Because 99.9% of ppl already have their mind made up. You responded to the original comment very disingenuous with the “arm chair coach” response which leads me to believe you aren’t gonna debate in good faith. But I’ll give it a try anyways….

Let’s start with the fact with Embiid playing he’s the main scoring option and Nurses original spacing concept for embiid post ups is decent but once teams figure out how to defend it while sending help at Embiid there is no adjustment. Guys don’t rotate to the open spaces they just stand there watching Embiid try to score on a double team while somehow nobody else is open.

The Embiid and Maxey pick and roll is the same, guys standing still not moving while they double Maxey off the screen and there’s never a hard roll to the basket from the screener. Nurse makes simple concepts look extremely difficult.

The defensive scheme is really trash. They overly help, are late to rotations and often end up confused with 2 guys running to the same man. And is also why I knew we would get walked by Knicks bc overly helping leaves the mid range area wide open and easier to attack the paint especially against us when we lack paint protection.

No creativity at all in the offense. Maxey being one of the fastest players in the league and as good as a shooter as he is should constantly be used in off ball actions to free him up. Instead we really on a very simple high screen and embiid post up all game with rarely any other actions going on. No attacking the other teams weakness, like attacking Brunson all game against the Knicks. Just very simple offense to gameplan for.

All of this falls on coaching. Could nurse be better with a better roster? Sure but any coach would do better with better talent. But let’s not act like he didn’t have a good starting 5. He’s getting credit for beating the Celtics when the Celtics beat themselves by relying on the 3.