[SNY] Joel Embiid cuts off a question about the Sixers drawing fouls in the first half working in their favor: “It did? I don’t know, you’ve got to ask Jalen Brunson that. I don’t think I got to the free throw line as much as I wanted.”
lose by 40 with 17 more ft attempts - then making fts a point of contention in the post game.
I wish i had this amount of shamelessness
Literally double the FTAs - and that includes when they were deliberately hacking MitchRob
Their fans really think like this. Go look at their sub.
It’s curious that fans of teams with obnoxious foul baiters are consistently the most obtuse about foul baiting as an issue š¤ š¤ š¤
I remember when the Harden Rockets fans were the most annoying fans to deal with lol
I do find it funny when other Thunder fans complain about Shai getting criticised for foul baiting like heās not an NBA champion and about to be a back to back MVP. We can afford to take some shit when things are looking as good as they are right now.
They canāt call a spade a spade and it takes away from their pleasure of having experienced their team win a ring because theyāre too focused on what other fanbases think about Shai being shameless.
It’s the same shit we got about the 2006 finals
Knicks fans recognize Brunson is a foul baiter, he does flop sometimes but not to the extent casuals say. He’s not even in the top 20 of FTA.
Game 2 against Detroit last year was a travesty and he got a lot of hate from other fanbases and a lot of criticism from ours, but it’s not the norm for him.
It’s like he heard all the critics and haters and said bet, I can do it without it.
Have you met thunder fans lol
It just looks like every team to me right now. Most every fanbase wants their players to get the fouls and their opponent to not get the fouls.
Please do not go to the Celtics sub. Also, for the love of the universe, r/Celtics is NOT the Celticsā subreddit. Itās obviously the subreddit for Khris Kha$h Middleton. Duhā¦
Maybe u should finger ur butt then smell it, ala Embiid
It funny that everyone wanted to like Embiid after round1 that they forgot he’s one of the worst watches in the nba.
The hate for the Celtics is so strong here (I understand why) that people really wanted to pretend to enjoy one of the most disgusting basketball players, exclusively talking about his style of play, that’s ever stepped on the court.
Us real haters never wanted to like him in round 1. It was like choosing between shit and poop. Sending Brown back to his podcast blowing a 3-1 and Embiid to his favorite playoff round is whatās funny.
East coast media throwing a parade for an mvp for beating a team starting Luka Garza.
For reference, Embiid in 64 playoff games has shot 616 FTs
Brunson in 67 playoff starts (74 total) has shot 474 FTs
That fucking ridiculous, holy shit
Sounds like JB was right.
He absolutely was, the timing of him saying it was terrible. If he said it in december everyone would’ve agreed with him.
Itās not the timing, itās the source lmao
Heās been saying it all season longā¦
How dare he
He’s right and we all know it but maybe the worst possible messenger lol
Not wrong just too early
Embiids just disappointed he didnt manage to flop intentionally into someones knees this game like he did every game in our last playoff series.
Hey now, let’s be fair, Mitch got injured because Embiid grabbed his ankle while he was jumping
āI used to play like Embiidā¦ā
They were hacking Mitch, too.
Kinda like pressuring a country to give you citizenship and then playing for another country because they are favored….
Big reason why Iāll never understand this guyās sudden PR change. Heās still the exact same guy
i didnt realize it was this one sided, this flopper has no fucking shame lmao
Tbf, its actually 21 more as 4 came from hack/smack-a-mitch
“Thats not the reason we lost, I think defence is the biggest reason, we weren’t connected enough, not physical enough, all their guys were just too comfortable, so yeah i’m more focused about where we could have done better on the defensive end”
Loool. People gettin baited already.
Baits the fans as much as the refs.
The ultimate master baiter.
Easy there, Iām not ready to give up my throne just yet.
Ngl he is an objectively funny dude š
Joel trying to not crack so hard when he says you gotta ask brunson. These dumbasses in here hook line and sinker
As a neutral, even if I wanted to criticize the Knicks, they were playing some high-level ethical basketball last night
Wemby called us ethical after we beat the Spurs once, so itās legally binding.
Are we or are we not sophisticated, tho?
We play vulgar bur effective basketball to Fr*nch standards.
Unwashed basketball
His opinion holds weight cause heās a trained monk
Yup, the order of opinion weight is:
The Ja Rule disrespect is crazy!
The French may be bastards but they donāt lie
You know ball.
Yuno
Once they went to KAT initiating offense at the elbow extended in the middle of the Hawks series, they have been moving the ball like crazy coupled with great off ball movement. It’s been really fun to watch.
Pretty much how I felt facing the Thunder. Like yeah they were foul-baiting but they were also hooping like crazy while doing it
Every star player foul baits, you just have to accept that it’s part of the sport. What’s annoying is watching a player throw themselves on the floor on minimum contact for free throws. This also applies to Brunson when he does it.
Those fuckers are so good, it honestly makes the foul baiting more irritating because theyāre good as fuck regardless
“Yeah I only shot 9 FTs in 3 quarters. I should have shot 20”
Somehow this is Jalen Brunsonās fault
He was 3⁄11 from the field and 8⁄9 from the stripe lmao
You already know theyāre going to give Philly the friendliest whistle ever next game. Embiid bitches and gets his way the next game. Gonna see if he goes to injure Mitch again
I wonder how perception and conversations would change if we talked about gimmes in terms of trips to the line, instead of total count. 4 trips sounds a lot more palatable to me than 9 attempted
76ers shot 34 FT’s Knicks shot 17 4? of the Knicks 17 were hack-a-mitch Dude is a clown
Hack-a-Mitch in the first quarter when they were down by 5-6 lmao.
They were trying to disrupt the Knicks offense in the process. The knicks offense was humming and never stopped.
Partly because theyāre playing drop coz Embiid is clearly a shell of himself on defense rn
15 of the 27 combined points by Embiid and Maxey were FT. 56%
Brunson scored 35 on his own with only 8 FTm. 23%
16 FTa vs. 8 FTa
Didn’t even realize Brunson doubled Maxey and embiid combined without ft’s
He should ask Jalen Brunson what itās like to play in a conference finals
Even better, he should ask KAT.
or Mikal
Or OG
Or Huk
KAT should make a clap back post if the knicks win. Didn’t embiid insult KAT for never “sniffing the playoffs” when they were beefing?
The jokes write themselves.
BOOM!
Going to hack-a-Mitch in the first quarter with Embiid trying to draw fouls on every possession made this game unwatchable. Why can’t we just play basketball? Send the Sixers to Cancun where they belong.
I watched 5 minute of the first Q. Embiid was in full foul seeking mode, no intention to actually make basketball plays. Its just so stupid, I can’t watch him play.
Maxey was not much better. The guy was just launching himself into backtracking bigs with zero intention to score and getting every call.
I was really disappointed seeing that from Maxey. I didnāt watch him much this season but I donāt remember him playing like that before. There were a couple times it felt like he got a step on the defender and still pissed away an easy bucket just to get to the line.
Yeah I hate Embiid but was willing to give Maxey some grace. Not anymore. Obviously learning all the wrong lessons from Joel.
But hey, heās one of greatest centers of all time for beating Boston in the first round
The game plan was clearly to get the Knicks in full trouble. And it worked.
Jalen hasn’t even gotten that many “flopping” foul calls this year. He doesn’t bobble around like before. But people don’t watch the games so they just rely on old information
He had one very obvious foul bait last night that was called, besides that was fine. Heās not as floppy as he once was
It was a classic d wade pump fake on a jumper to draw a foul. Brunson is faaaar from the only player that does that. Maxey had a more egregious flop against Mitch in the second quarter
And that should be a foul.
Correct
Yeah, that has been going on forever. Jordan used to do that.
The discourse around this stuff often overlooks a key distinction between:
vs
The first one is a legitimate basketball play, the second one is not.
Foul baiting and flopping are two different things. Getting a guy to foul you vs. falling down to make the refs believe you were egregiously hit are two very different things. I couldnāt even be mad about embiids trips last night when the game was close because they were the correct calls.
I just wish he didnāt ONLY foul bait
Yeah, I’m fine with guys selling contact or taking advantage of players reaching when they’re beat and getting and 1’s from it. What I can stand is the shit that Embiid does where he throws himself into guys or just yeets a ball through arms with zero intention of actually scoring. The former forces defenses to play you more honest and gives you room to work, the latter is just lazy cheese bullshit.
Something that’s always impressed me about Brunson, for a 6 foot guard, he gets an incredibly high % of and 1s. Believe he was at 27% this year which means he’s consistently trying to make the shot when he’s getting fouled.
He did. Embiid also jacked a 3 from half court to get a call.
To be fair, Jalen has perfected landing on the defenders foot for the flagrant. But he isn’t the only one.
So, from what Iāve seen from Brunson is his go to foul draw in the playoffs is he will blow by someone, get chased by his defender, stop dead in his tracks and allow himself to get run over/tackled by whichever defender was chasing him and canāt stop in time.
Jalen’s always been a bit of a foul baiter, but he’s far from the worst, and also one of the toughest players in the league. Nothing but respect for him. 6’1” dudes dominating the most athletic league in the world like he does is incredible.
This guy is the biggest troll in the league. Without his FTs he would have scored single digits.
This isnāt trolling, itās being a crybaby.
big bait lol
This isnāt trolling this is sour grapes
They hated Jaylen Brown because he told the truth. Most people rejected his message. ā Bos. Banner:18
It’s not that Brown was wrong but the timing of the message and who the messenger is. If Tatum had said it instead of Brown, majority of the people would probably agree with Tatum regardless of the timing of the message.
There he is, took him a while
People forget how corny and sulky Embiid is and just focus on the cool moments when he wins
Playing the Celtics and having Brown be somehow more shameless about foul baiting and complaining really helped last series
Never seen a group of people all collectively develop brain damage like we witnessed after game 7. People acting like they won the title NBA cup and lottery because they took the max games possible to barely beat a team that didn’t even have their best player the last game of the series.
Are you intentionally gaslighting? He didn’t blame free throws. He blamed their poor defense.
He’s obviously joking but its really telling how 75% of these comments don’t realize that
It doesn’t fit the narrative in their head.
I forget how much of a crowd mentality people get on here. It’s weird.
Cool moments like.. when he does the DX crotch chop?
He talks big when heās up
He had that sympathy article come out over the summer that just made him sound like a teenage girl. “I don’t pick up the phone or answer texts because it gives me too much anxiety”. This is how the biggest narcissist you know talks.
soft ass bitches want this narrative to be true so badly lmfaoo. Brunson shot 12⁄18 35pts 8 fta. Embiid 14pts 3⁄11 9fta.
FOH
Somehow I dont think FTs are the major issue when you lose by almost 40
One thing I love about this Knicks team is that they don’t say shit like this. For all their warts, the leaders of the team always take responsibility and look inward when they lose.
The lack of introspection most people have of their own team is frightening.
This is what Embiid said if you get past the first 5 seconds.
Sixers had 17 more free throw attempts last night. If you take out their intentional fouls last night on Mitch, they had 21 more legit free throws last night.
Oh thatās rich
Dudes always got excuses. Can never own up to his own ineptitude. And crying about fts, didnāt the sixers have like double the fts??
Yup. 34-17. And they still lost by 39.
Uh, did you miss the entire thing he said about FTs not making a difference and their defense being the problem?
Heyā¦I gotta give some credit to the 76er fans for dealing with this F*cking dirty player clown especially - Win or lose I would explore a trade for that bum
Nah they fucking love this shit
He led the game in FTA.
Hope everyone clowns this guy just as much as they did Jaylen brown. They both deserve it
Shot 37 FTs to 17 for the Knicks, and still got smoked. All the foul-baiting has ruined his legacy.
Embiid vs the 2nd round - a truly one-sided affair
The Philadelphia 76excuses strike again.
It’s 1 game and Embiid once again coming back from injury is the only reason we made it this far.
Not fun to be on the receiving end of bullshit flopping calls is it ya big bitch?
The thing is, he was objectively not on the receiving end lmao
I agree lol but he thinks he is.
He doesn’t really think he is on the receiving end of bullshit flopping calls, he is trying to create a narrative to give the Sixers a whistle advantage in future games. It’s the verbal equivalent of flopping. It’s all he knows.
āAsk the guy who shot less free throwsā
Embiid pulled elite level shit talk on Pritchard the other day but once again has proven that his skin is thinner than tissue paper.
His point is that Brunson was cooking them and the free throw differential made no difference thanks to their poor defense and Brunsonās shot making
But he didnāt say that, instead he made a cheeky remark and mentioned, āI donāt think I got to the free throw line as much as I wanted.ā
You got to the line more than enough, Joel.
He did say that, he said defense is why they lost
Never making it past the 2nd round
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The series would last a month
awww dont cry big floppah
I think I took this differently than everyone else. I took it like āoh yeah getting to the line really worked out for us huh. How about you ask Brunson how well that went since he shot the damn lights out. Stupid questionā
This take almost works, but then Embiid adds to the end, āI donāt think I got to the free throw line as much as I wanted.ā
Fair, I just saw that as him returning to the actual question, especially because he then says ābut thatās not the reason we lostā and talks about what they could have done on the defensive end because thatās where they lost the game, not on the free throw line
Heās lucky he got to the line as much as he did. At this point heās got the mobility of the Frankenstein monster and molasses.
Canāt believe this guy got a pity MVP
at least he knows he’s a ft merchant
Please just one person in this thread watch the clip
I watched it, second half is his PR brain telling him to say the right thing.
Second half is clearly what he believes. Sixer got destroyed and he knows it. First bit is just a jab.
Thatās on Embiid starting off his comment being headass. He deserves the clowning.
That would require Reddit to be intelligent
somehow iām now a Knicks fan for this series
Somehow sixers fans will paint this as embiid trolling, dude comes off as a crybaby itās hilarious
I hate that every player thinks everyone else flops and also that they didnāt get any calls. Itās all anyone talks about. The NBA is consumed by fouls and crying about fouls and thatās why a lot of people have stopped watching.
Ppl are still watching https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/CBqXtlkwJB and the ratings reflect that. Think of how many ppl get on here to announce how much “they don’t watch” everyday but don’t miss a NBA post on any social media app ever. These ppl just want attention and they’re hardly ever honest.
Yeah literally any time flopping or refs making bad calls shows up in a post here, you have a bunch of people saying this is why they stopped watching. Then a month or two later you see another one of those posts, and the same exact mfs are in the comments saying this is why they stopped watching. Like did you or did you not stop watching man. Just move on and get on with your life man if you really stopped watching. Let me constantly remind you how much I don’t care type mfs.
Iām a very bitter basketball watcher and Iām very happy. All hatred for the Knicks is out the window for me this series, until the sixers are in the ground
Lol there was one clear bait vs Grimes, sure. But if you’re still a lazy fan who still think Jalen is a flopper, you dont know the ball.
Watch how he drives. He gets into defendersā chest, absorbs bumps, still stays on balance, still gets buckets with defenders all over him. For him, whistles are just a byproduct. His FTR actually going up in playoffs is proof that his game scales with physicality, a very rare trait to have as a pg
Ah yes Joel fucking divert the blame when your ass couldnāt do anything but draw fouls. Just let maxey hold the ball
lol
BOO THIS MAN
People hate the Celtics so much they rooted for Embiid to win a playoff series
you included iām sure (fair enough)
I wanted the Celtics to lose but I also wanted the Knicks to be the ones to do it. Interesting series to hate watch and I’m looking forward to cursing the Jays next year through a probably really good regular season for them!
I did but mostly because I’m a Knicks fan that lives in the philly metro and wanted to go take over their arena for another 2nd round series.
Lmfao. Never change, Embiid.
https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/s/M6tucrJRdN
āThe flopping alone isnāt the most annoying thing. It is the oscillation between absolutely hammering people like a 300 lbs wrecking ball with elbows and trying to injure other players to falling over at the slightest, or appearance of a bump.
He will try and maim you one play and flop the next.
If he was a tough sob and played every game like a freight train, fine. I hate you but I respect you. But the two extremes is where the respect is lost.ā
The Knicks didnāt shoot as many free throws because they were so wide open they didnāt even get fouled
Heās baaaaaack
They took twice as many free throws this guy is delusional š
Iām almost to the point where they should just get rid of free throws entirely. No other sport has something that effects the game so strongly and itās exhausting to talk about
“Didn’t you see me flailing my arms when Hukporti was covering me? I totally flailed my arms and I didn’t get a call! What’s that about?”
āI play for free throwsā
He’d get 100+ FTs if he got to it as much as he wanted.
Fuck outta here.
Embiid had majority of his points come from FTs last night.
Joel Embiid is an incredible talent.
However, when I think about his game, I’ll always think about that clip he had at the Olympics vs Serbia. Instead of going for the easy layup, he went to try to do some foul bait move instead and refs just swallowed their whistle because they’re not gonna call that soft shit compared to the NBA.
Wish I could find the clip of it because I think it embodies why Embiid gets a lot of hate. Supremely talented but would rather flop around then just score the bucket.
This dude is objectively such a loser
I love how well known Embiid is for his dry ass trolling and baiting and people still nibble it up.
Dude is not serious and the comments on here are just baffling.
You oversized infant. I would be too ashamed to show my face if I did the things he was doing trying to bait calls.
I don’t get why none of these guys admit to flopping. They aren’t breaking the rules. Just say “yeah I’m trying to draw fouls that’s smart basketball.”
You got bitch slapped pussy boy keep crying
A Master Debater.
Absolute troll
This guy is such a loser
People talk about what they think is bringing down the quality of NBA basketball, and my argument is not the actual basketball. Itās not the flopping or baiting or reffing. Not saying those arenāt issues. They are, but they arenāt new issues.
The biggest thing for me is the discourse. Everything is so reactive and narrative driven, that you can literally watch a game where Jesus resurrects and gets a Quintuple Double or some shit, and all the talking heads and internet trolls would circlejerk about how he couldnāt get away with that in the Pontius Pilate era, and how weāre so soft now, despite being 14 years old.
If I speak I am in big trouble
Man, I desperately hope the Knicks win so I donāt have to keep watching this foul-baiter. But NN can outcoach almost anyone in the playoffs so itās gonna be tough.
Did you fools even watch this 40 second video? He literally says āthatās not the reason that we lostā
Trolling aside, I thought the refs called the game evenly. They allowed both teams to foul a lot without getting called for it. The Knicks were the more physical team from the jump and that resulted in more free throws for the Sixers but WAY more misses as well. They conceded nothing.
Sixers had some clear fouls that also were not called. Obviously there are many factors that led to that blowout, many of which were predictable, but if the series is going to be officiated like this then the Sixers need to adjust or they will shoot more free throws and get swept.
Oh no, he killed Jaylen Brown and stole his powers
Reddit and struggling to understand a joke - name a more iconic combo
Flopper embiib meets flopper Brunson. 1-0 Brunson .