fishmike wrote:good game from Phili. We beat them in every quarter except the one where they hit everything and that stood up. Obviously some bush league **** from Embiid etc and that's all good.

Knicks are all phucking business. Whatever the plan is it's going to involve being even MORE aggressive on both ends.

We need more from SG... neither DD/McBride gave us much scoring. Bojan's wrist looks like it's bothering him, although his hustle and energy look great. We need those 3 to get us some buckets.

I think we go without Mitch game 4-5 possibly. I also think when Precious plays the 5 we have a faster more athletic look and it works well at times.

Honestly we had command of game three except for the 3rd quarter when we forgot to make embiid put the ball on the floor.

Glad we kept our cool, because if embiid pulled that **** on me like he did to Hartenstein knee to the nuts and Mitch injury … id break that ****ers nose and step on his bad knee the wrong way.

Embiid is a b I t ch he’s lucky he didn’t play in the 90’s because he’d be going into game 4 with a broken jaw.

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NYKBocker wrote:

DLeethal wrote:I wonder if Precious could actually help us mix things up a bit using a different type of body and defender on Embiid for stretches.

I think he should do better than IHart in defending Embiid in the perimeter. Precious stays down on pump fakes and long arms can at least block Embiids view to the basket. My only worry is when Embiid decides to take him down low. One thing we can do is deny Embiid the ball. Don't let him catch the ball anywhere in the court.

Embiid and Philly took all we threw at him and spit it out.
They executed their game plan, adjusted and won.
Im sure our coaches who generally have a reputation of outworking most will try their best.
Sucks Mitch got hurt. That ankle was not good before the game.
They are defending DDV pretty well from the outside. He is getting to the rim and also testing embiid.
Did I love the fouls called on iHart? No. But crowd Embiid we know he will get the call. Don't crowd him he hits the shot. He hits them anyway it seemed!!!
I like what OG was doing mostly but he is a limited creater.
We smashed them pretty good first two games and they responded well. They had a few flagrants in the first half and we kept it together. They looked like they were right on the edge of melting down. We have to do a better job protecting ihart and if Mitch is out use Sims a bit vs. Embiid and let precious go after Paul Reed a bit.
bottom line is if Joel plays like that every night we might be in trouble.

It was really an insanely good 3rd quarter by them, but other than that we probably outplayed them for 3Q. I think both coaches could probably make the argument that the gameplans are working.

Philadelphia’s 43 points on 21 possessions (2.05 per) were the second most efficient quarter for any team in any game this season (regular season, Play-In or playoffs), topped only by an Indiana Pacers third quarter (50 on 24) against Charlotte in early November.

ToddTT wrote:Impressive that he’s still playing at a high level. Seems like something that would mess with your game.

I wonder if one of the side effects is that it also makes you an *******.

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fishmike wrote:good game from Phili. We beat them in every quarter except the one where they hit everything and that stood up. Obviously some bush league **** from Embiid etc and that's all good.

Knicks are all phucking business. Whatever the plan is it's going to involve being even MORE aggressive on both ends.

We need more from SG... neither DD/McBride gave us much scoring. Bojan's wrist looks like it's bothering him, although his hustle and energy look great. We need those 3 to get us some buckets.

I think we go without Mitch game 4-5 possibly. I also think when Precious plays the 5 we have a faster more athletic look and it works well at times.

Honestly we had command of game three except for the 3rd quarter when we forgot to make embiid put the ball on the floor.

Glad we kept our cool, because if embiid pulled that **** on me like he did to Hartenstein knee to the nuts and Mitch injury … id break that ****ers nose and step on his bad knee the wrong way.

Embiid is a b I t ch he’s lucky he didn’t play in the 90’s because he’d be going into game 4 with a broken jaw.

IHart said he did not think it was a big deal and he got caught on his big brace.

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EwingsGlass wrote:Felt like Embiid was trying to hurt Mitch. I get pulling on a guy or sneaking a hand in (see Lowry on OG), but I do t get the sense Lowry is trying to hurt someone. Just using angles on what the refs can see.

Embiid kind of bounced on Mitch’s Knee. He pulled on Mitch’s legs. He’s got to cut it out. I don’t really care if he and Bam do that ****, but Mitch plays clean.

In any even, we knew there would be some makeup calls this game. 2-1. Still proud of this squad. OG, Precious, Mitch need to get angry and match DDV’s intensity. Let brawl.

Oh...he was trying to hurt IHart and Mitch last night. Fooker was after both of them. The problem is we have 2 really nice hard working guys. Not sure we can have them flip the switch and become Oakley and Mason all of a sudden.

You are right. Just kind of wish we had a crazy-eyed enforcer to back Embiid off.

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Embiid played dirty and wouldn't stop complaining, have never seen a guy get so many FT's on jumpshots. def think there was some overcompensating for G2 from the refs. But all that aside he had a stretch where he hit 3 or 4 straight, highly contested 3's and that was pretty amazing.

And even with that we still stayed in the game.

Can't see us giving up a 43 point quarter again, or 55% shooting. I think we'll win this series.

Would like to see OG on Embidd more also and Deuce on Maxey.