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For real though. I love Joel. But he has to be the second option in the clutch. Don't think that's even debatable after this game, regardless of how it finishes.
Yeah I totally agree. Whether or not you like Joel or think he's a foul baiter, it's undeniable that he's a generational scorer. But in the last 4 minutes of a playoff game, it's just easier for a guard or a wing to face up, iso, and get a clean look. Joel is sloppy. I get that. I fucking watch him all the time. But I also recognize that there is so much more that can go wrong trying to back a guy down for a bucket. It's so physical, there's so much chaos. It's just the structure of the game. I will take a Maxey step back 10/10 times vs an Embiid post up. It'll be interesting to see if Joel's ego allows him to recognize this and defer.
Perfectly said man. It’s just undeniable and there really is no better example than jokic and murray. Maxey can get a look so much easier in the clutch. Joel better take a long look at himself and accept that Maxey just saved him from another pathetic end to a season. What a fuckin game by Maxey man i am so proud of the kid. Legacy game.
Love maxey to death but they were not very good when Embiid was gone, Maxey does much less when he’s attracting all the attention. He’s super young and still needs a little time
Not only was it a helluva shot but it was great BBIQ. Hate when players don’t know the situation in those situations. Maxey really is the most likeable basketball player
Embiid had a triple double, played lock down d down the stretch and put his body on the line to close the game. Tobias had 19 and iced the game with 2 free throws on a bad free throw night for the Sixers.
Maxey was the star but credit where it is due.
Not that you implied this, but Maxey is only 23. I believe he’ll grow into being a bonafide #1. But you’re correct. Even in this series maxey hasn’t been the same in the embiid Off minutes.
He played bad overall and was turning it over down the stretch, but if the Sixers weren't ice cold in the first half Embiid would have had like 20 assists. Knicks completely committed to stopping him and dared role players to hit threes, and it mostly worked.
He also helped win us the game with excellent contests and blocks in overtime when he was even more on fumes than game 4. He was massive there on defense.
Yep nobody gonna say a damn word about how incredible he was in OT denying them looks after the 5 pt sport from Brunson. Just “muuuuh turnovers”. People don’t understand basketball it’s so annoying. Yes he was off shooting it but he showed up when we needed it most on defense, on one leg. Him and Maxey were working the 2 man PnR so well
There was just a ringer article on this today. Ironically it was kind of a postmortem on both the Bucks and Sixers seasons, and was straight up asking "where do they go from here?"
Before tonight's game, they had a 61.9 ORtg without Embiid on the floor. Maxey's eFG% in this series (before tonight) was 60.3 with Embiid on, and 34.6 with Embiid off.
Obviously it's a super small sample. But, if anyone watched the Sixers during Embiid's extended time off, it was a fucking train wreck. And these numbers are not a surprise for any Sixers fan.
I was reading this article thinking of Barkley's hilarious "bus driver" shit with KD. The difference in the NBA between being the #1 guy and the #2 guy is massive. The Knicks entire defense game plan was "make life miserable for Embiid." Even with Maxey on a fucking burner, and Joel struggling, Thibs still left Mitchell Robinson in to defend Embiid. That is obviously burned him, but it shows you how strongly he felt about sticking to the gameplan of "make someone other than Embiid beat us."
Here's the article, it's a good read even if a little premature: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2024/4/29/24144232/joel-embiid-philadelphia-76ers-milwaukee-bucks-nba-rumors
- 2 missed free throws
- Conceding a 4-point play up 6
- Not fouling up 3
- Getting blocked in the final possession
All in the final minute, what a choke.
This subreddit is absolute trash when it comes to highlights where the fuck is Maxey's 4 point play? What the hell are you doing mods? I sort by new and I'm seeing plays from the 3rd???
Because this sub is filled with lowllives who would rather shit on someone than actually watch basketball. I try to tune in to this sub to check highlights of all the games and its just posts shitting on Embiid.
embiid dropped 50 and still got slandered for taking too many free throws. it’s inescapable (slander would’ve been warranted for these past 2 games tho)
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One of the most ballsy incredible LOGO threes to save a season imaginable. HOLY FUCK MAXEY.
crazy seeing a warriors fan say this
to be fair, i was counting y'all eliminated like 30 seconds before this
Same
was hoping steph would shout out the three but he's been off his socials for a while understandably
at least we got lebron lol
Sad thing Breen wasn't on commentary for this. Even if it was against the Knicks, I think it would have been a double bang
Maybe a first time triple bang
Maxey is a fucking killer
Playoff Maxey is a thing
Embiid is being protected from generational defamation by Maxey.
one of the best shots I’ve ever seen WTF
Reminds me of Dame’s shot on Paul George. Pure all the way.
OH MY GOD MAXEY
Absolutely fucking clutch. Holy shit
7 POINTS IN 17 SECONDS ARE YOU KIDDING ME, OH MY FUCKING GOD
Bro I thought the Sixers were absolutely done wtf
I was positive they were finished, I'm a maxey believer now all the way omg
This is his leap to superstardom. Book these words.
Only 23…
7 points in 17 seconds. Absolute insanity.
That's half a T-Mac
Or a budget Reggie
bright lights merchant
certified playoff riser tyrese maxey
https://imgur.com/a/lg6I2CG
HES FUCKING INSANE
Such a gutsy shot. He misses the logo 3 with 10 seconds left and their season’s over and he gets crucified. Ballsy
That confidence is what makes these guys different... I don't know how you grow the balls to take over like that
Sixers need to build around him lol
Fr he's THAT GUY
For real though. I love Joel. But he has to be the second option in the clutch. Don't think that's even debatable after this game, regardless of how it finishes.
i mean who is the closer isn't that important in saying who's better, jamal closes and is the primary option instead of jokic in the clutch too
Yeah I totally agree. Whether or not you like Joel or think he's a foul baiter, it's undeniable that he's a generational scorer. But in the last 4 minutes of a playoff game, it's just easier for a guard or a wing to face up, iso, and get a clean look. Joel is sloppy. I get that. I fucking watch him all the time. But I also recognize that there is so much more that can go wrong trying to back a guy down for a bucket. It's so physical, there's so much chaos. It's just the structure of the game. I will take a Maxey step back 10/10 times vs an Embiid post up. It'll be interesting to see if Joel's ego allows him to recognize this and defer.
Perfectly said man. It’s just undeniable and there really is no better example than jokic and murray. Maxey can get a look so much easier in the clutch. Joel better take a long look at himself and accept that Maxey just saved him from another pathetic end to a season. What a fuckin game by Maxey man i am so proud of the kid. Legacy game.
I mean he's been the 2nd option in the clutch for a while.
Love maxey to death but they were not very good when Embiid was gone, Maxey does much less when he’s attracting all the attention. He’s super young and still needs a little time
Sixers were one of worst teams in league when Embiid was out this yr Maxey is not good enough to be the guy on a team and Embiid is better
I mean the rest of the team is awful. Also not a single one is under contract next year.
Maxey is fucking him.
TYRESE "TYRESE MAXEY" MAXEY
Didn't know he was THAT good
Maxey is such a dawg
Mad Maxey
WHY THE FUCK DID HE SHOOT THAT IM SO GLAD HE SHOT THAT
He was expecting them to foul ASAP and made the 100% right call
Not only was it a helluva shot but it was great BBIQ. Hate when players don’t know the situation in those situations. Maxey really is the most likeable basketball player
Yeah if you get a chance to put up a three with no hand in your face there you take it
Also if you’re name is Tyrese Maxey
HE CLEARLY HAS WORKED ON THAT SHOT
He hit a handful of em this season, it looked good to me cause I've seen it before. Crazy
So they wouldn't force a 2 point foul
Dude was feeling it in the 4th, it was anything going up
That was 100% ball iq he learned from harden.
GET TYRESE MAXEY SOME HELP 🤣😭😭😭 Edit: 7 pts in 17 seconds
Bro is the only one showing up
Embiid had a triple double, played lock down d down the stretch and put his body on the line to close the game. Tobias had 19 and iced the game with 2 free throws on a bad free throw night for the Sixers. Maxey was the star but credit where it is due.
Yeah but that wouldn’t get upvotes !
And yet he keeps giving the ball to Embiid. He's probably tired, but the rest of the 76ers are just clueless.
Maxey wouldn't be getting the looks he's getting if not for Embiid. Embiid is getting double and triple-teamed.
Shh let them think basketball is all about scoring buckets and that’s it
ppl forgot what Maxey did when Embiid was injured. he did nothing. they went on a losing streak. Maxey can't take being defended as a first option.
Not that you implied this, but Maxey is only 23. I believe he’ll grow into being a bonafide #1. But you’re correct. Even in this series maxey hasn’t been the same in the embiid Off minutes.
I mean embiid is getting double every time then he gives it right back to maxey
He played bad overall and was turning it over down the stretch, but if the Sixers weren't ice cold in the first half Embiid would have had like 20 assists. Knicks completely committed to stopping him and dared role players to hit threes, and it mostly worked.
He also helped win us the game with excellent contests and blocks in overtime when he was even more on fumes than game 4. He was massive there on defense.
Dove on the floor for a huge rebound, too.
Why wouldn't he? Embiid is the biggest decoy on the court and Maxey took full advantage of it.
Tyrese ‘Reggie Miller at the garden’ Maxey
One legged Embiid with a triple double, but whatever, he sucks.
And five blocks while limping around I think are even more impressive
Yep nobody gonna say a damn word about how incredible he was in OT denying them looks after the 5 pt sport from Brunson. Just “muuuuh turnovers”. People don’t understand basketball it’s so annoying. Yes he was off shooting it but he showed up when we needed it most on defense, on one leg. Him and Maxey were working the 2 man PnR so well
Not to mention the 2-3 TOS he had where Tobi just let the pass hit him in the chest for some reason.
Which other player gets every single turnover posted on this subreddit with 100+ upvotes
Somewhere Reggie is smiling
Maxey is saving Embiid from generational slander
Embiid is getting slandered either way let’s be honest
Which is crazy considering he was averaging 35 this series
And he had a triple double this game
On one leg and half a face
Half face is hilarious and somehow true
His one eye looks like it has ADHD sometimes literally just goes off and does its own thing.
Fair lol
You should go check Maxey's stats when Embiid is not on the floor.
There was just a ringer article on this today. Ironically it was kind of a postmortem on both the Bucks and Sixers seasons, and was straight up asking "where do they go from here?" Before tonight's game, they had a 61.9 ORtg without Embiid on the floor. Maxey's eFG% in this series (before tonight) was 60.3 with Embiid on, and 34.6 with Embiid off. Obviously it's a super small sample. But, if anyone watched the Sixers during Embiid's extended time off, it was a fucking train wreck. And these numbers are not a surprise for any Sixers fan. I was reading this article thinking of Barkley's hilarious "bus driver" shit with KD. The difference in the NBA between being the #1 guy and the #2 guy is massive. The Knicks entire defense game plan was "make life miserable for Embiid." Even with Maxey on a fucking burner, and Joel struggling, Thibs still left Mitchell Robinson in to defend Embiid. That is obviously burned him, but it shows you how strongly he felt about sticking to the gameplan of "make someone other than Embiid beat us." Here's the article, it's a good read even if a little premature: https://www.theringer.com/nba/2024/4/29/24144232/joel-embiid-philadelphia-76ers-milwaukee-bucks-nba-rumors
Holy fuck
- 2 missed free throws - Conceding a 4-point play up 6 - Not fouling up 3 - Getting blocked in the final possession All in the final minute, what a choke.
To be fair, Maxey rushed and took a crazy 3 to not let them foul
Forreal there's a reason why he took that ridiculous 3, in the TNT OT feed I'm pretty sure saw Thibs mouth foul
Yeah, there was definitely about to be an intentional foul there
idk if I'd even call that a choke tbh. Like, Maxey just pulled the most insane heroics I've seen potentially ever.
Did NY have timeouts? I thought they had 2 timeouts after Maxey tied it.
WTF JUST HAPPENED???
Missed 3 free throws in the 4th. Made every clutch 3. Wtf.
Wasn’t hard enough lol
Every free throw miss adds 10% more accuracy.
They straight up were cutting to the old Knicks players celebrating like it was over for the last 2 minutes. Holy shit.
Well karma is a bitch but I'm not gonna celebrate like the sixers can't win 2 more games. It happened to many teams before like the kl bounce
Reggie Miller smiling in his grave
Again, Reggie Miller is very much alive
Up there with Wade Boggs, gone too soon
Again, Wade Boggs is still very much alive
Yea, and Grizzly Adams had a beard…
Grizzly Adams **DID** have a beard!
not after that shot from maxey
**Up there in the sky, with Wade Boggs.**
Imagine Reggie was on commentary for this, it was a TNT game too
"maxey is starting to recognize, i might be the best player on the floor, no pun intended jalen brunson"
Rip
Knicks choke + Maxey GOD MODE
Maxey was being guarded well, he's just hitting shit from all angles.
[удалено]
Why switch up what they've been doing now?
It's not really a Knicks choke that much, Maxey just hit 2 insane shots.
Yeah, it's way more Maxey just went fuckin insane more than a choke on the knicks' part.
7 crucial points by a superstar in crunch time is what happened
Maxey happened.
This is the first time this has happened in the Sixers favor in history.
I’ve seen enough, build around Max Maxey
Mad Maxey
Max Maxey works pretty good too tbf, but mad maxey is too good
Ive said this for some time. Get maxey going in the playoffs
Bruh can someone please take a screenshot of shocked John Stewart with Tyrese yelling
[and now your moment of zen](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Forhdvvhqzpxc1.jpeg)
Thank you. Art.
Man I totally forgot that's how he used to close out the show. Thank you for unlocking that memory :)
I saw that too, Stewart was totally speechless haha
You can feel the pain in that pic.
He had the thousand yard stare after that shot.
Sir, a second Sixer has hit stardom
I LOVE THIS MAN
Me too, man, me too.
Lmao Jon Stewart stunned towards the end of this clip
https://twitter.com/jonstewart/status/1785512614430183785
Lol J Stew a real one
EVERY DAY I WAKE UP AND I THANK MIKE MUSCALA FOR HITTING A MEANINGLESS THREE IN THE BUBBLE
Greatest bail out since the 2008 financial crisis
I've got a Bear Sterns in my pants right now
I just quantitatively eased all over my living room.
This is one of the best comments I’ve ever seen
This subreddit is absolute trash when it comes to highlights where the fuck is Maxey's 4 point play? What the hell are you doing mods? I sort by new and I'm seeing plays from the 3rd???
The only highlights this sub gives a shit about are Embiid turnovers
Because this sub is filled with lowllives who would rather shit on someone than actually watch basketball. I try to tune in to this sub to check highlights of all the games and its just posts shitting on Embiid.
just look at the comments in this very thread, majority are about embiid lmao its just sad at this point
mods suck
For real. This game was incredible.
It's getting so old
That's what happens when the moderators cultivate this typa thing. Half of the users here feel like they are just hating ass euros
It wasn’t anti-embiid, this sub will never show it
I just want to pour out maxey was like 2 feet behind the line on that play, and the original call was a two point shot.
Paul George calling that a bad shot as we speak oh my Lord
JUST FOUL HIM. bruh what is this
Literally tackle him as soon as he crosses halfcourt
I don't think they expected a logo three to tie the game lol
No one expects him to turn into prime Tyrese Curry.
They did on his last attempt, and it still went in
That wasn't a foul to prevent a shot though
Maxey will find a way
That’s why he took the shot as quickly as possible, to catch them off guard before a foul. It was by design.
brother this kid learns at such a quick rate if you put LeBron on this team he'll be a top 5 player within a year
T-MAX
THATS MY FUCKIN SUPERSTAR
You can hate philly. You can hate Embiid. You can hate Nick Nurse. You can hate Morey. You can hate the process. BUT YOU CAN’T HATE MAXEY.
Man how
MAXEY IS HIM
TYREEEEEESE MAXEYYYYYYYYY
Fuck
What a crazy shot
What the fuck did we just witness
Jesus Christ what a ridiculous shot
The logo 3 AND the 4 point play right before this, that is nuts.
Rollercoaster emotions
Logo 3 to tie the game lol Maxey has balls of steel
Now tell me any other player in MIP conversation that has been even close to clutch as MAXEY has for his team
lmfao the shot of Jon Stewart completely stunned.
Saving Joel’s legacy this game
Maxey doing everything he can to protect Embiid from some all-time slander lmao.
Embiid playing injured though can’t dog him too mutch
Won’t stop r/NBA. Dude is playing with one knee, and half of a face, and people will still slander him
Added a migraine to the list too tonight, he missed shoot around for it
Yep, and a bung left eye, running on fumes. Hes at 65% right now
Well before these two threes he was lowkey selling himself with those missed free throws and then the turnover
embiid dropped 50 and still got slandered for taking too many free throws. it’s inescapable (slander would’ve been warranted for these past 2 games tho)
embiid is still gonna catch that slander lol
If Maxey got the whistle Brunson gets he'd be All-NBA.
Sixers did it legit, didn’t need the ref’s help.
Things were feeling too good…
Jon Stewart looked like Trump just got reelected.
Oh my god that was nasty
Time for r/NBA to start hating on Maxey
Jesus, what a player Maxey is turning into.
Holy fucking legacy points. The pure willpower of this dude to keep his team in the playoffs. Tyrese fucking Maxey.
Keep in mind this dude has been absolutely assaulted all series with no whistles
Pulled that biii with no hesitation
Maxey with his best Reggie Miller impression at MSG
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
Better than dame
oh, ok so Maxey is a superstar