The real value of MVPs isn’t just in what they do, but in what they help others do, how they make a hard game easy for their teammates.
That’s what the Nets used to have in Kevin Durant before they traded him away, and it’s what the 76ers’ Joel Embiid has grown into. It’s what wins in the playoffs, a point driven home Saturday by the Nets’The victory only bolstered Embiid’s MVP bona fides — and gave rising Nets standout Mikal Bridges a close-up look at how tough it is to be the No. 1 player on a contender.
“It goes from your traditional spacing on the defensive end because you trap Embiid, now you’re rotating. Now you need another effort to stop the penetration, then go out for the rebound,” Nets coach Jacque Vaughn said. “It’s just giving multiple efforts. We’ve got to get that in our brain that that’s what it’s going to take. It’s not going to be traditional we got to mix things up, take some risks.
The Sixers adjusted to the Nets’ scheme, playing the center a little higher so it would be hard to double him. Embiid had 10 points in the third quarter, and helped put the Nets in a 20-point hole in the fourth. Durant and Kyrie Irving, also traded away by the Nets at the deadline, were proven three-level scorers, those rare stars nearly impervious to playoff game-planning.
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