Why Joel Embiid is Impossible to Guard 

Apologize if my voice sounds scratchy or less energetic than usual, still recovering from sickness. Hope everyone enjoyed the video regardless!

I’m starting to appreciate embiid much more just want to see him have some playoff success

Nice seeing Embiid finally getting the credit he deserves🐐

Unstoppable and not even mentioning that he’s a top 10, arguably top 5 defender right now too

Hopefully this leads to him winning a title would be great way to top off his historic numbers.

Embiid is an incredible offensive player and very good defender. It's frustrating to see him get disrespected because of free throws and flopping

What a beast. Great to watch. Hope he wins back to back MVPs this year.

My friends absolutely hate it when I say he's the best player in the nba right now Even the fact that he grew up poor in Africa makes him a bit better

His offense this szn has really moved me. Would u consider him one of the 5 best offensive players in 2024 or no?

The Nick Nurse effect adding a great coach can unlock a players peak play. Embid already was unguardable what Nurse did is make him realize that only “Embid can stop Embid” bailing defenders out by playing outside-in jacking jumpers makes it easy to guard, playing inside-out makes him UNSTOPPABLE! His foot work in the paint is unmatched once he gets hot that middy game gets going now the defender is playing honest once they can’t take away anything it’s a long night for the opposing team!

Some fun Joel Embiid playoff facts: The best team he's beaten in the playoffs is the 2022 5th seed Raptors led by Siakam and FVV He averages 22 PPG on 49.2% TS in elimination games(a 9 game sample size) In NO playoff run has he ever averaged more assists than turnovers He is the ONLY MVP in league history to never make the conference finals This year, he had the biggest PPG drop from the RS to the playoffs of any MVP winning season He turned the ball over 8 times in back to back elimination games against the Hawks in 2021 He's shot under 20% from three over his last two playoff runs He had a worse eFG% than Russell Westbrook during the 2023 playoffs With a chance to go up 3-1, Joel Embiid went 0-12 in the second half against the 5 seeded Hawks in game 4, including missing a wide open layup to take the lead He got stripped by Danilo Gallnari to seal the loss in game 7 Down 3 in game 5 of the same series with 15 seconds left, he missed BOTH free throws to seal the game All of his offensive numbers(PPG, RPG, APG, TOs, FG%, 3P%, FT%) are worse in the playoffs than in the regular season aside from FT% He has only won ONE playoff series in his career where he played in all four wins(2022 vs. Toronto) He is 0-3 in game 7s and has posted a 49% TS and 5.3 TOs a game in those 3 games He once got swept in a series despite averaging FIFTEEN free throws per game(2020 vs. Boston) Over the last two seasons, he has a 9.2 BPM in the regular season(box plus minus) and a 1.0 BPM in the playoffs WORST OF ALL: HE IS 9/38 IN CLUTCH(within 5 points, last 5 minutes by NBA definition) SITUATIONS DURING HIS PLAYOFF CAREER, WITH AN UNFATHOMABLE TS% of 35.7%

people who reduce this man to free throws dont really watch basketball he is an offensive artits

Hell yeah. He's been so good, I honestly think he's been the best player in the league *so far this regular season*

this is just Nick Nurse doing proper coaching, unlike Rivers

Embiid is a tank that drives like a sports car.

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Amazing breakdown ‼️

Great video Thnks for this

It’s hard being a hater but I will persevere

For those of you who have never guarded a guy that size, it is almost literally impossible to stop him. I'm 6'3, strongest guy on my basketball team, and I had to guard Dominic Woodson 6'10 about 280 at the time. Its just the sheer size...I felt so helpless...Imagine being 1 on 1 in a small room with Francis Nganno or John Jones. It sucks when they are running down court and they use their momentum and they throw their whole body at you to get deep post position. What makes it worse is that Embiid is very athletic, highly skilled, and can shoot free throw; it doesn't surprise me that him and Jokic score so many points.

Love this content, easy sub

Fire breakdown🔥

Dude is like a 7 foot Kobe. He doesn’t get enough credit and it’s crazy because he is clearly the best player in the world right now. And not to mention his playmaking and defense has been incredible this season.

Embiid will have a 1994 or 1995 Hakeemesk playoff run this season.

Jojo is the Beard of Centers right now Elite offensive scoring skillset for his size

Doc played iso basketball where Nurse has everyone moving creating easy opportunities for not just him but Maxey as well

Good to see embiid getting love with all the hate around him. People act like he is the only one that excessively draws fouls

The reason Embiid should win MVP again is he's an all NBA defender+the key to Philly's D. Plus scores 35ppg.

they used to say A.I was the best pound for pound athlete ever right? well for a big man in PHILLY

he is the modern day shaq, this is the best chance for philly to win the cup

I fear the injuries will prevent him from completing the 65 game requirement for awards, but I hope that isn’t the case, his trajectory this season is behind only 95 Hakeem and 13 lebron. 91 Mj has a case but rim protection is always more valuable than perimeter defense.

I feel like this the year he will finally overcome the 2nd round hump. If he at least makes the ECF I’ll be fine with it

Without watching the video and answering the question in the title. Tall af, Strong af, great defender, can shoot the ball, can dominate on the paint and the team chemistry allows him to more. Just an allround domination on the floor.

What does Joel average vs bam?

MVP🏀

Offensively to score on him you draw him around stay out of the paint so you get a free guy open if not you can rim run and there is no stopping him it’s still hard to score on him

this video is amazing, haters don't like Embiid terrorizing their teams. He's a monster

Do SGA next

This man is 7'1 - 285 lbs. WHAT THE ACTUAL FCK

Embiid can easily improve his assist numbers if he passed more. I know he can score but you have shooters always open due to the double teams and other team focusing him.

Foul merchant

nick nurse knows how to use big men. Let's not forget how he revived the careers of valanciunas and ibaka, and how gasol stonewalled embiid and made him cry

Just wait until playoffs. Al Horford lockin that shit up

finally someone giving credit where its due, sick of embiid getting hated on for cookin

I came for the Embiid hat so I can laugh at y’all 😂

Minnesota is probably the only team in the league that can throw 3 quality bigs at embiid and he still torched them

Who is your MVP this far?

Not to mention he's anchoring a top 3 defense

Would u say he’s the best scorer in the nba? Or somewhere in the t5

waiting for the breakdown on Shai being slept on

Until the playoffs

It's Houston Harden all over again. He flops so much and gets freethrows so often that people let him score mire often than they try defend him . It's very difficult to stop a big if you can't even touch him

Embiid is actually 7’2. In his first two years when he sat out they said he grew 2 inches.

Except in the playoffs when refs don't reward barreling into other players and falling down.

Joel impossibly to guard!!! Glass foot : *Enter the chat

Celtics or Thunder in a 7 game series and why?

He dnt do it when it matters the most 😂

Baby I’m sorry I can’t get past round 2 like Joel embiid but I need a break anyways. HoopVenue just dropped!

The best basketball player on the planet right now. Full Stop!

Embiid or Shai on offense?

i had ptsd after he cooked my wolves

A Beautiful player🎉 pause

Hakeem mixed with SGA 😂

He needs to show that he can do this in the post season as well and make it to the conf finals at least. Or else he will be always known as a playfoff choker or a regualer season player. Hopefully he can perform well under the new system.

The cash cow Joel Embiid ✅

Embiid seems pretty easy to guard in the playoffs 🤣

He’s like a prime 7 foot Carmelo Anthony with rim protection

bro is fluent in yapanese

... just wait. He may be impossible to guard *now*, but just wait.

Best scorer all time per 36 minutes

I knew who n wat can stop him Title town n da 2nd rd😂😂

That was blatantly an offensive foul at 14:45

And then the playoffs come and he's pretty easy to guard.

can't wait to see him choke in the playoff

if defenders actually guarded him tight, he'd just flail around and foul bait. that's why he's "unguardable"

With all those NBA titles he won. I'm sure he's still unstoppable?

Can you do a video explaining why all this changes in the playoffs?

His points drastically drop in the playoffs. All these historical numbers are during the regular season. He has to do it when it counts too, deep in the postseason

Damn second round is a really good defensive player but this year first round beat his ass

It’s impossible for him to stay healthy. The sixers are 4.5 games back from Boston.

Joel Embiid need another all-star caliber player to surpass Boston 😅😂😅😂😅😂😅😂

lol, yeah right. LOAD MANAGING I FIGHT LIONS.

Joel Himbiid

Not related but what are your thoughts on Jokic this szn? He doesn’t look as dominant to me as he was last yr. Maybe coasting?

Al Hortford

call al horford

Giannis and Embiid, are not getting th eattention from the mdia the deserve for. They are th e2 best palyers in the league inmho, with Jokic coming 3d and Doncic on No4. Wemby and Chet, are the only guys wuth the potential, to be better than the Giants we are witnessing in our era! I've seen Michael Jordan and Shaquile O'Neil. The players I mentioned, aren't far from them,actually the tall guys, all are better than Shaquile! I'm sad that Koby isn't alive, to witness Giannis's greatness am the rest of the Titans I mentioned! The tall, where never that skilled, as these fellows today are! Giannis breaks one K.A.Jaabar's record by another, we talk about GREATNESS here, underrated greatness, that you only see once in a lifetime!!!!

old man Al shuts his cheeks good doe ;^)

touch on his free throws. what do you think about it?

Unless you’re Al Horford ;)

Wow

Until the playoffs….

You didn’t even bring up the defense.

What makes me mad about him is that, every game he could get a triple double if he would just pass to the cutters when he gets double teamed on the help defense.

the only thing guarding him is the playoffs

Impossible to guard in regular season, in playoffs he averages 20 ppg lol with 8 turnovers

From may on, he's pretty much guardable

23ppg for a playoff career and 19ppg on 49%TS in elimination games...he ain't even top 15 player when the real basketball is being played(and I 'am being nice)... Regular Season fraud and stat padder against the bad teams!

35-12-6. Embiid should win consecutive MVPs if the 76ers win 55ish games.

Once his knees are gone ,he will be out of the finals