whenever this topic comes up i can't help but think about two season ago when maxey hunted herro on defense nonstop in the 4th quarter to beat the
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seed at the time without embiid
Gilbert Arenas’ MVP ladder:
1. Nikola Jokic
2. Giannis Antetokounmpo
3. Joel Embiid
“I don’t see the quantum leap from Embiid…he takes a lot of possessions off. Usually dies out in the 4th quarter when he gets tired…There’s nothing that stands out for me to put him as the…
Two straight years former assistants from the sixers have made the finals
Monty Williams
Ime Udoka
More proof this organization is poverty from top to bottom they have NO CLUE what it takes to build a championship team.. SELL THE TEAM PLEASE!!!!
Tobias Harris’ father has an issue with the Sixers putting his son ‘in the corner’ on offense
“Tobias is an assassin scorer. I mean they can’t stop him. Nobody in the league can stop him. So he’s proven that over his career even when he was with the Clippers he was an assassin…
Props to joel embiid for becoming a consensus top 10 player in one of the most dysfunctional franchises of all time... he still has yet to play with a real point guard in his tenure
Embiid has a rudy gobert level impact defensively while putting up 35 a night yet won’t get any love in DPOY convos but fake defenders like JJJ will GTFOH
tyrese maxey since 2021 when he gets 15+ shots (the amount of shots per game harden averaged this season)
2021-2022 as second year player:
23.4 ppg 4.8 apg 50.5 fg% (26 games)
2022-2023 as third year player:
25.6 ppg 4.9 apg 47.8 fg% (31 games)
do what you will with this info
i'm telling ya after this shit the basketball gods ain't allowing us to lose this series... still can't get over how corny this was and i will keep bringing it up
why are we surprised that the celtics defense has fallen off a cliff this app just completely ignored that consistently their best defense vs the sixers was no defense...
Hilarious to me he came into the league as a non-shooter became a top 5 shoot but dudes on here capping his potential cause the coach wouldn’t let him dribble with the 2 stars on the court last year
Maxey is only 22 he’s gonna be so special his iq ain’t even close to what it’s gonna be in 5 years… he’s just playing off pure talent right now… the strides he has made defensively in the last half of the season ain’t talked about enough either… and the work ethic…
Embiid ducking competition talking point just proves your criticism ain’t about basketball… plays through injuries every postseason which cooks his production… literally averaged 30 in a series with the same injury that made Kawhi miss the whole postseason last year
Thank you Ben Simmons… your inability and selfishness to become an outside shooter forced Embiid to develop into an elite off the dribble perimeter scorer and now since your sitting out he was forced to acquire point guard skills and magic like passing traits
the way doc rivers makes his players look unplayable by sticking them in all-bench trash lineups in regular season was truly generational... 6'7" house jr and 6'9" mcdaniels not getting any run with harden-embiid together vs brown and tatum is just malpractice 😂
The Inspiring Story Of Jay Scrubb- From JUCO LEGEND To NBA PRO?!?!
@jayscrubb
The things this dude has been through is insane this video is a MUST WATCH....
46 minutes on a sore Achilles… WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
It’s hilarious that pj tucker was the starting 4 for a whole season basically not being guarded or in the dunker spot… but when the idea of paul reed next to Embiid comes up instantly you here “NOPE HE CANT PLAY 4 THE SPACING THE SPACING BLAH BLAH BLAH”
2ND CHANCE PPG LEADERS
Joel Embiid 5.6
Nikola Jokic 5.0
Anthony Davis 4.5
Clint Capela 4.3
Rudy Gobert 4.1
Joel Embiid Last Year 2.8
NICK NURSE EFFECT LET HIM PLAY MARCUS MORRIS AGAINST TRASH TEAMS IDGAF HE GOT EMBIID FOCUSED
Cam reddish literally just stands and watches when trae young plays… plus if he’s off he knows the coaching staff pulling him and won’t go back to him.. 20 ppg without trae this year 11 ppg with him.. give the dude some freedom with trae.. wasting a guy with superstar potential
This play is Exactly why I’ve said in the past maxey-Embiid two man game has more potential then harden-Embiid in playoff setting… it’s not as predictable because when maxey is on his game he can score from anywhere on the court and he moves and is comfortable off-ball
Comparison is the thief of joy, but I'll just say Tyrese Maxey and Joel Embiid are synchronized like a couple recent NBA champions on this possession
Awesome to see Embiid hold the defense with his eyes on the kickout 3 to Maxey
Maxey has a whole lot of young Dame to him. The silky & creative finishing. The unstable platform shooting & deep range. If he learns how to draw fouls & further weaponize his change of pace he can be one of the true offensive elites. Easy to forget he just turned 23…
Orlando Magic YOUNG CORE is UNDERRATED…
Cole Anthony (20)
RJ Hampton (20)
Wendell Carter Jr (22)
Markelle Fultz (22)
Chuma Okeke (22)
Jonathan Isaac (23)
Mo Bamba (23)
plus two lottery picks in this years draft the future is bright!
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“Was talking to some scouts before last nights game, one of them said about Anthony Edwards that 'he’s the next Michael Jordan'... He's coming for Giannis crown as the best two-way superstar”
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reminder.... **sixers barely lose to top tier playoff teams clippers and cavs while maxey is gassed out of his mind**
sixer fans:
"nah let's not bring embiid back"
Jacque Vaughn on
#Nets
woes: "We need each other. I'm not a Hall of Fame coach & we have no All-Stars on our team. And so this is a collective group that has to play together on every single night & we'll continue to grasp that ideal. But that's the challenge for this group.”
embiid has played with thybulle, simmons, tucker, and tobias and we worried about siakam an all-nba level two way wing fitting it's comical... but nah let's only go for another guard so we are once again undersized vs boston wooooooohoooo
james harden deserves this man most critiqued all-time great just went into boston as -10.5 favorites without embiid and put 45 on their fucking head.. give him his damn flowers
Prayers up to
@KELLYOUBREJR
! Here’s a pic he took with my cousin last night. Y’all know him as a great hooper, but anyone that’s close to him knows he’s one of the best people you’ll ever meet
embiid had 3 30 point games against bostons defense last year in the playoffs with a grade 3 lcl sprain, now what is stopping him when he's healthy i need to see it
Doc Rivers on Charles Bassey: “You rarely see a rookie 5 calling out coverages, calling switch… He’s been coached well.” - November 18th, 2021
Can a sixers reporter grow a pair and ask him about this and why he hasn't gotten an opportunity yet
Jalen McDaniels
+15 last game
+15 again
And y’all crying about thybulle as dame Lillard is getting played box and ones on him so he’s getting warm up threes Jesus Christ stfu
batums impact just shows star hunting is overrated when you already have two stars in most situations that third star that everyone is hunting for just isn’t worth it... denver understood fit/roles is more important hence why they will run the league if health is on their side
This insinuates Embiid ducks tough competition *checks notes* Embiid had played through torn meniscus vs hawks in playoffs an LCL injury last season vs Boston where he came back early and didn’t use it as an excuse once… have fun with the foul merchant shit but this ain’t it