ECSF Gm 5: 76ers (2-2) at Heat (2-2) | Tue 5/10 7:30PM TNT (EST)

[Mik317]

the Warriors who also once choked away a 3-1 lead?

[mjkvol]

In no way shape or form do I believe Embiid is soft. If you know his story or the way he thinks you would know he's not as well. Only trolls and haters call him soft and its mostly from him being injured alot or him crying when they lost the lucky bounce to the raptors lol. Like I said hes just an emotional player that wears his heart on his sleave( which can be a good or bad thing). He is a amazing talent so sometimes we are hard on him but the guy is still human. Thats why I had my personality rant post earlier lol.

Embiid has some similarities to Shaq but they are definitely different in playing style Shaq was much more dominant, Embiid is more skilled. They both were emotional and liked to take in to account what was going on around them. They are also built differently too . Yea they are both 7ft but Shaq was basically a tree trunk on the floor that could move. I would say Embiid is much mobile , fluid than Shaq ever was . Thats why Embiid is able to defend out in to the peremiter or do those euro steps with ease but he also gets moved out of the paint easily too something you didnt see with Shaq.

My point was more so we know what Embiid is and what we have with him at this point. We know his skillset , his personality , how he moves. Which is this is a 7ft big man thats always working on his game and getting better but also gets hurt alot and also is emotional( he is not robot like and doesnt plan on being that way). So how does this team continue to build around him. My beef has always been with the sixers front office not knowing what to do with him or who to put around him. Thats another topic tbh.

Thank you. I've heard it said that this town doesn't deserve to have great players by some of the same people on here now trashing Embiid, and I always disputed that because it is generally a few butthurt fans on a forum like this or on social media.

What is bizarre is how the perception of Embiid changes so drastically from game to game. You have the trolls and fools who only post after losses that believe they can psychoanalyze professional athletes, but it is a lot of others as well who go back and forth like ping pong balls on Embiid, Harden, etc.

This guy is a first ballot HOFer playing at an MVP level for a few years now who isn't a robot and also isn't the fiery, in-your-face leader type, regardless how much you want him to be. At some point we won't have him around any more, and we will look back the same way we look back on every legend we had in this town and say "remember when ....". Damn, appreciate what you have right now, it'll be gone before you knowit.

[Mik317]

did the same thing to Iggy.

Yeah you always want your guys to be better and all that jazz but at some point, guys are who they are and its up to the TEAM which includes the front office to put people in the correct spots to succeed. Iggy wasn't the go to scorer we needed...it was up to the front office to get that and allow Iggy to be the swiss army knife he ended up being in GS. They didn't. And he was booed out of town.

Now with Embiid we finally got a dude who contends for MVP despite his own flaws and there are people who question if he wants it enough despite being the walking dead. Yeah I wish he wasn't mopey at times too but again the dudes body keeps testing him....I imagine it **** sucks to always have to fight through it and need to because the team around you is so inept at times (this includes the FO) and then when you aren't able to...you get shat on and people call you selfish. I said it when Bron left Cleveland...fans aint **** sometimes and I would be the most petty bitch. If I was LeBron I would have strung the Cavs along a second time and then leave them at the alter again lol. This city constantly whines about how no one likes them and they take that as a badge of honor and then wonder why they have the rep they do and all the bad things that happen. Drives me nuts. There is a difference between just allowing the team to be bad and not expecting more and being an insufferable ****. There are levels to this **** so to speak

[Jailblazers7]

I would also just like to remind everyone that we are 2-1 in this series when Embiid plays and he gave us a huge lift by coming back. Teams lose basketball games sometimes lol.

We also should have been able to steal one of the first two games of our bench wasn’t atrocious. That’s really the cost of the Brand/Colangelo era. We don’t have a single draft pick from that era capable of playing real playoff minutes right now.