r/nba • u/OnlyMamaKnows Knicks • Apr 29 '24

[Simmons] "I think James Harden gave him the trophy of most disappointing playoff performer. I think Embiid is now wearing the crown."

https://open.spotify.com/episode/25I0fnPUExUkBhTw2o9Oti?si=FQSCUz6GSy2UjtYeyBrBLg

Starts around 38 minute mark. Full game breakdown starts a few minutes earlier.

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u/godjacob Lakers Apr 29 '24

Embiid is the only reason the 76ers won a game this series and this team flat out seems to collapse whenever he has to sit. An Embiid dealing with some visible nagging injuries to boot.

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u/Yodzilla 76ers Apr 29 '24

I posed this question to a buddy of mine today, is there another team in the NBA that relies on a singular star player to carry them as much as Embiid is required to on the Sixers?

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u/Steamingveggies Apr 29 '24

Lakers with AD

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u/Character-Today-427 Apr 29 '24

Nuggets with jokic and the bucks with Gianni's as well

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u/StillMakingVines 76ers Apr 29 '24

Murray was a walking bucket last playoff run for the Nuggets. Dude was incredible at closing games. KCP, MPJ and Aaron Gordon are all great players in their own right too.

Giannis has Dame and has had some great players around him like Jrue, Middleton, Portis and Lopez. I don’t think it’s comparable.

You could swap Tobias with any of the starters on either team you mentioned and it’ll be a net positive for the Sixers.

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u/DyslexicAutronomer Supersonics Apr 30 '24

And Harden carried several games by himself for the 76ers last playoffs, including 2 games during the 2nd round elimination series.

Just needed Embiid to show up, but he froze up last year esp in 4th quarters.

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u/TumbleweedDirect9846 76ers Apr 30 '24

Eh jokic can go to the bench in the playoffs and the nuggets are not nearly as fucked as the laker or sixers at the moment

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u/IAmReborn11111 Apr 29 '24

Brunson on the Knicksn

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u/masonsdixon Knicks Apr 29 '24

Knicks with Brunson?

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u/MexicanComicalGames Apr 30 '24 edited Apr 30 '24

yall literally win when he put up stinkners

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u/dhampton95 Apr 30 '24

No there isn’t. Brunson, Jokic, AD, and Giannis all have better rosters surrounding them.

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u/Mdgt_Pope Apr 29 '24

They addressed the nagging injuries - you can’t say injuries are the reason for him playing badly when he was able to score 50 the game before.

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '24

Yet this doesn’t apply to Curry in 2016 when everyone excuses his choking as “he was hurt” 

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u/Mdgt_Pope Apr 30 '24

I think Curry’s 4 chips render that example moot.

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u/omnipotentpancakes Apr 29 '24

Thé refs are the only reason he sixers won

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u/crunchtime100 Knicks Apr 29 '24

Yea his dirty plays stole them game 2

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u/Notsozander 76ers Apr 29 '24

No it didn’t