I personally don’t see how this could possibly be thrown on Nurse or Daryl.
You have to separate the big picture and the individual games.
I think PG has been mostly mediocre, but it feels more like a %s swing, along with a lack of gravity elsewhere. McCain looks like a home run draft pick (Bona could be nice long term too); Yabusele looks like a savvy move; I hated Caleb Martin’s game last night, but he’s been good defensively and generally as expected. They still have their assets. It’s still hard for me to criticize Morey’s
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But Embiid looks wrong — more wrong than ever. Even his shots look like his lower half isn’t doing anything. He didn’t look this off in the Olympics or playoffs even. If his knee is really f***ed, then bye bye everything. No one on the planet can maneuver around that.
Nurse’s lineups though have been a shit show. There’s no way this team should be dead last in offensive rating. We’ve seen Lowry playing 30 min/game on dreadful numbers, Dowtin minutes, all bench lineups, Yabusele didn’t play the first half last night. To some degree, everyone is doing their part with this start.
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