Chad Ochocinco Johnson

There's more space, the pace is a lot faster, and they're less predictable.

Yes, Maxie is the head of the snake by him putting pressure on that defense, attacking in the pick and roll.

See, when Embiid is there, the lane is always clogged because his big ass ain't really, he ain't leaving the paint unless he's setting the pick and roll because he want the ball every time.

Y'all know it?

Yep.

I don't know it.

So he ain't sacrificing just to be on the three to where Max can have these lanes, where Edge can have these lanes.

And I also think without Embiid playing, the psyche of the guys, especially Paul George, you know, they know they have to assert themselves a lot earlier in the game.

If you see Paul George came out cooking with grease.

He wasn't playing tonight.

You know what I mean?

Like, he was getting right to it.

I just think they're less predictable like this.

They're a lot faster, and the game seems a lot more fun for those guys without Embiid.

Now, I'm not saying they better without Embiid, but I'm just saying they play games to where they look pretty damn good.

Look, I mean, hell, they ain't lose by 30.

They were winning at the end of the third quarter, fellas, going into the fourth quarter.

They were winning late in the ball game until I thought they started taking some ill-advised threes.

I didn't think those threes that they were taking, Joe, I didn't think they were necessary.

I thought they could have got a better shot than what they were getting.