Brunson shot 29% over the first two games of the series and the Knicks won both, because they had role players capable of stepping up.

Tatum hasn't shot above 40% in any of Boston's 3 wins in the series.

Joel Embiid has one bad quarter and Philadelphia loses its minds.

There have been instances of Joel Embiid coming up small in the playoffs.

The series where he's averaging 35/9/5.5 on a 64.5% ts% with the second highest playoff BPM against a top-5 defense and his team literally can't even sit him for 4 minutes without crumbling isn't it.

Making role players more important than stars would be asking for Paul Reed to produce more than Joel Embiid. Nobody is saying that.

They're just saying if they could shoot more than 26% from the field with Embiid on the bench they'd probably be up 3-1 in the series.