You already know why we are here. Sixers completed Historic collapse In Game 5 of their loss to the Atlanta Hawks, you are looking for someone to say what you want to hear about why they are bad and why their season is coming.

If Thursday morning Ben Simmons Appetizers Not enough, let’s grit our teeth.

Dislike: Ben Simmons was also fired on the defensive end

The offensive side of the Simmons disaster class Covered In the preliminary follow-up column on Thursday morning. If you are looking for discussion about Simmons’ free throw and disappearing offensive behavior, you will find your salvation there.

Throughout the season, many people believed that Simmons’s overall contribution-especially his defense-was enough to make up for his lack of offensive end. Later Treyang scored thirty-nine points, and it was a bit difficult to make the same case. In games where they need him more than ever, the person who thinks he is the defensive player of the year is completely irrelevant.

To be fair, for Simmons, some of it comes down to Philadelphia’s plan to defend Young. As Atlanta continued to send one screen after another in Yang’s direction, the 76ers decided to switch more, hoping to prevent Yang from going downhill after the first move. The product is that Simmons has less possession of Young, which is not the way Philadelphia wants the game to proceed.

But even if Simmons has a chance to defend Yang, he has a problem just trying to get Yang in front of him. In fact, it was Joel Embiid who did most of the heavy lifting in the first half, slowing down Yang’s speed and walking a tightrope when Yang seemed to enter the paint at any time. When he finally got his chance late in the game, Simmons looked no different from ordinary role players trying to stay in front of senior guards:

Embiid’s inability and unwillingness to participate in this shooting is a major subplot of their collapse, which is worth noting here, but only in a sense that once the big man ran out of gas, the 76ers were over. If Danny Green has exactly the same possession of the ball, 76ers fans will try to send him to the bench and eventually to the Guangdong South Tigers. Once Embiid lost his legs (and thus the ability to save him), Simmons was scorched. This is the cherry on his offensive diarrhea sundae.

Dislike: Tobias Harris, four-pointer

In the past 12 hours, I focused as much energy as possible on Simmons, which led to a lot of angry answers: “Where is Tobias Harris?” I am not here with any of the 180 million people in Philadelphia. The people who are poisoned by the dollar forward argued that they were absent in all possible ways in the fifth game.

Harris is a Swiss Army knife scorer, and one of the most confusing things about him is that he can experience a maddening stretch, where he seems to forget why he was on the court in the first place. On the surface, Harris is their second choice, which is the scoring shock that Joel Embiid needs when he gets tired in the 48-minute game. Forget Harris’ mistakes, he never shoots? Philadelphia strives to create open threes, partly because they lack a true point guard, but they end up in the hands of a guy who is too shy to let go at a critical moment.

Harris should be treated with the same contempt for not shooting like Simmons, and I will hear more arguments against him on this particular issue. At least for Simmons, you enter a game without expecting him to be a scorer. This is Harris’s most important (or the only) task for this 76ers team, and he can’t even break through double digits. Damn, he can’t even reach the median!

Among the stench of Harris, the most striking is his inability to punish Atlanta for playing suspicious defenders all night. Contrary to what you might think, Lou Williams has been a burden for the playoffs for most of his career. The team hunted him defensively and tried to slow him down on the meat grinder in the playoffs. speed. The Sixers allowed him to have arguably the most effective series of his career (albeit with a smaller role) because they were unable to punish him on the other end.

That should be Harris’s job. On Wednesday, Harris was not only “lost” there, he even managed to make Williams look capable of defending sometimes. Harris allowed him to make several conversions, had all the size and strength advantages you could ask for, and couldn’t block Williams to catch the pass.

Is this a good ticket for Shake Milton? Absolutely not. But Harris made little attempt to ensure that he could catch this cleanly, and he was punished for not completing his early work. Even in the face of weak defenders, details are important.

You would hardly think that this is the same player who eliminated Hachimura Rui from his position in the first round. Unlike Simmons, it is difficult to determine the exact reason for Harris’ crazy swing between the two extremes. Does he have a physical problem? The 76ers played a crucial game against a good team. Is it more pressure to provide such intense pressure after a round? Is this who Harris has always been? He won’t be the only person on the list whose regular season is foolish gold.But given his relatively stable performance in the 2021 playoffs, I think he deserves some Slack, even if it is very little.

Dislike: Joel Embiid (Joel Embiid) fades away

Joel Embiid led the 76ers to the lead and looked spectacular, which is absolutely correct. Without Embiid and Seth Curry, the 76ers had almost no offense in the second half of Game 5. however……

Regarding the two expectations of the MVP level, Brooklyn needs no further attention in the 5th game over Milwaukee. Kevin Durant shot the last bullet, giving the Nets a victory, playing a classic and historic performance in every second of the game. Giannis Antetokounmpo has a long way to go to meet him there, shooting 34-12-4 from 64% in 42 minutes. After the game, most people were concerned about his incompetence and the team’s refusal to use Greek freaks to slow Durant’s barrage.

Clint Capela (Clint Capela) is about to become the scapegoat for Atlanta’s fifth loss until his post-match comments two days ago proved to be correct.Embiid Have done Slow down in the second half, allowing Atlanta to return to the game slowly but surely. The 13 points he scored after halftime exceeded the total of the three starters in the same period, but we did not judge Embiid by the same standards as Simmons, Harris and Fulcan. If we assume that the 76ers are limited by their choice to build a team with Ben Simmons as the point guard, then it is fair to admit that their more important choice is to count on Joel Embiid as the team’s first choice.

Great players understand what it means to carry this cloak, knowing that they have to leave something in the tank while sailing in the four quarters so that when the game slows down and their role-playing teammates don’t create what they need to shoot. Embiid did not fully decline in the second half of the game (at least generally speaking), but he was definitely a better player in the first half.

A team will eventually shape their best players, and Embiid’s rashness after the halftime of the 5th game is unforgivable, no matter what his two worse teammates provide. These mistakes reflect Embiid’s weaknesses, which many people believe still existed in the past:

Considering that you can see the pain on his face when he falls to the ground, and that he cannot soar in the air to dunk when he rushes to the rim, it seems impossible to ask him more now. Embiid may not be as tired as this, which makes sense if he has a real defender to lead the team and make his offense easier.

But if he is on the court and healthy enough to score 37 points, then no one will reduce his slack. The heavy one is the head wearing the crown.

Dislike: Doc Rivers, hold on to his gun

This year’s book on Rivers is very simple: good coaches who are good at setting a hierarchy for teams, are popular in the league, and fail in amazing ways in some of the NBA’s greatest playoff crashes. Stubbornness has always been a characteristic of him leading the team with expectations. Although Rivers is more adaptable in the playoffs than I thought, he is still the man he has always been, and he is content to plan with the players. Get him here.

I’m probably the person who most doubts playing small balls around Simmons on the Internet. Everything about the data and the eye test shows that it doesn’t work, especially because when they go that way, they can’t stop anything on the basket. But the 76ers rarely try to do anything different when putting this lineup on the court. Why not try to use Simmons and Saibull in the top 2-3 area? Why not actively blitz some pick-and-rolls and see if you can upset the Atlanta organizers? In the last few minutes of the first game, the pressure of the audience disintegrated the Eagles. Since then, the 76ers have never tried to go back in the game. If you get smaller and put faster players on the court, wouldn’t it be easier to execute?

Note that these theories should be tested more in the regular season so that Philadelphia does not have to test them in real time in the playoffs. This is what other coaches have done to them over the years-for example, in the game against the Raptors in early December 2019, Toronto launched a full-court press, reducing what should have been an explosive victory to The 6-point victory made the 76ers uneasy in the process for Philadelphia. Except for Philadelphia’s regional success against the Pacers earlier this season, we rarely see them throwing curveballs or trying new lineups for short-term gains and long-term experience. Admittedly, insisting on one thing is part of the reason they emerged as the No. 1 seed. Consistency is the key.

But consistency can only take you so far, and there is not much value in maintaining consistency for the sake of consistency. Harris and the four substitutes did not work, and Wednesday was bad enough to allow the Eagles to turn the 25-point gap into a more manageable game before Rivers finally took action. Rivers even suggested that he coach passively instead of actively coaching, which would be very friendly to Rivers-in this series, he seems to be unaware of the game, because it is happening in front of all of us.

Personally, after Game 5, my attitude towards Rivers is not as disgusting as I am towards the rest of the 76ers machine. But how can you not question his involvement in another historic collapse?

Dislike: Seriously, why is George Hill here?

To be honest, I don’t have much to offer. But it’s hard to believe that Hill is the one who helped various playoff teams in the past. He floats in time and space like a wayward satellite, drifting beyond the gravity of the earth. The other backup guards are not much better (if any), but they did not live up to the expectations of experienced veterinarians.

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