The 76ers big man and the 2021 NBA MVP runner-up Joel Embiid played one of the worst games we have seen in recent seasons in Game 4 on Monday night – it can be said that he was in the season. In the worst game of the playoffs, he only played 4 games and averaged 17 points per game on 20 shots, which is far lower than his average of 35 points per game so far in this series.

But that’s okay. He is just a human after all, and it is easy to forget this even when watching him play most nights. However, Monday night is not most nights.

The second half is especially difficult to watch because it is clearly not 100% Embiid made 0 of 12 shots on the field, which is the worst half of any player in the history of the NBA playoffs. This is at least understandable-or should be-considering that the 76ers big man is playing through a partially torn meniscus that broke out early in the game and caused him to miss some time in the first half. Embiid looked good in the first few minutes after returning to the court, but things changed after the intermission.

Nevertheless, despite the injury and looking far from his normal self, Embiid played 36 minutes in Game 4, grabbed 21 rebounds, and continued to play a destructive role on the defensive end. Admittedly, the offensive end is a different story.

Of course, it was one night, and the team could have really used your typical Embiid performance to keep the Hawks away. Oops, even a big guy 70% of the night is enough to complete this job. But this is obviously impossible on Monday.

In a season full of masterpieces, the final result was a terrible game for Embiid, who was faltering. This turned into a terrible game for the 76ers. They didn’t see any other players actually stepping up to fill the scoring gap left by Embiid’s offseason.

And, although it still made the city forget the last second of the first 47 minutes, this is why Embiid must wake up on Tuesday.

Sorry, I need some time.

Do not. It’s useless. Let’s start.

First of all, this guy is not only injured. He didn’t play because of some small bruises on his knees or sprained ankles. He has a damn ligament torn in his knee. The knee is responsible for supporting and supporting a huge body measuring 7 feet 2 inches and 280 pounds. It can do anything that the body can’t do. In addition, since the start of this series, he has averaged 35.8 minutes per game, which is much higher than his regular season average of 31.1 minutes. Before the 4th game, he has been the absolute ruler.

Then, after a bad game, you tweeted?

I can only assume that this is based on the conversation that Angelo Cataldi and Co. are airing-even though it doesn’t make it better, even if they put things in a certain context and imply that the premise of their opinion poll is whatever Everything is a bit excessive and reactionary.

[It’s worth noting here that I was not listening to the show at the time this tweet went out, and I actually like the WIP Morning Show crew quite a bit. This tweet could’ve easily come from the other station and I would’ve written the exact same story.]

But this is not how it is displayed on Twitter. On Twitter, context is an afterthought. It just appeared suddenly, “Hey, do you think this person who has experienced a lot of pain is pretending?”

Sorry, what?

You might think that you are a sports radio station, which is a gimmick and no one should take you seriously from the beginning. But this is the problem. Either you don’t realize that you don’t know that a certain part of the fan base takes everything that is said on the radio very seriously. Or worse, you know what you are doing, and you will do it anyway, because here—my column is about how absurd your opinion polls are and all the other negative reactions back at the station—is the opinion of this time The actual target of the survey is ranked first.

However, the result of the poll is more frustrating than the fact that it existed at the beginning, and nearly 30% of voters (as of 11 AM on Tuesday) agreed that Embiid was somehow making him look hurt worse. . Why he did this—and what he might gain from it—is still a complete mystery. But this obviously won’t stop fans from speculating about the health of people they don’t even know, and implying that this is why the 76ers returned to Philadelphia with a score of 2-2 to tie the Hawks.

What if you want to tear off Embiid’s fourth shot? Fair game. To restore some old habits?Also fair because Dr. Rivers post game Kyle Neubeck in his “Five Likes and Dislikes” pillar.

On Monday night, the older and smarter Embiid was nowhere to be found. He shot poorly and tried to respond in his own way, and completely ignored the concept of the team during the worst offensive half of his playoff career. Embiid’s field goal percentage in the second half on Monday was 0/12, representing the highest number of non-shot attempts by any player in the playoffs in the past 25 years. He is so bad.

Embiid’s almost omnipotent ability on the offensive end allowed the 76ers to spend most of the season. The cold shots of his teammates were overshadowed by his crazy shooting ability from the three-point line. He is the best player on the team and deserves such a performance. But there is a difference between being confident and gaining a narrow vision, being ignorant of what is happening around you. Embiid did not use the attention he attracted to open the ball to his teammates, but tried to break through with his own strength.

It’s fair to question whether Embiid’s teammates were more aggressive in the game-Ben Simmons, despite seeing his big man struggling, he did it. Give a shot In the second half, it was in stark contrast to the aggressive Simmons we saw in the second half of Game 3. Or there are any problems in this game.

More likely, this is the product of our obsession with finding a single scapegoat. We can attribute our feelings to someone and move on. do not trust me? This one came only a few hours later.

This is a safety blanket for fans to be able to choose a single problem and say, “Yes, that’s it. If we can solve it that Catch the next game, we will be fine. “This is a topic that people can debate on the radio. It’s a way to generate appeals, a scarecrow argument disguised as a majority opinion.

Yes, this team usually has their big men at stake, but they are deep enough that when their big men rest at night, they should be able to get contributions from others. This is partly because Embiid insisted on shooting on the night he apparently didn’t shoot, which didn’t happen in Game 4, and as we outlined above, this is not just a fair criticism.

But what is unfair is to question Embiid’s efforts, or what any disastrous WIP polls try to gain insight.We all have bad days, even if we give maximum effort. Maybe this is what this tweet means: someone had a bad day.

Let us hope that this is all.

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