@@darnellwilliams8783 the same chris that choked ever since he got into the nba? devin booker that became the son of a man younger than him? better than denver last year? stop smoking crack my brother. that's just like all those dumbasses saying lakers would win just because they got a game lmao.
Embiid - 9 years in the league, played in Denver 2 times in his entire career, played 1 time in last 7 seasons in 2019. How is that even possible? Crazy.
@@Awkward_Inc3lmy thing is that if other NBA players can do it why can’t he? You got players who aren’t even in better shape than him who still play. That just looks soft tbh. It’s almost like dude has great numbers because he duck certain games.
Embiid stats vs jokic: Joel Embiid has averaged 27.6 points, 11.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 8 games versus Nikola Jokic in his career. Jokic stats vs Embiid: Nikola Jokic has averaged 22.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists I don't think he needs to duck Jokic. He just doesn't play a lot of games. He literally dropped 40 points on the nuggets 2 weeks ago.
@@neilbrons529if embiid is so good how come he has not made it past the second round or made it to the finals like he only good during the regular season and starts to fall of in the playoffs and with how he picking and choosing what games to play is not helping his case
Shout out too Giannis for not ducking the smoke and went out there and compete and and doing a decent job defending Jokic holding him to sub pare shooting percentages
@@temiadeyinka3675 giannis is a beast, it feels like people already forgot he won a chip and carried the bucks on his back (no hate, the team was good, but still), that 50 piece is legendary.
@@temiadeyinka3675 which is not good, but everything else he did was VERY good, including passing the ball around and playing VERY GOOD defense, how many balls did he deflect yesterday, i lost count... there is more to the game than just how many points you scored
Jokic played with one eye. Look it up. There are photographs after the game of his retina. It was dilated twice the size because of the eye gouge the game before anyone else playing with one eye?Certainly not Ducky…
U ain’t ever seen that in NBA history? Have u never seen lefraud James play? Lance Stephenson breathing on him without touching him should tell u everything u need to know
@@TheTrueAnswer @jasonmartinez1353 I suggest you guys watch JxmyHighroller's new video on Embiid. He goes into great detail about his free throw farming. Embiid is the most frequent free throw shooter and has the highest free throw attempt average in the history of NBA. Above Shaq, James Harden, MJ, Lebron... Put your feelings aside and look at the statistics.
@@TheTrueAnswerbro he’s averaging 12 free throws in this season and 10.1 in free throws in his career in 8 seasons while MJ averaged 9.9 in 13 seasons, embiid is already averaging more free throws than MJ in his whole career
Sorry but any credit or up talk this guy Perkins gives Jokic after the stunt he pulled last year over the MVP, just falls flat on deaf ears. Regardless of who you think should have won the MVP, to stoop to the desperate levels of race baiting to help tip the odds in favour of Embiid truly revealed the man behind the character he plays for the cameras. There's no amount of praise that will rub that stain off his name... guy is a clown, as is his buddy Stephen.
make no mistake, perkins is strictly doing all these things to save face... he's been on the "make it up" tour ever since embiid got his fake mvp trophy largely due to the perkins racist campaign from last season do not fall for it, and do not let him kiss up his way back into good graces
Embiid's 3 point plan to get MVP again. 1) play at least 65 games. 2) Get over 30 points per game by getting garbage points against below 0.5 teams. 3) Avoid other Big men (so he won't lose to them).
The weird part to me was the Sixers not putting Joel on the injury report. How are you making a game-time decision on a guy and he's not even listed as probable or questionable. What kind of games are they playing over there?
i just love the contrast between jokic and embiid and the debate because it’s just people that love the game and people that love flashy highlights jokic is a near perfect player. a player that doesn’t care about the stats, the lights, the music. he’s there to play the game, whether he has to score 50 or 10, get 22 or 3 assists, always rebounds, and puts the team first. embiid just cares about his stats, how he’s perceived, and how much he can score and find an easy way to the playoffs.
in his whole career so far, Embiid did not have any 70+ played games in season and let alone 80+. Embiid is just loud and americans love it. He is trashtalker, dunks a lot, screams etc. but when matter most (playoffs) he is blaming everyone else by throwing his teammates under the bus. On the other hand, we have Jokic who is a silent winner, who rises on occasion when it matters the most. And conclusion is this: Embiid is a loud showman and great season player who dunks on low tiered teams and centers and Jokic is playoff competitive guy who can bring championship as the main player. But alas, NBA is big show which favors loud guys like Embiid and that is the main reason why Embiid is in the same sentence as Jokic. Jokic proved himself to be way better than Embiid in a lot of ways.
You say Americans love Embiid. I say Embiid is one of the most hated players in the NBA right now, for his antics and ducking. NBA media on ESPN isn't reality, they are click baiting with ass takes to get that hate watch.
only americans who changed the game rules to make it entertaining have this kind of arguments. For us the dudes that still love the basketball as a team sport, jokic is the best player in the NBA right now without any kind o f discussion. No one in the NBA now has the same mentality and iq of the dude, while the others are running for individual performance to be the star, jokic is simply playing basketball, he plays the best shots and calls for a potential win, not just potential points.
At this point I feel like Embiid getting MVP and choking in the play-offs again would be a bigger embarrassment to the media than Jokic winning back-to-back rings.
I’m glad people are finally seeing how it is. For years I have been saying Embiid is an underperformer in the playoffs. The fact that he ducked Jokic again in Denver is embarrassing.
How a guy who absolutely mangles the english language on a daily basis became a person paid for speaking is beyond me. He sounds like somebody built a time machine and abducted him from the 1800s.
You call him role player, but he is a role player in the biggest basketball scene ever. Do not ever forget how a bench warmer (White Mamba himself) destroyed D1 players like they are nothing.
Like, Perkins is a giant buffoon, but we have some pretty solid evidence over a looooong time that it’s the role players that end up being the best coaches and basketball minds.
I'm not even mad about Embiid load managing. He's bigger and heavier than most other guys in the NBA. 82 games hits those knees differently. I'm more annoyed that he won MVP over the guy he'd ducking.
If Embiid wins MVP this year, it'll be undeserved, but it won't be because he's the best player on his team or in his conference. It'll be racially motivated.
if they are basing MVP on players stats - they should only consider numbers from the games played vs +500 teams, and not include stats from bottom feeder teams.
The easiest way to fix this is to do it like they do in school, you miss a game, you get a 0 for all stats for that game that add toward your average. Simple.
@@Turk_2023 This explains the barrage of individual high scoring games! At this rate, we may see the elusive 100 point game (Wilt Chamberlain) record broken!
@@aturner3246 if someone like durant, luka, sga, even embiid and others made their #1 primary focus just getting as much points as possible every single game without getting subbed out, it would happen this season. probably with OT but it would happen
That’s why the game has become unwatchable. I hadn’t missed a game in decades and now I watch a couple games a week. It’s boring. The game has become a three point competition where defense isn’t a considered a skill anymore. Who cares when somebody scores 70 points when they had wide open shots and lanes. You can land a 747 in the lane now. It’s a joke.
"Harden playing center" is spot on!😄 I thought the same thing when he figured out getting to the free throw line. I've never seen a center fall on the floor so much! He's going to shorten his career. Hopefully not.😁
I will be shocked when a US "journalist" pronounces a single word correctly from any Slavic language. Not a sentence, a word. His Serbian pronunciation of "scared" is so bad, i legit didn't know what he was saying before he translated to English. Its like someone said to you "skidra" instead of "scared".
The two worst NBA talking heads are both ESPN employees. Both are racist. Screamin' A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins. I have no idea how Perk got a job in media.
7:34 Embiid travels not once but twice on the same play. Picks up pivot foot before dribbling to start drive then once he comes to a stop, changes his pivot again. Now by no means is this an Embiid problem alone, but I think we’d find a lot of the offensive explosion we’re seeing would come back to earth if they prevented offensive players from getting an upper hand by playing fast and loose with the rules.
I think he took himself out of the MVP race by ducking the Nugs. Voters will think, 'he has his one MVP, he hasn't played like an MVP in the postseason, and now this. He's not getting another vote until he shows us something more. Too many other worthy candidates deserve consideration for him to be chosen.
It’s almost like when Embiid has to play games against the teams he ducks out of playing against in the playoffs they always lose and never my it to the conference finals most of the time
Mental drive to win, the killer instinct, should be one of the top qualifiers for MVP, GOAT or any measure of greatness. It's almost forgotten among all the stats... Rating someone that does amazing things when they feel like it over someone always fighting for a win is ridiculous. Eventually it'll just be a highlights competition. It's not called Most Skilled Player or Best Individual Player for a reason. A player that makes the TEAM better, will ALWAYS be the Most *Valuable* Player.
It's quite hilarious Perkins boy Embiid is the definition of stat padding. Perkins calls out Jokic for stat padding, then says nothing about Embiid, until recently. Perkins has 0 credibility!
Here are some more true stats which beg the question: Why should Embiid choke? Embiid showed the world on January 16th that he could score 41 points to Jokic's 25. Year before that Embiid scored 47 to Jokic's 24. Overall the eight times they have met here are the stats Embiid to Jokic: games won 6 to 2, average points 27.6 to 22.3, rebounds 11.3 to 10.1, assists 4.4 to 6.9, steals 1.3 to 1.1, blocks 2.0 to 1.1. In their 8 meetings Embiid has better stats in 5 out of 6 categories. There is no reason for him to fear Denver or Jokic. Can't help it if your imagination of some kind of MVP revenge taking place in Denver was not been fulfilled. You even stoop so low as to create another reason: "He is missing games on purpose so that he will not have the pressure of trying to win another MVP," (paraphrased). Just last week you know you were saying the opposite
The thing he tried to say in Serbian is "opasan" which means dangerous, scared in serbian is "uplašen". He didn't even pronounce it right, I know that Serbian could be hard for English speakers but if you want to say something in a foreign language do it right.
This is what I've been thinking for years as stupid media puppets like Stephan A and Perkins trip all over themselves about how great Embiid is. Giannis- better, brings his energy every night
Jokic beat out Embiid in every other stat except couple less pts per game and less than one block per game I think.. Jokic smashed records last season and post season. Broke multiple Wilt Chamberlain records.. Won the championship.. Yet, his skin color wasn't correct, so he couldn't win MVP.. Im so glad we got away from treating people different because of their skin color and found the best solution by treating people differently because of their skin color (nothing in history shows that won't work!!)
in the NBA an employee can miss 1 out of every 5 days of work and still win the Employee of the Year. In any other job on earth if you miss 1 out of every 20 days of work, you will be fired.
I am not a Perkins fan nor a fan of his comments last year about Jokic (Not a Denver fan). Perkins has had his eyes opened like the rest of the world watching him demolish the playoffs. So now he is giving him respect, nothing wrong with that. So for me, I will cut Perk some slack on this issue.
Embiid wouldn't be hurt so much if he'd quit flailing and falling to the ground with every light graze. I've seen my grandma take out an entire endcap of Dr Pepper without stumbling, yet this behemoth of a man can't withstand a stationary wrist brushing against his shoulder. Quit with the dramatics - it makes you look weak, and that floor you flop on has less give than an arm.
I agree with Chuck… it should have been 70 instead of 65. As it stands at 65 games, that works out to 79% and that’s a joke if the MVP can’t even dress for 80% of the games
This is why only looking at stats doesn't tell the story. It leaves out the context like Embiid ducking the tougher competition so he can boost his stats so all the stat nerds can think he is better than he is.
Embiid should've sat out longer than he did. All these takes about how he's ducking smoke and resting because he doesn't want to compete are toxic and likely lead to him rushing back from injury against Golden State. He's the reigning MVP of the NBA why people can't appreciate his greatness without constant scrutiny is beyond me.
I also shared this view that Embiid was avoiding a duel with Jokic but after watching the game against golden state warriors he looked really hurt. He was limping, at one point he was going towards a lose ball and his left knee gave way and he fell down. It didn't help that a gsw player landed on the hurt knee at the end. Chasing the mvp last season made him have nothing left for the post season so he'll definitely miss more games than 5+ in the future. He started his nba career with knee issues and adding all that muscle and bulk compounded to the issue.
If you get within six feet of Embid, the refs donate a foul to his scoring line. The league smashes Jokic in the face and lacerates his arms and he gets one in ten calls.
Whether it’s on purpose or not, the perception is, Embiid plays against the bottom feeders of the NBA and ends up posting numbers. And the data shows him sitting against upper echelon teams. Only Embiid can change that perception around. Just like the playoffs. He disappeared against the Celtics in that last playoff game when he had to opportunity as “MVP” to step up.
Lefraud James is the king of load management realistically I think he started that honestly cause dudes only played 82 twice in a 21 year career but his fans wanna say he has “longevity” 🤣
It does NOT MATTER how many time Joker wins MVP, has the craziest seasons, or how many rings he gets; Perk will forever have AT LEAST one excuse, because he will always be a [black] victim, and Joker will always be a white mega star.
Kendrick Perkins he should be fire terminated why haven't they fired him yet? Eagerness should not be a excused. ESPN has lower the bar so anybody can get a job there it's sad😢
embiid's strength of schedule so far is at .440. this makes his schedule weaker than orlando's, who is in 30th place right now in sos standings with .442. philly as a team is in 14th with .503
Someone splashed Perk with cold water because he also said Lebron was so soft against the rockets it hurt his goat case (it never existed) but nonetheless 😂
This is why people say the NBA is soft because the fans are now soft. It's only stat padding when it's the player you don't like LOL. The Stars always get star treatment for anyone who's watched the NBA for more than a couple years. The LeBron hate from him claiming to be the goat just spills over into other conversations. Chill the hell out
Perk ran out of excuses when Jokic won a ring.
Hahaha yeah
@bnsz8704 nah Nuggets only won that ring because Chris paul got hurt in game 2 Suns were up 10 points yall casuals
@darnellwilliams8783 dang forgot that Chris Paul has 2 mvps and and ring and is a walking triple double.
@@darnellwilliams8783 the same chris that choked ever since he got into the nba? devin booker that became the son of a man younger than him? better than denver last year? stop smoking crack my brother. that's just like all those dumbasses saying lakers would win just because they got a game lmao.
@@darnellwilliams8783chris paul getting injured in the most important part of the season is the expectation
Embiid - 9 years in the league, played in Denver 2 times in his entire career, played 1 time in last 7 seasons in 2019. How is that even possible? Crazy.
That mile high altitude no joke. Took that one time to humble him and not test it again
@@Awkward_Inc3lmy thing is that if other NBA players can do it why can’t he? You got players who aren’t even in better shape than him who still play. That just looks soft tbh. It’s almost like dude has great numbers because he duck certain games.
Embiid stats vs jokic:
Joel Embiid has averaged 27.6 points, 11.3 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 8 games versus Nikola Jokic in his career.
Jokic stats vs Embiid:
Nikola Jokic has averaged 22.3 points, 10.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists
I don't think he needs to duck Jokic. He just doesn't play a lot of games. He literally dropped 40 points on the nuggets 2 weeks ago.
@@neilbrons529so he puts up good numbers at home while missing 25 percent of the season. Almost all of them against good teams on the road. Wow. 👍
@@neilbrons529if embiid is so good how come he has not made it past the second round or made it to the finals like he only good during the regular season and starts to fall of in the playoffs and with how he picking and choosing what games to play is not helping his case
Shout out too Giannis for not ducking the smoke and went out there and compete and and doing a decent job defending Jokic holding him to sub pare shooting percentages
Yeah, just another triple double.
25 points on 25 shots stop being disingenuous
@@temiadeyinka3675 giannis is a beast, it feels like people already forgot he won a chip and carried the bucks on his back (no hate, the team was good, but still), that 50 piece is legendary.
@@temiadeyinka3675 which is not good, but everything else he did was VERY good, including passing the ball around and playing VERY GOOD defense, how many balls did he deflect yesterday, i lost count...
there is more to the game than just how many points you scored
Jokic played with one eye. Look it up. There are photographs after the game of his retina. It was dilated twice the size because of the eye gouge the game before anyone else playing with one eye?Certainly not Ducky…
Embiid the free throw merchant. I’ve never seen a player in NBA history get so many phantom fouls go his way. It’s incredible.
Lol.
Go watch a Jordan game.
U ain’t ever seen that in NBA history? Have u never seen lefraud James play? Lance Stephenson breathing on him without touching him should tell u everything u need to know
@@TheTrueAnswerstop it dog lefraud queen James gets more foul calls then anybody in nba history
@@TheTrueAnswer @jasonmartinez1353
I suggest you guys watch JxmyHighroller's new video on Embiid. He goes into great detail about his free throw farming.
Embiid is the most frequent free throw shooter and has the highest free throw attempt average in the history of NBA.
Above Shaq, James Harden, MJ, Lebron...
Put your feelings aside and look at the statistics.
@@TheTrueAnswerbro he’s averaging 12 free throws in this season and 10.1 in free throws in his career in 8 seasons while MJ averaged 9.9 in 13 seasons, embiid is already averaging more free throws than MJ in his whole career
Sorry but any credit or up talk this guy Perkins gives Jokic after the stunt he pulled last year over the MVP, just falls flat on deaf ears.
Regardless of who you think should have won the MVP, to stoop to the desperate levels of race baiting to help tip the odds in favour of Embiid truly revealed the man behind the character he plays for the cameras.
There's no amount of praise that will rub that stain off his name... guy is a clown, as is his buddy Stephen.
Thank you
100% Agree
Worse part is, is that it worked. Says more about the voters than Perkins.
My brother's dog has more credibility than Perkins
3 road games against teams .500. Talk about stat padding.
00:24
E: _"Nice game man, see you in the Finals"_
J: _"You're not coming in Denver?"_
both laughed
I think the funniest part is you think embiid will reach the finals 😂
Yes embid cannot even reach in the ecf.
@khangsingchopel6443 He can go 2 the finals this yr he makes enough money 4 tickets so why can't he go?
Embiid picks on the weak while fearing the strong.
Definition of a weak bully.
He's not a bully, because he doesn't bully others. He's an opportunistic cheater.
@@PlanetOfTheApes999 A very sneaky cheater
He likes to fluff-up his stats against the weak opponents, and ducking away games against playoff teams.
#Emfraud
Luka Jokic and Giannis are better than Emflop, fact
Euro power
Embid ain’t a bigger flopper then number 23 in LA guy flops every two seconds on defense that’s why he’s never won dpoy
@@jasonmartinez1353 LeChoke is up there ngl
As an African like Embiid, I don't support him over Jokic. It's just hard to root for someone so skilled to resort to such cheap tactics like Crybiid.
@@jimmywalker8354 nothing to do with race bro both Jokic and Giannis deserved to win MVP over embum last szn
make no mistake, perkins is strictly doing all these things to save face... he's been on the "make it up" tour ever since embiid got his fake mvp trophy largely due to the perkins racist campaign from last season
do not fall for it, and do not let him kiss up his way back into good graces
If games missed counted as a 0 towards his ppg average he would play
This might actually be a genius idea
@nydibs This should be a thing tho... Unless you got a serious injury, sitting out should count as a 0 on the stat sheet.
Embiid's 3 point plan to get MVP again. 1) play at least 65 games. 2) Get over 30 points per game by getting garbage points against below 0.5 teams. 3) Avoid other Big men (so he won't lose to them).
Failed already o the 1st part of the plan
Embiid is basically a 7 foot James Harden.
The weird part to me was the Sixers not putting Joel on the injury report. How are you making a game-time decision on a guy and he's not even listed as probable or questionable. What kind of games are they playing over there?
i heard they even advertised the matchup like Embiid was gonna play or something lol.
i just love the contrast between jokic and embiid and the debate because it’s just people that love the game and people that love flashy highlights
jokic is a near perfect player. a player that doesn’t care about the stats, the lights, the music. he’s there to play the game, whether he has to score 50 or 10, get 22 or 3 assists, always rebounds, and puts the team first.
embiid just cares about his stats, how he’s perceived, and how much he can score and find an easy way to the playoffs.
Someone said that Joel Embid has never averaged over 23ppg when he wasn’t top 2 in free throw attempts.
@Kimeikus same thing could be said for Jokic and yalll are haters Embiid is hurt
What does this even mean. Fouls are apart of basketball.
@@darnellwilliams8783 No it couldnt Jokic barely gets free throws.
@@vojislav88 what the hell what game are you watching all jokic does is flop
@darnellwilliams8783Did you just say Jokic can't get over 23 without free throws? You have brain damage or something?
in his whole career so far, Embiid did not have any 70+ played games in season and let alone 80+.
Embiid is just loud and americans love it. He is trashtalker, dunks a lot, screams etc. but when matter most (playoffs) he is blaming everyone else by throwing his teammates under the bus. On the other hand, we have Jokic who is a silent winner, who rises on occasion when it matters the most. And conclusion is this: Embiid is a loud showman and great season player who dunks on low tiered teams and centers and Jokic is playoff competitive guy who can bring championship as the main player.
But alas, NBA is big show which favors loud guys like Embiid and that is the main reason why Embiid is in the same sentence as Jokic. Jokic proved himself to be way better than Embiid in a lot of ways.
You say Americans love Embiid. I say Embiid is one of the most hated players in the NBA right now, for his antics and ducking. NBA media on ESPN isn't reality, they are click baiting with ass takes to get that hate watch.
You made me laugh out loud with the "Dumbest voice in sports" comment about Perk. 😂 Awesome!
only americans who changed the game rules to make it entertaining have this kind of arguments. For us the dudes that still love the basketball as a team sport, jokic is the best player in the NBA right now without any kind o f discussion. No one in the NBA now has the same mentality and iq of the dude, while the others are running for individual performance to be the star, jokic is simply playing basketball, he plays the best shots and calls for a potential win, not just potential points.
You would not even know what basketball was if not for Americans.
@@Turk_2023James Naismith was a Canadian that came to USA to work for YMCA. If he went somewhere else, you guys would still watch box or rugby 🤣🤣🤣
At this point I feel like Embiid getting MVP and choking in the play-offs again would be a bigger embarrassment to the media than Jokic winning back-to-back rings.
Been saying it for ages, Jokic raises his team, embiid raises himself. He is a stat padding flopper. Minimum games should be 70
Hey lefraud James is the PF version of embiid but yet nobody is talking about it 🤦🏻♂️
Perkins got embiid his MVP last year "jokic is white." 😂
I’m glad people are finally seeing how it is. For years I have been saying Embiid is an underperformer in the playoffs. The fact that he ducked Jokic again in Denver is embarrassing.
>The fact that he ducked Embiid again in Denver is embarrassing.
Jokic*
Nah he was right. Embid keep ducking Embid.
Embid averages more free throws than ever and Jimmy high roller said, it’s phantom fouls. It’s like the refs are in on it.
How can you be scared of someone you dropped 80plus points in the last two times they played
@@Calebc95 I am not scared of Embiid when it matters. I am scared of Jokic when it matters. I would hate playing Jokic in the playoffs.
how a role player became a basketball "expert" is beyond me...
He’s was a Pro and won a championship.
How a guy who absolutely mangles the english language on a daily basis became a person paid for speaking is beyond me. He sounds like somebody built a time machine and abducted him from the 1800s.
If he was a good analyst I wouldn’t mind but he isn’t.
You call him role player, but he is a role player in the biggest basketball scene ever. Do not ever forget how a bench warmer (White Mamba himself) destroyed D1 players like they are nothing.
Like, Perkins is a giant buffoon, but we have some pretty solid evidence over a looooong time that it’s the role players that end up being the best coaches and basketball minds.
I'm not even mad about Embiid load managing. He's bigger and heavier than most other guys in the NBA. 82 games hits those knees differently. I'm more annoyed that he won MVP over the guy he'd ducking.
If Embiid wins MVP this year, it'll be undeserved, but it won't be because he's the best player on his team or in his conference. It'll be racially motivated.
How can u say racially motivated when most of the MVP’s are black 🤦🏻♂️
@jasonmartinez1353 look at what happened last year.
Dumbest take ever.
Last year was already like that
So if the mvp ain’t black it’s a problem? Because jokic won there’s an issue 🤣
It would be a joke if he got back to back mvp after this
Probably will just because it’s America where absurd things are likely to happen
the whole nba is a joke at this point
Even for the olympics, he choose to join the USA Team to avoid facing them ... dude is the biggest stat-padder ever !
if they are basing MVP on players stats - they should only consider numbers from the games played vs +500 teams, and not include stats from bottom feeder teams.
should be eazy to filter if they just pull out a spreasheet, even an elementary student can do it.
The easiest way to fix this is to do it like they do in school, you miss a game, you get a 0 for all stats for that game that add toward your average. Simple.
This video shows an immense lack of defense in the NBA!
You can't get close on jump shots or they call it endangering the shooter. Its really ruined the game.
@@Turk_2023 This explains the barrage of individual high scoring games! At this rate, we may see the elusive 100 point game (Wilt Chamberlain) record broken!
Unfortunately you cant play real defense in todays nba without the high possibility of getting fouled out
@@aturner3246 if someone like durant, luka, sga, even embiid and others made their #1 primary focus just getting as much points as possible every single game without getting subbed out, it would happen this season. probably with OT but it would happen
That’s why the game has become unwatchable. I hadn’t missed a game in decades and now I watch a couple games a week. It’s boring. The game has become a three point competition where defense isn’t a considered a skill anymore. Who cares when somebody scores 70 points when they had wide open shots and lanes. You can land a 747 in the lane now. It’s a joke.
Embiid learned a lot from Harden in their short time together.
Wanna get rid of load management? Every missed game is a 0 on your ppg avg across the season 🤷🏻♂️
How Perk has a job is mystery! No credibility!
And he's a raging racist
And he's a raging racist
He's a plant by LeBron
But he’s always healthy for the All-Star game tho. How ironic
Perk saying "uplašen" I wasn't expecting that.
Introduce availability stats. Count games missed as 0s across the board. Players with a 30+ pts average will think twice whether to sit out or not.
the minimum game threshold should have been at the very least 70 games, probably 72. missing 17 games and still winning mvp is ridiculous.
"Harden playing center" is spot on!😄 I thought the same thing when he figured out getting to the free throw line. I've never seen a center fall on the floor so much! He's going to shorten his career. Hopefully not.😁
I will be shocked when a US "journalist" pronounces a single word correctly from any Slavic language. Not a sentence, a word.
His Serbian pronunciation of "scared" is so bad, i legit didn't know what he was saying before he translated to English. Its like someone said to you "skidra" instead of "scared".
The two worst NBA talking heads are both ESPN employees. Both are racist. Screamin' A. Smith and Kendrick Perkins. I have no idea how Perk got a job in media.
7:34 Embiid travels not once but twice on the same play. Picks up pivot foot before dribbling to start drive then once he comes to a stop, changes his pivot again. Now by no means is this an Embiid problem alone, but I think we’d find a lot of the offensive explosion we’re seeing would come back to earth if they prevented offensive players from getting an upper hand by playing fast and loose with the rules.
I think he took himself out of the MVP race by ducking the Nugs. Voters will think, 'he has his one MVP, he hasn't played like an MVP in the postseason, and now this. He's not getting another vote until he shows us something more. Too many other worthy candidates deserve consideration for him to be chosen.
Only a blind person does not see this!
jokic & nuggets fan here but this narrative didn't age well. embiid was forced to play injured. hope he recovers fully soon
2:27, thank you. Very good point to show road games missed vs. road games played.
that "it" factor is called charachter
It’s almost like when Embiid has to play games against the teams he ducks out of playing against in the playoffs they always lose and never my it to the conference finals most of the time
Mental drive to win, the killer instinct, should be one of the top qualifiers for MVP, GOAT or any measure of greatness.
It's almost forgotten among all the stats...
Rating someone that does amazing things when they feel like it over someone always fighting for a win is ridiculous.
Eventually it'll just be a highlights competition.
It's not called Most Skilled Player or Best Individual Player for a reason.
A player that makes the TEAM better, will ALWAYS be the Most *Valuable* Player.
Love your content. 💯
FACT NIKOLA JOKIC IS THE BEST NBA PLAYER AT THIS TIME
It's quite hilarious Perkins boy Embiid is the definition of stat padding. Perkins calls out Jokic for stat padding, then says nothing about Embiid, until recently. Perkins has 0 credibility!
Perk should stick to his area of expertise: hostess snack cakes.
Here are some more true stats which beg the question: Why should Embiid choke? Embiid showed the world on January 16th that he could score 41 points to Jokic's 25. Year before that Embiid scored 47 to Jokic's 24. Overall the eight times they have met here are the stats Embiid to Jokic: games won 6 to 2, average points 27.6 to 22.3, rebounds 11.3 to 10.1, assists 4.4 to 6.9, steals 1.3 to 1.1, blocks 2.0 to 1.1. In their 8 meetings Embiid has better stats in 5 out of 6 categories. There is no reason for him to fear Denver or Jokic. Can't help it if your imagination of some kind of MVP revenge taking place in Denver was not been fulfilled. You even stoop so low as to create another reason: "He is missing games on purpose so that he will not have the pressure of trying to win another MVP," (paraphrased). Just last week you know you were saying the opposite
Perkins would never admit Jokic is better
Kendrick Perkins is literally the biggest Jokic critic. If Perkins was a Star Wars character, his name would be Admiral Snackbar.
The thing he tried to say in Serbian is "opasan" which means dangerous, scared in serbian is "uplašen". He didn't even pronounce it right, I know that Serbian could be hard for English speakers but if you want to say something in a foreign language do it right.
Players forget that this is their JOB and are still bound by they're employers and company rules
This is what I've been thinking for years as stupid media puppets like Stephan A and Perkins trip all over themselves about how great Embiid is. Giannis- better, brings his energy every night
im sorry i couldn't finish my homework! my bedroom is haunted!!
If you miss games you should get a zero in your averages for the game.
That’s a good idea. Definitely should count as zeroes if they are healthy and don’t play.
Shit lebron would have a way worse percentage lol
That's genius, actually
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That’s stupid asf
Jokic beat out Embiid in every other stat except couple less pts per game and less than one block per game I think.. Jokic smashed records last season and post season. Broke multiple Wilt Chamberlain records.. Won the championship.. Yet, his skin color wasn't correct, so he couldn't win MVP.. Im so glad we got away from treating people different because of their skin color and found the best solution by treating people differently because of their skin color (nothing in history shows that won't work!!)
in the NBA an employee can miss 1 out of every 5 days of work and still win the Employee of the Year.
In any other job on earth if you miss 1 out of every 20 days of work, you will be fired.
So now we see players push themselves and play while enjured so they can get to 65 games.
I am not a Perkins fan nor a fan of his comments last year about Jokic (Not a Denver fan). Perkins has had his eyes opened like the rest of the world watching him demolish the playoffs. So now he is giving him respect, nothing wrong with that. So for me, I will cut Perk some slack on this issue.
I can’t believe that Jokic got a flop tech but Embiid has never been called on his nonsense. There is a ref problem in the league.
Embiid wouldn't be hurt so much if he'd quit flailing and falling to the ground with every light graze. I've seen my grandma take out an entire endcap of Dr Pepper without stumbling, yet this behemoth of a man can't withstand a stationary wrist brushing against his shoulder. Quit with the dramatics - it makes you look weak, and that floor you flop on has less give than an arm.
Your opinion of Perkins is close to unanimous.
People talk about stat-padding during easy games, but no one talks about how ducking difficult games is another way to influence the stat-line.
I’m at the point where if a player misses a game, he gets docked pay from his salary
I agree with Chuck… it should have been 70 instead of 65. As it stands at 65 games, that works out to 79% and that’s a joke if the MVP can’t even dress for 80% of the games
This is why only looking at stats doesn't tell the story. It leaves out the context like Embiid ducking the tougher competition so he can boost his stats so all the stat nerds can think he is better than he is.
For those interested in the Serbian... It's uplašen or Уплаљен (for those hard core Cyrillic fans).
When Embiid got MVP, it was a sad, sad day for NBA... Flopping, dodging best teams, rude, and still gets MVP... sad
Embiid should've sat out longer than he did. All these takes about how he's ducking smoke and resting because he doesn't want to compete are toxic and likely lead to him rushing back from injury against Golden State. He's the reigning MVP of the NBA why people can't appreciate his greatness without constant scrutiny is beyond me.
makes sense. More free throws when you are at home, or when you are playing against a bad team that even their home court doesn't like.
I also shared this view that Embiid was avoiding a duel with Jokic but after watching the game against golden state warriors he looked really hurt. He was limping, at one point he was going towards a lose ball and his left knee gave way and he fell down. It didn't help that a gsw player landed on the hurt knee at the end.
Chasing the mvp last season made him have nothing left for the post season so he'll definitely miss more games than 5+ in the future.
He started his nba career with knee issues and adding all that muscle and bulk compounded to the issue.
And? That’s why he’s sitting out vs teams over .500 and hasn’t played in Denver in 5 years?
Hes ok not sure why so many thinks hes great. Hes good but not great at all. Not even close.
If you get within six feet of Embid, the refs donate a foul to his scoring line. The league smashes Jokic in the face and lacerates his arms and he gets one in ten calls.
Whether it’s on purpose or not, the perception is, Embiid plays against the bottom feeders of the NBA and ends up posting numbers. And the data shows him sitting against upper echelon teams. Only Embiid can change that perception around.
Just like the playoffs. He disappeared against the Celtics in that last playoff game when he had to opportunity as “MVP” to step up.
I'm a Serbian and Perk did said word nicely lol
A "load of crap management!"
Lefraud James is the king of load management realistically I think he started that honestly cause dudes only played 82 twice in a 21 year career but his fans wanna say he has “longevity” 🤣
@@jasonmartinez1353 Exactly!!!!
Lebron does the exact same thing. He avoids top-tier teams.
One of the best examples of proving haters wrong.
Perkins couldn't sit the right way on a toilet seat. How is he giving his opinions on sliced bread much less an analyst.
You’re so right on the point 👏🙌❤️🇨🇦
too little too late, Perkins should have been fired for his clearly intentionally racist take on mvp picks
It does NOT MATTER how many time Joker wins MVP, has the craziest seasons, or how many rings he gets; Perk will forever have AT LEAST one excuse, because he will always be a [black] victim, and Joker will always be a white mega star.
Kendrick Perkins he should be fire terminated why haven't they fired him yet? Eagerness should not be a excused. ESPN has lower the bar so anybody can get a job there it's sad😢
Nick wrong is the worst
Joel Embiid. is a Humble Man, his interview about Jokic was awesome!
Gotta give it to perk for starting the narrative to get embiid an mvp. Even pulled the race card.
If you’re getting more fouls called in your favor than the Hack a Shaq, there’s a fucking problem.
Man was literally hurt lol what
embiid's strength of schedule so far is at .440. this makes his schedule weaker than orlando's, who is in 30th place right now in sos standings with .442. philly as a team is in 14th with .503
Someone splashed Perk with cold water because he also said Lebron was so soft against the rockets it hurt his goat case (it never existed) but nonetheless 😂
That man misses a ton of games a season why is it a story now .. he missed his whole 1st year and most of the 2nd
Embiid is just big James Harden that can’t pass as well
This is why people say the NBA is soft because the fans are now soft. It's only stat padding when it's the player you don't like LOL. The Stars always get star treatment for anyone who's watched the NBA for more than a couple years. The LeBron hate from him claiming to be the goat just spills over into other conversations. Chill the hell out
Well made video great content and point. Speach is difficult to understand though