Mickey8 wrote:Plus and minuses is useless category. Embiid has cost his team in every game that they have lost in this series with his bad shooting,decision making and the poor rebounding which is the part of the defense.
While this is an aggressive over-simplification and a pointless dismissal of an entire category of statistics, there is some truth to the idea that timeliness of error still matters. Errors in close games are problems. Now, at least one of Embiid's fouls in the 4th quarter doesn't matter because it was after a made bucket, down 1 with 34 seconds to go. Another one wasn't awesome but Anunoby missed the free throw.
But the game before, he had 9 turnovers, and he did have 6 turnovers in the game, and a loose ball foul (which Philly unsuccessfully challenged) in the 4th which led to a 4-point swing, basically.
Some food for thought, anyway. Speaking to Game 6, he shot 12/25 (48%), which was poor by his standards but he was still a 63.5% TS guy that game because he was 13/13 at the line. And he was 2/4 in the 4th, and 5/10 in the first half, so it was really the 5/11 he dropped in the third (a quarter where Philly was -3) where he was shooting particularly bleh... but still managed 16 points on about 63% TS.
Philly's much larger problem in this series was containing Brunson, who was 5/8 in the 4th... and how badly they got spanked in the first quarter (36-22). Philly was 7/21 from the field in the first quarter, and the hole that put them in cost them the game in the end. FWIW, Embiid was 3/6 for 9 points.
So it's kind of game-by-game, and in some cases down to specific quarters, as well as what his teammates and the opposition were doing. From a scoring standpoint, Game 6 isn't on Embiid at all.
