3ammy3uck3ts wrote:Horford consistently turning the 2nd-3rd most dominant player in the world into his bitch every time they match up is so wild to me. Embiid really isn’t anything special when he’s not getting bailed out by the refs and getting 15 free throws a game if we’re being honest.
It would have been fun to see Horford in his prime playing alongside Bam, in the same way that I always wanted to see Zo and KG playing together.
Embiid's got no excuses especially with Horford being 37 and on his last leg, but I think it's part of this NBA era. Back in the day Embiid would have learned a proper physical low post game. Embiid has only dunked more than 100 times in a season once in his career, which is wild. David Robinson was doing that regularly even in his mid 30s. And if you look at percentage of shots inside of 3 feet and the average distance of FGA, it's night and day between them, and David Robinson was hardly the most physical big around back then.
Embiid just doesn't impose himself like he should. He's a really good player, but bigs in the past would have taken his lunch money.