1 hour ago, Blazehound said:

No brace. Looks pretty good. Obviously not doing much lateral movement, but encouraging. 

Bodes well for next year's MVP race.  Won't impact the Boston series.

3 hours ago, e-a-g-l-e-s eagles! said:

They are going to give it one more go with the same foundation again. The fact that they don’t have some of their future draft picks is probably the reason why I think they do that. Another they will milk whatever they can out of embiid’s career until they can’t anymore. They’ll keep embiid until he wants out or he just completely declined  

my thoughts have always been if they get to the end of next year and they still couldn’t get out of the second round then Embiid is going to ask to be traded. However, it’s becoming more it’s not just Roster construction, but Embiid can’t stay as healthy in the playoffs. A good part of the Sixers failures in the playoffs is roster construction and coaching but also some of this is Embiid not being healthy at the right time. Like that game seven against the Raptors they might not have gotten to a game 7 if Embiid didn’t get sick for 2 out of the seven games. It feels like every year  he is always hurt when they get to the second round. I get injuries happen and not always his fault but it is what it is. It is hard for any organization to put a roster together that can win a second round series with your main guy continuously injured and not close to 100%. I know there’s been other times but it feels like the only time he was ever at 100% during the playoffs was in the bubble because he had all that time off until the bubble

Next year will be Embiid's last as a 1A player.

After that, he's going to have to be the second best player on a championship team.  Plenty of bigs have had success beyond that age, but there is 0 chance Embiid can carry a team beyond it.  His body is already saying that he can't carry a team.

Now, I don't think you just trade him for some assets so that another team wins a title with him as their 1B and that we tank while other teams use our picks.  That's the final circle of hell.  Might as well sit in purgatory until the tires fall off.

Interesting that theres no brace. I wonder if theyre just gaming Boston and it really was minor.

6 hours ago, HazletonEagle said:

Interesting that theres no brace. I wonder if theyre just gaming Boston and it really was minor.

I think it’s a rope-a-dope and he plays. 

Game today

31 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Game today

Celtics now a 10 point favorite tonight. Seems like a lot of points. 

1 hour ago, Blazehound said:

Celtics now a 10 point favorite tonight. Seems like a lot of points. 

yeah that is.

take the ova! 

If Joel plays but we had him listed as doubtful, can we get in trouble for that or is there no way to prove it was gamesmanship? 

50 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

If Joel plays but we had him listed as doubtful, can we get in trouble for that or is there no way to prove it was gamesmanship? 

I don’t think it’s as strict as football. Wasn’t Giannis doubtful for a game last week and ended up playing?

 

They're listing him as doubtful to make him look like a hero if/when he plays 

with jojo at 100%, they'd still be longshots to beat boston, imo.  with him not playing, they have a 0% chance. with him playing on a bum knee, they're still f'd. boston is physical so i'd expect some cheap shots like what the nets tried to do...they'll definitely test him & if embiid does play, i'd be shocked if he makes it thru the series....also, they'll space the floor to draw a gimpy embiid out of the paint. horford & fat boy grant williams are gonna get wide open threes all series long.  

 

Harden is going to need to average 25 ppg if we are going to advance. 

3 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Harden is going to need to average 25 ppg if we are going to advance. 

Harden and Maxey are going to have to average 25 ppg EACH if they are going to advance....and probably 20 from Tobias

10 minutes ago, NYEagle said:

Harden and Maxey are going to have to average 25 ppg EACH if they are going to advance....and probably 20 from Tobias

Harden will go into his shell and will barely shoot the damn thing

The Sixers have a slim to no chance of beating the Celtics....and well....

22 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

Harden is going to need to average 25 ppg if we are going to advance. 

They can throw 4 different defenders on him, all different guys. Should be an interesting first game 

28 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said:

They can throw 4 different defenders on him, all different guys. Should be an interesting first game 

He has to hit a couple 3’s in the first quarter so he can utilize his mid range and dribble drive game. 

21 minutes ago, Khani1 said:

He has to hit a couple 3’s in the first quarter so he can utilize his mid range and dribble drive game. 

They will attack him to see how that Achilles is holding up as well 

i have seen this movie before. 

2 hours ago, Blazehound said:

I don’t think it’s as strict as football. Wasn’t Giannis doubtful for a game last week and ended up playing?

If a guy is questionable he is playing, doubtful usually means he is out. 

Mmmm…platelet rich plasma….

Optimism that he can play Wednesday… optimism we win this series 0