January 21 According to a report from TalkBasket, recently 76ers star Joel Embiid
Beed accepted an interview with the media ClutchPoints.
Embiid is one of the most dominant big men in the NBA.
As an inside man, he’s a player who’s expected to dominate the paint.
However, the Cameroonian center said that in today’s game, it was not that simple, as a player who focused on post-ups in the low post would get double-teamed.
Embiid berates former NBA players who tell him to play the post, saying they don’t have any basketball IQ.
“From his (Sixers coach Rivers) first day on the team,” Embiid told reporters, “the first thing he told me was, I need to figure out where I want to catch the ball.
…Obviously, it was in the low post, but like I mentioned in the past, posting up all game all the time, it’s easy to get double-teamed. When you see these old guys always
It’s ridiculous when tweeting things like ‘you need to play in the paint’. You can’t win that way anymore. It’s not like the old damn 90’s or 80’s. So, they sure didn’t
Any basketball IQ.”