That's probably some of what went into the decision. Having goberylt and wemby already do they really need 3 centers. Would be funny to see who would be listed as small.forward on that team if all 3 were on the court lol. They would get ran off the court with that team. I get it individually tye are good defensively but how do they cover faster smaller forwards like taytum?
One of the will be on the bench to rotate, when Wemby and Gobert plays, Embiid sits, and when Wemby and Embiid plays then Gobert sits and when Embiid and Gobert plays then Wemby sits. That would be the case there is no doubt, you can't put all three of them on the floor at the same time, it just doesn't work at all.
However, that's too late anyway, Embiid decided to just go with the USA, don't know how he was capable of selecting USA to be fair, it doesn't feel right to me and seems like there is something wrong to be able to let someone pick any team they want after such an old age, players like Giannis makes sense because they grow up there and that's the right thing to do, he became a basketball player there, Greece deserves to get him.
But USA didn't make Embiid who he is, he got there too late and he didn't learn basketball there, he was too old when he declared for USA, which was literally this year basically. I feel like this "pick the best you can" thing could hurt other teams even more in the future. What if Doncic decided to pick USA? He knew he was good from young age, he could have just decided not to go to national team, and then pick USA when he goes there, what if Jokic did? We should have some more serious laws around this.