70 points, 51 points! The NBA is overrated, and that's why you lose respect

The NBA regular season came to an end quietly, and after the play-offs began, the Lakers defeated the Pelicans to get the seventh seed in the West, and the 76ers defeated the Heat to get the seventh seed in the East. This season, the competition in the East and West is fierce, the top three in the West are not determined until the last game of the regular season, and the Suns are also the last game to take advantage of the Lakers' east wind to catch the playoffs to the last train. Among them, there are those who have led the team to win the championship, such as Brother Alphabet, such as Jokic, to be honest, they don't need to prove themselves. There are also those with a high lower limit and a low ceiling every year, such as the Celtics and the double Tanhua Tatum + Jaylen Brown.

The way to measure supergiant dominance must be in the playoffs, not the regular season. Some stars are born for the playoffs, such as Leonard and Butler, they are almost 30+ in the regular season, but the playoffs are like a change of people, including the 39-year-old Lao Zhan! After Harden left, Embiid played a total of 39 games this season, playing an average of 33.6 minutes per game, and was able to score 34.7 points, 11 rebounds and 5.6 assists, scoring more than playing time, which is really remarkable, but then there are more and more problems! First of all, after Embiid's comeback, the 76ers entered the playoffs as they wished, but how far can the 76ers go in the playoffs? 70 points, 51 points! The NBA is overrated, and this is why you lose respect.

It all started at the beginning of January this year, when the 76ers played the Knicks at home. In that game, the 76ers finally lost to the Knicks 92-128, Embiid got 10 points and 4 rebounds in the first quarter, but there was a knee injury, and he scored a total of 18 points in the second and third quarters, at that stage, Embiid has scored 30+ in 15 consecutive games, he intends to continue the record, but after playing in the fourth quarter, two turnovers + three irons, although he finally relied on free throws to continue 30+ points, but during this process, the Knicks quickly stretched the difference to about 30 points, and the game lost suspense! Before that game, Embiid could face the league's No. 1 defensive Timberwolves, with 51 points and 12 rebounds! After that game, Embiid rested, but it didn't take long for him to face the Spurs, who were at the bottom of the West, and exploded with 70 points, 18 rebounds and 5 assists.

Until the end of January, in the game between Embiid and the Warriors, Kuminga knocked down Embiid and pressed him on the leg, which became the last straw that crushed Embiid, meniscus repair surgery, and he was directly out of action for 2 months. Let me start with a statistic, Embiid's round possession rate this season is 38.7%, ranking first in the league, Doncic, who is second in the league, is only 35.5%, and the third in the league, Brother Alphabet, is only 32%, and the top 20 round possession rankings in the league, only Embiid has one center, and Jokic's share is only 28.8%! Embiid has the center with the highest round possession since this statistic, but this is definitely not a normal phenomenon! It involves shooting + free throws +The weighted average of the turnovers is equivalent to the center doing the work of a defender, so what does a guard do? Assuming that a guard can act as a shooter, can Embiid eat it himself?

Otherwise, in the first year of Harden's departure, Embiid suffered a serious meniscus injury, and his knee could not bear the excessive load of the ball, including but not limited to some dribbling changes and some low center of gravity confrontations on the outside. What's even more embarrassing is that Embiid scored 14.0 points inside this season, accounting for only 40% of the total score, but even so, he still averages 11.6 free throws per game! On the one hand, there is indeed the league's support, and there are basically confrontations and free throws when they fall to the ground, but how can Embiid's own dominance be played? Just take an example, in the play-off game against the Heat, Embiid scored 23 points, 15 rebounds and 5 assists on 6-of-17 from the field, and returned to the level of playing the Celtics in the playoffs last season! The defense doesn't stretch out his hand, and the offense doesn't dare to stick to the inside, so what is the dominance of the 76ers inside?

Embiid is indeed overrated! I still remember when the 76ers were eliminated by the Celtics last year, O'Neal commented on Embiid's words in the studio: Joel, as the strongest interior player in the league, can only jump shots and fake falls, and he can't win at all! He obviously has interior dominance, and he needs to know the truth about his strength. Including the famous Garnett has also criticized Embiid for having problems with his fighting spirit, Embiid's style of playing with floating play + high ball percentage will indeed make his data gorgeous, but there is no upper limit to the team's performance, just to give the most realistic example, if it weren't for Harden's 45 points + three-point kill, a 42-point + three-point kill, and only let Embiid go to the Celtics basket, he can lead the team to win a few games?

Although the 76ers avoided the Celtics in the first round of the playoffs, the Knicks are not easy for them to play. 1-3 in the regular season, even if Randle is reimbursed for the season, the Knicks still have Harden + Mitchell Robinson + Achiuwa on the inside, and Hart and DiVincenzo are very eye-catching in the closing stage, including the omnipotent Brunson, who is strong when he is strong, the Knicks may not be able to go to the end, but it is not a big problem to play the 76ers. With Embiid's performance in the playoffs in previous years, he still hasn't changed and improved since his comeback this time, which is why he has gradually lost his respect.