00:00But when you lose long enough, that now breeds into the talent.
00:05Here's where I disagree with him, though, Ricky.
00:07As much as I love Joel Embiid as a player, as talented as Joel is,
00:12as much as he's fought through injury after injury after injury
00:15that aren't necessarily his fault,
00:17where I disagree with them is that I don't think it was necessarily
00:21the tanking that resulted in a losing culture that changed Joel Embiid.
00:28And I know I'm going to get a lot of people angry at me for this.
00:30I don't think Joel Embiid is a winning talent to build around.
00:35I don't think the way he leads and the things that he does,
00:39being late for meetings, missing team activities,
00:43early in his career, not showing up for certain things,
00:46not really rehabbing the way he should rehab.
00:49Now, I know he's gotten better at that, but even on April 1st,
00:52we got the story from Tony Jones yesterday,
00:55the day he gets scratched for missing shoot-around,
00:58the team was upset about it.
01:00Hey, not everyone's showing up for activities.
01:01Last year, Tyrese Maxey had to call him out in a meeting.
01:04Hey, Joel, you're late for everything.
01:06You can't do that.
01:07I believe that the tanking resulted in a losing culture,
01:10and the player you got that you tanked for
01:13did not have the personality to lead this team out of that losing culture.
01:20He doesn't have that ability to lead.
01:23Like, for instance, if you tanked for a guy like Jalen Hurts,
01:27let's compare it to the Eagles quarterback.
01:29If you tanked for a guy like Jalen Hurts,
01:31Jalen Hurts isn't going to come in here and be infected by a losing culture.
01:35That's not who he is.
01:36It's not in his DNA.
01:37He's a guy who cares about winning,
01:39who's going to do anything in his power to win.
01:42He lives, he breathes, he sleeps, all about football and winning.
01:46Joel Embiid doesn't.
01:48That's not who he is as a person.
01:50And I think for too long we've been hoping and praying
01:53that Joel Embiid, the person, would suddenly change
01:56and be able to rally the troops behind him and say,
01:59hey, get on my back.
02:00I'm carrying you to a finals.
02:03It's never going to happen.
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