Joel Ambid with the best team

The meeting of the leaders of the eastern and Western conferences is a rare and habit event. Although the main games of the regular NBA championship are often not hidden under this mark (the current season was not an exception), there are sufficient interesting events here.

For example, the March 4 match between Philadelphia and Utah has finally confirmed that the Sixer Goel Imbide Center is the main rival of the most valuable player in the season.

Joel Empid wins the best team

Cameroon Joel Imbayed achieved more than just winning the best team in the season with 40 points and 19 rebounds and three indicators equivalent to the result 6 seconds remaining. He did this by showing his superiority over the opponent in every part of the parquet. Until the amazing accuracy of 48 percent of long -term shots (21 out of 44) Jazz players did not hinder the final success of the fenugreek.

The Utah Rudi Jubert Center, who is claiming to be the best defensive basketball player in the league, faced Embed and played on both sides of the field. Joel once again revealed the problems facing the French in matches against the teams with extended positions that know how to pass. Unfortunately for the Mormons Training team, all the main competitors in the fighting for the championship have this fifth number, with the exception of Brooklyn (Lakers – Gasol Davis, Clippers – Ebaka, Nags – Gokish, Pax – Lopez).

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For most of the match, Empid Jubert led to the three -point line, thus emptying the area of ​​Laban Simons and the Harris Tobia, who feel close to the edge of the abyss.

This “jazz” was deprived of an important element in the familiar defensive system: Rudi did not simply the time for a safety network, but this was not his mistake. The French height is 216 cm, and the arm extends by 20 cm. But even this size is not enough to cover nearly half of the attack of the opposing team.

The weakest side was to advance even in a maximum and more time. However, first, the mesh of the smaller Mitchell and Konley, who often find themselves in this place, is not a problem that is not solved for the player with the ball. Secondly, their movement, they opened opportunities to pass free and throwing from the corner. Utah was fortunate because Curry, Green and Harris were only three accurate throws out of 12.

Joel had no time to take a profitable position

Joel Empid, despite all diligence and movement regarding size, in such situations simply had no time to take a winning position. When the ball was in the corner, Joel decided that a shot would be followed soon and began to retreat to the defense, and stopped forming any threat to the attack. But even in this case, Rudi made a decision to move to the last minute safety network. He could only complicate Tobias’s throwing and was in a very uncomfortable position for himself. But it is clear that the value of Imbayed in the Philadelphia attack did not end with the withdrawal of Jobrt from the three seconds. Cameroonian treated with the goalkeeper and launched an attack in a variety of ways from any distance.

It is very difficult for Rudi to defense individually against the really user -use centers. In three matches against the French this season, Yokic and Impaid achieved average of 41 points, 15 rebounds and 6 decisive passes with a 59-60-65-85 line (the percentage of field, tripartite goals and free throws).

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But Joel was not limited to a major category in the attack and continued. He clearly showed how to act defensively against the pick and roll game with the participation of the defenders and the middle “Jazz”.

Utah was very comfortable in the first three quarters, playing at a high rate (107 properties on average in terms of the entire match), but in the last part of the game and in additional time, the speed decreased. The importance of each attack increased and it became clear that, except for the three points of the comfortable situation, the “Mormon” did not have what they opposed against the enemy.

During the season, the choice of Mitchell or Conli and Jobrt, due to the latter’s ability to prepare screens, was one of the most reliable options for the club. The defenders got an additional empty space and could complete themselves, or threw a big man from the defending team and provided them with help.

Ambid prevented this opportunity for them. He kept the space perfectly due to the extension of his arms and was not allowed to attack comfortably, and at the same time he managed to return to Jobrt if there was a transfer to the center.

At decisive moments, “jazz” had to rely only on the individual scope of basketball players.

According to advanced statistics, Utah Donovan Mitchell leader has completed 43 % of his team’s Holding attacks during the season with a 29 % field with a field. During the additional time, Donovan scored only two points of free pomegranates, lost all five attempts from the stadium. As a result, he received two techniques, fortunately for Imbid, it was removed.

But in additional time, Tupayas Harris flourished. The attacker used the free space under the jazz circuit and has repeatedly won over Bogdanovic and O’Neil in the low post. Toby 11 points in 5 minutes and Sixers win at 131: 123 extra time.

Philadelphia won a very important match against a strong opponent. If Empid can maintain the team in the first place in the east until the end of the normal season, the favorite candidate will be the title of the best player.

It really has a great season. In the history of the American Professional League, no one has done this small number of shots from the stadium (17.9) in order to obtain 29 points or more on average for each game. The closest competence: Adrian Dantley in the 1983/84 season (18.2), James Harden in the 2016/17 season (18.9) and Yannis Aditocombo this season (also 18.9).

Joel in particular against Rudi Jubart says:

“One of my goals is to win the award for the best defensive basketball player in the American Professional League. When you face a man like Rudi, you realize how good he is and the amount of benefit he brings to your team. Not all his actions are reflected in the statistical protocol, but his confrontation adds new elements to my game. I want to control the attack, but even more in defense. This is the goal that I set for myself at the beginning of the year.”