I guess I should be clearer in that statement. They want to hold him out of many games, he will also be hurt and just get rested. Between those two factors I don’t see him playing more than 30 games.
Even now, when he does come back, he hasn’t played in a long, long time at this point, he can’t be thrown out there for 35 minutes for awhile. It is going to be play a game, sit a game (or limit minutes so badly that it is essentially that). If Embiid is on the court for even 1/3 of the minutes this season I will be surprised. (And obviously if he only plays 30 of 82 games he won’t be).
I am not getting down on Embiid or joining the silly “he is getting paid, he should play” crowd. Quite the opposite actually, I kinda like this plan, we KNOW that if there is no load management by the time the playoffs roll around he is not the dominant player we need. Let’s try this. No point in repeating the same “will never work” plan.
My point is just, we need a “filler” that can score. Poor Maxey is out there running a 1v5 offense. He has a perpetual smile on his face, but honestly can he possibly be happy at the moment?
