In an Olympic men's basketball group stage that ended some time ago, the United States men's basketball team won 110-84 against the Serbia men's basketball team, the game process is still quite exciting, the beginning of the United States men's basketball team is behind, with James, Booker and Durant successively, the United States men's basketball wave overtake, the second quarter United States men's basketball has the upper hand, but the point difference has not opened, the third quarter has become a turning point, Jokic's physical strength declined, the United States men's basketball team blossomed more points and gradually expanded the point difference, the final quarter Serbia men's basketball completely collapsed. Looking at the whole game, James and Durant became the biggest contributors to the victory, and the league's big and small kings teamed up to solve it.
Serbia men's basketball is very strong, considered one of the strongest opponents of the United States men's basketball team in this Olympic Games, but the gap between the two sides is that the five people on the United States men's basketball court have always had strong attacking power, and the Serbia men's basketball team, Jokic is okay on the court, he starts to lose points as long as he rests, according to statistics after the game, when Jokic is present, the Serbia men's basketball team net score is 0, Jokic is at the break, Serbia net negative score is 26, that is, Serbia lost 26 points all lost when Jokic rested, So it must be admitted that although Jokic is still glorious, what about Embiid's performance as a comparison?
The answer is very bad, in terms of data, Embiid was 2 of 5, 0 of 1 three-pointers, 0 of 3 free throws only got 4 points, 2 rebounds and 2 turnovers, this data can not be seen at all, Jokic got 20 points, 5 rebounds, 8 assists and 4 steals, the gap is huge, and among all the players played in the United States men's basketball team, only Embiid's plus/minus (-8) is negative, and the thick eyebrows are +28. Embiid hasn't played a good game since the previous warm-up game, but the strange thing is that Kerr never adjusts, Embiid always starts, so why does Kerr insist on doing this? Su Qun gave a standard answer.
Some fans asked the famous basketball commentator Su Qun whether Kerr dared to let Embiid play as a substitute, and Su Qun replied: "You can understand that Kerr promised Embiid that as long as you are willing to come to the United States men's basketball team, I will give you a starting position." This is very understandable, Embiid has Cameroon, France and United States triple nationality, but the Emperor previously said that he would play for the France men's basketball team, but later defected to the United States men's basketball team, because Cole gave him a promise, you come to the United States men's basketball team, I will give you a starting position, since Cole has said everything, then he can't go back now.
So it's not a question of whether Cole dares or not, but he can't do it, Embiid became a deserter for the France men's basketball team, so we see that as long as he gets the ball, the France fans watching the game will boo him, which also affects Embiid's mentality. Let's take a look at what Embiid did at the beginning of the first quarter, after James passed the ball to the Great, Embiid wanted to shoot, but he didn't hold it and was stealed by Bogdan, and soon after, Embiid shot again, and the result was iron, and then Embiid caused Jokic to foul, but he didn't expect to miss two free throws, and there was another round, Avramovic faced Embiid's defense and scored an easy basket.
It is precisely because of Embiid's various outrageous operations that the United States men's basketball team once fell behind 2-10 at the beginning, Kerr really couldn't stand it, quickly replaced Embiid, thick eyebrows appeared, the United States men's basketball team instantly rose, including the following games, once Embiid was on the court, the United States men's basketball team played all kinds of unsmooth, Embiid was replaced, the United States men's basketball team immediately became better, it can be seen that Embiid really should not start, the thick eyebrows brother does not talk about offense, defense and adaptability are much stronger than Embiid, but the problem is that Kerr has promisedHe can't let Embiid play off the bench, which is really no way, unless he replaces Embiid after 2 or 3 minutes of the game.
To put it bluntly, Embiid's style of play is not suitable for the international arena, first of all, Embiid is a center, but he always floats outside, grabs the ball with Curry, and even squeezes Curry into the interior to defend Jokic. Secondly, Embiid is used to playing in the 76ers, he always wants to control the ball, the offensive end is soft, he doesn't play inside, he doesn't grab rebounds, he doesn't defend, he wants to fall to the ground and cheat fouls, this kind of behavior doesn't work at all in the international arena, and the referee doesn't pay attention to you at all. To sum up, Embiid did drag the United States men's basketball team, and Kerr couldn't let him play as a substitute unless Embiid had the self-knowledge to take the initiative to give way.