Should the #76ers start #JoelEmbiid’s later in the season? 🤔 #NBA
I think we’re kidding ourselves if we’re like, “No, next year it’ll be different for Joel.” When he was drafted, the thought process was he is going to be a transformational defensive presence. And then by the time we got to his prime, he was setting breaking Shaquille O’Neal records for points per game in the modern era by a center. He averaged more than a point a minute for, you know what I mean, a stretch of time. He was a scoring champ and a 30 plus per game guy as a center, which really since Shaq we have not seen. And while being a great defensive player and obviously the story of his career has been injuries that have cost him games and then also nagging stuff that has prevented him, in my opinion, from being his best in the playoffs. So here’s the question I have. Why would a player or a team not say, “Listen, man, it sucks, but you probably only have 50 awesome games in you, and we need 20 of those in the playoffs.” So, your season starts Christmas time. If you have ever had like a a older family member that like has like you know can be really locked in for 90 minutes, you don’t bring them to the party when it starts.
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Should the #76ers start #JoelEmbiid’s later in the season? 🤔 #NBA
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Believing Embiid is gonna be healthy is like believing Harden is gonna come through when it matters most in the playoffs. With both Harden and Embiid, people suffer from the “Next year will be different syndrome”💀💀💀
Bro you got the worse bot problem I've ever seen, on a related note… I wouldn't bet 2 cents that Embid stays healthy enough for them to make the play offs and definitely not the second round
Bots are people too
Play every 4 to 5 days up until u ramp up for the playoffs
How are my Sixers gonna win any games if he doesn't play until December that's like having joker or Gina's to not play until December I dont think their teams will fair any better then the Sixers without Embiid lol.
It’s his mindset and lack of leadership that are his biggest problems.
Gotta play Embid like a MLB pitcher
Wait, we are we promoting this. They sign a contract to play 82 games, and he wants embiid to only play 50 games max bring healthy. Does he not understand what that means for the league if that's allowed. Then, their contracts need to be lowered if this is the case. This is so out of hamd they get paid more than ever before and entitled to play less than ever before. And people somehow are ok with this. Why are fans who pay them to play ok with players being this way.
No Lie, Joel Embiid is stealing money from the nba…this is why the regular nba season is garbage and there shouldn’t be ANY fully guaranteed contracts…the nightly nba product is trash
GREAT PLAN
It just makes sense… Might not work but have to try it out
Embiid is made of glass he should play once month in the regular season and he might survive the post season 😂
Is the salary also starting at Christmas time?
I knew when he was drafted this was going to be his career. There has been zero indication that he's going to be transformative. People get caught up in Short spurts.. he's never healthy and is a kid. A 7 foot tall Paul George. Zero chance of accomplishing anything in the league. Sorry.
And being paid $50m a year? Deal!
Playing somebody less is not the answer. You have to play more build your body up. That’s why you see a lot of players in the 90s early 2000s weren’t injured as much cause they will play you around. These cats ain’t playing enough basketball I’m telling you. A lot of them probably aren’t lifting weights either. The only way to prevent joint injuries is by strengthening and muscles around the joints. If he plays less basketball, he’s gonna end up like a lot of players did this past playoffs
Should've traded him 2 years ago
I woulda took prime Cousins over him, personally
Ok Nick
LeLoadManagement 😊
Joel played 19, 39, 66 games the last 3 years and got hurt in all 3. The year he only played 39 he decided to play in the Olympics right after which led him to only playing 19 year. So saying you’ll play him less, like what is less?
He had 50 points on 19 shots and made 13 of them in the playoffs. I thought he was a playoff dropper No, he’s just always hurt in the playoffs
This guy is hardly worth half of the money he's made. If you're not able to play at this early age,how many games will he play when he's 34 😂
He’s lazy
Don't put him and Shaq in the same sentence