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Alvin Gentry: “At Embiid, there is a part of Shaq, a part of Olajuwon…” | NBA

For one half, the Kings’ anti-Embiid plan worked perfectly. Served at the post, the pivot of the Sixers found himself surrounded by two or three players each time the ball was taken. Impossible for him to turn around, or even to get the ball out well with three stray balls, and it was the entire Sixers attack that went wrong to the point of scoring only 50 points at halftime.

And then, on returning from the locker room, the Cameroonian gets angry. He leaves the low post to play higher, and there, Sacramento explodes. Joel Embiid planted 17 points in the quarter and Philly equalized. 17 as the biggest gap of the game in favor of the Kings at the very beginning of the 3rd quarter.

“It’s just an adjustment” explains Doc Rivers about that two-faced Embiid. “We changed places on the pitch. He could then see the double-takes coming. Tonight was not a game to play at the low post because there were traps every time he received the ball. It was better to play near the top of the racket or pick-and-roll.”

“He is a very technically gifted basketball player for an interior, and he has great game intelligence”

Result, Embiid plants 24 points after the break, and the Sixers will finally win on the wire (103-101), hanging on a last shot, missed, by Harrison Barnes.

“You just had to be aggressive” points out the Philly pivot. “Obviously, they took me two or three everywhere on the ground. Whether I was in post or 3-pointers, and they kept coming at me. I think the difference in the second half is that we got into different positions and I was able to attack them with a dribble”.

An adaptation that impresses Alvin Gentry. ” There’s a part of Shaq, a part of Olajuwon, a part of whoever you want… But I think what makes Joel so difficult to defend is that he’s a very technically gifted basketball player for a interior, and he has great game intelligence. “

Joel Embiid Percentage Bounces
Season Team GM Minimum Shots 3 points LF Off Def Early pd party Int bp CT Points
2016-17 PHL 31 25 46.6 36.7 78.3 2.0 5.9 7.8 2.1 3.6 0.9 3.8 2.5 20.2
2017-18 PHL 63 30 48.3 30.8 76.9 2.3 8.7 11.0 3.2 3.3 0.6 3.7 1.8 22.9
2018-19 PHL 64 34 48.4 30.0 80.4 2.5 11.1 13.6 3.7 3.3 0.7 3.5 1.9 27.5
2019-20 PHL 51 30 47.7 33.1 80.7 2.8 8.9 11.6 3.0 3.4 0.9 3.1 1.3 23.0
2020-21 PHL 51 31 51.3 37.7 85.9 2.2 8.4 10.6 2.8 2.4 1.0 3.1 1.4 28.5
2021-22 PHL 37 33 49.7 36.5 81.2 2.1 8.7 10.7 4.3 2.6 1.0 3.0 1.5 29.0
Total 297 31 48.8 33.3 80.9 2.3 8.9 11.2 3.2 3.1 0.8 3.4 1.7 25.3

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