Luke Walton described exactly how Joel Embiid shredded the Lakers

Joel Embiid had a historic night in Philly’s win over the Lakers Wednesday night. He became the first player to ever score 46 points on 20 shot attempts while simultaneously posting 15 rebounds, seven blocks, and seven assists.

In fact, Embiid had 19 points on 6-of-7 shooting in the fourth quarter alone. He was so good that when Lakers head coach Luke Walton was asked what went wrong down the stretch against the Sixers’ star big man, he was temporarily at a loss for word.

And then, he just let it all out.

We looked at the tape, and every single point Walton made was true.

Here’s Brandon Ingram blocking Embiid’s shot before Embiid grabs his own rebound, gets the bucket and the foul. He made 16 of his 19 free throws on the night and six of his seven attempts in the fourth quarter:

And-one, ref.

This weak-side closeout is probably good enough on most players not named Embiid:

The Lakers didn’t even try this time:

Oddly enough, Embiid’s only miss in the fourth quarter came with Redick spacing the floor like this:

When Redick cut, it turned into this:

Nothing special here, folks. It’s all in the scouting report.

It’s even worse when the man he’s dumping the ball in the post to is Ben Simmons, who commands an entire triple team before kicking it back out to Embiid.

So nice, you gotta see it twice.

Embiid is like Ghost from Power: whatever they say he did, he did that. And if they say he made history, the 76ers’ outlook looks brighter than his Wednesday night against the Lakers.