.

If we played a 7 game series with Boston today Embiid would win those match ups easily, even though the Celtics would win the series.

He had the one down game this year, but has otherwise been playing at an mvp level.

i dont think you can really blame that on joel. hawks seemed to set their priority on stopping embiid and not winning the game. he was doubled almost every single time he touched the ball. he just had to pass it to the open guys. (he only had 9 fga, while playing 30 mins and no foul troubles)

You are right. I meant statistically it was an outlier.

He has basically dominated the season so far.

If he stays at this level and the Sixers are say 27-14 or so at the half way point of the year, he is going to be a strong MVP candidate. He will probably be the best defender of all of the other candidates too.

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Bum Adebayo · Post #618 » by **Bum Adebayo** » Sat Nov 3, 2018 8:32 pm

We need to build around Embiid, Simmons is a bad fit, trade Simmons for a shot creator, let's make things easier for our superstar.
If not, at least move Simmons to PF, he is NOT a PG. This offense is terrible, we need a shot creator at PG.

VDT · Post #619 » by **VDT** » Sat Nov 3, 2018 8:47 pm

I would worry how long can Embiid sustain this kind of effort on both sides of the floor particularly since his game is very physical.
Might be a good idea to start resting him in back to backs.

It might also force certain underperforming players to start playing better.

eyeatoma · Post #620 » by **eyeatoma** » Sat Nov 3, 2018 9:26 pm

VDT wrote:I would worry how long can Embiid sustain this kind of effort on both sides of the floor particularly since his game is very physical.
Might be a good idea to start resting him in back to backs.

It might also force certain underperforming players to start playing better.

He's fine... He only played 33 minutes in this game...