[Bontemps] Nick Nurse when asked about trying to guard Damian Lillard after his 39 points tonight: “It’s gonna be tough. He’s hard to guard with his stop-start and his shiftiness and it’s gonna be hard to guard … how many times did he go to line tonight? 30? 17? It just felt like 30.”
by DanM142
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> Nurse said this with a pretty big smirk.
>Philly was frustrated about some of the calls late, particularly the missed travel call when Giannis caught his own air ball. But the 76ers also each admitted the game was very much there to be won anyway.
[Carlin] https://sixerswire.usatoday.com/2023/10/26/joel-embiid-assesses-performance-after-sixers-fall-to-bucks-in-opener/
Embiid:
> We just followed whatever they (the team’s staff) want, but that was the plan, Embiid said afterward. “It’s not the first time that this happens. It’s a long season and we’re gonna be fine, but I think over the years. It’s the first game of the season. We can’t come in here and expect to drop 40 or 50. It’s gonna come it’s gonna happen.”
> “I thought tonight, I was a little bit passive, but then again, it’s a new offense,” Embiid added. “We’re all trying to learn. Just trying to make the right plays, the right reads, we just gotta work on the spacing, but it was a good start.”
https://youtu.be/ox3xCJik0Jg?si=EOOcX-PAitZ1U7NH
https://youtu.be/RuKmgI1A73U?si=TAgGg5A2sTv1Ebxs
“Marginal contact”
I wish somebody would take a fine. It is well deserved after that. Missed calls are bad but those are gonna happen. Idk how nobody see a dude pass the ball to himself but whatever I guess. How do you fuck up not one *but two* reviews in the 4th quarter though?
Idec if they wanna say that Lopez didn’t foul Embiid. I feel like it is kinda bullshit since they make that call all the time and it could easily go either way so it seems silly to overturn it, but either way it should have been our ball since PJ got it after the fact. More importantly, giving Giannis 2 points on that charge was disgusting any way you wanna look at it. Dude drove full speed into PJ’s chest. If that is marginal contact then it is all marginal contact. They watched that over and over for like 5+ minutes. It looked like they literally sat there trying to think of ways to fuck us over on that one.
Embiid goes to the line 10 times: “FT merchant! Omg he’s ruining the integrity of the game!”
Lillard goes to the line 17 times: “wow good for him. He’s taking what the defense is giving him!”
The NBA isn’t even basketball anymore it’s just rigged to create drama like this imo. More drama more viewers. Obviously they aren’t gonna let the villain embiid beat the new amazing Lillard and Giannis duo at home on opening night.