However, I still think the key to this series for us is containing Maxey's drives. To some extent OG will see time on Maxey, but I really want to see Deuce play a big role this series. Deuce is a better matchup on Maxey than DDV. DDV is aggressive and gambles great in lanes, but against a guy who relentlessly drives the ball like Maxey he is a bad matchup. DDV is a key to this team, but I wouldn't mind a more aggressive split of minutes for Deuce at the expense of DDV because I think it tilts the defensive matchup in our favor.

On Embiid, if he's slowed up like he looked last night, I would try to stick to one on one coverage with Hartenstein/Robinson and Achiuwa (I'm using Precious as a 3rd center more than I'm using him as a PF in this series). OG can come over to hedge when needed - I think you can leave Oubre and Harris and see if they can beat you on 3's - I don't think they can.

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Do you wanna share that link? I manually typed them all into my shared calendar with my wife as she is still "surprised" every time there's a game on!

fishmike wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Embiid was holding his knee and wincing in warmups and hobbling around like old Ewing out there last night. He and Maxey were shook and ready to fold before his veteran role players got them back into the game and Embiid made a few plays at the end on one leg. I’m encouraged by what I saw last night. I think the Knicks can punk them like they punked Cleveland.

I think the one thing that would have made me nervous was Phili taking care of business and smoking the Heat. It was the opposite. They look slow, tired, telegraphed on both sides of the ball. I am with you on what I saw.. this looks like a great matchup for us.

Agreed, a high octane game where Joel and Maxey were firing and dueling with Jimmy would have struck some fear. But Embiid was hobbling around on one leg and Maxey has a lot of Tatum in him. Too nice and will turtle up when the going gets tough. They have some tough minded vets that saved their ass along with Jimmy getting hurt.

DLeethal wrote:Tim Legler said Knicks should be licking their chops after watching Embiid play last night.

They are really gonna need to show another gear and level of play cause that is NOT gonna work vs. the Knicks and the way we play D. Embiid is gonna see a steady stream OG/Josh on the wing with a possible sprinkle of Precious as well and he's gonna get a fresh set of legs in Hart/Mitch in the post.

Maxey is fantastic but we play him pretty well.

Here's the thing. After Maxey/Embiid at 43 mins and 38 mins here's who's getting the rest: Oubre, Tobias, Lowry and a bench of Batum, Hield, Reed

Does that phucking scare you? I mean it's not trash but I really like my chances.

For the Knicks your top minute guys are Brunson and Josh. Josh and Randle are obviously very different but Josh is basically playing Jule's role and doing so very well.

So after Brunson/Josh, Knicks minutes are going to look like this: Donte, OG, IHart and a bench of McBride, Bojan, Mitch, Precious

Now of course a fair retort is "Who on the Knicks are scaring you?"

Which of course the answer is "all of them"

We are gonna play 8-9 guys who only go at one pace for all 48 minutes. There is no way Embiid survives this series with Nurse playing him 38 minutes.

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fishmike wrote:

DLeethal wrote:Tim Legler said Knicks should be licking their chops after watching Embiid play last night.

I am... had a great night last night. Took my son to the pub, bought him a nice meal, listened to him in one ear and scouted Phili the whole time.

They are really gonna need to show another gear and level of play cause that is NOT gonna work vs. the Knicks and the way we play D. Embiid is gonna see a steady stream OG/Josh on the wing with a possible sprinkle of Precious as well and he's gonna get a fresh set of legs in Hart/Mitch in the post.

Maxey is fantastic but we play him pretty well.

Here's the thing. After Maxey/Embiid at 43 mins and 38 mins here's who's getting the rest: Oubre, Tobias, Lowry and a bench of Batum, Hield, Reed

Does that phucking scare you? I mean it's not trash but I really like my chances.

For the Knicks your top minute guys are Brunson and Josh. Josh and Randle are obviously very different but Josh is basically playing Jule's role and doing so very well.

So after Brunson/Josh, Knicks minutes are going to look like this: Donte, OG, IHart and a bench of McBride, Bojan, Mitch, Precious

Now of course a fair retort is "Who on the Knicks are scaring you?"

Which of course the answer is "all of them"

We are gonna play 8-9 guys who only go at one pace for all 48 minutes. There is no way Embiid survives this series with Nurse playing him 38 minutes.

Their role players do scare me a little bit tbh. They will throw Batum, Lowry, and Oubre on Brunson and all 3 of them have guarded him tough in the past. Lowry is a Knicks killer everywhere he goes. Hield lights us up as well. But I think we have very good antidotes to their top guns and their role players aren't gonna beat us by themselves.