Good Value on Joel Embiid to win the MVP at +1600

[stevenash]

The betting market has Embiid as the prohibitive favorite.

Embiid is better at everything ,everything, than Jokic, except passing.

Embiid takes over games, he dominates physically, he guards every position on the floor and protects the paint.

Jokic is a finesse player who isn't even average defensively.

The markets are right, Embiid is the clear favorite to be MVP.

Last post to you.
The numbers proved you wrong, and no matter how much you say otherwise it changes nothing.
Have a lucky day now.

[shadymcgrady]

Embiid is the better all around player but he is injury prone. The stars are aligned for Joel this yr

[thomorino]

Embiid is the better all around player but he is injury prone. The stars are aligned for Joel this yr

Nash lives in his own little world. Not one close to reality. Its not worth arguing with him.

He thinks that Jimmy Butler is more valuable than Durant and Curry.

Just a classic example of someone who can't apply facts or analytics.

[shadymcgrady]

Nash lives in his own little world. Not one close to reality. Its not worth arguing with him.

He thinks that Jimmy Butler is more valuable than Durant and Curry.

Just a classic example of someone who can't apply facts or analytics.

I think Butler is a fantastic player and a top 15 at all times but Durant and curry break the metrics with the strengths of their game

[stevenash]

I think Butler is a fantastic player and a top 15 at all times but Durant and curry break the metrics with the strengths of their game

And that wasn't my claim, that was the NBA's claim that I only reported on.

Morino tries to troll me into his feeble attempts to badger me into a flame war.
Doesn't work.

[thomorino]

And that wasn't my claim, that was the NBA's claim that I only reported on.

Morino tries to troll me into his feeble attempts to badger me into a flame war.
Doesn't work.

You don't know how to apply analytics. And this wasn't your last post.

[jjgold]

Morino good call

[thomorino]

Embiid is obliterating Jokic - the MVP debate ends tonight

[chargers4222]

Anyone else just see Jokic dominate Embiid on defense, force him into a missed layup and then run the length of the floor for his own basket to seal the win? Crazy stuff. Definitely MVP moment if you ask me. A true force on both ends of the floor.

[thomorino]

Anyone else just see Jokic dominate Embiid on defense, force him into a missed layup and then run the length of the floor for his own basket to seal the win? Crazy stuff. Definitely MVP moment if you ask me. A true force on both ends of the floor.

Embiid was plus 3 and Jokic was minus 10.

That means, for people like you, that Embiid completely dominated Jokic in this game.

Phiadelphia was 13 points better than Denver when both Embiid and Jokic were on the court.

[Fishhead]

Guy is great
Best player on the planet

[vitterd]

I think Embiid ended the debate tonight. They had to take Jokic off the floor because he simply couldn’t guard Embiid. It’s not close. Jokic is a great player but Embiid on a different level.

[thomorino]

There is no human being with a tv and 2 eyes who could have watched this game and come to any conclusion that Embiid is a clear level above Jokic.

Embiid is an all-time great center.

[IBetYou]

This matchup tonight sums it up. Embiid scores more points, but Jokic gets the win in spite of a much weaker supporting cast. Rather like LeBron James vs Carmelo Anthony in their early years, only at the centre position.

[IBetYou]

Tobias Harris: 10pts in 37mins -----this would never happen if Jokic was his teammate. He's become the weak link on this Sixers team and it's because there just aren't enough shots for him.

[jjgold]

This matchup tonight sums it up. Embiid scores more points, but Jokic gets the win in spite of a much weaker supporting cast. Rather like LeBron James vs Carmelo Anthony in their early years, only at the centre position.

yep

Phila will get swept by Brooklyn

[IBetYou]

I prefer Jokic but I would possibly concede that Embiid is better in the h2h matchup (in spite of the game result just now) simply because he's the bigger guy -might sound obscene to a non-basketball person but I watch a lot of basketball at various levels and you see quite often at the centre position an inferior guy win the matchup just with physicality. Like Shaq vs Howard when Shaq was on his last legs, or that former okc player Dakari Johnson beasting some future nba star in summer league. Where is he now? -exactly!

[IBetYou]

Sixers need to get Harris back into scoring mode. Harden needs to be the pg, maybe have Maxey a 6th man. Clearly chemistry issues for them -growing pains.

[thomorino]

This matchup tonight sums it up. Embiid scores more points, but Jokic gets the win in spite of a much weaker supporting cast. Rather like LeBron James vs Carmelo Anthony in their early years, only at the centre position.

Philly was on the second night of a back to back, that's why Denver won. Embiid dominated Jokic.

[chargers4222]

Just a masterful performance by Nikola Jokic, completely dominating Joel Embiid in every sense of the word. Surely a lock to win his second MVP now. Amazing stuff from the best center in the NBA, perhaps of all-time, Nikola Jokic.

[stevenash]

Philly was on the second night of a back to back, that's why Denver won. Embiid dominated Jokic.

Always an excuse for a loss.
Fact of the matter is you suck at this.
Always an excuse.

[chargers4222]

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Hey everyone, check out this sequence beginning at the 0:37 mark. Suffocating defense by the reigning MVP Nikola Jokic causes Joel Embiid to miss his layup. Jokic then runs the length of the floor for an eye-popping basket in which he was fouled by eventual MVP runner-up (or maybe third place) Joel Embiid, but unfortunately the and-one was not called. No worries, Nuggets take the win behind a masterful performance from the soon-to-be back-to-back NBA MVP, Nikola "The Joker" Jokic.

[stevenash]

^
Embid is soft as ice cream.
When he landed on his fat ass the whole city of Denver was screaming "Stay down lard ass, stay down"

You want to see something funnier, check out his shooting last week from both the Orlando game and the Brooklyn game.
31 percent, and he's a low post guy.

So overrated it's hilarious, he's a brick layer, the guy you hire if you need a brick wall built on property.
And vastly overrated on defense.
Got seven points, not votes, points last season for DPOY.
One second place vote and a couple of booby prize votes, and according to the OP he's the elite of the elite.
Excuse me while I am so not impressed.

But the OP says he's a top five center of all time.
Personally I think the story of the Easter Bunny hip hopping his way down Bunny Lane on Easter morning with a bright colored Easter Egg in his mouth coming to my front door is more believable.

I consider the source, the source being the OP whose every second word is a bold face lie, not even a creative lie, a lie you can prove a lie in a NY minute.

So if the OP says he's elite, well that's good enough for me.
Not.

[USCPHILLYGUY]

Nasher will you give me +1600 on Embiid?

[shadymcgrady]

I'll take +1600 on embiid as well

[USCPHILLYGUY]

I'll take +1600 on embiid as well

He claims he has zero shot so would be easy $$$

[stevenash]

He claims he has zero shot so would be easy $$$

Show me where I said zero shot?

[shadymcgrady]

He claims he has zero shot so would be easy $$$

Just give us another college winner phillygal, less trolling more plays

[stevenash]

Just give us another college winner phillygal, less trolling more plays

My actual words were "he has zero shot if he goes down again (injury)

I can back up my words.

[stevenash]

Final word Shady, and I'll move on.
I don't want a riff with you, I enjoy my chats with you, you know a thing or two about a thing or two, and I've picked up a thing a two along the way, which is rare these days around here.

It ain't trolling if you can back it up, back it up with truth.

And all I'm doing is letting him know it.

Good day.

[thomorino]

Embiid dominated Jokic in every way when he was on the court.

Again, Embiid was +10 on the court, Jokic was negative.

Philly completely dominated Denver when Embiid and Jokic were on the court, and it wasn't even close.

[Gmen30]

He claims he has zero shot so would be easy $$$

[Gmen30]

Philly was on the second night of a back to back, that's why Denver won. Embiid dominated Jokic.

They played Orlando the night before

[thomorino]

They played Orlando the night before

He played over 40 minutes and the game wasn't in Philly, it was an overtime game, Jokic had the night off.

Embiid still dominated Jokic in every way.

[vitterd]

Philly tired legs were clear last night. OT game and the got back to Philly about 3am. It’s not uncommon for these turn around games to go with the team who had the night off.

It was clear that Embiid did dominate Jokic. Anybody who watched the game could see that. But they benched Jokic for most of the second half because he was getting killed out there.