Sixers defense cost them the series

[ArbitraryWater]

So many NBA teams fall to horrible overplaying defense.

So many times playing Brunson up-close, giving him the lane... doesnt make any sense.


Then so many times of doubling in key moments, when you should just make the opposite team earn a bucket, and not give them open 3s.

On the defacto game winner they doubled Brunson, Hart was open for 3, and then Oubre had a useless rushing attempt at him which actually gave him an in-rhythm shot instead of a more pressurized completely open 3.


When will they learn doe?

Tough to see cause its such basics. You wouldnt expect to happen in the freakin NBA.

[SouBeachTalents]

I actually do agree about not rushing at the shooter and leaving them open, I think being that wide open is unnatural, throws off your rhythm, and adds more pressure to the attempt, no different than an easy fly ball in baseball or being a wide open receiver in football. I just think it's far too instinctual for these guys to try to alter a shot after doing it/having been coached that way their entire lives. Then there's the potential, if not likely blowback of getting chewed out/benched by your coach for a supposed lack of effort if they do decide to not try to contest.

[ArbitraryWater]

I actually do agree about not rushing at the shooter and leaving them open, I think being that wide open is unnatural, throws off your rhythm, and adds more pressure to the attempt, no different than an easy fly ball in baseball or being a wide open receiver in football. I just think it's far too instinctual for these guys to try to alter a shot after doing it/having been coached that way their entire lives. Then there's the potential, if not likely blowback of getting chewed out/benched by your coach for a supposed lack of effort if they do decide to not try to contest.

Yeah, but any smart coach would recognize that a hopeless lunge does nothing, and youre better off just standing there, staring the shooter down

[hateraid]

One word. Tobias

[FultzNationRISE]

One word: Knicks were the more Lebronesque team.

[fourkicks44]

They tried to take the ball out of Brunson's hands at the end. It was a choice, a gamble and it didn't pay off. Ultimately the personal was not optimal.

Embiid obviously was slow with that knee and they were missing DeAnthony Melton and Robert Covington, a First Team All-Defensive award winner.The two best versatile and wing defenders on the team, and two of the best defensive players in the league.

You win some, you lose some.

[hateraid]

The rebounding was horrible. You would think we'd smarten up and adjust to the Knicks not rebounding and trying to swipe/poke after the fact. Or that Tobias has to box out while Embiid is banging with Hartenstien. The defense wasn't the worst, the rebounding disparity was

[GimmeThat]

your username makes you a b*tch, so I guess you just gotta play some defense on yourself, why have you been such a little b*tch since the day you were born.