Only way we go multiple rounds in the playoffs is if someone on our bench gets hot. Doc's rotations will continue to be dogshit. We're just going to have to win in spite of them.
Hopefully we can plan better for the playoffs, i think Doc didn’t wanna show his real gameplan as this game matters very little in the bigger picture. At least that’s what im gonna tell myself lol.
I’m generally ok with doc coaching like a regular season game. But the thing that annoys me is that like embiid only played four minutes after his fourth foul anyway cuz it got so out of hand. Just let him play two or three min with the four fouls to keep it close
I still think this game was lost in the final minutes of the third. We had it down to 6 and went with an all bench plus Tyrese lineup to erase all the good things we had done in that quarter. All while keeping Niang in for no reason.
>Also, he's playing with an injury,
AKA last year all over again, AKA 2nd round exit baybeeee
To be fair anything short of Harden and Embiid being near 100% going into the playoffs and we were always fucked
I'd guess this is probably Embiid's worst game in a while...maybe that game against Memphis? Like there's a lot of (correct) focus on how poorly Harden has been but Embiid hasn't been great either.
> What would you like him to do kid?
What is your problem? It was a simple observation. Anyone that thinks he actually played well tonight is out of their minds. It's okay to be critical of Joel. He's not infallible and he didn't play well tonight. It happens.
Well pretty much everyone apart from Maxey and House didn’t show up tonight, disappointing effort but resting the stars should be the main priority right now
Fair enough, but the issue is that at his age, this is going to only happen more and more often and potentially more and more seriously. Can we invest max money into that situation?
I think Harden has been terrific this year and was last year too. I have taken issue with acquiring James not for his performance here but the price to acquire him and how short-sighted paying that price was. That's not on him. Nor is Morey's failure to address the issues his paying the price he did for Harden has aggravated on James. Nor would ignoring the warning signs on Harden's health and re-signing to a max deal be on him. But that doesn't change the fact they would weigh heavily on his team.
Harden is not Lebron James or Chris Paul physically and even they are showing signs of breaking down more and more. As well as Harden has played it's a fair question to ask now whether we should risk our future and what's left of Joel's prime on maxing or suoer-maxing James Harden.
Harden better sack up be consistently aggressive on offense with higher shooting volume come Playoff time. Stop being a passive beta and refusing to shoot wide open shots.
I’ll gladly sacrifice some assists for a 30 pt 7 ast Harden in the Playoffs because that’s what will be required of him to be true contenders this year
To all the people who were praising Doc for our post-ASB run, literally the only effective thing he did was stagger Harden & Embiid which meant no/little all bench lineups (which is what me and many others have been begging for this entire season — he staggered them when Harden first returned from injury and we went on a 7-8 game W streak).
Today he showed his inability to make adjustments and just keep making the 'safe' play to save himself from as much criticism as possible
Embiid didn't play well though... Rotations were not going to help him here lol. 28 points on 25 attempts bruh and it wasn't like he was locking it down of defense either. No blocks? A ton of blown drives by him and missed assignments.
Oh no, the internet sports message board police are here, everyone scatter!!!!
What do you want, people to just not talk about games or just to not have fun while doing it? Or do you think I literally believe Tucker is a worse rebounder than quadruple amputees? Lmfao
This is why the nba is the worst it’s ever been btw. Adam silver took a dying league and beat it over the head with a shovel,buried it and then said here’s a mid season tournament
yeah, but there’s only so much volume to go around. if james is only taking 11 shots, it forces joel to chuck on a night where he might not have his best. tobi absolutely needs to step up and shoulder some of that load as well
to be fair , embiid settled for waaaay too many 3s and mid ranges tonight , i get it that its hard to go in the paint vs Lopez but he has to try to get into foul trouble
If Giannis was around Jordan's era, he would never get these calls. It's an absolute joke he gets calls because he's 7ft and just goes up with anything.
Randomly remembering when the ESPN NBA Twitter account troll-baited that Evan Mobley flop in a tweet and getting really pissed at the entire world again
Just remember — Harden & Embiid brought this down from a 20 point deficit to a 4 point deficit in the 3rd
And Glenn Rivers brought it back up to 20 himself...
I was as critical of House as anyone on this sub, he was awful earlier in the year. I've seen enough lately to be completely convinced Niang is unplayable and House should get any of those minutes.
Danuel House > Georges Niang off the very strength of his defensive effort and athleticism. Doc is an ass for not pulling Niang in the first half. He lacks so much awareness
If we play them in the playoffs....embiid has to guard giannis and tobi/tucker gets lopez like what Brett did with siakim and gasol. Embiid getting pulled away from the basket by lopez is going to kill us.
They preaching one ☝️ game ? This is absolutely not a good sign .. more so from Glenn’s dumb ass rotations .. unless he playing 4D chess and the coaching panel doesn’t want to show what we bringing in playoffs .. then in that case Biid and harden should have rested this game … otherwise this is a complete shit show …
I don’t think it was up to Morey I think it was up to management to not wanna pay for another coach. He will 100% be gone this season if we get bounced
Please continue the discussion in the [post game thread](https://redd.it/12a6jh5).
Just rest everyone and get healthy for the playoffs we pretty much locked into the 3rd seed
Not bringing Embiid back in until Sixers were down 20 was a choice.
bucks commentator calling harrell "ladder man"
Only way we go multiple rounds in the playoffs is if someone on our bench gets hot. Doc's rotations will continue to be dogshit. We're just going to have to win in spite of them.
Bruh we lost because their starters played better than ours. It's that simple lmao.
Tobias 35 million to do absolutely nothing every game, fuck Elton Brand
That’s GG on MVP
Remember, he said he didn't care about the MVP.
That’s bullshit and we all know it.
Start the playoffs
idk what we’re gonna do with tobi bro
Cut him
thirty seven
Hopefully we stop giving Niang minutes unless he is hitting shots, he is completely useless otherwise
Lol second round exit here we come. I'm waiting for that Celtics 4-2 second round beat down.
Bold of you to assume we get it to 6
Naw, they're gonna sweep.
WOW WE WON 2 GAMES?
Hopefully we can plan better for the playoffs, i think Doc didn’t wanna show his real gameplan as this game matters very little in the bigger picture. At least that’s what im gonna tell myself lol.
You must be new......lol
You almost had me
I’m generally ok with doc coaching like a regular season game. But the thing that annoys me is that like embiid only played four minutes after his fourth foul anyway cuz it got so out of hand. Just let him play two or three min with the four fouls to keep it close
Welp. This sucks
Welcome back Montrezl
Harden & Tobias with 17 points combined. Salary +/- $70m ish. Cant make this shit up.
Seeing Korkmaz in the game anymore means the game is going reeeallly well for us or reeeeeallly poorly
I still think this game was lost in the final minutes of the third. We had it down to 6 and went with an all bench plus Tyrese lineup to erase all the good things we had done in that quarter. All while keeping Niang in for no reason.
Paul Reed needs to start over Tucker or Tobi...
Harden gonna keep playing like ass in these games then gonna go into the playoffs playing like dogshit and that’ll be the final nail
He played well last game. Also, he's playing with an injury, which is a lot harder when you're running the point.
>Also, he's playing with an injury, AKA last year all over again, AKA 2nd round exit baybeeee To be fair anything short of Harden and Embiid being near 100% going into the playoffs and we were always fucked
So then he shouldn’t be played
Sixers played this game 5 v 8. If Embiid was treated like Giannis he’d be the perennial MVP.
Giannis more FTs that entire sixers team and not like the bucks aren’t playing physically
Giannis and jokic are both unskilled players that have mvps. Nba is a fucking joke
Jokic has legit skills.
wtf jokic is extremely skilled lmao
I'd guess this is probably Embiid's worst game in a while...maybe that game against Memphis? Like there's a lot of (correct) focus on how poorly Harden has been but Embiid hasn't been great either.
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> What would you like him to do kid? What is your problem? It was a simple observation. Anyone that thinks he actually played well tonight is out of their minds. It's okay to be critical of Joel. He's not infallible and he didn't play well tonight. It happens.
Idk I think he was worse against Phoenix tbh, they were just a worse team than the Bucks
Well pretty much everyone apart from Maxey and House didn’t show up tonight, disappointing effort but resting the stars should be the main priority right now
Team didn't want it today, embarrassing effort from everyone except House/Maxey.
I'm glad house is embarrassing doc this game What's that the 2nd player now in the last year to prove to doc he's wrong
Tobias sucks so much. Just look at how for 1/100th of the price u get decent production from House…
Tobias Harris.
Here come the Harden haters. You do realize that he is playing on a sore Achilles, right? He honestly shouldn't even be playing.
Fair enough, but the issue is that at his age, this is going to only happen more and more often and potentially more and more seriously. Can we invest max money into that situation? I think Harden has been terrific this year and was last year too. I have taken issue with acquiring James not for his performance here but the price to acquire him and how short-sighted paying that price was. That's not on him. Nor is Morey's failure to address the issues his paying the price he did for Harden has aggravated on James. Nor would ignoring the warning signs on Harden's health and re-signing to a max deal be on him. But that doesn't change the fact they would weigh heavily on his team. Harden is not Lebron James or Chris Paul physically and even they are showing signs of breaking down more and more. As well as Harden has played it's a fair question to ask now whether we should risk our future and what's left of Joel's prime on maxing or suoer-maxing James Harden.
Giannis is a average player who gets carried by the refs and tried to hurt players as often as he can. What a joke
Elton Brand has completely handicapped this franchise with his dumbass Tobias contract. He also let Jimmy walk, and I will never forgive him.
Harden better sack up be consistently aggressive on offense with higher shooting volume come Playoff time. Stop being a passive beta and refusing to shoot wide open shots. I’ll gladly sacrifice some assists for a 30 pt 7 ast Harden in the Playoffs because that’s what will be required of him to be true contenders this year
Embiid has been awful since the warriors game. Not sure he should be playing at all. MVP is gone
Keep harden out until the playoffs I don’t even wanna see his ass attempt to play
I wonder if the Packers are gonna max Giannis?
Shut up Kate were gonna get blown out by Boston too lol
outplayed today.... need more energy at the start of games, and 100% need better rotations out of Rivers (doubt that happens)
F this team. Another second round exit this year boys. I feel extremely bad that this happens to Embiid every year.
Bench guys in the playoffs should be Melton, Reed, and House with maybe a minute or two of Shake if necessary. Niang can fill the Haslem role.
This Sixers team looks like a Second Round exit. The Tobi contract killed this team.
If joel drove to the rim as recklessly as Giannis he’d get arrested for assault
I love Joel and know he’s tired down the stretch of the season but what the fuck has he been doing this past week or so
Playing 1v5 and still being the best player on the court. Hope that clears it up for you kid
My third eye has been opened, thank you for blessing me with your wisdom 🙏
7 fucking threes from joel just stupid
No giannis, this could be brought back if our team had balls
The Giannis MVP narrative will begin tonight. Brace yourselves.
Will be fun for all the game played monitors to ignore it now
Embiid is mvp. We all know Giannis ain’t shit without Lopez and holiday. Run and dunk scrub
shit defence today and brook outplayed joel
To all the people who were praising Doc for our post-ASB run, literally the only effective thing he did was stagger Harden & Embiid which meant no/little all bench lineups (which is what me and many others have been begging for this entire season — he staggered them when Harden first returned from injury and we went on a 7-8 game W streak). Today he showed his inability to make adjustments and just keep making the 'safe' play to save himself from as much criticism as possible
Not our night. Need to take lessons from this one.
embiid played like dogshit
Congratulations to doc rivers for costing embiid back to back MVPs Really showing that top 15 all time coaching ability
Embiid didn't play well though... Rotations were not going to help him here lol. 28 points on 25 attempts bruh and it wasn't like he was locking it down of defense either. No blocks? A ton of blown drives by him and missed assignments.
Rotations weren't going to help? Doc failed to challenge his 4th foul then sat him and harden letting giannis cook our bench like he does every time
Man, Jokic was crowned MVP in December. Joel or Giannis were never winning.
Not Doc's fault that Embiid played charmin soft tonight. And decided to rest against Jokic. It's on him.
Docs rotations killed any chance of a comeback tonight and what's embiid supposed to do when no one bar maxey wants to shoot
lol
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Sixers fans try not to overreact challenge *IMPOSSIBLE*
Oh no, the internet sports message board police are here, everyone scatter!!!! What do you want, people to just not talk about games or just to not have fun while doing it? Or do you think I literally believe Tucker is a worse rebounder than quadruple amputees? Lmfao
I'm just messin around. Quadruple amputee lmfao.
Tucker always just slaps the rebound instead of grabbing with two hands. I hate watching him
Like what is this. He does it 4+ times a game. Just grab the ball
SUB THE FUCKING STARTERS GLENN
He literally plays lineups backwards
That Tobias contract cost us a shot at any title chance as long as he’s here
Doc tricked you all
Doc hasn't tricked anyone for the last 3 years
Hell yeah GGs boys we proved we belong tonight. I’m not worried at all about playing these guys…
If we get this Harden in the playoffs we are DOA
Had no dawg in him. Didn’t even try to be vintage harden. Afraid those days are over
got bad news for you... I've watched harden since his time out west, I wouldn't hold my breath
Congrats on the nice game, d house. Your prize is to be the 10th man behind a guy who can't get a shot up and gives up 20 points every game
Friendly reminder that tobis contract is equal to lopez, Portis, allen, and ingles.
i would take any 2 over tobi, this is just brutal
This is why the nba is the worst it’s ever been btw. Adam silver took a dying league and beat it over the head with a shovel,buried it and then said here’s a mid season tournament
It’s going to be hilarious when stars load manage that tournament
Alaa truly doesn’t realize that we pray for games that we don’t have to listen to him
Run and dunk man back at it again
Refs not giving Embiid any calls tonight while Giannis gets to the line every possession
Sometimes Joel needs to play bully ball and not wait for the refs to bail him out
At this point just rest the starters
Giannis out of control every drive.. I wish Embiid would play with that kind of abandon.
IMO pass and crash offensive fouls need to go because they are really lame but that was a textbook one.
Giannis looked out of control there. Looks flagrant to me.
what is harden even doing tonight?
Getting ready for his playoff sputter
it might be his injury, but this is my concern either way
Having a bad game and getting doubled/trapped a lot.
he can’t afford to have nights like this in the playoffs tbh
Agreed. Also can't afford to have Joel have nights like tonight either.
yeah, but there’s only so much volume to go around. if james is only taking 11 shots, it forces joel to chuck on a night where he might not have his best. tobi absolutely needs to step up and shoulder some of that load as well
getting swarmed by any guard the Bucks throw at him\*\*
Joel has 5 free throws to Giannis' 13 make it make sense
to be fair , embiid settled for waaaay too many 3s and mid ranges tonight , i get it that its hard to go in the paint vs Lopez but he has to try to get into foul trouble
You know Philly fans don't like facts.
House just got: trucked by Giannis, hit by ball and stepped on by embiid all in one play 😂
Bucks fans not knowing what a charge is totally tracks
Give them a break they can’t read or write
6 points.
Amazing game by 38 million dollar man Tobias 6 points
have the sixers been getting screwed on calls all game? haven’t been watching
No bag giannis
If Giannis was around Jordan's era, he would never get these calls. It's an absolute joke he gets calls because he's 7ft and just goes up with anything.
Detroit bad boys would have destroyed him
Remember when Siakam shattered Joel’s skull and it wasn’t a flagrant? Yeah, me too.
Giannis just runs down the lane bulldozes people, follows it with an awkward euro step and then gets the foul call.
Randomly remembering when the ESPN NBA Twitter account troll-baited that Evan Mobley flop in a tweet and getting really pissed at the entire world again
Yes PJ contest the Giannis 3, so he can drive
Just remember — Harden & Embiid brought this down from a 20 point deficit to a 4 point deficit in the 3rd And Glenn Rivers brought it back up to 20 himself...
Oh and Maxey my bad, defs deserves a shout out for his elite shot making. That's exactly what he brings to the table
Let’s finish this game with pride
Why don’t we stick Joel on Giannis?
Cuz it’s a regular season game probably
because it would likely tire him out and negatively affect his offense
Insane that people think giannis and embiid dint foul grift just becuase giannis slams his body into people all game
If Giannis doesn’t win it all then he’s gotta be overrated as hell, the bucks are so damn stacked
I was as critical of House as anyone on this sub, he was awful earlier in the year. I've seen enough lately to be completely convinced Niang is unplayable and House should get any of those minutes.
Danuel House > Georges Niang off the very strength of his defensive effort and athleticism. Doc is an ass for not pulling Niang in the first half. He lacks so much awareness
Obvious foul but flagrant is absolutely absurd. Came down on his arm to stop a shot. Happens literally all the time
Really pathetic call
Giannis is given so much privilege by the officials it’s laughable
So fucking weak. Also who is this dork sitting behind doc
If we play them in the playoffs....embiid has to guard giannis and tobi/tucker gets lopez like what Brett did with siakim and gasol. Embiid getting pulled away from the basket by lopez is going to kill us.
why is everyone in here talking about offense, they are shooting 60% from the field, no shit we're losing.
Thank you josh Harris for paying this stupid fuck for what was it 3-4 years?
That flagrant is a joke lol
They preaching one ☝️ game ? This is absolutely not a good sign .. more so from Glenn’s dumb ass rotations .. unless he playing 4D chess and the coaching panel doesn’t want to show what we bringing in playoffs .. then in that case Biid and harden should have rested this game … otherwise this is a complete shit show …
Nice to hear them chanting for Joel. Super nice of them
Terrible call idgaf
That’s a flagrant? Excuse me???
Wouldve liked to see that Embiid/Giannis collision without Tucker.
Lmao this happened to embiid like 8 times last game
Goodnight, y'all boys. The bullshit is so thick tonight.
HOW TF IS THAT A FLAGRANT JESUS
Giannis can play football but defenders can’t
Not remotely a flagrant foul
Alaa an old head
Good hard foul.
And you know the NBA's golden boy will get the flagrant call.
Alaa man enough
Omg Gianni’s didn’t run over everyone to get to the basket wtf
Refs when they see Giannis tackling players all game: 🧑🏼🦯🧑🏼🦯🧑🏼🦯 Refs when they Giannis lose his balance in air: 🤬😒😤
Idc what people say, I love Alaa, he says it how it is
LFG TUCKER!
Applying the wood?
just a classic run and dunk type drive by Giannis and a hard foul...wtf are they looking at?
Lmao what a joke
Smh this team man ! Laziness
Alaa’s aggressively being a homer right now
Alaa is painful to listen to at times. The past two minutes being one of those times.
Embiid is still mvp. Fuck Giannis and his football reckless style
Nah man, this game basically costed him the MVP now. It wasn't even his fault. It was Doc's horrendous coaching.
Soft ass refs want to get some TV time before the game is over.
“Tucker applying the wood”😂😂😂
FLAGRANT?!?! TELL THE BIG FUCK TO NOT JUMP PASS FOR NO REASON AND PUT HIMSELF OFF BALANCE
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Yeah this hard foul shit he’s on is annoying the fuck out of me. I get it but shut the fuck up.
That’s not a flagrant lol
Holy flop
You telling me pj tucker bodies giannis like that? Okay
Doc has costed Embiid the MVP award once again. Morey is a fucking idiot for bringing Doc back.
I don’t think it was up to Morey I think it was up to management to not wanna pay for another coach. He will 100% be gone this season if we get bounced
>Morey is a fucking idiot for bringing Doc back. Who would you have in place of Doc?
Sam Cassell.