Sixers' Joel Embiid discussed his on-court mentality.
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00:00ever get old for you? What's it like to have them behind you like that?
00:03I haven't done it enough all season. I have not been having fun like
00:10usually like I said just mainly because I'm still trying to figure it out
00:15you know to make it work and all that stuff
00:19so you know and it goes back to with me being mature
00:27and one of the biggest part of my game is just
00:30having fun and by having fun means talking trash
00:33and but that part that's kind of being cut
00:37cut so I just need to be myself and you know I guess just do whatever I
00:44want because when I'm having fun I dominate
00:48but this year I don't know I can probably count on
00:52one hand how many times I've done it last year was basically a reaction that
00:57I love it you know they get me going
01:02they understand me I do understand them so
01:06I need to start doing it again because that's how I'm going to dominate
01:10Why do you equate that with maturity?
01:14Because everybody has been talking
01:18you know I'm not trying to be a distraction to the team
01:25you know the fight happened and we had a good momentum
01:31and from there we just kind of lost it we lost a couple of games
01:38so I'm not trying to be a distraction but
01:41that's just part of my game and I feel like
01:45me losing that part has been kind of I think it's kind of taken a toll
01:51in my game so it just goes back to me I mean
01:56sometimes I might be childish and like I said do whatever I want to but then
02:01again you know I care about winning you know
02:05everybody knows that I do whatever it takes to win
02:08I care about my teammates I care about the organization I care about being a
02:13role model so you know you know everybody told me
02:17that I need you know I need to be you know from
02:20fans to everybody else I gotta be mature so I'm doing it and I
02:25don't think he's walking but I'm gonna keep doing it