{"id":42585,"date":"2022-12-31T15:20:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/the-brooklyn-nets-or-the-philadelphia-76ers\/"},"modified":"2022-12-31T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T15:20:11","slug":"the-brooklyn-nets-or-the-philadelphia-76ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/31\/the-brooklyn-nets-or-the-philadelphia-76ers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Nets or the Philadelphia 76ers?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tobias Harris reacts in entrance of Ben Simmons on the Wells Fargo Center on Nov. 22, 2022, in Philadelphia. <\/figcaption>
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Can I curiosity you in a non-sexual sport of \u201cwould you rather?\u201d I do know watching individuals ponder will not be as enjoyable as watching them squirm, however it is a sports activities website, not the lounge of your school slum. So, who would you moderately belief: The Brooklyn Nets or the Philadelphia 76ers?<\/p>\n

I ask as a result of the Nets have received 9 straight, and the Sixers got here up simply wanting their ninth in a row, dropping a detailed sport to the Wizards on Tuesday. Before their respective scorching streaks, Brooklyn was 13-12, and Philly was .500 at 12-12. These two groups are clearly linked by the James Harden-Ben Simmons swap, but in addition by narrative. Both are extraordinarily proficient, each are hyped, each are in huge markets, and each have proven little or no motive to belief them within the postseason. <\/p>\n

I feel hoops heads will agree that we will belief Kevin Durant and Joel Embiid\u2026 so long as they\u2019re wholesome. The No. 2 and three guys on the group \u2014 Kyrie Irving and Simmons, and Harden and Tobias Harris \u2014 nicely, it\u2019s up for debate. <\/p>\n

Nets coach Jacque Vaughn mentioned his group has been holding it about basketball, which was the impetus for Kyrie and KD coming collectively within the first place. Irving has been quiet, and that\u2019s clearly a very good factor<\/a><\/span>. Who is aware of how lengthy Durant can keep out of his mentions, and Irving can maintain his conspiracies to himself, however for proper now, it looks like that is what Brooklyn had in thoughts when this plan was hatched.<\/p>\n

When you add in Simmons, who’s lastly within the good scenario, this group has all the pieces you\u2019d need in a contender: MVP candidate, legit No. 2 possibility, Swiss military defender. The Slim Reaper (I’ll use it although he received\u2019t) is getting a cool 30-6-5 on 56\/37\/92 capturing splits, and that is nothing new. He\u2019s as aggressive as he’s proficient, and it additionally reveals on protection if you watch him battle down low. <\/p>\n

I hate to provide Irving any credit score as a result of he\u2019d moderately burn all the pieces down than admit he\u2019s improper, however he\u2019s approaching the hallowed 50\/40\/90 mark (49\/36\/91) and has been wholesome sufficient to play in additional video games than he misses. (Suspension however<\/a><\/span>.) <\/p>\n

Yet, as a result of we\u2019ve seen the Nets implode greater than we\u2019ve seen them succeed, we all know how shortly it could all come undone. <\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Philadelphia. Even with Luka Doncic\u2019s 60-point outing Tuesday, Embiid nonetheless leads the league in scoring. Whenever Harden passes the brink for video games performed to be eligible for help chief, he\u2019ll be it. Over the previous 10 video games, we\u2019re seeing level Harden. He tied the Philly report for assists in a sport (21) towards the Clippers and distributed 13 assists per night time in that span. <\/p>\n

Also throughout this stretch, he by no means tried greater than 19 pictures in a sport, averaging simply over 15 pictures per night time. I might write 3,000 phrases on how infuriating it’s that Harden can play this fashion when he needs to however would moderately shoot stepbacks \u2014 and I would nonetheless \u2014 however not at the moment. He did the identical facilitate-first act for a month in Brooklyn, and all people acted prefer it was Lewis Scott passing for the primary time ever in \u201cCeltic Pride.\u201d No, that\u2019s how regular basketball is performed, and when you could have one of the best scoring middle within the NBA in your group, that\u2019s how you must method issues.<\/p>\n

Say what you need about Nikola Joki\u0107 \u2014 and there aren\u2019t sufficient phrases within the English language for hoops hipsters to explain the Joker \u2014 I\u2019m undecided he might do what Embiid does from a scoring standpoint. Embiid had 48 final night time, and since Luka went en fuego, was rendered to the margins of Sportscenter. This season, the Cameroonian middle has two video games of 50-plus, and 4 video games of 40 or extra. He\u2019s solely appeared in 25 of them. So virtually 1 \/ 4 of the time, he\u2019s going for 40 burgers. That\u2019s silly. <\/p>\n

And I do know Harris is getting paid like a 3rd possibility although it\u2019s actually Tyrese Maxey, and that\u2019s effective if you wish to argue the pecking order. Maxey has missed the previous month, and Harris might, and has, disappeared for a month when wholesome so no matter. As lengthy as Harden shrinks when the invoice comes due, who\u2019s No. 3 or 4 received\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n

With these two groups, it\u2019s concerning the guys on the high as a result of they’re going to decide how far every group goes within the playoffs. <\/p>\n

One of my favourite solutions to \u201cWould you rather?\u201d is: I\u2019d moderately die than select between licking a canine\u2019s ass and snorting dried cat shit. And that\u2019s type of how I really feel about this query. No, I don\u2019t take both of those groups critically, and I’ve zero confidence that these idyllic stretches of excellent to nice basketball are going to be those we see in April and May. <\/p>\n

So who would I moderately choose between the 76ers and the Nets? I\u2019d moderately leap off a bridge. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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