On February 12, Beijing time, Philadelphia defeated the Thunder 100-87 to avoid a second consecutive defeat. The first half of the game was still very sticky, Philadelphia only led by 5 points, but in the third quarter, Philadelphia improved its defense to play a 31-20 climax to complete a wave, and the difference between the two teams in the final quarter was also around 10 points, this game was hardened to be traded to Philadelphia, and the fans still gave him respect.
Philadelphia played a video of Harden wearing the No. 1 jersey at home, and the fans at the scene all stood up and applauded Harden's arrival, harden chose the No. 1 jersey because No. 13 was Neville Chamberlain's retired. Harden, who has not yet arrived in Philadelphia and is expected to arrive wednesday, will miss two games, but fans have given him enough respect.
Unexpectedly, facing the Western Conference vice president Thunder, Philadelphia superstar Joel Embiid also played an extremely inefficient game in his own basket. In the first quarter, 2 of 7 + 6 of 8 from the free throws, he scored 11 points, 10 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 block, the feel was actually very poor, 3 of 11 in the half, 5 of 9 in the third quarter to win 11 + 6 + 3 + 3 caps, the last quarter 5 minutes came a wave of 5 of 0!
In the 35 minutes of the game, 8 of 25, 1 of 7 three-pointers, 8 of 11 free throws, 25 points, 19 rebounds, 4 assists, 1 steal, 5 blocks, shooting 32%, shooting 14.3% from three-point range and 4 turnovers.
Embiid also set multiple records in the game, scoring 11 points and 10 rebounds in the first quarter, becoming the first player in Philadelphia history to win a double-double in the first quarter since the 1996-97 season.
He is also a player in Philadelphia history who has had 25 points, 15 rebounds and 5 blocks in addition to Barkley and Moses Malone. But this is embiid's least efficient game in 72 days, the last time had to go back to December 2, 17-of-3, shooting 16.3%, the recent Embiid performance is crazy, why Harden came to the crotch? Is this the fear that the ball will be taken by Harden?
TNT Tiantuan analyzed early on that Harden is not a qualified second boss, he is bent on being the boss, but Philadelphia is Embiid's team, and he only has to wait for Embiid to eat enough to get points. It seems that Embiid is really a little afraid of the problem of ball and shooting.
But there is another key point that scares Embiid even more: Harden's partners Howard, Paul, Westbrook, Durant + Irving have not won the championship, and Harden and Howard, Paul, Durant + Irving have different degrees of contradictions. The Emperor let's hang on.
Text/Yan Xiaobai