Eastern Conference | Round 1 | (4) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (5) Toronto Raptors (PHI 3-2)

[Duffman100]

The thing is if Joel believes in a ref conspiracy than that invalidates his entire game, because he's heavily reliant on officiating giving him the benefit of the doubt on both ends. I'm sure he's just heated and not thinking straight.

Grifting is bad, but there were a number of times this game that he was murdered and nothing was called. Look at the FT disparity. Philly earns more FT than any any team in the league I believe, and look how many more the Raptors got.

Did the Raptors suddenly just get amazingly good at drawing contact?

Did the Raps all of a sudden lost the ability to defender the 76ers for the first two games of the series?

You guys are just on the other end of the **** stick today. The problem is that players have no idea how games are going to be reffed game to game. It's a huge **** ing issue.

[ATLTimekeeper]

Did they decide this game? I didn't think they've decided any of them. I thought they went overboard in game two and made the game a blowout fairly early when it probably shouldn't have been. Philly's 3-1 lead is well-earned. I'm not going to sit here and think there's some league wide conspiracy to make this a 5 game series. To me this came down to Embiid not playing much defense and allowing Siakam and Trent wide runways to get clean shots or create rotations. His legs looked shot the minute he stepped on the court. You can't expect guys like Harden, Niang, Shake Milton, Paul Reed to make consistent rotations. They're not good defensive players. Reed is consistently overcommitting and correcting, so he's either fouling or out of position. Milton tries, but he's physically weak. Harden is out of shape. Niang is just there for offense. That requires Embiid to carry them. He didn't bring it today.

[Sisqo]

Philly **** the bed and let the Raptors hang around. Still think they close it out in Philly, but the series did get slightly more interesting. If people think that the refs were good today you were not watching the game objectively. The number of times Philly players got absolutely murdered really made it look like the game was rigged.

Here are Embiid's comments that he made after the game lol.

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How is this any different then what you have been absolutely screaming at raptors fans for. The second we say it’s not ref fair you carried on for 4 days about it.



Here is Scott Foster's record when James Harden and Chris Paul in a playoff game

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Like I'm not into conspiracy theories, but this is insane. The NBA needs to investigate this dude, because regardless of personal bias, that is an appalling record for two players who have consistently won at a high percentage in their careers.

The numbers speak for themselves.

[rocky_da_best]

The thing is they were protecting him all game. When Thad dropped him with a move, he immediately went and gave Young a cheap shot. It was in full view. They let it slide. Just because you fall on the floor a lot doesn't mean you're getting fouled. I can understand his frustration because he's used to getting a generous whistle. He's a human being and he's been spoiled by the league. I'm with Pascal, just play basketball. Embiid's too good to let run around taking cheap shots. You can maybe forgive one as frustration, but he kept going.

The guy could have had three techs called on him. Same with the whining from Harden and Harris. Sixers fans are watching games that are happening in an alternate reality

[eyeatoma]

The thing is if Joel believes in a ref conspiracy than that invalidates his entire game, because he's heavily reliant on officiating giving him the benefit of the doubt on both ends. I'm sure he's just heated and not thinking straight.

Grifting is bad, but there were a number of times this game that he was murdered and nothing was called. Look at the FT disparity. Philly earns more FT than any any team in the league I believe, and look how many more the Raptors got.

Did the Raptors suddenly just get amazingly good at drawing contact?

Did the Raps all of a sudden lost the ability to defender the 76ers for the first two games of the series?

You guys are just on the other end of the **** stick today. The problem is that players have no idea how games are going to be reffed game to game. It's a huge **** ing issue.

Yeah all I'm asking for is consistency. If you're going to swallow your whistle do it every game. If you're going to call it, do it all the time.

[whitehops]

good game from the raps to get back in the series. siakam especially rose to the occasion, though thad young made his share of plays in the first half.

the next game is huge for both teams. if FVV can't play then siakam is going to carry the offensive load the entire game. on the other side the sixers should really prepare for when embiid gets doubled. he isn't the best natural passer so having some quick-hitting plays to counter those doubles would help instead of relying on embiid to make plays under pressure.

[Duffman100]

Grifting is bad, but there were a number of times this game that he was murdered and nothing was called. Look at the FT disparity. Philly earns more FT than any any team in the league I believe, and look how many more the Raptors got.

Did the Raptors suddenly just get amazingly good at drawing contact?

Did the Raps all of a sudden lost the ability to defender the 76ers for the first two games of the series?

You guys are just on the other end of the **** stick today. The problem is that players have no idea how games are going to be reffed game to game. It's a huge **** ing issue.

Yeah all I'm asking for is consistency. If you're going to swallow your whistle do it every game. If you're going to call it, do it all the time.

Exactly. Which is what Raptor fans were so upset with the first two games of the series.

We had defended Philly in X way for the regular season. All of a sudden X way isn't allowed. It's Y.

Now in games 3 and 4, we're allowed to defend them in X way again.

Which **** ing way can we defend them?

[bbalnation]

The Doc press conference at the end looool

I've come to appreciate his coaching methods more lately.

With that said: Raps in 7

[LoveMyRaps]

Lol Philly fans so mad. Two superstars and they still couldn't beat an injury riddled Raptors squad. Yikes.

[Exp0sed]

After 4 games in this series, Embiid is averaging:

26 Pts \ 11.8 reb \ 2.3 Ast \ 3.8 TO \ 0.5 Blk and 0 Steals on 39.5 mpg, 49.3% from the field

Just saying...

[lebron stopper]

Great win Raps fans congrats. It's hard to imagine coming back from 0-3 but it does feel like the momentum has shifted. Lots of heart shown by Toronto today.

I still think the Sixers close this series out in Game 5, but oh boy, if they don't...

[bbalnation]

After 4 games in this series, Embiid is averaging:

26 Pts \ 11.8 reb \ 2.3 Ast \ 3.8 TO \ 0.5 Blk and 0 Steals on 39.5 mpg, 49.3% from the field

Just saying...

His TS% is 60.5% (league playoffs average is ~58%), against a team that is openly doubling him anytime he touches the ball anywhere.

https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/nba-playoffs-2022-league-average-ts

[First Step]

I heard Charles Barkley say that you wouldn’t want to let the other team know you had a bad knee, or hand because they would make sure to bump into your knee or hand.

I’m not saying you should injure Embiid, but if he’s in the game, he’s fair game to try strip the ball, and if you get some thumb, you get some thumb.

[Exp0sed]

After 4 games in this series, Embiid is averaging:

26 Pts \ 11.8 reb \ 2.3 Ast \ 3.8 TO \ 0.5 Blk and 0 Steals on 39.5 mpg, 49.3% from the field

Just saying...

His TS% is 60.5%, against a team that is openly doubling him anytime he touches the ball anywhere.

well, he got his usual dose of freebies for phantom flopping fouls in the first couple of games, and TS% reflects that

I posted this more in the context of comparing it to his rs numbers

Every team in the league doubles Embiid plenty, today he threw 4 terrible passes out of double teams for 4 TO's, so..naturally he's gonna get doubled alot

EDIT: The Raps don't have any1 who can match Joel Physically one on one, ofc they double automatically.
since he's doubled so much and 100% of the time and surrounded by very solid shooters..how come he has only 2.3 Ast a game despite playing almost 40 mins, whereas in the rs he has 4.2 and played just over 33 a game?

You can't double Jokic like that, for example cuz it's not effective

I was just wondering how the greatest scorer per min in history and the ultra dominant MVP fandom, explain this strange phenomenon where he's down across the board vs. the weak, short handed and centerless Raps

[bbalnation]

After 4 games in this series, Embiid is averaging:

26 Pts \ 11.8 reb \ 2.3 Ast \ 3.8 TO \ 0.5 Blk and 0 Steals on 39.5 mpg, 49.3% from the field

Just saying...

His TS% is 60.5%, against a team that is openly doubling him anytime he touches the ball anywhere.

well, he got his usual dose of freebies for phantom flopping fouls in the first couple of games, and TS% reflects that

I posted this more in the context of comparing it to his rs numbers

Every team in the league doubles Embiid plenty, today he threw 4 terrible passes out of double teams for 4 TO's, so..naturally he's gonna get doubled alot

EDIT: The Raps don't have any1 who can match Joel Physically one on one, ofc they double automatically.
since he's doubled so much and 100% of the time and surrounded by very solid shooters..how come he has only 2.3 Ast a game despite playing almost 40 mins, whereas in the rs he has 4.2 and played just over 33 a game?

You can't double Jokic like that, for example cuz it's not effective

I was just wondering how the greatest scorer per min in history and the ultra dominant MVP fandom, explain this strange phenomenon where he's down across the board vs. the weak, short handed and centerless Raps

They're centerless because they play positionless basketball, especially defensively.

[Exp0sed]

His TS% is 60.5%, against a team that is openly doubling him anytime he touches the ball anywhere.

well, he got his usual dose of freebies for phantom flopping fouls in the first couple of games, and TS% reflects that

I posted this more in the context of comparing it to his rs numbers

Every team in the league doubles Embiid plenty, today he threw 4 terrible passes out of double teams for 4 TO's, so..naturally he's gonna get doubled alot

EDIT: The Raps don't have any1 who can match Joel Physically one on one, ofc they double automatically.
since he's doubled so much and 100% of the time and surrounded by very solid shooters..how come he has only 2.3 Ast a game despite playing almost 40 mins, whereas in the rs he has 4.2 and played just over 33 a game?

You can't double Jokic like that, for example cuz it's not effective

I was just wondering how the greatest scorer per min in history and the ultra dominant MVP fandom, explain this strange phenomenon where he's down across the board vs. the weak, short handed and centerless Raps

They're centerless because they play positionless basketball, especially defensively.

Good for them

but doesn't that mean Embiid, a very large human being and one of the most talented Centers of all time should flourish in a series against them?

[Perseus1966]

so do we agree now that if you shoot 30+ free throws you probably win the game?

[Perseus1966]

and stop complaining about Scott Foster ,Bucks last year won the 4th game against the Nets with Tony Brothers,Scott Foster and Ed Malloy.

[aj174]

The reason Raptors defense got gud is the longbois were deployed. Without a one kneed FVV, we had to do it and I hope we do that again on Monday, cause FVV isn't healthy.

[WuTang_CMB]

Lol embiid looks stupid.

Still a ton of immaturity in him