2 players with 40 PPG in december

Homer38 · Post #1 » by **Homer38** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:04 pm

And we are almost half of this month....

HotelVitale · Post #2 » by **HotelVitale** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:14 pm

Embiid's been better in Nurse's offense but also mostly been feasting on trash defenses. Only been 4 games and Sixers played WAS twice and ATL and DET. Been pretty comical to see some of the defensive efforts against him.

Wolfgang630 · Post #3 » by **Wolfgang630** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:16 pm

The Sixers have the easiest schedule for the month. Embiid is not that impressive. Giannis is more impressive.

Profound23 · Post #4 » by **Profound23** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:18 pm

They are both impressive. Nice to see stars shining.

bigboi · Post #5 » by **bigboi** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:21 pm

Giannis the goat

cgf · Post #6 » by **cgf** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:23 pm

And here I was happy with Julius going for 29.4pts, 8.2rebs, & 5.6asts on a TS of 69.8% lol

The league has some real monsters atm

youngcrev · Post #7 » by **youngcrev** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:34 pm

Embiid is so good that it's expected he drop 40 a game against bad teams. That's something.

hardenASG13 · Post #8 » by **hardenASG13** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:39 pm

Wolfgang630 wrote:The Sixers have the easiest schedule for the month. Embiid is not that impressive. Giannis is more impressive.

I feel like Giannis 64 vs Indy, who has 0 answers for him and is a terrible defense, helped that a bit. Both are very impressive, but numbers for superstars these days are just through the roof due to teams not playing guys who can't shoot around them anymore. Embiid has also sat several 4th quarters in this stretch.

XtremeDunkz · Post #9 » by **XtremeDunkz** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:41 pm

Wolfgang630 wrote:The Sixers have the easiest schedule for the month. Embiid is not that impressive. Giannis is more impressive.

Embiid sits 4th quarters because he dominates teams enough through 3 that he's not needed.

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WillyJakkz · Post #10 » by **WillyJakkz** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:02 pm

How many games has Embiid missed in Dec though?

I love his game but I recall him missing the game before DET, not sure how many other ones.

So those #'s could be skewed cause he obliterated WAS 2x as well I believe.

Woodsanity · Post #11 » by **Woodsanity** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:32 pm

40 ppg against the worst teams in the league. 23 ppg against actual good teams in the playoffs. :lol:

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #12 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:45 pm

Wolfgang630 wrote:The Sixers have the easiest schedule for the month. Embiid is not that impressive. Giannis is more impressive.

You're just Giannis hater.

Post #13 » by **Duke4life831** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:51 pm

I remember when these numbers meant something. We're what about a 1/4 of the way through the season. We already have had 5 50pt games. Mid 90s-2010 (too lazy to look past this era), most seasons would have a total of somewhere between 3-8 for the entire season.

Offense is just so far out of control now that all of these scoring stuff just seems like a blur and nothing special.

HotelVitale · Post #14 » by **HotelVitale** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 6:57 pm

WillyJakkz wrote:How many games has Embiid missed in Dec though? I love his game but Inrecalk him missing the game before DET, not sure how many other ones.

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Profound23 · Post #15 » by **Profound23** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:10 pm

youngcrev wrote:Embiid is so good that it's expected he drop 40 a game against bad teams. That's something.

And the second Embiid or Giannis score 20 pts or less against any team it's "Oh, they are on the decline" or "he got exposed."

HotelVitale · Post #16 » by **HotelVitale** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:18 pm

Duke4life831 wrote:I remember when these numbers meant something. We're what about a 1/4 of the way through the season. We already have had 5 50pt games. Mid 90s-2010 (too lazy to look past this era), most seasons would have a total of somewhere between 3-8 for the entire season. Offense is just so far out of control now that all of these scoring stuff just seems like a blur and nothing special.

Not trying to make too much out of the semantics here but what is the 'control' that it's out of? The wording makes it sound like it's a mischievous child that irresponsible adults are letting free, rather than a new strategy being carried out by super skilled professionals.

In case you did mean it that way, this is only the 9th highest scoring season in league history, and back in the other major high scoring era the league had guys like Wilt, Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West etc who were scoring 30+ like Embiid, Luka, Giannis, etc do now. Don't think we now look back on that as some sad, fallen era of the NBA or some era of phonies that the league should be ashamed of. The game's strategies and style of play just lent itself to higher scoring back then, then after a while things swung the other way a little.

Even if you preferred some older era of bball it always feels off to me for people to delegitimize the current era. Sports always change and evolve, bball probably more than any of them, and we're just in a certain type of era and the competition is just as intense as it's ever been.

Bum Adebayo · Post #17 » by **Bum Adebayo** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:22 pm

Amazing shooting percentages from Giannis this month.

phanman · Post #18 » by **phanman** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:31 pm

HotelVitale wrote:Embiid's been better in Nurse's offense but also mostly been feasting on trash defenses. Only been 4 games and Sixers played WAS twice and ATL and DET. Been pretty comical to see some of the defensive efforts against him.

Your comment reminded me of this post:

Read on Twitter

Just crazy.

Nurse has just been a god-send for that organization and vice-versa. Nick essentially upgraded his Cameroonian all-star into a bigger and better MVP version in Embiid. He's operating in essentially all the same areas that Pascal and Barns did last year and making those same reads as a fulcrum by the elbows.

Post #19 » by **Duke4life831** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:32 pm

HotelVitale wrote:
Duke4life831 wrote:I remember when these numbers meant something. We're what about a 1/4 of the way through the season. We already have had 5 50pt games. Mid 90s-2010 (too lazy to look past this era), most seasons would have a total of somewhere between 3-8 for the entire season. Offense is just so far out of control now that all of these scoring stuff just seems like a blur and nothing special.
Not trying to make too much out of the semantics here but what is the 'control' that it's out of? The wording makes it sound like it's a mischievous child that irresponsible adults are letting free, rather than a new strategy being carried out by super skilled professionals.

In case you did mean it that way, this is only the 9th highest scoring season in league history, and back in the other major high scoring era the league had guys like Wilt, Rick Barry, Elgin Baylor, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West etc who were scoring 30+ like Embiid, Luka, Giannis, etc do now. Don't think we now look back on that as some sad, fallen era of the NBA or some era of phonies that the league should be ashamed of. The game's strategies and style of play just lent itself to higher scoring back then, then after a while things swung the other way a little.

Even if you preferred some older era of bball it always feels off to me for people to delegitimize the current era. Sports always change and evolve, bball probably more than any of them, and we're just in a certain type of era and the competition is just as intense as it's ever been.

I dont mean anything mischievous with what Im saying. All Im saying is scoring is easier today than it ever has been in the modern era.

Ya its the 9th highest scoring season in league history, but its #1 when compared to the modern era. Its 9th when you factor in the 60s when there were only 8-9 teams in the entire league. You look at the top 8 seasons when it comes to Offensive Rating, all 8 have been the last 8 seasons of the NBA.

Im not trying to delegitimize anything, Im just stating a very basic fact. Scoring is as easy as its ever been, because of that the scoring landmarks are no longer as rare and no longer as big of a deal as they used to be.

Pacers_Freak · Post #20 » by **Pacers_Freak** » Thu Dec 14, 2023 7:33 pm

hardenASG13 wrote:
Wolfgang630 wrote:The Sixers have the easiest schedule for the month. Embiid is not that impressive. Giannis is more impressive.

I feel like Giannis 64 vs Indy, who has 0 answers for him and is a terrible defense, helped that a bit. Both are very impressive, but numbers for superstars these days are just through the roof due to teams not playing guys who can't shoot around them anymore. Embiid has also sat several 4th quarters in this stretch.

Saying the Pacers defense is terrible is an understatement.