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Joel Embiid Shows Peaks and Valleys in Bad Loss to the Jazz
By Jim Adair
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Tonight’s Sixers game saw a couple of notable things: The return of Covington’s three-point shot, Rudy Gobert running roughshod over Jahlil Okafor until he got in foul trouble, and…that’s about it. The game as a whole was entirely bland and unremarkable. I really sold this post well.
Here are some highlights, good and bad:
Dario started the game with a pretty stepback:
Joel Embiid leaves the ground after Derrick Favors does and still stuffs him at the rim:
Jahlil Okafor, focused on blocking out Rudy Gobert, gives a wide open Joe Ingles two shots at a layup:
A good luck at some of Joel Embiid’s turnover problems. Two strips that never should have happened:
But on the plus side, here’s what the ability to hit a 3 as a 7’2″ center does for you. It opens up the pump fake, which leads to a shooting foul for a 80% FT shooter:
Another way Embiid is so deadly? He can score in so many ways:
Jahlil Okafor got a little revenge on Rudy Gobert:
Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot got his first NBA bucket:
And then, after 48 minutes of weak defense all around, the game mercifully ended.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.