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Marcus Smart comes out for his post game presser still in his jersey.
"(Embiid) alone shot 21 free throws, we shot 20. Can't beat that."
"(Embiid) alone shot 21 free throws, we shot 20. Can't beat that."
Smart: "We got our hands up a lot of the times and (Embiid) flails and he gets the call. Meanwhile on the other end we attack and we don't get the whistles. It's tough playing like that."
Smart never made it about the officials particularly and left it pretty open ended about flopping as much as who gets the calls.
Just rewatched the 5 Theis fouls. I hate both the calls they made on him against Harris, but you can call both of those fouls if you really want to. Just pretty weak calls. He clearly fouled Howard and then the 2 on Embiid were just great flops by Embiid. No major qualms.
Going through the Embiid fouls drawn, the second one (on kemba) was a verticality play so should've been a no call, but everything else after was a foul. The first one (the Pritchard strip) I don't have the close up angle to see if it was clean but not surprised on that one.
Going through all 29 Sixers fouls drawn, the only calls I'd question were Dwight's moving screen sending Javonte Green into Korkmaz and Green getting called, and didn't see a reach when Pritchard pressed Milton in early fourth. The Sixers were just aggressive and it worked.
The big thing Embiid does is he gets real low and throws his shoulder and arms through everything, so he picks up so many unintentional reaches and gets a ton of contact on defenders trying to go vertical or hold their ground that gets him the foul call. He's one of the best.
Missed fouls for Embiid:
- Jaylen held him under the hoop pre-catch Q3 8:10
- TT landing zoned him at Q3 4:10
- TT 2 hand check Q4 545
- Theis holds arm on post up layup Q4 240
- Jaylen held him under the hoop pre-catch Q3 8:10
- TT landing zoned him at Q3 4:10
- TT 2 hand check Q4 545
- Theis holds arm on post up layup Q4 240
