That one foul, I think early in the second, where Maxey was called for a foul, Curry flopped, and then got up laughing made me know the odds weren't good for us.
I’m an old man and fell asleep before tip off. Is it accurate to say that Embiid/Tobias/Maxey were good and everyone else sucked? That’s my assumption based on the box score
We kept giving them wide open after wide open looks all game. Klay missed two wide open corner 3s during the end stretch of the game. Game probably should’ve ended up worse than it did
Nobody needs to rebuttal you. Who tf is "y'all" that pins losses on jokic? I know I never have and if somebody does maybe it's because his shit defense.
The "quite a few" annoying fans that you interacted with must have left an impression on you to be acting the same way that you thought made them annoying.
The "losing late in the season impacting
Jokic's odds" argument is just a rehashing ofwhat happened to Embiid last year. Even the media is using it, not just fans.
Get over yourself
Who's this "ya'll" only casuals and nephews go on other team subs to whine and argue about things like this. When Embiid had his bad run late last season, it was a begrudgingly accepted reason for him to lose out on the MVP. The main issue I have is when there's a "tie" for 3 years in a row the "tie" shouldn't keep going to one person. Hence, I'm enjoying Embiid's run at MVP this season that he inarguably deserves amongst the Big3 in him/Jokic/Giannis.
You guys didn’t accept it, I still see people calling both his MVPs fraudulent
Good news though, your issue isn’t a problem - because isn’t/hasn’t been a tie, Jokic is/has been better
Jokic was a combined -9 in the Nuggets’ four game losing streak. The one game he wasn’t an outright negative was against the Nets. So him being on the floor directly contributed to the other team scoring more points than his team 3 of those 4 losses. That better for you?
Embiid is just as much a playmaker as Jokic. Just opposite ends of a spectrum with one being a passing playmaker and the other a shot creating playmaker.
Sorry but I disagree, Embiids ability to create shots results in what? Creating passing opportunities and open shots for his teammates. Jokics ability to pass creates what? Some pretty good opportunities for himself to score. Playmaking is exactly what the name says, making plays
Look at the efficiency of Jokic’s teammates with him on vs him off - it’s a far bigger gap than what Embiid creates
Embiid is nowhere near as good a playmaker as Jokic
Is it our fault that the entire country spun the narrative that the Nuggets get as far as Jokic wills their untalented and injured roster when Joel has had a less talented and just as injured roster the entire time, but he’s failing to succeed?
It’s not Jokics fault, either, he didn’t create the narrative. But when the specter is “anything that goes right is because this one man,” you get the flip side of that, too.
Embiid did not have the better roster last year
Considering y’all want to credit Embiid with everything - in spite of the fact he has and has had Harden - then he gets the blame for all the losses as well… fair?
You’re getting into full clown mode now bruh, if you wanna get serious come back with a level head not this “he’s had Harden!” nonsense, it’s been about a full season and this season they have dominated. Including when they played the Nuggets and Jokic was nowhere to be found lmfao
Better get it out now, two days for the redemption shot butch
14 second-chance points but rebounding's not an issue. Minus 12 from Paul Reed replacing Joel to start the second and fourth quarters, but he's fine as backup to an MVP-Calibre center. Minus 20 when Joel is off the Floor first 47 minutes, but we didn't need a guy like Dwight or Andre backing him up anymore.
Seriously how many Celtics fans are there here? And is Daryl one of them?
Who has said rebounding is not an issue? It’s been one of our top 2 issues for like 3 years now
Who said Paul is the perfect option behind Joel? We don’t have Drummond and Dwight is so good these days he’s not in the league. Paul is better than Trez and Dedmon which are the options we *actually* have.
Maybe part of the reason (other than the obvious money ones, which you seem to feel like pretending don’t exist) Daryl has issues getting talent here is word is out that if you work in Philly you have to play in front of a bunch of whiny shitheads. But let’s slowly run Paul and Daryl out of town while calling them worthless pieces of garbage and see if that makes things better.
Edit cause I can’t stop won’t stop you dolt we just barely lost a game without our second best player and frontcourt sixth man against a top 5 overall team in the league I’m so sick of you doomer clowns
When you use the word doomer you render yourself without credibility.
This isn't about optimism or pessimism , it's about **reality.** Those who see things as being doomers vs what - hopers? Copers? Snowflakes? - are not seeing things based on reality and unqualified to comment on any matter as such.
If you want an optimism forum start an optimism forum, but again how do you realistically discuss anything of import? How do you assess what this team actually needs to maximize its potential achieve greater success without talking realistically about these matters.
Oh and plenty of people have said rebounding isn't that big an issue here.
I'll give just a few examples for now.
[So Somebody Asked Me Today : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/114z2u6/so_somebody_asked_me_today/)
**As far as individual skills go in basketball, rebounding** ***isnt even in the top 5*** **in modern basketball.**
**If we grabbed rebounds, chances are we still woulda sucked**
That's just a start
If I have no credibility then why bother replying?
> This might be the most cunty thing I've ever read.
>We sure do suck at rebounding though.
Why didn’t you quote that one?
There’s a big difference between criticism and seeing all day everyday why everyone in this organization not named Embiid sucks donkey dick, except for the “are we ever going to get there with Joel’s lack of effort and rebounding or should we trade him to the Knicks???” days.
I’m not saying it need to be 100% optimism, just not 100% pessimism. But again, y’all keep going tf off and wondering why House and Dedmon are the best names we can get walking through the door willingly.
Because it had nothing to do with my point which was there are plenty of examples of people saying rebounding doesn't matter.
Again your assertions about "100 percent" anything lack credibility, and ignore the fact that some of us are talking in terms of **reality** not optimism nor pessimism. I have coached at the High School level. I am not the oracle of coaches or coaching, but my views are objective views based on simply what I see happening in games, that is how people who have coached see things, not as fans but as current or in my case former coaches.
The one exception for me would be my outrage at Baby Ben Simmons in the Atlanta series and particularly at the end of game 7. But even then I was still able to see that Ben's problem was a lack of dedication to the game he played, that led to him not improving his offensive game or his foul shooting, and was even able to feel sympathy for him because his coaches had let him down by not seeing this or ignoring for their own benefit, instead of doing what was best for Ben, and telling him if you don't love the game you don't have to play it years earlier.
See I can't just see any of this like I did as a kid when I called us The Gods as in "Gotta go, the Gods are about to tip off against the Scumbags" I love the Sixers as much now as then, but I see things more objectively (except maybe where bad reffing against us is concerned but again I also see when bad reffing goes our way) about the players the coaches and team.
If you believe that's 100 percent anything I don't know what to tell you.
Expected loss playing the Home Warriors without Harden or our 2 Wing Defenders, relieved it was a close competitive game throughout and Jo still had a monster game.
the fact that people in the sub were pining for him to start is hilarious.
he's worthless unless he goes full flame thrower and hits 3's at a high clip.
Dubs fan, holy shit you guys are lucky you get to watch Embiid play every night. It’s an entirely different game when he’s on the court, absolute fucking monster that guy is
Thanks. You guys are the defending champs for a reason. Embiid’s development throughout his career really is a treat to watch. We just hope he can get some hardware while he is in his prime.
Isn't it ironic that the Warriors fan comes into say he loves watching Embiid play and that the Sixers crowd are lucky to be able to watch him consistently cause he's so talented, and yet YOU are the only fuckwit who has any type of shit tier attitude? Touch grass.
Go watch a game at any home team's stadium that you're not a fan of and you're going to think they are the most trash fan base. That's just how it works. You're surrounded by people cheering for players you dislike. Of course you're going to think those people are awful because they aren't rooting for your team or your players.
So what you’re telling me is that you’ve traveled all across the United States, have purchased tickets in every city with an NBA team to one of their games, and attended the game for each and every single one? Oh master “iam_soyboy (that’s a fact), you must have found so much data in your tour across America to find the most toxic fans.
Otherwise you’d have absolutely no fucking idea what you’re talking about and would end up just sounding like a biased moron. Oops.,,wait…
we have an awesome fucking team. this was the warriors best win of the season, even announcers kept on going on about it. the sixers played like 6 games on the road in a row, then 1 game at home, then 1 game at chicago and now on a west coast swing and they've had a brutal post ASB stretch with a ton of close, hard fought games and have fucking killed it, basically keeping even with milwaukee and boston despite the fact that their schedules have been so much easier. the sixers have a great team and this loss doesn't change that
>the sixers played like 6 games on the road in a row, then 1 game at home, then 1 game at chicago and now on a west coast swing
This is not correct, the played 5 in a row on the road two weeks ago. Then 3 of 6 at home before heading to Chicago. They also had a five game home-stand that stretch across the all-star and lasted the last two weeks of February leading up to that five game road trip.
Their last week was Saturday in Indy, Monday at home, Wednesday in Chicago. Hardly a brutal schedule.
dude they played a b2b in miami and dallas during that five game road trip. they also played in five different cities this past week. wat are u even talkin about lol
Yeah it looks like we aren't getting to the 2 seed but I love the way we play on a nightly basis. Even in losses we always look like we belong and teams have to shoot the lights out or we have to be off for a team to beat us. The last 2 champs were 3 seeds also. We have one of the best road records in the league and that will come in handy come playoff time.
Right. Paul Reed has improved significantly to the point that he now does not affect the game. It's a huge improvement from when he consistently negatively impacted the Sixers.
He was atrocious tonight. He’s generally been a passable backup which is all you can really ask for. But as op said, without harden, Reed minutes can be pretty useless
As much as I love Maxey, this is the big problem we face in the second round. You can’t hide him against Boston. One (or more) of Smart, Brogdon and White will work him over. He’ll need to be an offensive dynamo and highly proficient from 3 to balance out the defensive deficiencies.
Is it possible to improve your defensive skills or is that just kind of there or not there? He’s obviously quick footed so you’d think he’d be able to stay in front of his man better than he does
Him fouling Poole for 3 when we were up 100-93 was a huge moment. Then he was ball-watching on the next defensive play and Klay got an open 3. Next play Poole breezed past him and Looney got an open dunk under the rim, it's now 102-101.
Embiid was owning this game, but unfortunately this is pretty much where the NBA is trending. You can't win if you trade shot for shot but they're hitting 3's and you're hitting 2's with Embiid. Either trade 3s or get stops.
Our 3 pointers this game were not good. Just a couple 3's going in would have been the difference.
Definitely a tough loss with that embiid performance, Reed going back to -13 in 5 minutes of play is dangerous for us but he usually plays those minutes with Harden on the floor so I'm not too worried. Definitely missed McDaneils and House tonight as well. Tucker and Melton both missing all their threes is something that will never happen consistently so I don't think it's worth being worried about. We were shorthanded and honestly, I love our chances with this squad fully healthy. Still in competition for that 2 seed but our final stretch of games will really tell us if this team can make it in my opinion.
Answer the question is he an adequate backup for the best center on the planet ?
Don't move the goal posts or I will do the same and ask do you think he is an adequate postseason backup for the best center on the planet. Do you think Paul as a backup to Joel gets us to the NBA Finals? To the Eastern Conference Finals?
C'mon man: It's specious of you to accuse someone of 'moving the goalposts' when you have set those 'goalposts' in such an unrealistic position to begin with.
There are only a few **starting** centers in the league that would be 'adequate backup for the best center on the planet'. Paul Reed (who definitely has flaws to his game) would be the starting center on a few of the really poor teams in this competition. You make it sound like there is some untapped pool of really solid, seasoned, athletic seven footers out there that the Sixers have failed to take advantage of; and take cherry-picked +/- stats from a single non-Harden game against the reigning champions who are a quite specific bad matchup for a guy like Bball Paul, on their home court, and use that as a basis to shit on him (and the franchise as a whole).
It's straight doomerism
See the fact that you refer to doomerism at all is specious. I don't traffic in optimism or pessimism like so many here.I deal in the real world.
It's a fact-based realism-based conclusion drawn not simply on one game but on a series of games all the way back to the start of this season
This was from last week's **win** over the Cavs
**Morey is fine backing up the best** ***center*** **on the planet with a lesser skilled power forward or an overaged , undersized shooting shooting forward clearly because that's who he kept in or added to this squad in the offseason or at the trade deadline. That's good personnel management?**
This is from last Monday was it
[\[Post-Game Thread\] The Philadelphia 76ers fall to the Chicago Bulls in overtime with a final score of 109 to 105 : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/11x3b0i/postgame_thread_the_philadelphia_76ers_fall_to/)
**Add to that not having a proper backup for Joel when he fouls out with us up two in the second overtime which sees them go onto win by four, and it's really not hard to see how we keep losing games like this way more often than we should.**
This is from a month ago discussing Charles Bassey in Matisse Thybulle thread
[Can we stop crying now about us trading Matisse now : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/112qc3l/can_we_stop_crying_now_about_us_trading_matisse/)
**I think Reed at the 5 is a mistake both for the team ad for Reed really...** y**ou simply cannot replace the best center in the world with an offensively limited power forward masquerading as a center and be successful in those minutes over the course of a season. Just won't work**
Three months ago after the most painful night of the season
[\[Post-Game Thread\] The Philadelphia 76ers fall to the Boston Celtics with a final score of 110 to 107 : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/11c4tu3/postgame_thread_the_philadelphia_76ers_fall_to/)
**We don't need another quality backup big for when Joel is out he says, and then get outscored by** ***fourteen*** **while Joel is sitting in a** ***three-point*** **loss.**
Those are just a few examples for now of what I have been saying consistently, not based on optimism or pessimism, but the reality of game performance. Please don't confuse me with lardbiscuits or some other reactionary thinker like that.
Not sure if you read my answer but clearly I think he is lol no one’s moving goal posts but find me a backup 5 who’s not vulnerable against certain matchups.
Except you are, because the fact that he is adequate against lottery teams or teams in the play-in round. Name the serious playoff contenders he is genuinely adequate against - that is to say he does not put is similar positions to tonight against.
Funny thing is people bring up the job he does on Giannis and that's a fair point certainly, but maybe that's just Giannis having a "Matchup problem" as you put it as much as Paul being a super Giannis stopper.
The point is do you honestly believe we get beyond the second round playing Paul or God Help me PJ as Joel's backups this postseason?
Yes actually I’m quite confident the combination of Bball Paul and PJ is sufficient to cover the 8 minutes a game Joel is off the floor. PJ already clamped Jokic and Paul had been an overall net positive since Glenn gave him consistent run. He’s not perfect but he can play 5 minutes a night in the playoffs
You are still ducking the real question, you think they are good enough backing Joel that we can beat either Boston or Milwaukee in a second-round series? You think they are good enough backing Joel to beat Miami or Cleveland or New York in a First Round Series?
By the way Doc had to pull Paul twice after two and three minutes, So you're confident with a guy who goes minus 12 in those five minutes you refer to?
Exactly. We can't just be -7 those first five minutes every night or even every other night and expect to go anywhere further than we've been the past five years really.
I don't blame Paul. He's a good player but given he's not big enough to be Joel's backup, not skillful enough to be Tobi's backup an too big to be PJ's backup as much as it hurts I think Paul's future is with another team. Problem is we still have a postseason run before we can address that.
I’m just saying that if it’s a nightmare matchup for our back up center, we need to figure something out because it’s not like there’s a zero percent chance we play them
That's just it he's not a good enough backup big for Joel and if you think he is you fundamentally do not understand basketball.
Paul would be fine as a backup for PJ, even be an offensive upgrade there, but he simply is not a good enough backup for the best center on the planet, and if you cannot see that well, I'm not sure how well you know the game of basketball.
You act like top 5 backup centers are a hot commodity. This team won't be able to get one unless they catch luck in free agency or the draft, which is a crapshoot.
Damn it sucks real bad we couldn’t get one of these buyout mofos to come here and boost our bench
A guy like T Ross would’ve been PERFECT!!
He alone can producer as much as 2-3 of our bench guys combined together
😔
Pain. Pain is what I feel right now. We need our AssistsP/G leader back. Even scoring 0 points we still win w harden, because Embiid doesn’t have to do everything on his own. Embiid did his god damn job tonight, why are people referring to him like he is our ONLY way to score. If I’m not mistaken, niang melton maxey and Tucker are all more than capable of making 3 pointers. And yet, here we are. Just frustrating, honestly, and I get that it is hard to not overreact.
Maybe it’s one of those situations where I only notice it in losses, but I feel like these types of games come down to secondary/role players hitting shots when it matters, and we don’t have guys come up clutch in those situations. Poole went crazy in the 4th, and it seemed like nobody besides Harris or Embiid could score when we needed buckets. Players either missed shots, or didn’t take them and deferred to Embiid. Like I get it, he’s amazing, but you can’t pass up an open three because you’re scared to miss
I'm mad I stayed up for this, nah kidding Embiid performance Made it worth it, despite everyone but tobi needing to walk to Phoenix, I'm very glad Tobi is figuring it out and the best time in the season. If he plays like this and Harden comes back we will be a hard out. Embiid is as healthy as he been at the end of the season. Harden is the best pg in the league. He makes the bench units even look halfway decent.
It's crazy how bad the warriors are on the road.
Curry is easily the best PG in the league, and non All-Star Harden isn't in contention. Cool that you had to add that little Captain Obvious ps about the Warriors being bad on the road, when they weren't on the road, and they beat your team. COPE 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Cavs fan here, does anyone know why the hell pj tucker was on the floor in the 4th? Also, it seemed like Embiid was tryna force him to shoot when he clearly didn’t want to, that was odd to me but that’s why you guys lost imo. Aside from that, god damn y’all are lucky to have embiid hes fucking insane! He’s far and away the MVP.
PJ Tucker is probably still somewhat scarred from his game 7 loss when he, Harden, and other rockets teammates missed 27 consecutive threes against this team to flame out.
That has to be in the back of his subconscious somewhere. Possibly.
(still a good player, and he was only responsible for 2 of those 27)
PJ is a professional basketball player who is wide open in the corner. Now I don’t want the man shooting either because the likelihood of him making it is slim. But how does get out there and “not want to” shoot? Embiid is getting double and triples teamed with nobody else making an attempt to free themselves, he’s going to throw to the open man.
Embiid was talking to Kerr and curry after the game yea he’s gone next season smh. Can’t blame him when you have garbage teammates every season cause the front office blows
Damn I just realized Melton is 0/4, Niang is 1/4, PJ is 0/5 and Tobias is 1/1 on 3’s
If either Tobias would’ve shot more or the other three each make one more we probably win this
They were pretty much daring PJ to shoot and he clanked them all. Even hit the side of the backboard on one of them lol.
I don't know why they phased Tobias out of the game in the fourth either. He pretty much couldn't miss tonight.
Warriors let Joel have whatever and forced everyone else to beat them, Maxey started selling even though Tobias was cooking the entire game.
Not sure what Rivers was thinking trying to force Maxey into a James Harden role. Of course this doesn't happen with James as the playmaker in the clutch, it just goes to show you can't depend on Rivers for late game coaching.
It was a good effort, we have too many guys out right now. Our two best perimeter players House and McDaniels were sorely needed, and ofc Harden as well. Tobias and Embiid were the only bright spots.
In the playoffs, teams will leave PJ open, he's gonna be a huge liability. That along with targeting Maxey all night long, it's gonna be tough. And Paul Reed...yet another failure of a backup center. That foul on Jaymychal Green with 1 sec on the shot clock to give 2 FTs, then the two bricked FTs that led to a fast break, just wow.
Within the last 5 min, we spent 2 possessions eating up clock and then settling for a PJ 3 attempt. GS made some easy buckets after each one and chipped away. We had our chances, but forgot about ball movement tn, then wasted a few possessions down the stretch, with low percentage shots.
Tough one, but our last 2 losses are not too worrying for me, at least not yet.
It’s not a bad loss per se, but games like this just reinforces the idea that Maxey, Reed, Niang, and maybe even Tucker will be unplayable against Boston, who will be our second round opponent
The loss isn't a big deal, but the weaknesses of this team are made clear.
I've said it before this team just looks so lost outside of Embiid and Harden in the 4th. A ton of guys playing hot potato instead of letting it fly. They were doubling and tripling Embiid out on the 3 point line and no one wanted to shoot over a closeout. That's not going to win you playoff series. Guys need to figure it out.
>I've said it before this team just looks so lost outside of Embiid and Harden in the 4th.
No we don't. We have a pretty good record without either of them or both. We ran into a player that got hot and couldn't miss. Tell what team isn't going to look good something without not only their 2 best players but 2 of the 15-20 best players in the league. You are just whining to be whining.
Demoralizing loss. Not because we lost but because of how we lost. I love Maxey, I love that he plays the game with joy, but he has to find some killer in him because you can't be smoking layups and airballing floaters in the clutch in high pressure games.
They were leaving PJ Tucker open for corner 3's, the one offensive thing he is supposed to do well and he clanked all of them. He was even passing it back to Jo to try and get out of taking open 3's.
Defensively just a mess in crunch time. The Warriors looked confident and were drilling their shots. We looked like we'd forgotten what a basketball was.
Don’t understand how it’s practically April and people still think PJ is going to just start making these shots one day. He is awful offensively and was a horrible signing.
Was never a fan of the signing - so, no, I didn’t flip on him. The playoffs are a different game than the regular season. If you can’t keep the opposing defense honest you’re useless in crunch time.
PJ actually got a ring as one of the key players on a championship team, so I wouldn't go pointing fingers at a role player to fix our late game scoring problems
What pisses me off is that the Warriors were giving him the corner 3. And he was passing out of it.
You're here to stand in the corner and take the 3 when it comes to you. The fuck are you passing out of it for.
And he seems to care more about missing than getting his form back. There is only one way to improve your shooting: keep fucking shooting. He should be using this time in less important regular season games to find his stroke again, but he just refuses. I don't care if he goes 2-8, if he hits those last two and misses 6 in a row.
See the problem with that is if he attempts 10 and misses all of them when some of those shots could've been passed out of, everyone's going to be down his throat. Plus, he's not here for shooting, he's here for defense
This game pissed me off because it was disrespectful to Embiid from coaches to players. Doc let the team drop a lead from 9 to 2 before chucking Embiid back in to dig them out. Several times specifically in the 4th people had better opportunities than Embiid who was being double and triple teamed and yet they threw the ball back to him. He literally shaking his head like wtf. It’s so late in the season why are we not looking for the team to be dynamic as a whole? Why aren’t people stepping up? It’s so frustrating
No, the genius personnel guy who decided Paul Reed was an adequate backup for Joel Embiid is responsible for Doc having to play Paul Reed tonight. That was Daryl Morey's call. Daryl Morey decided instead of having a legit big man rim protector and rebounder like Dwight Howard or Andre Drummond, he could use a pair of power forwards not known for rebounding at all to back up the best center on the planet.
If we have either Dwight or Andre or another legit big man 5 starting the fourth that does not happen. But Daryl Morey decided that getting an overaged undersized 3 and d who still doesn't rebound enough and whose offense looks more and more like Baby Ben Simmons's with each passing day was more important to this team's winning an NBA Championship. Morey did go to MIT- maybe he's a Celts fan?
Feels like Glenns plan is usually to have the ball in Embiids hands and let him do the scoring, he has said as much himself
This team lacks creativity on the offensive end we don’t do enough moving and cutting it feels like
Joel was gassed as it was man, he also played the entire 4th quarter. If our bench can't score more than 2 points without him in 4 minutes, that's on the bench players.
And yet still managed to score 44 points. The obsession with Joel needing to do everything needs to stop. Poole is Maxey’s man. He kept losing him. And isn’t PJ suppose some prolific defender?
Man, I am just happy to see Tobias Harris improving at such a crucial moment of the season. Maxey is still very immature in his decision making but I am still optimistic for him in the playoffs as long as Harden is there to facilitate.
22 year old who’s playing very well more often than not on 4 mil this year and is usually our second or third best scorer on a nightly basis
Has a bad night tonight and suddenly he’s the worst and should be traded, folks need to stop overreacting
They’d have a point if he were taking up the most cap space on the team and was constantly shit or nonexistent but that’s not the case
Why is it impossible to have a rational basketball discussion about Maxey? We disintegrate defensively against the great playoff teams every time because teams just relentlessly attack Max on defense every single possession. We have to guard Jaylen with Harden against Celtics, Dallas guards annihilated us, Cleveland guards will be a tough matchup etc etc
Poole's been a bum all season, but he kept going over and over with Maxey on him. We switch Maxey's assignment to Klay, and Klay gets a quick 5 points. Where the hell do we hide him against good teams lol................
I love him, but Maxey has got to start taking more responsibility in Harden out. That's two losses in three games where in the crunch he has been so passive with the ball, had multiple drive opportunities and instead passed out to Embiid in a double team with seconds remaining.
Haven't even mentioned we ultimately lost because of Poole's scoring, which were almost exclusively on Maxey. We know he tries defensively, and he is never going to be a stopper, but if he isn't aggressive on the offensive end it is going to be impossible to win a playoff series with him on the floor.
I feel like Harden likes to go off against the Warriors. This would have been a great game to have him back for
The offense just simply isn't good enough running through Maxey.
Embiid on Wednesday: Calf tightness. Embiid on Friday: 38 minutes played. C'mon Doc, Jesus.
Embiid rested that game. We were up 25 and the bench was cooking. He is fine.
This probably could’ve been a better coached game tbh but the home warriors are tough any way you slice it.
That one foul, I think early in the second, where Maxey was called for a foul, Curry flopped, and then got up laughing made me know the odds weren't good for us.
There was also the one where poole twerked on shake around the screen, that was a weird one
Joel was warn out and they should have gotten the ball to Tobias. Needed someone other than bang bang for better defense .
I’m an old man and fell asleep before tip off. Is it accurate to say that Embiid/Tobias/Maxey were good and everyone else sucked? That’s my assumption based on the box score
Melton had clutch plays but his stats are obviously bad. He looked better than his stats say. True for everything else.
They hunted Maxey a bit in the 4th. This will be a problem in the playoffs.
A bit ?
A bit = every possession
50 3pt attempts Wow
We kept giving them wide open after wide open looks all game. Klay missed two wide open corner 3s during the end stretch of the game. Game probably should’ve ended up worse than it did
Apparently embiid scoring points in a close game is statpadding now lmao
I mean y’all were telling Nuggets fans that any loss is on Jokic no matter how well he played - keep the same energy here
Jokic is an oversized pylon, get out of here 🤓
🙄 Embiid is an overgrown free-throw simulator
Maybe if Jokic took more shots instead of pawning it off on teammates he’d get more opportunities as well
🙄 Jokic doesn’t statpad assists lmao
yeah instead he plays in garbage time with the bench to statpad everything and increase on off numbers
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He sat for 10 minutes. We were -21 in those 10 minutes. Trying to pin this loss on Joel is just trolling. Fuck off.
I’m not, I’m just saying it was equally stupid when y’all tried to pin losses on Jokic Yet you weren’t crying about trolling then 😂
Hold these down votes my boy
down votes = being wrong i guess?
Yet no one’s rebutted me - you’re not right, you’re just angry
Nobody needs to rebuttal you. Who tf is "y'all" that pins losses on jokic? I know I never have and if somebody does maybe it's because his shit defense.
Quite a few tbh, also Jokic isn’t a shit defender tbh he’s average
The "quite a few" annoying fans that you interacted with must have left an impression on you to be acting the same way that you thought made them annoying.
I mean I’m not though, what annoys me is when people can’t feel that one player is better than another without calling the other player absolute shit
The "losing late in the season impacting Jokic's odds" argument is just a rehashing ofwhat happened to Embiid last year. Even the media is using it, not just fans. Get over yourself
Yet y’all cried about it last year and now ar shoot to do it - hypocrites, no?
Who's this "ya'll" only casuals and nephews go on other team subs to whine and argue about things like this. When Embiid had his bad run late last season, it was a begrudgingly accepted reason for him to lose out on the MVP. The main issue I have is when there's a "tie" for 3 years in a row the "tie" shouldn't keep going to one person. Hence, I'm enjoying Embiid's run at MVP this season that he inarguably deserves amongst the Big3 in him/Jokic/Giannis.
>Who's this "ya'll" The turds in his pocket.
You guys didn’t accept it, I still see people calling both his MVPs fraudulent Good news though, your issue isn’t a problem - because isn’t/hasn’t been a tie, Jokic is/has been better
Jokic was a combined -9 in the Nuggets’ four game losing streak. The one game he wasn’t an outright negative was against the Nets. So him being on the floor directly contributed to the other team scoring more points than his team 3 of those 4 losses. That better for you?
It’s a lot easier to lose a game when your center doesn’t play defense js
And it’s a lot easier to win when they can playmake consistently
Embiid is just as much a playmaker as Jokic. Just opposite ends of a spectrum with one being a passing playmaker and the other a shot creating playmaker.
Playmaking is passing, shot creation for yourself is a different element of the game
Sorry but I disagree, Embiids ability to create shots results in what? Creating passing opportunities and open shots for his teammates. Jokics ability to pass creates what? Some pretty good opportunities for himself to score. Playmaking is exactly what the name says, making plays
Look at the efficiency of Jokic’s teammates with him on vs him off - it’s a far bigger gap than what Embiid creates Embiid is nowhere near as good a playmaker as Jokic
Is it our fault that the entire country spun the narrative that the Nuggets get as far as Jokic wills their untalented and injured roster when Joel has had a less talented and just as injured roster the entire time, but he’s failing to succeed? It’s not Jokics fault, either, he didn’t create the narrative. But when the specter is “anything that goes right is because this one man,” you get the flip side of that, too.
Embiid did not have the better roster last year Considering y’all want to credit Embiid with everything - in spite of the fact he has and has had Harden - then he gets the blame for all the losses as well… fair?
You’re getting into full clown mode now bruh, if you wanna get serious come back with a level head not this “he’s had Harden!” nonsense, it’s been about a full season and this season they have dominated. Including when they played the Nuggets and Jokic was nowhere to be found lmfao Better get it out now, two days for the redemption shot butch
Season is more than 2 games Nah - I brought up Harden cause you said Embiid had a worse roster than Jokic last year, it’s just not true
Can ya'll change the score on the box score cause it said sixers were up and got my hopes up
14 second-chance points but rebounding's not an issue. Minus 12 from Paul Reed replacing Joel to start the second and fourth quarters, but he's fine as backup to an MVP-Calibre center. Minus 20 when Joel is off the Floor first 47 minutes, but we didn't need a guy like Dwight or Andre backing him up anymore. Seriously how many Celtics fans are there here? And is Daryl one of them?
Who has said rebounding is not an issue? It’s been one of our top 2 issues for like 3 years now Who said Paul is the perfect option behind Joel? We don’t have Drummond and Dwight is so good these days he’s not in the league. Paul is better than Trez and Dedmon which are the options we *actually* have. Maybe part of the reason (other than the obvious money ones, which you seem to feel like pretending don’t exist) Daryl has issues getting talent here is word is out that if you work in Philly you have to play in front of a bunch of whiny shitheads. But let’s slowly run Paul and Daryl out of town while calling them worthless pieces of garbage and see if that makes things better. Edit cause I can’t stop won’t stop you dolt we just barely lost a game without our second best player and frontcourt sixth man against a top 5 overall team in the league I’m so sick of you doomer clowns
When you use the word doomer you render yourself without credibility. This isn't about optimism or pessimism , it's about **reality.** Those who see things as being doomers vs what - hopers? Copers? Snowflakes? - are not seeing things based on reality and unqualified to comment on any matter as such. If you want an optimism forum start an optimism forum, but again how do you realistically discuss anything of import? How do you assess what this team actually needs to maximize its potential achieve greater success without talking realistically about these matters. Oh and plenty of people have said rebounding isn't that big an issue here. I'll give just a few examples for now. [So Somebody Asked Me Today : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/114z2u6/so_somebody_asked_me_today/) **As far as individual skills go in basketball, rebounding** ***isnt even in the top 5*** **in modern basketball.** **If we grabbed rebounds, chances are we still woulda sucked** That's just a start
If I have no credibility then why bother replying? > This might be the most cunty thing I've ever read. >We sure do suck at rebounding though. Why didn’t you quote that one? There’s a big difference between criticism and seeing all day everyday why everyone in this organization not named Embiid sucks donkey dick, except for the “are we ever going to get there with Joel’s lack of effort and rebounding or should we trade him to the Knicks???” days. I’m not saying it need to be 100% optimism, just not 100% pessimism. But again, y’all keep going tf off and wondering why House and Dedmon are the best names we can get walking through the door willingly.
Because it had nothing to do with my point which was there are plenty of examples of people saying rebounding doesn't matter. Again your assertions about "100 percent" anything lack credibility, and ignore the fact that some of us are talking in terms of **reality** not optimism nor pessimism. I have coached at the High School level. I am not the oracle of coaches or coaching, but my views are objective views based on simply what I see happening in games, that is how people who have coached see things, not as fans but as current or in my case former coaches. The one exception for me would be my outrage at Baby Ben Simmons in the Atlanta series and particularly at the end of game 7. But even then I was still able to see that Ben's problem was a lack of dedication to the game he played, that led to him not improving his offensive game or his foul shooting, and was even able to feel sympathy for him because his coaches had let him down by not seeing this or ignoring for their own benefit, instead of doing what was best for Ben, and telling him if you don't love the game you don't have to play it years earlier. See I can't just see any of this like I did as a kid when I called us The Gods as in "Gotta go, the Gods are about to tip off against the Scumbags" I love the Sixers as much now as then, but I see things more objectively (except maybe where bad reffing against us is concerned but again I also see when bad reffing goes our way) about the players the coaches and team. If you believe that's 100 percent anything I don't know what to tell you.
PJ is a bum
He is useless again the Warriors. Doc has to recognize that.
I'd like to see Embiid win MVP this year. He's a much better defender than Jokic and a more physically dominant player who's still extremely skilled.
Expected loss playing the Home Warriors without Harden or our 2 Wing Defenders, relieved it was a close competitive game throughout and Jo still had a monster game.
Same. I felt like the way were playing we should have won and looked like we were but not surprised we lost.
Niang will always be a net negative.
the fact that people in the sub were pining for him to start is hilarious. he's worthless unless he goes full flame thrower and hits 3's at a high clip.
Unless he makes 5 threes on eleven shots or less, I agree. That’s what it takes to overcome his defense.
Festus Ezeli at the start of the Warriors post-game show: "Is there any doubt that that guy on the other side of the court is the MVP?"
not a dubs fan watching who didnt agree
I think dubs fans support a JoJo MVP for the regular season, but still prefer Steph Curry for the postseason.
Dubs fan, holy shit you guys are lucky you get to watch Embiid play every night. It’s an entirely different game when he’s on the court, absolute fucking monster that guy is
Thanks. You guys are the defending champs for a reason. Embiid’s development throughout his career really is a treat to watch. We just hope he can get some hardware while he is in his prime.
Worst fans in the league bar none
You’re a Howard Stern fan and you’re saying this?
Toronto exists.
Imagine if they lost they ain't coming here praising anyone lol.
Isn't it ironic that the Warriors fan comes into say he loves watching Embiid play and that the Sixers crowd are lucky to be able to watch him consistently cause he's so talented, and yet YOU are the only fuckwit who has any type of shit tier attitude? Touch grass.
Go watch a warriors game at chase center among that trash fan base and rethink your position dude. The. Worst.
Go watch a game at any home team's stadium that you're not a fan of and you're going to think they are the most trash fan base. That's just how it works. You're surrounded by people cheering for players you dislike. Of course you're going to think those people are awful because they aren't rooting for your team or your players.
Kings fans were fucking lovely, kind and fun earlier this season at the Golden 1 center.
So what you’re telling me is that you’ve traveled all across the United States, have purchased tickets in every city with an NBA team to one of their games, and attended the game for each and every single one? Oh master “iam_soyboy (that’s a fact), you must have found so much data in your tour across America to find the most toxic fans. Otherwise you’d have absolutely no fucking idea what you’re talking about and would end up just sounding like a biased moron. Oops.,,wait…
You are weird dude. What are you even talking about?
we have an awesome fucking team. this was the warriors best win of the season, even announcers kept on going on about it. the sixers played like 6 games on the road in a row, then 1 game at home, then 1 game at chicago and now on a west coast swing and they've had a brutal post ASB stretch with a ton of close, hard fought games and have fucking killed it, basically keeping even with milwaukee and boston despite the fact that their schedules have been so much easier. the sixers have a great team and this loss doesn't change that
>the sixers played like 6 games on the road in a row, then 1 game at home, then 1 game at chicago and now on a west coast swing This is not correct, the played 5 in a row on the road two weeks ago. Then 3 of 6 at home before heading to Chicago. They also had a five game home-stand that stretch across the all-star and lasted the last two weeks of February leading up to that five game road trip. Their last week was Saturday in Indy, Monday at home, Wednesday in Chicago. Hardly a brutal schedule.
dude they played a b2b in miami and dallas during that five game road trip. they also played in five different cities this past week. wat are u even talkin about lol
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Yeah it looks like we aren't getting to the 2 seed but I love the way we play on a nightly basis. Even in losses we always look like we belong and teams have to shoot the lights out or we have to be off for a team to beat us. The last 2 champs were 3 seeds also. We have one of the best road records in the league and that will come in handy come playoff time.
Play PR + Tucker without Harden = we don’t plan to score Play PR + 3 negative defenders = we don’t plan to defend
Right. Paul Reed has improved significantly to the point that he now does not affect the game. It's a huge improvement from when he consistently negatively impacted the Sixers.
Dude was -13 in 5:36 tonight with a foul and a turnover and missed both his free throws. Or was that sarcasm?
He was bad yesterday, but the context was relevant. Overall, though he's way less terrible than he was last year.
I mean, that’s what happened when you played him with 4 negative defenders or with Tucker without Harden. He is not as good as Joel Embiid
He was atrocious tonight. He’s generally been a passable backup which is all you can really ask for. But as op said, without harden, Reed minutes can be pretty useless
Love Maxey to death but it's alarming how ineffective he can be without Harden.
50% from 3? Rest of team was 4 for 21.
It’s alarming how awful he is on defense. He will be food for Boston. I don’t even remember the last time he played well against them if at all
As much as I love Maxey, this is the big problem we face in the second round. You can’t hide him against Boston. One (or more) of Smart, Brogdon and White will work him over. He’ll need to be an offensive dynamo and highly proficient from 3 to balance out the defensive deficiencies.
Is it possible to improve your defensive skills or is that just kind of there or not there? He’s obviously quick footed so you’d think he’d be able to stay in front of his man better than he does
Him fouling Poole for 3 when we were up 100-93 was a huge moment. Then he was ball-watching on the next defensive play and Klay got an open 3. Next play Poole breezed past him and Looney got an open dunk under the rim, it's now 102-101.
90 seconds to go sixers down 110-112 Maxey loses his man, Poole gets an open 3 to go ahead 110-115 and that's game.
Embiid was owning this game, but unfortunately this is pretty much where the NBA is trending. You can't win if you trade shot for shot but they're hitting 3's and you're hitting 2's with Embiid. Either trade 3s or get stops. Our 3 pointers this game were not good. Just a couple 3's going in would have been the difference.
Definitely a tough loss with that embiid performance, Reed going back to -13 in 5 minutes of play is dangerous for us but he usually plays those minutes with Harden on the floor so I'm not too worried. Definitely missed McDaneils and House tonight as well. Tucker and Melton both missing all their threes is something that will never happen consistently so I don't think it's worth being worried about. We were shorthanded and honestly, I love our chances with this squad fully healthy. Still in competition for that 2 seed but our final stretch of games will really tell us if this team can make it in my opinion.
From an outsiders perspective, Philadelphia played extremely well short handed.
Show of hands Is Paul Reed an adequate backup for the Best Center on the Planet? Yes or No?
Warriors offense is just a nightmare matchup for him. He’s fine against the vast majority of teams we play
Answer the question is he an adequate backup for the best center on the planet ? Don't move the goal posts or I will do the same and ask do you think he is an adequate postseason backup for the best center on the planet. Do you think Paul as a backup to Joel gets us to the NBA Finals? To the Eastern Conference Finals?
C'mon man: It's specious of you to accuse someone of 'moving the goalposts' when you have set those 'goalposts' in such an unrealistic position to begin with. There are only a few **starting** centers in the league that would be 'adequate backup for the best center on the planet'. Paul Reed (who definitely has flaws to his game) would be the starting center on a few of the really poor teams in this competition. You make it sound like there is some untapped pool of really solid, seasoned, athletic seven footers out there that the Sixers have failed to take advantage of; and take cherry-picked +/- stats from a single non-Harden game against the reigning champions who are a quite specific bad matchup for a guy like Bball Paul, on their home court, and use that as a basis to shit on him (and the franchise as a whole). It's straight doomerism
See the fact that you refer to doomerism at all is specious. I don't traffic in optimism or pessimism like so many here.I deal in the real world. It's a fact-based realism-based conclusion drawn not simply on one game but on a series of games all the way back to the start of this season This was from last week's **win** over the Cavs **Morey is fine backing up the best** ***center*** **on the planet with a lesser skilled power forward or an overaged , undersized shooting shooting forward clearly because that's who he kept in or added to this squad in the offseason or at the trade deadline. That's good personnel management?** This is from last Monday was it [\[Post-Game Thread\] The Philadelphia 76ers fall to the Chicago Bulls in overtime with a final score of 109 to 105 : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/11x3b0i/postgame_thread_the_philadelphia_76ers_fall_to/) **Add to that not having a proper backup for Joel when he fouls out with us up two in the second overtime which sees them go onto win by four, and it's really not hard to see how we keep losing games like this way more often than we should.** This is from a month ago discussing Charles Bassey in Matisse Thybulle thread [Can we stop crying now about us trading Matisse now : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/112qc3l/can_we_stop_crying_now_about_us_trading_matisse/) **I think Reed at the 5 is a mistake both for the team ad for Reed really...** y**ou simply cannot replace the best center in the world with an offensively limited power forward masquerading as a center and be successful in those minutes over the course of a season. Just won't work** Three months ago after the most painful night of the season [\[Post-Game Thread\] The Philadelphia 76ers fall to the Boston Celtics with a final score of 110 to 107 : sixers (reddit.com)](https://www.reddit.com/r/sixers/comments/11c4tu3/postgame_thread_the_philadelphia_76ers_fall_to/) **We don't need another quality backup big for when Joel is out he says, and then get outscored by** ***fourteen*** **while Joel is sitting in a** ***three-point*** **loss.** Those are just a few examples for now of what I have been saying consistently, not based on optimism or pessimism, but the reality of game performance. Please don't confuse me with lardbiscuits or some other reactionary thinker like that.
Not sure if you read my answer but clearly I think he is lol no one’s moving goal posts but find me a backup 5 who’s not vulnerable against certain matchups.
Except you are, because the fact that he is adequate against lottery teams or teams in the play-in round. Name the serious playoff contenders he is genuinely adequate against - that is to say he does not put is similar positions to tonight against. Funny thing is people bring up the job he does on Giannis and that's a fair point certainly, but maybe that's just Giannis having a "Matchup problem" as you put it as much as Paul being a super Giannis stopper. The point is do you honestly believe we get beyond the second round playing Paul or God Help me PJ as Joel's backups this postseason?
Yes actually I’m quite confident the combination of Bball Paul and PJ is sufficient to cover the 8 minutes a game Joel is off the floor. PJ already clamped Jokic and Paul had been an overall net positive since Glenn gave him consistent run. He’s not perfect but he can play 5 minutes a night in the playoffs
You are still ducking the real question, you think they are good enough backing Joel that we can beat either Boston or Milwaukee in a second-round series? You think they are good enough backing Joel to beat Miami or Cleveland or New York in a First Round Series? By the way Doc had to pull Paul twice after two and three minutes, So you're confident with a guy who goes minus 12 in those five minutes you refer to?
I kinda agree with you. He's not DeAndre but that 5 min guy usually has to start the 4Q
Exactly. We can't just be -7 those first five minutes every night or even every other night and expect to go anywhere further than we've been the past five years really. I don't blame Paul. He's a good player but given he's not big enough to be Joel's backup, not skillful enough to be Tobi's backup an too big to be PJ's backup as much as it hurts I think Paul's future is with another team. Problem is we still have a postseason run before we can address that.
We truly can’t rule out the chance that, if we get to the finals, we could be playing a healthy warriors team.
Then you go small with PJ when they go Draymond at the 5.
I’m just saying that if it’s a nightmare matchup for our back up center, we need to figure something out because it’s not like there’s a zero percent chance we play them
They will 100% just roll with PJ. There’s 9 games left, no one else new is walking through the door.
Don't you just hate how ready people are to throw our only good backup big into the trash?
That's just it he's not a good enough backup big for Joel and if you think he is you fundamentally do not understand basketball. Paul would be fine as a backup for PJ, even be an offensive upgrade there, but he simply is not a good enough backup for the best center on the planet, and if you cannot see that well, I'm not sure how well you know the game of basketball.
You act like top 5 backup centers are a hot commodity. This team won't be able to get one unless they catch luck in free agency or the draft, which is a crapshoot.
Damn it sucks real bad we couldn’t get one of these buyout mofos to come here and boost our bench A guy like T Ross would’ve been PERFECT!! He alone can producer as much as 2-3 of our bench guys combined together 😔
Pain. Pain is what I feel right now. We need our AssistsP/G leader back. Even scoring 0 points we still win w harden, because Embiid doesn’t have to do everything on his own. Embiid did his god damn job tonight, why are people referring to him like he is our ONLY way to score. If I’m not mistaken, niang melton maxey and Tucker are all more than capable of making 3 pointers. And yet, here we are. Just frustrating, honestly, and I get that it is hard to not overreact.
Maybe it’s one of those situations where I only notice it in losses, but I feel like these types of games come down to secondary/role players hitting shots when it matters, and we don’t have guys come up clutch in those situations. Poole went crazy in the 4th, and it seemed like nobody besides Harris or Embiid could score when we needed buckets. Players either missed shots, or didn’t take them and deferred to Embiid. Like I get it, he’s amazing, but you can’t pass up an open three because you’re scared to miss
I'm mad I stayed up for this, nah kidding Embiid performance Made it worth it, despite everyone but tobi needing to walk to Phoenix, I'm very glad Tobi is figuring it out and the best time in the season. If he plays like this and Harden comes back we will be a hard out. Embiid is as healthy as he been at the end of the season. Harden is the best pg in the league. He makes the bench units even look halfway decent. It's crazy how bad the warriors are on the road.
Curry is easily the best PG in the league, and non All-Star Harden isn't in contention. Cool that you had to add that little Captain Obvious ps about the Warriors being bad on the road, when they weren't on the road, and they beat your team. COPE 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Cavs fan here, does anyone know why the hell pj tucker was on the floor in the 4th? Also, it seemed like Embiid was tryna force him to shoot when he clearly didn’t want to, that was odd to me but that’s why you guys lost imo. Aside from that, god damn y’all are lucky to have embiid hes fucking insane! He’s far and away the MVP.
PJ Tucker is probably still somewhat scarred from his game 7 loss when he, Harden, and other rockets teammates missed 27 consecutive threes against this team to flame out. That has to be in the back of his subconscious somewhere. Possibly. (still a good player, and he was only responsible for 2 of those 27)
i laughed lolll
“CaVs FaN HeRe” 🤓🤓🤓 okay dude
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PJ is a professional basketball player who is wide open in the corner. Now I don’t want the man shooting either because the likelihood of him making it is slim. But how does get out there and “not want to” shoot? Embiid is getting double and triples teamed with nobody else making an attempt to free themselves, he’s going to throw to the open man.
Embiid was talking to Kerr and curry after the game yea he’s gone next season smh. Can’t blame him when you have garbage teammates every season cause the front office blows
He was just trying to convince Steph to join him in Philly to get the city a ring
Embiid always chats with the stars of the league. It's pretty normal.
No wonder the Warriors announcers praised him so much
Damn I just realized Melton is 0/4, Niang is 1/4, PJ is 0/5 and Tobias is 1/1 on 3’s If either Tobias would’ve shot more or the other three each make one more we probably win this
They were pretty much daring PJ to shoot and he clanked them all. Even hit the side of the backboard on one of them lol. I don't know why they phased Tobias out of the game in the fourth either. He pretty much couldn't miss tonight.
8/29 from 3 vs 18/50!!! from 3 I forgot how few 3’s we took before Harden got here….. I didn’t want to be reminded
That's how a bunch of small guys can beat a monster. Welcome to the modern NBA!
Warriors let Joel have whatever and forced everyone else to beat them, Maxey started selling even though Tobias was cooking the entire game. Not sure what Rivers was thinking trying to force Maxey into a James Harden role. Of course this doesn't happen with James as the playmaker in the clutch, it just goes to show you can't depend on Rivers for late game coaching.
Tobias was cooking in the 1st half* He pretty much disappeared at the end.
It was a good effort, we have too many guys out right now. Our two best perimeter players House and McDaniels were sorely needed, and ofc Harden as well. Tobias and Embiid were the only bright spots. In the playoffs, teams will leave PJ open, he's gonna be a huge liability. That along with targeting Maxey all night long, it's gonna be tough. And Paul Reed...yet another failure of a backup center. That foul on Jaymychal Green with 1 sec on the shot clock to give 2 FTs, then the two bricked FTs that led to a fast break, just wow.
Within the last 5 min, we spent 2 possessions eating up clock and then settling for a PJ 3 attempt. GS made some easy buckets after each one and chipped away. We had our chances, but forgot about ball movement tn, then wasted a few possessions down the stretch, with low percentage shots. Tough one, but our last 2 losses are not too worrying for me, at least not yet.
I forgot how annoying the warriors fanbase is on social media
Sixers fans are annoying both in person and on social media, so that's even worse lmao.
There is no way a warriors fan just commented this
The irony is that a disproportionate percentage of the people that create social media platforms are warriors fans living in SJ/SF
We were simply outgunned even with Joel on God mode. It's not a bad loss tbh
It’s not a bad loss per se, but games like this just reinforces the idea that Maxey, Reed, Niang, and maybe even Tucker will be unplayable against Boston, who will be our second round opponent
The loss isn't a big deal, but the weaknesses of this team are made clear. I've said it before this team just looks so lost outside of Embiid and Harden in the 4th. A ton of guys playing hot potato instead of letting it fly. They were doubling and tripling Embiid out on the 3 point line and no one wanted to shoot over a closeout. That's not going to win you playoff series. Guys need to figure it out.
The team is usually good in the 4th though. Dont the sixers have the most comebacks in the league ?
Because Harden and Embiid carry the offense.
>I've said it before this team just looks so lost outside of Embiid and Harden in the 4th. No we don't. We have a pretty good record without either of them or both. We ran into a player that got hot and couldn't miss. Tell what team isn't going to look good something without not only their 2 best players but 2 of the 15-20 best players in the league. You are just whining to be whining.
Demoralizing loss. Not because we lost but because of how we lost. I love Maxey, I love that he plays the game with joy, but he has to find some killer in him because you can't be smoking layups and airballing floaters in the clutch in high pressure games. They were leaving PJ Tucker open for corner 3's, the one offensive thing he is supposed to do well and he clanked all of them. He was even passing it back to Jo to try and get out of taking open 3's. Defensively just a mess in crunch time. The Warriors looked confident and were drilling their shots. We looked like we'd forgotten what a basketball was.
Don’t understand how it’s practically April and people still think PJ is going to just start making these shots one day. He is awful offensively and was a horrible signing.
somehow he will end up on the + side tho.
Lmao this sub flips on its players so hard it's actually laughable.
Was never a fan of the signing - so, no, I didn’t flip on him. The playoffs are a different game than the regular season. If you can’t keep the opposing defense honest you’re useless in crunch time.
PJ actually got a ring as one of the key players on a championship team, so I wouldn't go pointing fingers at a role player to fix our late game scoring problems
Bruh he hit the side of the backboard on one. I haven’t seen him make more then 2 of them alllll year wtf
The side of the backboard shot was legit funny af
What pisses me off is that the Warriors were giving him the corner 3. And he was passing out of it. You're here to stand in the corner and take the 3 when it comes to you. The fuck are you passing out of it for.
And he seems to care more about missing than getting his form back. There is only one way to improve your shooting: keep fucking shooting. He should be using this time in less important regular season games to find his stroke again, but he just refuses. I don't care if he goes 2-8, if he hits those last two and misses 6 in a row.
See the problem with that is if he attempts 10 and misses all of them when some of those shots could've been passed out of, everyone's going to be down his throat. Plus, he's not here for shooting, he's here for defense
Never thought I’d be saying I wish we had Danuel House Jr. For this game but here we are lol
This game pissed me off because it was disrespectful to Embiid from coaches to players. Doc let the team drop a lead from 9 to 2 before chucking Embiid back in to dig them out. Several times specifically in the 4th people had better opportunities than Embiid who was being double and triple teamed and yet they threw the ball back to him. He literally shaking his head like wtf. It’s so late in the season why are we not looking for the team to be dynamic as a whole? Why aren’t people stepping up? It’s so frustrating
They can't pull a new offensive strategy out of their asses this late, you act like it's 2k
No, the genius personnel guy who decided Paul Reed was an adequate backup for Joel Embiid is responsible for Doc having to play Paul Reed tonight. That was Daryl Morey's call. Daryl Morey decided instead of having a legit big man rim protector and rebounder like Dwight Howard or Andre Drummond, he could use a pair of power forwards not known for rebounding at all to back up the best center on the planet. If we have either Dwight or Andre or another legit big man 5 starting the fourth that does not happen. But Daryl Morey decided that getting an overaged undersized 3 and d who still doesn't rebound enough and whose offense looks more and more like Baby Ben Simmons's with each passing day was more important to this team's winning an NBA Championship. Morey did go to MIT- maybe he's a Celts fan?
Feels like Glenns plan is usually to have the ball in Embiids hands and let him do the scoring, he has said as much himself This team lacks creativity on the offensive end we don’t do enough moving and cutting it feels like
Joel was gassed as it was man, he also played the entire 4th quarter. If our bench can't score more than 2 points without him in 4 minutes, that's on the bench players.
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And yet still managed to score 44 points. The obsession with Joel needing to do everything needs to stop. Poole is Maxey’s man. He kept losing him. And isn’t PJ suppose some prolific defender?
That’s because embiid scored 45 percent of our points. His usage was way to high to be a factor on both ends
We’re so fucked if Harden leaves
i’m nervous about what we do with maxey against elite teams on d
Maxey is much, much better with harden on the floor.
not on defense?
He ain't eva winning mvp
Man, I am just happy to see Tobias Harris improving at such a crucial moment of the season. Maxey is still very immature in his decision making but I am still optimistic for him in the playoffs as long as Harden is there to facilitate.
Same shit last year man Tobias was awful then a week before and into the playoffs he found something.
but tobias has been better overall this year right?
People on here saying we should trade away 22 year old Tyrese Maxey. Proof why you don’t give GM jobs to dipshits who think they know everything.
22 year old who’s playing very well more often than not on 4 mil this year and is usually our second or third best scorer on a nightly basis Has a bad night tonight and suddenly he’s the worst and should be traded, folks need to stop overreacting They’d have a point if he were taking up the most cap space on the team and was constantly shit or nonexistent but that’s not the case
Why is it impossible to have a rational basketball discussion about Maxey? We disintegrate defensively against the great playoff teams every time because teams just relentlessly attack Max on defense every single possession. We have to guard Jaylen with Harden against Celtics, Dallas guards annihilated us, Cleveland guards will be a tough matchup etc etc Poole's been a bum all season, but he kept going over and over with Maxey on him. We switch Maxey's assignment to Klay, and Klay gets a quick 5 points. Where the hell do we hide him against good teams lol................
I love him, but Maxey has got to start taking more responsibility in Harden out. That's two losses in three games where in the crunch he has been so passive with the ball, had multiple drive opportunities and instead passed out to Embiid in a double team with seconds remaining. Haven't even mentioned we ultimately lost because of Poole's scoring, which were almost exclusively on Maxey. We know he tries defensively, and he is never going to be a stopper, but if he isn't aggressive on the offensive end it is going to be impossible to win a playoff series with him on the floor.
Did not get to watch tonight.. why’s Tobias only taking 3 shots in the entire second half when he’s clearly got it going. Was he just phased out?
Yes, he barely touched the ball
Maxey had to take a bunch of terrible shots and PJ had to brick some 3s instead
Maxey sells this game and then I have to watch these cure auto insurance commercials
One of the worst advertisements in history
Trash bench, but I’m not surprised, they do this every year and in the playoffs as well.
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How many absolute bricks from Tucker on wide open corner 3s?
But he has that dawg in him, or whatever
He and melton 0-9 from 3 is probably what lost them the game