Joel Embiid turned in one of his best performances so far this season despite the Philadelphia 76ers dropping a very winnable game against the skidding Brooklyn Nets. However, that does not change the fact that the superstar is far from the level of player he once was, and there is no realistic way to fix that.
The Athletic’s Tony Jones summed it up pretty nicely — Embiid, in his current form and stature, is merely 85 to 90 percent of the caliber of player he was on the offensive end. And to make things more complicated, he no longer has the tools to compensate for his reduced production as a scorer with his defense.