For all the moaning about Doc and the coaches and the refs and whatever other nonsense people are whining about the Sixers don’t win with shooting numbers like these: James Harden – 16 PTS on 3/14 — Tyrese Maxey – 13 PTS on 4/16 — Tobias Harris – 7 PTS on 3/6
by NorthCoastToast
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Bingo.
Tobias had a really poor game. For his salary, he’s the fourth option, and he couldn’t even be that. He could not play defense without fouling, and he made like two shots.
Game Four is going to be a must win down at the Center. The Celtics smell blood and will come out hard. It can’t be that we need an injured Embiid to win the game singlehandedly, cause that won’t happen.
Then try something different. They’re not the only 3 players on the team.
I agree that it’s very hard to win with guys shooting like that. But if we’re struggling to score then Doc should try out the numerous bench pieces he’s decided not to use this series. If Maxey and Harden but don’t have it, why not try Shake? If Tobias is getting killed by Tatum, why not try House? Nobody should be unbenchable if they’re playing like shit. But apparantly the only guy who is able to be benched is PJ Tucker, even though he’s the only one trying to actually grab a loose ball on this team.
Harris has killed the process… AGAIN! Have no idea how I convinced myself it would be different this time
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Starts with ball killer Joel Embiid. He kills the rhythm and tempo of the offense. Idc if he score 30 and grabs 15 boards. No semblance of an offense the last 2 games, just force feeding Joel 🤦🏻♂️
All of Boston’s players coming off the bench deserve Tobys salary more than him. I’m so sick of his shit
It’s not about shooting numbers!!!! We shot 43% from 3, it’s about them not being able to beat their man, no ball movement, no off the dribble creation. Don’t be stat nerds
Yep. Doc always gets the shit end of the stick. I’m all for it when it’s warranted. But last night they got out hustled, gave up a lot of soft rebounds and turnovers killed them in the first half. They were indecisive and soft on defense. They had the look of inevitable defeat on their faces all night. I’m usually pretty even keeled but last night pissed me off.
Edit: “Tobias makes too much” is such an old take. He took money we all would take. Blaming him for not showing up before we blame Maxey and Harden for having atrocious nights is lazy. They both played 40 mins and shot 7-29 combined.
This series, so far, is a joke that’s not funny.
6 shots for Tobias is ridiculous. I know he’s our favorite punching bag and has a contract he’s not nearly worth, but he’s too good of a player to just have him sit in the corner all game. We throw him 3-4 ISOs a game and that’s about it, the rest of the time he’s standing in the corner or trying to get garbage points off rebounds.
It makes no sense to me. He may be the 4th scoring option but I just feel like Doc sucks at using him.
Outside of that, if Harden plays like he has the last 2 games we simply have no shot. It’s a star driven league and you can’t survive with one star getting doubled and still putting up points, we need that second guy to have at least a good game to win, and he’s been awful.
I think it should be the coach’s job to figure out a way when some players having a off day.
You don’t keep guards over 40 mins when they shoot 7/30. If you are the coach you take action, you don’t watch.
Same tired story every year. Another second round exit coming up.
Glenn Rivers is the single biggest problem we have. Can you guys just acknowledge we have our Mark Jackson/Doug Collins currently and we need the Kerr/Jackson to get us over the hump. How many more post seasons do we need of our supporting cast playing shitty until we recognize that our offensive system sucks.
Tobias and Maxey definitely played terribly but what is their role in the offense? Stand there until the Embiid-Harden PnR fails (again) and they have to wait for a kick out? Maybe we shouldn’t have our 35 year old PG who is clearly gassed keep running that play. It’s horrible. It’s not how a team should play.
Sometimes I dream of an alternate universe where we kept Jimmy and got rid of Ben and Tobias. It hurts but it’s all I have some days.
Yeah dudes need to execute. Too many turnovers + bad shooting. It’s the same story every year
tobias was open multiple times and harden would just chuck a 3 and maxie would drive it into 2 defenders and throw up a prayer. Tobias def needs to be more aggressive but what exactly is he suppose to do when he was forced into the 4th option and is acting like the 4th option and helping the spacing only to never get the ball?
I don’t why the hell the intensity of the team drops so low when Joel is playing. It’s like they all expect to be carried.
Team isn’t good enough. The Bridges draft day trade was the worst misstep they made and they haven’t filled the team properly since.
Maxey did not have a good game but part of that is because Harden was terrible. The Celtics were letting Harden get open to shoot and spending more time defending Maxey. There was one play in which Harden driving almost all the way to the hoop and then kicked out when he has an easy shot
What bothers me is tobi took Tatum down to the weight room early and got an easy bucket and they literally didn’t go back to it once. Could have done that all game and worn Tatum down.