reminds me of late career chris webber. still managed to average 20-10 in philly tho

Its addition by subtraction. 76ers have enough talent now that embiid doesnt have to do extra things offensively, especially with how bad his health is its better if he doesn’t over exert his body and just stays as stationary as possible.

Bron shot 32% on threes last year. I don’t think his shot is coming back.

I do think they’ll be fine by january. Not mvp level, but not this bad either. They’re all learning to play together, and nick’s rotations are still kind of a mess.

Also it would be nice to have a playable backup center - it would be nice if he could sit out a few more games. Four games in seven nights is probably a lot to ask at this point, even if they’re not back to backs.

Gansey’s two way signings are frustrating. We should just be churning through seven footers.

Bron’s three I think is completely gone

They’re not clogging the paint though. Embiid isn’t going near the paint and Lebron only goes there for a post mismatch or a cut which are his best plays. People just need to stop thinking of them as a PF and C. Embiid has the shot diet of a shot creating wing, and and Lebron has the diet off a secondary on ball creator. It’s a real issue for our offence right now but we’re just not getting enough easy looks at the rim.

I think everyone really needs to chill. Right now we have zero backup center, and I suspect he’s being asked to play extra extra cautious. Right now he just has to be a body, draw a big out of the paint and contest a little bit at the rim. When we have a full big man rotation and he can rest properly with less pressure we’ll see what he can do. Right now it’s literally just checking a box each and every day and the only thing that matters is health.

Unfortunately that’s an injury that likely won’t heal unless he has extended rest

He has no lift on his jumps that’s why he’s missing shots. He visibly struggles on his landings after layups and is avoiding challenging shots at the rim defensively. This is not a scheme problem or usage problem.

It’s very funny how to some Embiid is evil incarnate and others would justify him putting up an 0/30 night. Either needs to be shit on or handled with kids gloves.

I call him Joel “The Big Excuse” Embiid.

Embiid played well against us but it was also only four games where he shot 53.7% TS and we clearly didn’t have anyone who could defend him. Then he averaged 19 ppg the next round vs the Knicks, though the whole team struggled against the Knicks

That contract should have a NSFW tag

How could that ever work? He is a negative contract to begin with and that stands at $57,736,350 - who can realistically even trade for him? Besides the obvious Kings/Clippers, who cant really send anything meaningful back anyway

The Denoument of The Process

Bron fans have been pushing an Embiid/AD swap lol

He’d be at 52% TS if he was shooting his career avg from 3.

I prefer progression to the nice

Its the term to describe what happens when outliers appear in a small sample, obviously its going to come up frequently at the beginning of a season. What would have been an acceptable way for me to convey my point?

Small sample size too

he’s looked very sad at times this season and I think you’re at least partly to blame

Fears and Queen are both not rookies anymore but point well taken.

My only positive thing being a Pels fan is when our players finally get out, and people quickly realize they were good players. Happened with AD, Jrue, Josh Hart, Jose Alvarado, Naji Marshall, NAW, Dyson Daniels, Kenrich Williams.

The team would make a lot more sense without Zion

It just feels like a team that has a solid handful of ballers but no identity or leadership. They need to land a player they can truly rebuild around.

Queen is terrible lol

He’s a center that can’t defend or shoot

He’s so young that I’m sure he can develop a shot

Murray blocking him

my king

We ain’t got no one else, RJ Barrett is surely ROCKETING up this list the last few games.

to be fair scottie is scoring high volume from 2 on good efficiency there, its just his 3 ball is fucked and he’s in a weird ft shooting slump

I could absolutely be talked into this take in February or March. Not in mid-November. If Embiid’s 3 is gone, and his lift is gone, and he can’t get past anyone anymore, fine. But Philly needs a bigger sample size than 10 games before they tell one of the best offensive players of all time to go stand in the dunker spot.

hells yea let’s get hyperbolic in November

Just wait til JT brings sexy back

Last year he was missing those pretty consistently. He misses those layups where he comes down a little bit with the ball and then pushes up for the shot. That’s the only big thing that I saw that made me think he was getting older. Those were automatic before.

He’s been falling off consistently but this is prob the first season he’s honestly mid.

I mean it depends how you define falling off. He’s still a clear NBA starter which is more than you can say about most 35 year old dudes let alone 41. You can see his age affecting him though. Getting sped up a bit on drives because he’s afraid of the contest and throwing up wonky layups rather than getting up for a dunk.

Remind me in 2 weeks

He has startede the season looking washed for the past 3 or 4 years. Last season for a big part of the season he looked really rough. Once he got his legs back and figured out his role with Luka he looked good and had the most fast break points in the league. He also had his most dunks since 2017. Then he had a great playoff run. So far this season I’ve only seen one or two dunks from him which might be telling, or maybe not since it’s still early

Can’t wait for all the talking heads to twist and squirm explaining how their voting for him as an All-Star.

All-NBA as well, except there he’ll be 16th or the 1st player not-named on their list.

Its the first season of his “ring chasing” arc.

Rookies always get a pass until the second season, if no improvement then it’s pretty much gg.

Someone said to happened because he broke his hand and that affected his shot. Is that true?

He’s also 5-6 years older than them.

Weird comparison, but he reminds me of rookie Dame in terms of just pure poise and being ready for the NBA. Obviously they play super differently, but that level of poise is rare and I do wonder if it has to do with being older when entering the league.

I would hope so!

He’s shooting 15% from 3 and is a subpar shooter in the first place

His ceiling kinda reminds me of Boston KG weirdly, he can definitely pop off for 30+ points plenty of nights, but it’s his defense, rebounding, secondary playmaking, and general hustle stuff that elevates the entire lineup.

He was the number 1 last season was he not?

Pretending that game doesn’t exist raises his TS% to 56%, which would still be below league average. Scottie has always been an inefficient offensive player almost entirely because he can’t shoot. He had 2 seasons where he sniffed league average but he fell short even then.

He’s never been good shooting the 3. He just needs to improve the free throw. And when kawhi is back his shot diet will be easier. I expect his efficiency to improve

He’s a 2 level scorer who can hit a few 3s. 15% is ridiculously low though, and I think it trends more towards the 28-30% range

He definitely knows, he’s doing this out of necessity. With Kawhi out not like anyone else can create like he does which is a problem. Nobody really gets easy buckets and the 3 shooting has been horrid as a team

2 years away from being 2 years away. Good to know yall are so patient and enjoy 25 win seasons so much

This guy is salty as hell. The LaMelo trade broke him and now he’s a cancer. If he ends up being right then he’s gonna bitch and moan for years on end and if he’s wrong he’s just gonna disappear.

I’m fine if you wanna say trading LaMelo was a bad move but there’s at least a justifiable argument for it and the line of thinking that the front office has. But we’re less than a month in and this guy is taking his victory laps. And you know what, he’ll probably be right in the end because the franchise is cursed, but it’s not exactly an impressive prediction to say that the Hornets are gonna be bad.

Were they dead last in offensive rating before?

We added a single additional first this offseason lol. Made the team suck shit now and didn’t impact the future outlook at all

Kind of feel like people exaggerate both their assets and how good kon/miller are. Zero percent chance kon has as good of a shooting season without lamelo setting him up so well (when he gets back on the floor)

You guys wanna redo the draft and trade Scoot for Miller straight up?

lol

Curry will be sitting for a month so if Yaxel doesn’t look good in this time frame, then it’ll be Acuff as the favorite due to PRA.

OP sandbagged me

This is fake news. If you’re lazy and relying on NBA’s listing, then sure, they’re tied. But if you calculate TS% by hand, then you’ll see that Acuff has a TS% of 52.58% whereas Fears has a TS% of 52.56%. That 0.02% difference means that Acuff has the higher TS%, thus making him more efficient than Lebron James and Joel Embiid. 😎

While it’s way too soon to make any assessments about rookies (literally 11-12 games into the season, Acuff is at 58% TS% his last 7 games

Peterson’s 20 PPG streak is 4 games long. I also doubt it because Peterson doesn’t attack the rack as much as Acuff does. Acuff gets to the rim twice as often as Peterson does, and obviously shots at the rim are more efficient than jumpers usually. Peterson’s paint and midrange game is also worse than Acuff’s, and both guys get healthy amounts of those types of shots.

There have been way way way way more people complaining about Reddit evaluating Acuff unfairly than people actually evaluating Acuff unfairly. Who is this “most people” that you guys are fighting?

The disgusting vomit of the lEastern Conference has many forms.

they are also one of the worst offences in the league because of this, they are winning games only through defense and maxey heroics

As a Sixers fan just wanna add Jaylen Brown evidently never actually learned how to handle the ball 😂😂

All the players have good stats when Lamelo is on, lmao. Look at the Wolves. They were 12 in ORTG last year and Edwards played in all the games. This year they’re at 7 and they haven’t had Edwards for most of the season.

I get it, injuries, immaturity, blah blah blah. The Timberwolves starting lineup features both Kuminga and Gobert, and they are missing their best offensive player, and they’re still an elite offensive team. The guy is an offensive cheat code when he is on the floor.

Miller needs to drastically get better on defense to truly be a really good 2nd option even

Yeah Milller is a 3 and rim offensive player, he’s pretty good at both, right now his shot difficulty is just way too high because no one is creating looks for him.

No he sucks, if he was as good as he was made out to be he would be balling no excuses. Don’t blame his teammates for him chucking and missing, if he is truly an elite talent he would find a way to get his considering he has the green light and was given the path to be the first option

Intelligence is his limiting factor. He needs to be a role where he doesn’t have to think