Zena Keita

This is the thing that's so important about Joel Embiid when you're trying to evaluate, is he back yet?

Because it's easy to just look at the physical caliber of his game.

Is he jumping as high?

Is he running as fast?

And let's just be real, all season long, he's been looking a little bit in molasses, like just a little bit slow to react.

Not quite the same game, but what we saw last night, turnarounds, post-passes,

rebounding shot blocks, huge, big, big shot blocks.

And as you mentioned, the 38 points high usage, and that's really, really big being able to come back off injury, basically almost having a triple double, um,

you get excited about having that level of an anchor in Joel Embiid, especially when you see Tyrese Maxey doing the things that he's doing.

At this point, and oof, I don't know if Philly's going to rock with me on this one, but it's Tyrese's team, in my opinion.

This is Maxey's team.

And I feel Joel Embiid would be cool with that because he's putting up these ridiculous numbers and he's running circles around defenses.

But having Maxey have a secondary partner,

to offset what he's doing inside, internally, is such a boon for this Philadelphia Sixers team.

So I just, I'm so excited for Embiid, not only for him to be able to return to his scoring prowess and what he can do internally, but really just being available, getting to play.

That's the biggest thing for him.

And in that first half, it was rocky.

Yes, he warmed up.

He looked much better in the second half.

You're talking about the other rookie on the other side.