Joel Embiid can score in a variety of ways, but when he goes down on the blocks and wants to punish teams in the low post, he is almost unstoppable.
That was evident in Monday afternoon’s 117-111 win over the Toronto Raptors during a Martin Luther King Day matinee at the Wells Fargo Center.
Embiid finished with 34 points and 11 rebounds (five on the offensive glass), and shot 11-for-21 from the field. He still did stray away from the basket, and hit just one of five three pointers. But Embiid made a concentrated effort to go low, and when he did, the Sixers benefited greatly.