Why 70 PTS In NBA Is Not Impressive Anymore

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[@simonhollis5256]

Couldn't score 30 in the Euroleague with no 3-sec rule, cheerleader refs and no defense. Also, Wemby is a liability. NBA is unwatchable at this point.

[@MarquisVegan]

Keeep hating clown... at the rate Wemby is playing at he is arguably one of the best rookies of all time.

[@Islam.is.the.truth..]

European basketball fans are so toxic. Why are you guys always so angry and bitter? Makes you look so inferior

[@gricius]

you were really expecting a 17 year old wemby to be scoring 30 in EuroLeague? Also there's a reason why he decided not to play in it the next season. It was too physical for his young body.

[@professionalcurrysexual9289]

Wemby is one of the best defending rookies ever you’re a casual

[@AverageGuy28]

Most of the times Embid "draws" fauls he is floping or making offensive fauls. I think referees should know him at this point.

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

This is where I don’t agree fully. He’s a master at recognizing contact, even then where’s only a slight bit of it. Yeah sometimes he gets ‘superstar’ calls due to amount of times he actually plays with the ball, but most of the time - you can actually see a foul there. I’d question the NBA rulebook more here

[@armanilibertini2832]

If you go back and watch the complete game you can see no fouls when the ref called it the game was bullshit and I can tell embiid doing this isn’t impressive it bad for the league since he’s the deadass a foul merchant

[@Sirketas]

Props to Embiid, he's a beast during the regular season, but you gotta wonder if he can sustain such productivity come playoff time.

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

Love his game, but it is near impossible for him to convince me he’s going to be healthy for all the playoffs if Philly want to go all the way.

[@Opieboi]

Injuries, that’s it it’s just injuries, idk y ppl seem to have short term memory loss

[@ljutko7]

Props for floping? U one of a kind

[@Thy639]

​@@ljutko7he destroyed jokic without flopping cry more

[@ljutko7]

@@Thy639 😥😢😉🤣

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

Who’s here after Luka dropped 73? 😅

[@jakubkrivanek3112]

One thing makes all that craze for individual stats rather stupid. 3rd place Sixers play against dead last Spurs, Embiid as MVP candidate has no physical match there, drops record points against poor defense and still it was rather a close game. Come on. This is why individual stats mean little for me personally.

[@kurdan9848]

Embiid is the refs favourite player. You can never defend him with any real effort. This means he'll either get an easy shot or get free throws. Then the playoffs start and they allow defenses to be more agressive and he is lost. He'll have 2 MVP's while never going past the 2nd round. Any other player would be crucified for it.

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

Love Embiid’s game, especially the part of him moving as a guard at this weight. Where he doesn’t convince the most is his health, come playing time. Can he stay healthy for a full playoff run? That’s where he doesn’t convince me

[@Qichar]

Well, the refs call it by the rules mostly. Embiid is a little like Harden in that he has decide to exploit those rules to the maximum extent possible.

[@albanybestdrumline]

They say this about a different player every year 😒

[@gabepizza]

you really believe he will never even reach the conference finals?

[@KingslayerSrb]

Kudos for scoring 70, just saying that number sounds exhausting lol. But I can honestly say I've never seen lighter foul calls than what Embiid gets these days, and I've been following basketball for 30 years. This is historic and unprecedented on so many levels

[@kingjasko]

i dont think NBA games are being officiated with basketball rules anymore, they've completely redefined what basketball is over there and it's supposed to increase entertainment and fun, but for someone like me, an oldschool fan of basketball, this is doing more damage than good...

[@gustavgans403]

​​@@kingjasko I feel you.. interrupting the flow of the game with ft's like every 2nd to 3rd possesion always takes the air out of the atmosphere.. watched the celtics nuggets game, where the refs let go a lot and boy I was at the egde of my seat all the time..

[@kingjasko]

that was a good game :P @@gustavgans403

[@KingslayerSrb]

@@gustavgans403 for real. I don't watch many euro games these days due to lack of free time; I mainly watch nba the day after, during my gym time. But I was on a euroleague game two weeks ago, and its insane how smooth the game is, compared to nba.

[@donkeybickdig557]

​@@kingjasko the nba isn't going to adjust for you. If you dont like whats happening then dont watch. That simple

[@kingjasko]

im not impressed for some reason, does anyone else feel the same?

[@rusuyta4429]

Definitely a weird game, the Spurs are such a perfect match up for him that I honestly don't see what they could've done differently. Teams are gonna have to start treating him like Shaq, where they'll have to have a guy who's big enough just so they can even try to guard him

[@lowerwoodlandallday]

Made me realize he could really go for 100

[@paulofrota3958]

If Embiitch were half as good as people think he is he would have had 100 this game.

[@OugiEin]

Thinking about it, my biggest issue is when he wants to do this. You never see this kind of stuff from him in the playoffs.

[@bnza2]

There's a reason the US didn't even make the World Cup finals

[@chanendlerbong]

Well, now Luka scored 73

[@clasifi1]

On 75% FG though. (Embiid, 54% FG)...Doncic also had 61.5% on three points. (Embiid 33%), no player in NBA history has ever been this efficient while scoring +70. That being said, Neither Embiid nor Doncic should be MVP imo. And none of this matters if these types of performances can't be produced in a playoff environement. Jokic was #1 in points, assists and rebounds and basically averaged a triple double during the playoffs. Now that's impressive.

[@mzarectah]

@@clasifi1 MVP is a regular season award…

[@MrZdanTomas]

Nice breakdown bruh 😎

[@nomesobrenome8539]

Luka just dropped another 70 piece damn

[@ian_ford]

Let's keep this in perspective; benchmarks are lauded when they're not passed often. Roger Banister with the first sub-4 min mile was considered an impossible feat. His record lasted 1.5 months. A year later, 3 sprinters broke the 4 minute barrier in 1 race. In the NFL, 200+ yard receiving game was once inconceivable. 24 of the 50 greatest single game performances by a WR happened in the past 20 years. *It's not that impressive anymore.* QB single season passing record was held by Dan Marino for 27 seasons. It has been passed 11 times since Drew Brees in 2011. The same is happening in the NBA with 4 60+ point performances inside 1 week. 1 person does it, and it inspires others. That's thr quintessential human spirit and resolve. Rather than denigrate it, we should just appreciate it.

[@Rai-on]

People hate Embiid because every Philly star is hated. It’s funny seeing people say “foul merchant” because they never watch him play. He gets fouled because of his usage and how often he is attacking the rim. Much like Giannis getting fouled a lot. Wilt also got fouled a lot, Pettit, Shaq, Iverson, etc. people just hate Embiid because he doesn’t shy away from it because he can make his free throws. Doing something only 8 other players have ever done is by definition impressive. Congrats to him it’s a cool milestone to have.

[@leoclassics5313]

Factz they just cant help but hate for some reason

[@jurajzivkovic1715]

I think players are afraid of guarding embiid proprely cause if they play any defense he gets free throws

[@morrisparrish76]

9 players in NBA history have scored 70 points in a game! WNC haters note: only one of the 9 did it more than once!

[@ivangolubovic7474]

Radivoj Korac- 99 points, OKK Beograd- Stockholm, European Cup, 1965. Zarko Varajic - 45 points in European Cup Final, Bosna -Varese, 1979. Drazen Dalipаgic - 70 points, Venezia-Bologna, Italian championship, 1987. The first two without the three point line established

[@Qichar]

"Like a 12th grader playing with middle schoolers..." I had the same thought watching this game. Embiid really proves that he's a true "big man," not a really tall guard masquerading as a 5.

[@blob6416]

Everybody getting 70 now

[@louismartineau1596]

Everybody? Lol

[@noahtjarks4542]

Yeah definitely the easiest 70 fo sho. All you have to do is be the strongest 7'er in the league who can move like a forward and be the best mid range shooter in the league........ Fuckin donut lol

[@sirfish9824]

Thank you this guy is an absolute idiot lol. Every great scorer ever has averaged 10 or more free throws per game at some point in their careers.

[@thuggwaffle8825]

This is Victors main weakness. He will remember this game and hopefully start putting some muscle on

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

It’s so early for him, he will bulk up a bit more. But I’m not sure he will be able to stop players like Embiid throughout his career. Or maybe adding a bit will be enough as his wingspan can compensate a lot of stuff

[@tyty3150]

If the guys strong enough to block a giannis running at full speed while standing still he’s definitely strong enough to overpower embiid too

[@MarquisVegan]

@@AugustasSuliauskas Once Wemby get more experience, yes he will be able to stop players like Embiid and he will bulk up a lil more also.

[@squozerrplays7365]

Embiid was just too elite. We got to rememeber spurs is an nba team regardless of them being good or bad. Getting 70 points on an nba team got to be impressive

[@donavonhoward114]

Exactly, the Spurs are an NBA team, yet it looks like college players playing against high school players. That's the modern NBA.

[@rusuyta4429]

Shaq would've definitely had a few 70 point games if he could shoot FT's lol

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

big if haha

[@OPPAI6669]

But he can't

[@alokinchi]

As you said. The Spurs decided to actually play defense in the last 4-5 minutes of the 4th quarter. This, and only this, plus the fact that the Spurs are a young team in development mode, is why Embiid was able to be a high volume scorer, and Philly was able to win this one. The same night KAT scored 62, and the Wolves, also a good deep team lost to Charlotte. Let's be real. Charlotte sucks and is among the very bottom part of the power rankings this season, trending downwards now that Rosier has been dealt. Now someone make this make sense. The Thimberwolves showed up this season. Both defensively and offensively. Ant is a superstar. Rudy reinvented himself in Minny and is great at what he does. That McDaniels kid plays great defense I must say. Naz is a great. Conley is great for a vet guard. They are deep as hell. They currently share 1st place in the west with OKC, and they manage to lose to Charlotte, because KAT decides to be a volume scorer, and Charlotte unlike San Antonio manages to stop the shenanigans in the 4th quarter, and KAT gets benched, which should have been done way earlier in my opinion. Damn what a night that was. :D

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

It is actually insane that two guys on the same night had 60+. There was a great tweet about it. KD scored 43 on the same night and usually it would the top scoring performance.. Only to have 2 guys topping that by 19 and 27 points lol

[@676marvin]

Now luka does it

[@gustavgans403]

I don't know that much about the exact ruling of the foul calls for embiid.. but to me, it feels like he isn't allowed to be touched only a little bit by defenders (compared to other guys in the league that can be guarded waay more physical). I feel like there is no question that he is a very very talented player.. but in my eyes (I admit casual eyes) the amount of ft's he gets is kind of bs.

[@RobertLewis85]

NBA is more and more about offense each season. Even guys like Shaq who used to always preach "tough defense" are now saying teams just need to get a few stops defensively at the end of games to be a championship contender. Guys are just so good offensively--plus the anti-defense rules--that bad teams don't even try.

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

I agree. Even made a video about it. The rules are embracing the best offensive schemes of all-time, executed by the most physically gifted and talented players of all-time. How are you stopping that?

[@iamdebaby8152]

Embid is a 3x all defense player. 😂

[@a_machine_of_loving_grace]

This channel has made me fall in love with basketball again. So much better than all US-based basketball analysis.

[@sirfish9824]

No it isn’t. This dude is a A tier embiid hater.

[@a_machine_of_loving_grace]

@@sirfish9824 opinions are like assholes, everybody's got one

[@MilosMandic1987]

I would be bored if I had to shoot 23 free throws...

[@chillwiththehumans]

Kobe Bryant in today's NBA would've broken Wilt's record

[@VarisltGVakaris]

2:16 isn't this not allowed??? wtf nba

[@opiniononion]

You can't defend Embiid since if you breath on him it's a foul

[@sirfish9824]

Hey guess what? Almost every great scorer in nba history has averaged 10 or more free throws per game. You are just a hater. And embiid only gets hated for it because he makes his free throws unlike most big men throughout nba history.

[@opiniononion]

@@sirfish9824 yes I hate the foul baiting of Embiid and Harden but you seem to love it so I guess you enjoy foul shooting contests, hey each to their own

[@louismartineau1596]

​@@sirfish9824he's hated because he's the biggest foul baiter ever.

[@sirfish9824]

@@opiniononionbro it’s the way it is. What do you want him to do? Not do it? You want him to knowingly be less effective then he can be?

[@LedaiCepelinai]

Euroleague > no defense basketball leag

[@davidschuetz1078]

Haters always gotta hate. Players are just getting better.

[@rongiefaustino8867]

70 is 70. GG, Joel. As for my Spurs, it is well-known that this is an expiremental year for them. That's why it wasn't shocking that there was serious defense being played in the 4th quarter. Wemby got schooled and definitely learned a lot from the Embiid matchup. Hell, rook got 33 himself. He needs help down there in San Antonio.

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

70 is incredibly hard I agree, hats off to Joel there. As for the Spurs.. Well, offensively Wemby is a beast already, used a couple of Embiid’s tricks on himself, too. Talking about the help.. Who knows when it’s going to arrive. 24 Draft not looking strong in terms of high upside talent, but there’s always some hidden gems that become superstars. Simply the percentage to drafting one get real slim

[@SP.007]

Is Embiid the "new-age, Americanized" Arvydas Sabonis?

[@AndresSztaba]

Damn, modern NBA defense is painful to see. Kobe scoring 80 in the time period where defense was at the best levels hostorically says it all. Scoring 70 is great tho, but I get the feeling that Kobe, Shaq, Bird, Magic, MJ would score close to 100 in today's NBA...

[@theraikouemp4ror997]

Nowadays NBA fans never get satisfied with everything. Honestly its not the NBA's fault, its you fans ruining everything for no reason.

[@itay7884]

3:56 - 3:58 clear ravel violation and the ref is right there...

[@warrior_kris1744]

Add 3sec rule and change how referees are calling in games....or rather Try to be like european games, i cannot stress how more better will the league be

[@pivotstickman]

Congrats Embiid ! But swear the NBA refs call way to many of his flops and foul baiting. Please stop this the fans hate it, do better NBA

[@sirfish9824]

Bro it is a skill. If they didn’t call it then it wouldn’t be fair to embiid. Because they are making contact with him. He’s just super skilled at drawing it.

[@pivotstickman]

@@sirfish9824 ya ya ya 😂

[@arturblaskevic9097]

I think Jokic winning the NBA championship made huge impact on Embid's mindset, well the game becomes more interesting from that :)

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

everybody wins.. well, every casual fan

[@Opieboi]

I think we should stop suck Jokic rooster and appreciate the game

[@luigibru8677]

Embiid 24/41/70 Wemby 10/19/33

[@patientmah1785]

4 days later, Luka dropped 73 😂🔥

[@leoclassics5313]

Damn yall be hating for real. Talented with it too 😂😂

[@broddy0542]

Doncic scored another 70 piece tonight

[@aking25199]

The easiest 70+ games had Wilt, no doubt. Embiid is at least playing against full professionals meanwhile Wilt was way ahead of his time in playing style, height and physicality. Majority of his competition has been part-time hoopers

[@ivangolubovic7474]

Nowadays NBA is so boring. It's showbusiness no basketball.

[@denism.2590]

the 2nd worst team in the NBA + the most dominant scorer in the league right now = a lot of points although it was easy to score 70 on them for Embiid, I still wouldn't say that it is easy to reach such scoring mark - it's been done only 15 times in NBA history, and 5 of those were done by Wilt Chamberlain Luka has just scored 73 points vs Hawks to win only by 5, he had 91% TS - hope you won't call his performance "easy"

[@haraldhardrade7539]

Free throw merchant, the big crying floper

[@jonermd]

It’s really not impressive because it was erase by luka in less than a week. And just like embid score 70 and towns score 62. Luka score 73 and booker score 62.

[@mzarectah]

That thumbnail got outdated pretty quick…

[@Proactivezealot]

Crazy wemby had 33 and it didn’t matter

[@elmasmiller4371]

would you breakdown the other 70s? than i could answer :D

[@ljutko7]

Your score is 80...do better math And can't wait playoffs for embid to do same 😂😂😂 o boy can't wait.... 😉

[@miloskrstic7199]

Curious how big points drop Embiid gonna perform in the postseason. My prediction: 40 pts per game in regular season, and about 15 to 20 in postseason. What do you guys think?

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

35 in the regular seaso 29 in the post-season

[@OPPAI6669]

Im impressed. Who cares.. 7 footers dont have that touch.. Impressive my men emid

[@denzela5539]

Title misleading

[@VaderLord1981]

when its not impressive than why we dont see this more than once in 5years this is so dissrespectful list all 70 point games and look how offten it happened 70 points are still ipressive even in this no def NBA

[@gricius]

it's obvious that Spurs are tanking, so they don't need to win

[@megadriver23]

Joel Regular Season Embid he will choke in the playoffs like always and has never beaten the Celtics in the playoffs and has never pass the 2 round 😅😅

[@julianrodriguez7148]

Luka with 73 lmao

[@dstarsnz]

This video further proves that Jeremy Sochan is doo doo🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sirfish9824]

Jesus Christ. A whole channel dedicated solely on hating. Lmao.

[@clintstewart5545]

I respect the ability of these players , but nba feels like there is no defense and other teams seem ok to be losing supporters sometimes seem not to care , specially if that gives them a high draft number only play-offs are worth watching for me , the rest just looks meaningless ...

[@someone2084]

embiid is more skilled and is also really strong, wemby is not that strong in comparison. In other words wemby would not have survived any NBA in any period before 2014

[@kurdan9848]

Yeah the 7'4 super skilled player would struggle... nostalgia is funny like that

[@rusuyta4429]

Centers post Shaq and pre Jokic and Embiid sucked. You had a period during that time were Noah and Deandre Jordan were making the First All-Nba teams, and people legitimately thought the position was dead lmao

[@keneth_15]

They exaggerating soft narrative🤷​@@kurdan9848

[@Opieboi]

Manure bol, Shawn Bradley, Kevin Durant, Reggie miller

[@gabepizza]

@@rusuyta4429 Deandre Jordan in his prime was a beast. Did you watch the 2016 Olympics?

[@tebra643]

Hahah Em🦆 is definitely the most embarrassing MVP in history 🤣

[@AverageGuy28]

The last quarter was simply pathetic. I thought basketball was about winning, not about empty stats. That mentality is what makes me think Embid never will be a champion.

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

If you can reach history while winning it, why not do so? Scoring 70 is hard against anyone, might have a chance to do so 2-3 times during your career. They got the W, he got the record. Obviously KAT tried to do the same on the same night and that didn’t work out at all lol

[@AugustasSuliauskas]

To add, it’s one regular season game out of probably 1500-1600 Embiid’s going to play in his career.. So you just go for the record and hope to win in the end

[@aleksapetrovic3054]

Embid will not play anywhere close to 1500 games lol

[@Opieboi]

He came back in because the spurs closed the gap, he’s missed 14 4th quarters this year, that’s not stat padding

[@ChoongaLoonga]

Milutinov will destroy him in Olympics

[@gabepizza]

lol who?

[@ChoongaLoonga]

@@gabepizza nikola milutinov is best serbian center,better than jokic prooved in WC 2023

[@gabepizza]

@@ChoongaLoonga the olympics isn't the junior varsity WC. This is the Olympics where the USA has won 4 gold medals in a row and 7 out of 8 golds with NBA Players. Remember what happened last time Serbia met the USA in the Olympics finals? Wasn't pretty to say the least

[@ChoongaLoonga]

@@gabepizza Milutinov is currently in top 5 centers in world.Has big basketball IQ and is very very strong,but before gold medal game was tied.Have you seen what avramovic and dobric did to shai who averages 30pts in NBA,he was totally cut off.USA still has athelticism and best scoring team,but we ll see what will happen since the worlx caught uo with USA,firat 15 best bballers are frok NBA then comes euroleague.From this USA team of last wc 2023 only Edwards is good,others are really junk,if there wasnt edwards it would have been fiasco.I see brunson is averaging a lot of points in NBA in euroleague he would have had difficulties cathing up.What i would like to see most is duel between Nikola Kalinic and Kawhi Leonard.Leonard is my favourite player from NBA,Kalinic from both euroleage and serbia.They play forward,both are same age and same size and are prime in their position in their leagues.Kalinic is also a monster in both defence and offense.Reason for barças loss against real in Semis last year is Saras benching Kalinic in 2nd half.This season he plays 25+min and we see results,currently best and most important player of barça.It will be one hell of a duel since Kalinic is in someways european Kawhi Leonard,and basically only player from Serbia who could guard Lebron

[@gabepizza]

@@ChoongaLoonga you can't say a Euroleague center is one of the best in the world because the competition is so much less. I mean 2 of the 3 last Euroleague MVPs, Vezenkov and Micic, come into the NBA and can barely get off the bench. The other recent Euroleague player, Mirotic, was a role player at best in the NBA. Can you imagine the other way around? Jokic and Embiid go to Euroleague and get DNPs. lol

[@sandrutea666]

Even I would score 70 against this defence 🙂

[@injusticeanywherethreatens4810]

The biggest problem with embiiid is all the fouls he draws. He draws WAAAY too many cause just staring at him wrongly is a foul apparently ... And then when defences load up on him in thr playoffs and he needs to learn new passing angles he has refused to. other centres like Shaq and Jok have learned and adopted these. I just hope he works on his passing or at least Nurse changes the Philly's offence so that passing chances are far more open and clear for Emb in those situations.

[@davidschuetz1078]

Delete your acc please

[@djmedo17]

Embiid Sucks ! this guy is overrated

[@paulofrota3958]

EMBIITCH doesn't deserve all this praise.

[@Opieboi]

“Embitch” is so childish it unitonically makes me chuckle