https://youtu.be/vWnN0WugLYk
The Sixers’ gameplan changes drastically when Joel Embiid has to sit. And he’s going to be sitting for a while long after he screwed up his legs while jumping for a cheesesteak that was balanced on the top of the backboard. Now, the Sixers have a bigman rotation of Tony Bradley and Dwight Howard. Neither of those guys is a threat to create their own offense at this point in their respective careers. Hence the need for a gameplan change. (Also, neither of those guys is a threat to injure themselves while attempting to acquire cheesesteaks, since neither is afflicted with a debilitating cheesesteak addiction as Embiid is.)
Since I am quite literally in love with Tobias Harris, Embiid being out is actually a positive development for me. It means I get to watch Tobes beast out more often. I can pretend in my head that the Bucks never traded him to make an ill-fated “playoff push” spearheaded by the chuck bros of Brandon Jennings and Monta Ellis, and supplemented by a half-season rental of J.J. Redick, who got to Milwaukee and immediately forgot how to shoot.
Embiid being out also means that Tony Bradley gets more minutes on the court to actually do stuff. True Bradleyphiles will know that “actual stuff” has been in short supply in Bradley’s career up to this point. As an example of his overall lack of productivity, how about this tidbit: Bradley scored a total of 25 points over the entirety of his first two years in the league! Most players like that don’t continue to get NBA contracts, but Bradley is the exception. And now he’s proving that he was worth being the exception. Now he just needs to appear in commercials saying “Hulu has live sports” and he’ll be like 40% of Embiid for 10% of the cost.