NBA Reaction: Maxey CALLS OUT Embiid, Clippers RED HOT vs. Warriors, Rockets-Bucks | Hoops Tonight

[@ptyten9718]

A 23yo having to tell a 10+ year veteran to stop being late is an absolute embarrassment.

[@SpencerDGoose]

“You have to behave like Jokic. You have to behave like Lu-“ good catch my man lol

[@nickjones5495]

😂😂😂😂

[@SeunAdekoya]

I caught that while listening in the shower 😂😂😂

[@mctaguer]

Fans in Boston have fully known and said these kinds of things about Embiid for years. It's a big reason we are NEVER afraid of the Sixers or him. Ever. We feel justified now--we've been saying it forever; now the rest of the NBA is finally accepting what's been true all along. Embiid didn't just BECOME this way--he has ALWAYS been this way.

[@alldatruckus]

Well said

[@austinstaley9450]

When did you get drafted to the Celtics?

[@theyoganath3073]

Joe(L) Embi_.d

[@Colorblind1975]

Imagine Embiid having the work ethic mentality and mindset of Giannis.

[@dvdv8197]

Your best player sets the tone. Just look at Steph curry and how it/he elevates other players on the team. Thank God we have superstars like Wardell Stephen Curry II to offset the shenanigans of 'superstars' like Embiid. World of difference.

[@aminuabdullahi5922]

Ngl Jason if your gonna come for Embiid like that understandably you gotta callout Luka too

[@melodymaker135]

This was FANTASTIC Jason

[@melodymaker135]

Referring to your amazing and fiery analysis of the ridiculous Embiid situation

[@dvdv8197]

So did Joel Embiid shove anyone in that meeting? 😅😂 Sixers are a joke, feel sorry for Maxey!

[@dvdv8197]

Just gotta make your free throws, Warriors! 😅😭 Good effort in the end though, on to the next one! 👍👏

[@bobbydeason6581]

It’s inexcusable and so frustrating!!!

[@amitaiuriarte4094]

Seriously!! You're professionals, act like it!!

[@mookz34]

The Bucks are 5th in Defensive Rating over the past 8 games. It is their offense that is struggling. Too many turnovers, too many wasted possessions.

[@jac23mj]

Hey Jason, great show as usual 👏🏾. I have a question. What do you think of Tyler Herro’s start to the season, and particularly his recent 5-8 game stretch? Sucks that it was about a couple years late, but it’s almost painful to think that this version of Herro would’ve helped the Heat win a title during these last few years.

[@raymondthompson5615]

Option 3 for the Warriors defence late game...once Steph/Buddy are beaten (forcing the hard help from Dreymond) -> Buddy/Steph leave early peeling to Norman -> Moody still splits two until the peel is complete but can always recover to the corner.

[@greyklopstock7155]

I'm glad you see it similar to me in terms of the warriors over helping off shooters to stop drives. To me, it's felt like that's a go to response from other teams whenever we hit a big three, and it almost always burns us. I would rather concede an attempt at the rim with Draymond Green as the last line of defense than overhelp off a shooter. Cause the math tells you after you make a three, if the other team responds with anything but a made three or and one, you are still profiting one point.

[@dusk5121]

I think one of the main reasons the game leans towards speed these days is because these last few years had quite a few players of the derrick rose archetype like ja morant, darius garland, deaaron fox and others so that the league had to adapt to that. In a sense, the top talent that enters the league dictates team construction. Back in the 2000 there were a lot of good power forwards like duncan, garnett and pau gasol the game had to be slower and more centered around size and strength with slower pace.

[@BroadChronometry]

great breakdown of the bucks/rockets game

[@nevermindthe90s]

The thing I noticed about Clippers is that they do not guard the basket, they guard the action. What that means is that they actually make it difficult for perimeter players to relocate along the 3pt line to the next stop, next screen, etc instead of blocking the lane to the basket. And we don't know how to deal with it. And don't get me started on the overhead pass, my goodness.

[@Liz_A.5280]

Damn spot on!!!

[@arturasurbonas4262]

High level scouting, really team like Lakers could employ you for scouting job in the future and i wish you that, keep getting better like you do...

[@tiredbasketballfan]

Mailbag: Melton being out for the season is a tough blow for the Dubs, as he was the perfect offguard to Steph and their only real two-way small perimeter player. What should they do to make up for it? Regarding their frontcourt and secondary production issues - Do you think there's any realistic chance the Heat would part ways with Bam, and if so, could they get him without completely gutting their roster? I think he'd be a much better fit than someone like Giannis, and his contract is more modest too

[@Fast___Break]

I think you made some great points on the sixers front!

[@amitaiuriarte4094]

Warriors fan: I’m grateful to Kerr for the last decade, but I’m also pissed at the way he’s handling our next generation. Why is Lindy Watters getting more playing time than Moody and JK? It feels like two years ago when Tye Jerome and Jeremy Lamb got playing time over Moody and JK. I don’t mean to hate on Waters, I love having him, but I’m more interested in seeing what Moody can do, and the last time JK played crunch time, he won the game in OT against the Rockets!

[@ou8428]

Some people call it a hesitation move, some of us call it a carry.

[@coopercollins5076]

A hesitation move done correctly isn’t a carry bro

[@dvdv8197]

One of the LA teams at least is Warriors' Cliptonite. 😅😬

[@jayjayrich23]

Did you see Lakers vs warriors playoffs

[@fyntc]

yes they're called the lakers

[@Pellowwwmmnm]

Respect 🫡

[@karmandhillon4329]

@@jayjayrich23went to 6. Not like the lakers getting swept and gentlemen swept and calling it a close series vs jokic.

[@jayjayrich23]

@@karmandhillon4329 what does that have to do with Lakers warriors

[@alvincamba1791]

The missed three by Payton wasn't the plan. Payton took it from Curry's pass to Waters.

[@randoH3000]

I’m sure Embiid is a little checked out rn but the 76ers have always been a joke as an organization, Jimmy Butler called them out a while ago.

[@dvdv8197]

Mailbag question: If you're the Warriors, what is the antidote to those wide open 3's generated from Harden drives and Warriors double teaming him?

[@berserkmonk5331]

Hopefully Jason answers this 😂 My guess would be to contain the ball( contain Harden) without having help from Draymond or having to collapse on Harden or Zubac. But with our roster, this is pretty tough to do.

[@OreozRox]

warriors have done this last few years i notice they double team & over hustle, which can be great but a disciplined team can make just one more pass to find the open man (powell) & open three 5 out of six times. i’d rather have them not leave certain people to double, don’t leave powell & harden, their two top scorers

[@glenn8886]

"The best player in the league doesn't behave like Joel Embiid", well...I think Wilt maybe an exception🤔

[@trumpetking11]

It’s worth noting that the Rockets were playing the second night of a back to back and still almost won. They’re gonna be a problem

[@brockjensen2473]

Hey Jason, mailbag question for you... Thoughts on Luka this season? I don't want to overreact this early in the season but as we've known for a long time not only is Luka a poor defensive player often times he's a downright defensive liability especially with regards to effort or better yet the lack there of. Anyways, my point is in years past he was so ridiculously productive offensively the vast majority of basketball fans (including yourself) have given him slack on the defensive side of the ball. This far into this season his numbers for the most part are down across the board but the particularly alarming thing to me is his scoring. Despite attempting more FGA and only about 0.5 less 3PA than last season he is averaging over 5PPG less. He's also playing nearly identical minutes compared to last season but he is down nearly 2APG & 2RPG. In my opinion in terms of scoring I do think he'll bounce back as we get further into the season but I want to know your take on it. Are you alarmed at all? Also, if his current play is how he plays all season would you still be willing to overlook his atrocious defense for his offensive production?

[@greyklopstock7155]

Amidst all the mistakes and bs on Monday night against the clippers, we still win if we just make our free throws. The whole team needs to pull a Don Nelson and lock themselves in the gym shooting free throws until we make them on autopilot

[@dvdv8197]

Great final effort by Warriors, just came up a little short. The Clippers have had Warriors' number for quite some time now. Just gotta hope you don't meet them in postseason, because honestly, those are some UGLY azz games. 😅😆😊🙏

[@tomricardo4422]

It is weird how Jason keeps defending Luka after this rant. Luka continuously doesn’t give effort defensively and blames his teammates on the floor. Luka learned nothing from last season and despite being generational offensive talent is not helping the Mavericks get to place where they are real contenders

[@Ringostarr34]

Fair, but to me there are levels to this, and Embiid has Luka beat in terms of being lazy, unmotivated, and a poor leader by quite a bit.

[@nomorepartiezz]

Luka 100% has issues with conditioning and attitude but it feels disingenuous to compare him to Embiid. Luka has proven himself to be a playoff leader since pretty much day 1. He just took his team to the Finals on one knee at age 25. Luka needs to grow up a bit but Embiid is straight up embarrassing himself as a guy who’s past 30 and has NEVER EVER had a successful season leading a team to a deep playoff run, its literally now or never for Embiid, his window is closing, and he’s still acting like this. Embiid has been a disappointment year in year out for his entire career and has yet to prove that he isn’t a loser or playoff choker while Luka is having a bad month in November. Huge difference

[@Iamrxch3]

Sixers are too small. Even when Embiid is healthy, half of the team is like 6'4 and under

[@TitoPopoy]

Umf.. Steph at 10 is just disrespectful

[@kylestakes1439]

Thers a reason why Joel has never made it out of the 2nd round 😂

[@3llement]

Embid got that MVP from Jokic only because of Perkin's racist rant. He never deserved it, and Jokic got robbed.

[@karsonrivers9880]

I don’t like Embiid but he deserved an MvP since it’s a regular season award. He’s had regular season stats no one has had since Wilt. Playoffs don’t affect that aren’t even considered in MVP. Now as an overall player nah fuck Embiid he can’t get it done in the playoffs. He has objectively had some of the best regular seasons of all time though.

[@sideactivist]

if you think perkins has that much pull alone you’re insane

[@SamDavisson]

You just can't trust the Process 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@michaelpaullang4401]

Tbh I think these bad habits been here but I think difference now he feels like Philly don’t mess with so he’s sort of check outed you can tell

[@passingparticle7037]

Mail bag: Would the lakers have been better off long term with the Buddy Hield and Myles Turner trade for Russel Westbrook a few years back? I’m not sure why it didn’t happen but I always wonder how they would’ve been with a real shooter like that.

[@dvdv8197]

Wait, did Jason REALLY call that Clippers-Warriors game "highly entertaining"!? 😅🤣

[@chrisgomez8747]

It was 😂

[@dvdv8197]

It was an ugly AZZ game and very frustrating 😅😂​@@chrisgomez8747

[@jonathanelijo]

Joel Embid showed everyone who he was (again) in the series against the Knicks. He's a dirty player - top 3 dirtiest in the league - and has a victim mentality. Not. A. Winner.

[@nickjones5495]

Still not getting with the dirty player accusations over 1 instance but yes this is embarrassing

[@jonathanelijo]

@@nickjones5495 there's more than 1 ... anyway, it's just sad because he's so ridiculously talented.

[@SeunAdekoya]

@@nickjones5495look it up on KZbin bro There’s a whole montage of clips of Joel having no regards for his opponents

[@nickjones5495]

@@jonathanelijo just 1

[@TheKennyGM]

Clippers are shooting 38% or 39% from three whille Harden is struggling so what's your point? also GSW are the worst FT team in the league shooting 69,7%

[@ProducerRyan212]

Clippers have warriors number (warriors fan).

[@rome24k]

Nah. They just gotta figure out something for zubac. Looney didn’t play and he woulda took some of the rebounds from him so I think he is somewhat of a solution when healthy. But what really killed us last night were missed free throws. If we make half the ones we missed we win the game. Plus we normally shoot better form 3 so we will be fine. Almost won both games and Steph got hurt in the first one. 7 game series I like gsw.

[@alvincamba1791]

It's Ty Lue

[@elizaschaeffer34]

bucks went downhill starting at the 4 point mark where we had giannis, trent, portis, green, wright

[@SeunAdekoya]

Troell Embiid as always

[@SanJoseSharky992]

No Daryl Morey team is ever going to have god culture..

[@roberthall1818]

Yep embid played in the Olympics wasn't ready for the season 🤦

[@roberthall1818]

Embid ain't a leader he does nothing but blame others 🤬

[@apsureacts]

Joel Embiid is a clown. He’s always been overrated and his mvp should’ve been jokics

[@apsureacts]

The lack of self awareness, the calling out teammates, the flopping, the choking. Idk how people support him

[@peterjohnson2181]

The sixer’s and the league has cuddled him since he has been in the league. So what did they expect

[@perkio30]

Embiid is content with his mvp trophy and massive extension imo. Feels like he doesn't care about a ring at this point lol.

[@karsonrivers9880]

Yeah, the same mentality for every cowboys star when they get paid. Also Jerry Jones Mentality for the last 20 years.

[@cmac392]

the 76ers stink & Embiid is overrated by the NBA media

[@doriandd4648]

Ok as an mvp, he’s one of the top players in the league. I don’t think he has to “behave like one” in order to become one. Not anymore. His problem is he seems to forget he’s not a champion. He’s starting the second half of his prime right now and is only 3-5 years away from being past it. He had the super team now. What’s his excuse gonna be for never winning a chip? Stop playing Joel.

[@12gark]

Ty Lue is a hell of a coach and a big part of the reason why the Clippers still look like a competent team with a washed James Harden and a hot hand Norman Powell as their best player.

[@heigherheights21]

Washed James Harden putting out 20ppg 8reb 9ast Even if he's older, he's still one of the best basketball players. There is more to basketball than scoring kiddo "FEAR THE BEARD" UNO 👆

[@12gark]

@heigherheights21 first off, saying "kiddo" to a grown ass man isn't an insult, it just makes you look like an idiot. Second, non-washed James Harden would be doubling those numbers with a competent coach and a competent series of role players. Third, if you really think someone will fear James Harden in spring, I'm sorry to inform you that ship has sailed many years ago.

[@graceamadise2049]

​@@12gark Kawhi is coming back stop acting like he ain't this is not the final version of the clippers. When Kawhi comes back they will all start doubling Kawhi and James Harden efficiency will go up. Harden is getting doubled every game what do you expect him to do 😂😂😂

[@12gark]

@graceamadise2049 if and when Kawhi will play 3 consecutive playoff games without getting hurt give me a call.