Joel Embiid opened up about Philadelphia’s 103-88 Game 5 loss to the Raptors on Monday (April 25), and he shared his frustrations about the team's issues. Joel explained that he's been wanting Harden to be more aggressive, but he thinks it's on coach Doc Rivers to bring that out of James.
"I mean, I've been saying all season since he got here, he needs to be aggressive and he needs to be himself. That’s not really my job, that’s probably on coach to talk to him and tell him to take more shots. Especially if they’re going to be guarding me the way they’ve been guarding me. But that’s really not my job."
Embiid, who's playing through a torn ligament in his thumb, added, "But we all need to be better offensively. We missed a bunch of wide-open shots, at times I just felt like we were just invited, when I was getting doubled, we were not aggressive in attacking the ball. We just kept moving the ball around the perimeter, and that gave them time to recover, and that's why we were not able to get anything out of it. So, if that's what they want to keep doing, we've got to take advantage of it."
Source: NY Post
