A truly paradoxical night… Butler is 1000x the player that Harden is. Harden didn’t have Embiid to completely carry his fat bum scrub ass. Miami was at full strength at home. But Harden made more than 5 field goals. A whopping 6. And Philly wins.
When maxey and harden play together without Embiid, Maxey is averaging 29 points on close to 60 percent shooting and harden 26 points at close to 50 percent shooting.In the 13 games Embiid has missed the Sixers are 9 wins and 4 losses When Embiid is there Maxey becomes a bench player because the offense crawls to snail pace with every possession becoming a Embiid post up and others are reduced to by standard on lookers.
James stat is insane to look at. Efficient, 13 assists to 6 TO. Haven't watch him in ages but he filling up the stat sheet as always
That is why you were fooled. He had his turnovers when it mattered in the last minutes. In this game at least.
How do you mean fooled? He had a great game and was super efficient scoring, but made 2 bad mistakes towards the end. On the season he’s been super efficient scoring and has been filling up the stat sheet. Those two bad turnovers don’t change anything other than possibly the outcome of the game tonight.
Again wasn't talking the whole game but usually if you have great stats and you can't finish it off you could call it stamina issues. This was going on for years. He would run out of gas in the playoffs. In this case he didn't know what to do, was it a lazy pass I don't know but he clearly threw it into the hands of the Mavs.
Playing 2nd road game on back to back nights may have caused some stamina issues for them. Or it was just a couple of bad decisions with some good defense? Still trying to figure out what you mean by being fooled in response to what was posted earlier? I get you don’t want Harden back in Houston(neither do I) but he’s had a great year, had a great game…couple of bad plays towards the end against a team who hit 25 3s.
Fooled in the sense that he is clearly a great player but he mostly fell short of his goals for a reason.
Did I say he wasn't a great player? He didn't win it all with the Rockets. Don't know why you mad lol.
I’m not mad lol. I was legitimately confused at what you meant in your response to the poster by saying he was fooled.
The poster did not catch the game only stats. Fooled because he focused on stats. I did watch half the game and saw both teams tried and Philly D was working not on 3s but Luka, Kyrie, Bullock obliterated them with 3s. And then Philly came back, it just ended with 2-3 Harden TOs that was all.
Yeah Phili doesn't have a shot at the title short of injuries and I think he knows that now. Doc is one of the worst HC in the entire league and should have retired ages ago. The game has passed him by. Embid and Harden just don't mesh on the court. The slow crawl post up game isn't ideal. Even though Stone and Tilly are inept they won't botch bringing Harden back home. I think he's content putting up numbers getting paid and having fun just dragging a mediocre team to the playoffs like the good old days at this point. Shitty luck for him with the CP3 injury, The Warriors juggernaut and his hammy in Brooklyn. A HC who will play with pace and space needs to be hired.
Maxey and Embiid are a horrible fit and combination together. Embiid makes Maxey nothing more than a catch and shoots player who is stationary. That just destroys all of Maxey’s strengths. The guy is an open court player . He needs pace to thrive. Philly has a decision to make this offseason .Dumb Rivers being a moron who runs a Embiid post up every possession isn’t helping either
Harden was least of their problems. He is the one who kept them even in the game with a huge first half after playing back to back in the days when load management is in fashion. Get real
I guess individual stats supersedes winning games now. Wasn't aware the NBA just implemented back to backs in 2023...
