Whoever is the strongest center in the league today, fans will not hesitate to think of Jokic and Embiid. After all, jokic and Embiid are both in the top three in this season's MVP leaderboard, and Embiid has averaged more than 29 points per game this season, once occupying the top spot in the scoring league rankings, but in recent games, Embiid has exposed his own great problems.
On March 14, Beijing time, Philadelphia defeated the Magic 116-114, but Embiid missed two free throws at a critical moment and was almost upset by the Magic. Although Embiid frantically bombed 35 points, 16 rebounds and 7 assists in this game, the personal data is very good, even Perkins said bluntly, this is a routine operation for Embiid, if big dreams and kd have a child, it will be Embiid.
However, although Philadelphia won more than this game, but after the game Embiid and Harden were questioned by fans, the outside world called "free throw brothers", the two in this game, Embiid won a total of 17 free throws, and Harden won 15 times, the two a total of 32 free throws, more than the Magic team 12 times, this season Embiid averaged 12 free throws per game is the first in the league, many fans joked, does Embiid rely on free throws to win the first MVP trophy of his career?
I have to say that the average of 12 free throws per game also proves embiid's dominance on the inside, but it is also a big hidden danger, the game enters the playoffs, the intensity of confrontation will be greatly increased, once the referee blows the penalty scale increases, can Embiid, who has lost the advantage of the free throw line, still play the dominance he has now? It's also a big factor in how far Philadelphia can go in the playoffs.
Unlike Jokic, Embiid as an interior lineman, shooting only 48.4%, as an interior line such shooting rate is obviously unqualified, compared to Jokic, who also often shoots three-pointers, his shooting rate reached 57.3%, as Philadelphia's star, the core of both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, at present, Embiid exposed to various problems will become a fatal factor in the Philadelphia playoffs.
Text/Yan Xiaobai