During the Philadelphia 76ers’ 117-93 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder on Saturday night, a play in the opening minute caught my eye. Joel Embiid gets the ball right above the block and faces up against Moses Brown (i.e. the exact thing Joel likes to do). The Thunder know this, and thus attempted to defend the dominant big man by having their center (Brown) overplay the drive to the right in order to force Embiid left, while the low defender showed help to said left-hand drive from the baseline (Lu Dort in this case). Once Dort showed help that roughly equated to a soft double team, Ben Simmons recognized the opening and attempted to duck in for a quick layup:
And it worked!