this embiid stuff is infuriating. hes basically been on a vacation while we've struggled in important games that will impact seeding.

have a feeling we're going out in the first round this year no matter who we play, and brett brown is going to get fired. i have no idea who we could even get to replace him

oh man

How about James Harden yesterday? That was a crazy peformance vs. the Spurs:

mdgoonah41 wrote:

this embiid stuff is infuriating. hes basically been on a vacation while we've struggled in important games that will impact seeding.

have a feeling we're going out in the first round this year no matter who we play, and brett brown is going to get fired. i have no idea who we could even get to replace him

things have improved since the posting of this comment....

Harden looks like he is not even trying.
Also that beard.
...!

mdgoonah41 wrote:

mdgoonah41 wrote:

this embiid stuff is infuriating. hes basically been on a vacation while we've struggled in important games that will impact seeding.

have a feeling we're going out in the first round this year no matter who we play, and brett brown is going to get fired. i have no idea who we could even get to replace him

things have improved since the posting of this comment....

Hope it gets bad again. I love reading your melt downs to be honest.

yeah things are looking good for the 76ers. Saw them play against the Celtics after some time and the balanced looked decent. Harris contributed early, Butler late, Embid with high production throughout.

Celtics still mercurial unfortunately. Bruins might have a better chance of a championship at this point.

Celtics lack the chemistry and togetherness they did last year. I don’t think it will just show up again during the playoffs unfortunately. Houston might be GSW’s biggest threat.

flobaba wrote:

Celtics lack the chemistry and togetherness they did last year. I don’t think it will just show up again during the playoffs unfortunately. Houston might be GSW’s biggest threat.

Yep. Houston is GSW's only threat.

Kerr has to figure out what to do with Cousins come playoff time. Harden and Paul will put him in the pick and roll every time down the court otherwise, and that won't be pretty.

Wow. Just watched extended highlights of the Duke game. That was some thrilling stuff, particularly the ending. Zion is real - loved the drive at the end against the 7’6” Fall and his battle all night with Smith. Thought UCF gave Duke too many open 3s - when you have that many good shooters you need to be much more aggressive on the permiter D.
Where will Zion play in NBA? Can he be Charles Barkley-style undersized power forward with all that mass, or is he going to have to build more of a permiter game and be a small forward? Or is it less important these days?

Claudius wrote:

Wow. Just watched extended highlights of the Duke game. That was some thrilling stuff, particularly the ending. Zion is real - loved the drive at the end against the 7’6” Fall and his battle all night with Smith. Thought UCF gave Duke too many open 3s - when you have that many good shooters you need to be much more aggressive on the permiter D.
Where will Zion play in NBA? Can he be Charles Barkley-style undersized power forward with all that mass, or is he going to have to build more of a permiter game and be a small forward? Or is it less important these days?

i think its less important. its weird to try and project what position he plays. for example, hes 6'7, the same height as draymond, who plays the 4/5, but he weighs like 50 pounds more than draymond already. hes a good athlete, but hes raw defensively, from what little of him ive seen. hes not a rim protector so its unlikely he can play center.

id guess that he'll guard either 3s or 4s, which could be a challenge for him, and he'll operate in the post on offense. his shooting is going to take time to develop

In terms of defense from what I've seen he's got great hops, gets vertical quickly, so could guard most 4s and some 5s. He had a really impressive block on Fall - just a good combination of speed and awareness in the post. Only question I have is given what you say about his weight, would his knees be able to sustain it - I think he weighs as much as Shaq did coming into the league all those years ago, and a bit more than Lebron now. Speaking of Lebron, might as well take the rest of the season off seeing what's at stake...

Good riddance.

Of course he would go public about it before telling the ownership about his decision.

Playoffs time

Embiid is playing today against the Nets. Hope he’s actually fit and good to go. Good luck 6ers fans.

flobaba wrote:

Embiid is playing today against the Nets. Hope he’s actually fit and good to go. Good luck 6ers fans.

Well..he was not.

so many lower seeds won.

Playoffs are wild.

Golden State choking a 31 point lead this time. At home.

est wrote:

Playoffs are wild.

Golden State choking a 31 point lead this time. At home.

And...Lou Williams was eating nachos after the W:

Na-Cho night dubs!  

And....Cousins is out w/ a torn quad. 

since it was a late west coast game i fell asleep when the worriers were up 31 so i didn't see the comeback. just watched where i left off on nba league pass mobile.

Jimmy Butler what a routine!

Got ejected today too, but Dudley's sacrifice was in vain.

Great to see the non-favorites putting up a fight in the playoffs. The Nets being outscored 17-27 in the fourth quarter is a lot to do with a lack of experience and high-stakes execution in my opinion. They will benefit from the experience and it brings me joy seeing a team comprising of dispensable assets putting together good basketball in the last few months and under play off lights. Win or lose this series, I hope it garners a bit of fervor among the community.

a few thoughts

• refereeing was terrible in this game. terrible. they did everything they could to help the nets even the series
• on the play that started the melee, embiid got a clean block. if you want to say it was a foul, which i dont think it was, it was a common foul. the league better rescind that flagrant on embiid
• dudley instigated the entire thing, butler was sticking up for jo. obviously thats a huge win for the nets, sacrificing a nothing player like dudley to get butler ejected. the league really needs to look at this
• fuck the nets. on to the next one.

hehe what's wrong with the Nets? Embiid committed a flagrant 1 elbow without penalty in Game 2 and laughed about it afterwards. Thats just putting a target on your back. Then from Dudlley's angle yesterday the foul on Allen looked pretty hard so he came in to defend his teammate. The league needs to look into this? What the refs needlessly ejecting both players or Dudley? I'd be surprised if you think Dudley had dastardly intentions to get an opposition player ejected.

Btw on second look Simmons didn't take a shot at Dudley; just got pushed along with him.

Think the refs largely got that call right. Dudley and Butler had to go of course. Was a hard foul by Embiid, but he did get a lot of ball too. Perhaps a flagrant was a tad harsh, but can easily be motivated too IMO.
Was a really good game btw! I really like watching LeVert. Will be interesting to see how he develops in the next couple of seasons.

Rex wrote:

Think the refs largely got that call right. Dudley and Butler had to go of course. Was a hard foul by Embiid, but he did get a lot of ball too. Perhaps a flagrant was a tad harsh, but can easily be motivated too IMO.
Was a really good game btw! I really like watching LeVert. Will be interesting to see how he develops in the next couple of seasons.

i disagree with this. i think either you eject just dudley for instigating (and coming half way down the court to do it) or more preferably, you eject neither. i think the refs overreacted because the players fell into the first row when the shoving started. technicals would have been fine. what the refs did was allow to dudley, a nobody, to sacrifice himself to get the 3rd best sixer ejected from the game.

The baddest motherfucker in the NBA right now.

Next Question, wait, I mean, next season Russ.

dame dolla strikes again. shit gave me flashbacks to 5 years ago against the rockets. couldn't even sleep good. i fuckin love this game.

Logo Lillard hits again. Sooooo fucking good! Just sad that Nurkic is out, because I think the Blazers could have gone places these playoffs with him. Defending McCollum and Lillard is such a nightmare for any team, the addition of Kanter is great, but ultimately I think Nurkic being out will prevent them from being in position to knock off either Rockets or Warriors.

It was an incredible shot wasn’t it? Bittersweet for me because it was against OKC but I can’t hate on greatness. OKC just doesn’t have a balanced squad yet, and Westbrook for all his energy isn’t a mature player and doesn’t know how to control a game in critical moments, and neither is Paul George. Lol at PG13 saying in the post game presser that it was a “bad shot”.

Anyway the OKC squad needs to be tweaked and our glaring weaknesses - poor 3 point shooting and lack of bench offense has to be addressed before we stand a chance in the playoffs in the future.

Now me and LeBron can just sit back and enjoy the rest of the playoffs. May the best team win.

Westbrook is obviously amazing but, man, has his shooting gone to shit! It was never great, the fact that he can average a triple double with his shooting woes is mindboggling, but as a team OKC needs to be constructed differently to have a chance to go all the way IMO. More shooters is a given, but Westbrook also has to realize that he can't be the man when it comes to jump shots down the stretch when a game is in the balance.

well scoring is the easiest part of a triple double for a guard and he chucks it up enough, so that doesn't surprise me. OKC established what's important to their team culture when they basically give him freebounds. what kind of self-respecting big man does that? so of course steven adams isn't gonna be shit when he's bitching up like that. and last year he had westbrook telling him what questions he was allowed to answer from reporters. you're 7' your response should be "if you don't shut the fuck up i'm going to step on your little ass." they're going nowhere with westbrick, former UCLA player or not. he doesn't make good decisions and it's why when harden was their 6th man, he ran the team in the 4th quarter.

first game you seen in the series? it was more ridiculous in the first game. anyway, a couple months ago scottie pippen said on espn that's how he would defend harden and milwaukee's coaches said "oh for real, we're gonna try that." and it worked pretty good because it takes away his step back. utah just copied it. it's a pretty good strategy if you have a long player defending harden from the back and funneling him towards a shot blocking big like gobert.

Utah just don't have the players to even slow down Harden with that approach, even if the approach makes sense. Bucks, on the other hand, have the players to execute. In the end it mostly comes down to that anyway.

i thought they did a great job of slowing him down after the first game, they made adjustments to a strategy they were just copying. when they tweaked it for their personnel they did better. gobert basically made his floater game ineffective.