Joel Embiid should be better than a easy 1st round exit
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People want to draft Wiseman in the top 5, why is beyond me? I learned my lesson from 2018.I'm glad folks can finally acknowledge big men don't have impact in today's game like they did in the past. I've been trying to tell cats for a minute.
With the current rules and pace of play you're rightI'm glad folks can finally acknowledge big men don't have impact in today's game like they did in the past. I've been trying to tell cats for a minute.
It's not like in the 90's were you have illegal defense and you can't double off on the post dominant big man
Zone defenses also kinda destroyed this dynamic also
To be fair, AD got out the 1st round once in 7 years as a hyped up injury-prone
So I don't know what Joel should be better than
I know people hate him, but ya'll don't realize how much Ben means to the team as far as energy goes, when he went down that killed the vibe of an already sinking ship
Retrace what you're saying here:
Only ONE team can win in the playoffs; the other 15 teams have to lose. And since the game is run by guards/wings, it stands to reason that all of them, bar one, will lose.
Joel's impact is limited because he can't run the offense; his impact is limited to when the ball-handlers give him the ball, so when he's not getting the ball he's having little-to-no impact on that end. Especially since he doesn't stretch the floor without the ball either. The more times touching the rock = the more you can influence the offense. Steph's the next evolution of this, but that's a conversation for another day.
It's why bigs like AD, Boogie, LMA and Embiid haven't lead their respective teams to top seedings nor had notable success in the postseason. There's only one big who runs contrary to that rule - Jokic.
I'll let you work out why.
And it's not like the big men we have in today's league aren't great players in their own respect, it's just they're playing in a climate which isn't conducive to them leading a winning-team. You put Embiid back in the 80s/90s, where post-play was the staple of offenses, and the three-ball wasn't in rotation like it is now, and he'd be leading his team on deep playoff runs. He'd be revered as a far greater player than he is now. He's just simply a casualty of the era he's playing in.
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Welcome to the PPP era. If you can't produce offensively, you literally have no shot. This is why Ja probably should have been #1 last year regardless of how good Zion looked in college. Luka and Trae should have went 1 and 2 in 2018 and Melo should be #1 this year. Because scoring+playmaking is leads to a lot of open high-value points, high value points actually made leads to PPP. Point per possession is the name of the game. We graduated from the school of momentum (Kobelogy), to the school of shooting and kinetics (Stephlogy) to the school of high-value points (Luka/Ja/Trae/Steph/Bron/Harden/Jokic). Scoring+playmaking is where it's at in 2020. I honestly feel like we are going back to the 80s to some degree where that was valued but truth is, it's all about the talent around the league. The league can only give you, what it produces.Retrace what you're saying here:
Only ONE team can win in the playoffs; the other 15 teams have to lose. And since the game is run by guards/wings, it stands to reason that all of them, bar one, will lose.
Joel's impact is limited because he can't run the offense; his impact is limited to when the ball-handlers give him the ball, so when he's not getting the ball he's having little-to-no impact on that end. Especially since he doesn't stretch the floor without the ball either. The more times touching the rock = the more you can influence the offense. Steph's the next evolution of this, but that's a conversation for another day.
It's why bigs like AD, Boogie, LMA and Embiid haven't lead their respective teams to top seedings nor had notable success in the postseason. There's only one big who runs contrary to that rule - Jokic.
I'll let you work out why.
And it's not like the big men we have in today's league aren't great players in their own respect, it's just they're playing in a climate which isn't conducive to them leading a winning-team. You put Embiid back in the 80s/90s, where post-play was the staple of offenses, and the three-ball wasn't in rotation like it is now, and he'd be leading his team on deep playoff runs. He'd be revered as a far greater player than he is now. He's just simply a casualty of the era he's playing in.
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I thought Jimmy didn't want to resign. he wasn't a fan of Brett Brown
Jimmy hated Brett and there were rumors he & Ben didn’t get along either.
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still mad at that bytch ben simmons for taking ROY from Spida 
