The Official NBA Season Thread: I’m like Jayson Tatum in the Olympics I'm not playing

[rolaholic]

Might be able to keep the TNT deal now

 

[rolaholic]

Game recognize game

 

[adobecs4]

Embiid ducking joker?

 

[HOU$TON]

Embiid is mvp

 

[freeze]

Embiid gotta be 9' tall. Allie laflure is like 5'10

 

[Moheezy]

Hows Embiid in the playoffs though.

We will see this year under a real coach. I've watched some of his bad games in the playoffs and a lot of it was on coach setting him up for failure while the other teams game plan every move. Doc just gives him the ball and hopes he makes something happen.

Not giving an excuse, I just have a strong feeling that if he's healthy in May, we will see a very different Embiid than in the past playoff runs.

 

[pums]

A lot of Embiid’s lapses in the playoffs were on health and coaching.

He couldn’t get the ball on the block because they were just asking him to seal. No misdirection or pin down at least to get him a look.

 

[xxpizzo]

MY MVP

Hands down most fun game i been to

 

[Moheezy]

Embiid is mvp

The only thing stopping him is if isn't disqualified from missing too many games

 

[dasitmane]

Embiid gonna play in Denver this time?

 

[addict4sneakers]

Doc, harden, simmons. Embiid running out of excuses. SVG was telling you his PPG dropped 10 points. That ain’t coaching. Thats Embiid

 

[picasso swerve]

We will see this year under a real coach. I've watched some of his bad games in the playoffs and a lot of it was on coach setting him up for failure while the other teams game plan every move. Doc just gives him the ball and hopes he makes something happen.

Not giving an excuse, I just have a strong feeling that if he's healthy in May, we will see a very different Embiid than in the past playoff runs.

His play always trends down in the playoffs compared to regular season and its everytime so, if it quacks its a duck kinda thing.

 

[amitt5504]

Doc, harden, simmons. Embiid running out of excuses. SVG was telling you his PPG dropped 10 points. That ain’t coaching. Thats Embiid

EmBum

 

[dman14]

if plums can still get up, he is going to eat off harden

 

[shotsrangout]

no because his rival is better than him head to head. joker is amazing but when we’re talking about top 10 of all time type conversations the main part of that convo is whether you’re actually better than other people on that list. Joker is not better than Shaq for that simple reason and i’d like to see how he’d do against Ewing, Mutombo, David Robinson, Sabonis, Dikembe, etc. Embiid right now is one of the few players that physically has the size and strength for Joker not to get easy shots off against. And Joker clearly struggles and isn’t as good as he is against other defenders.

 

[Lizakers]

Two nights in a row commentators don’t talk about why Giddey gets boo’d when he touches the ball in southern CA

 

[Moheezy]

His play always trends down in the playoffs compared to regular season and its everytime so, if it quacks its a duck kinda thing.

Quacks like a duck? This was a missed opportunity to say "if it flops like a fish"

 

[picasso swerve]

no because his rival is better than him head to head. joker is amazing but when we’re talking about top 10 of all time type conversations the main part of that convo is whether you’re actually better than other people on that list. Joker is not better than Shaq for that simple reason and i’d like to see how he’d do against Ewing, Mutombo, David Robinson, Sabonis, Dikembe, etc. Embiid right now is one of the few players that physically has the size and strength for Joker not to get easy shots off against. And Joker clearly struggles and isn’t as good as he is against other defenders.

People are overly obsessed with rankings.

Also, how you list 55 twice.

 

[ill steelo]

Milwaukee/Philly in round 2 is going to be a war.

 

[rolaholic]

 

[gaiiige]

Buns can’t defend & don’t shoot enough 3s

 

[703 hwy]

Grayson Allen needs more help. GM should trade some of those other guys.

 

[B Sox]

Credit to Embiid for going hard in these matchups against Joker.

Playoff Embiid a real thing though. Tough to ultimately get too excited when his track record shows that he isn’t remotely at this level when there is higher stakes and the games really matter.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Embiid is a monster and he has to do this in the playoffs. Ain't no excuse for him shooting 46% in the playoffs for his career.

 

[addict4sneakers]

Kangz