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The problem is that sooner or later these lousy starts catch up with you, as we saw last night. It’s hard to play from behind all the time.

Yes. He keeps dribbling into double teams and losing the ball. He has a high BB IQ so I don’t understand why he keeps doing it

It’s always been mental

We have 4 points in 6 minutes

Yep. Yet another disgusting start.

Yes. When Embiid is healthy no one can stop him. He’s like an adult playing against children. But Philly depends on him a great deal for their success.

You’re right, but this past game was the third or fourth in a row where we’ve gotten off to a bad start. To me the weak link in the starting lineup is Fultz, mainly because of the second part of your post; there is something very wrong with his jump shot mechanics, and there are no signs it’s getting any better. As you say, although his lack of a three point shot was somewhat of a liability even last year, he was very effective from mid range, and could even carry the load offensively at times. That appears to be gone. All he shoots now are layups.

Fultz is not part of that lineup you’ve got above, and our poor starts are still worrisome. I’d like to see a PG who can get that first unit going, and leave the above group intact to finish out games.

Amen. We always have a tough time in Miami no matter how bad the Heat have been playing. Win there would be really great!

Please keep criticizing him. Only thing that seems to work :)

Magictime22 mentioned it a page or two ago. Didn’t have the statistics though. Worse than I thought.

We have a problem at times, especially at the end of games, where everyone stands around except Franz and Paulo who individually try to go one on three. We’ve been better with that lately though.

If they retire Jeff Turner at the same time there will be a silver lining.

I recommend morphine. You won’t care about your headache or the game :)

Agree. If we can get a decent lead going in the third, they’ve lost so much they might get discouraged and fold. But if we let them keep it close, it could go either way. They’ve definitely got some young talent.

You’re right

Agree with your comment but our guys must not underestimate this team, which has won 3 of their past 10. If our guys think of them as a high school team and don’t take them seriously we will lose.

I agree. Not sure what’s happened to him but his confidence looks like it’s gone

You mean missing from 3 feet away?

Yeah what is this with terrible first quarters? We’ve clawed our way back in recent games, but as someone else said, it’s kind of playing with fire. Sooner or later we’ll get burned

Yeah, that's a very good point about trap game. Detroit is 6-42 so you have to assume they are very unlikely to win. But then you look a little further and you see that they've won 3 of their last 10. So half their wins for the season have come in the past 10 games. It looks like they're starting to play better and may now believe they can win some games, especially at home. This is not the time to overlook this team.

I don’t agree that you have to potentially waste another season before deciding what to do next. Our deficiency at PG is pretty obvious to most people. We don’t need to wait to see it hurt us in the playoffs (assuming we get there) before trying to improve in that area.

Totally agree with this. Flow of the game was so much better without stopping every 30 seconds to shoot free throws.

Would give this a plus one except I’m out.

What a terrific win. Great recovery after an awful first quarter. No quit in this team. Credit to Mosley for keeping them engaged.