So if the 76ers get taken out by the HAWKS who do you want for your squad?
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That's a worse defensive pairing than Dame and C.J. but Dame and C.J. don't have Embiid.
We just saw in Utah that having a dominant interior defender can't make up for having zero defense at guard.
That's not true. That center couldn't make them pay for putting Batum on them. Embiid would. Embiid also stretches the floor. There is a massive gap between Nurkic and Embiid.
Can you come up with a counterexample then, a case where a team had two awful defenders at guard but it didn't hurt them against good perimeter players cause they had an elite center?
Cause I'm really not seeing it. Seth regularly gets worked even with Embiid there. If Simmons wasn't there to take the best perimeter player then Seth and CJ would BOTH get worked. Do you really think Trae would have had the poor shooting night he did if he was teeing off on Seth or CJ every play?
And I still haven't heard who is going to run the offense either. It obviously ain't gonna be George Hill. If you bring someone else in to do it, then you're limiting the value of Seth/CJ cause now you can only play one of them at a time. If you ask Seth or CJ to do it, that's gonna be a downgrade in creation at the point.
Breh, we play Kevin and Trae backcourt. Both generally was in the negatives in the RS defensively, even more than C.J. ever was and Trae is in the same range with Seth and Dame on most defensive metrics. Sorry breh but C.J., Seth, and Green might have issues size-wise but having Embiid lowers their exposure risk. Now someone like Dwight is food with that backcourt but he's food against the PnR in general.
No, he wouldn't have those struggles against that backcourt as he would always be in the lane.
Run a PnR scheme. C.J. proved he can do that.
And woulda gotten destroyed if you hadn't lucked out into facing fukking Elfrid Payton and Ben Simmons in the first two rounds, arguably the two most incompetent perimeter-scoring guards in the entire NBA.
I mean Seth fukking Curry was the only guard in Philly's lineup who can shoot and he was dropping 22ppg on 62% shooting (60% from 3pt) on you. Derrick Rose half-washed and he was dropping 19ppg on 48% shooting (48% from 3pt) on you.
If Seth Curry and
Derrick Rose are running a train on your guards despite playing next to a completely ass shooter/scorer, then what would an elite perimeter team do? 
Not really. As long as the defense is set, we still aren't easy to score against and honestly, I ain't never seen a mfer improve so much on defense within a season as Kevin. He went from cheeks on that end to OMG, you kinda good. Trae is Trae on D. He at least gives effort in the playoffs and knows where he's supposed to be on defense.And woulda gotten destroyed if you hadn't lucked out into facing fukking Elfrid Payton and Ben Simmons in the first two rounds, arguably the two most incompetent perimeter-scoring guards in the entire NBA.
I mean Seth fukking Curry was the only guard in Philly's lineup who can shoot and he was dropping 22ppg on 62% shooting (60% from 3pt) on you. Derrick Rose half-washed and he was dropping 19ppg on 48% shooting (48% from 3pt) on you.
If Seth Curry and
Them nikkas was tough. Seth damn near had one of the most effective playoff runs against us and Washington offensively. Rose sadly wore himself thin.
I disagree, they didn't get others going which is all that fukking matters. If them nikkas cook, it is what it is.
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dude really said an aggressive Ben Simmons is just as good as Giannis offensively……unprovoked 
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Ben Simmons can defend 1-5, is athletic and an elite facilitator, someone will take/work with him, the talent is there. The jump shot issue can be resolved if HE wants it to be.
Found a Philly sports talk radio online. They are literally killing Ben Simmons
One caller offered to trade him for a WNBA player
Another said he’s selling Ben Simmons plungers for toilet with a pic of Ben on the handle
Another called and said “Ben Simmons’ initial is B.S. so we should have known this all along”
Edit: Now they’re calling for Doc Rivers’ head too
2 callers just offered $10K each to help the Sixers pay off Doc Rivers to go away
One caller offered to trade him for a WNBA player
Another said he’s selling Ben Simmons plungers for toilet with a pic of Ben on the handle
Another called and said “Ben Simmons’ initial is B.S. so we should have known this all along”
Edit: Now they’re calling for Doc Rivers’ head too
2 callers just offered $10K each to help the Sixers pay off Doc Rivers to go away
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A big part of this is on the Sixers underestimating how good we are.Found a Philly sports talk radio online. They are literally killing Ben Simmons
One caller offered to trade him for a WNBA player
Another said he’s selling Ben Simmons plungers for toilet with a pic of Ben on the handle
Another called and said “Ben Simmons’ initial is B.S. so we should have known this all along”
Edit: Now they’re calling for Doc Rivers’ head too