If a team is expected to win the championship at the beginning of the group, then his book strength must be the strongest. Such a team is also easy to die of great popularity, but if even the book strength is not the strongest, how to make people associate?
The 76ers are definitely not the strongest on paper, and even after the trade, the lineup structure is not as good as the Nets.
In addition to book strength, there are ways to consider the possibility of a team winning the championship, and play a few games to see. Take two steps to see, take two steps to see, good may also go crooked, crooked may also go right, be sure to take two steps to see.
Harden and the 76ers have not yet played a game together after completing the trade, because Harden's hamstring injury has not yet healed, dare to believe that the Nets misdiagnosed Harden, and used it for so long, which is a bit unethical for the Nets. But from Harden's point of view, why didn't he bring it up earlier?
These two points we will not delve into for the time being, the following is a brief look at some of the possible discomforts of Embiid and Harden collocation.
Friends who pay attention to the recent news can see that Embiid is very excited about Harden's arrival, almost to O'Neal, all kinds of praise. According to the similarity of scoring points between Harden and Kobe Bryant in the 12-year Drew League, Harden is also close to Kobe, so isn't Embiid and Harden "ok combination"?
Old fans know the horrors of Kobe bryant and O'Neal, and younger fans may not know much about it, and the two are simply the strongest duo in history. Their great feat of winning three consecutive championships has rules to follow. First of all, they have a level of consciousness that once surpassed all the coaches in the NBA - Phil Jackson, with a set of high-end tactical systems in history - triangle offense, and their own offensive and defensive strengths are the top five levels in NBA history.
Such a strength configuration helped Kobe Bryant and O'Neal to win three consecutive championships, which means that the three consecutive championships are quite difficult to win, and non-top people cannot reach. We don't have to have Harden and Embiid to pursue a three-game winning streak here, if they pick up a championship first, they must first determine the top of the attack and defense.
Embiid has been an MVP-level player this season and is currently at the top of the MVP list, showing his dominance. Barkley likened him to O'Neal and acknowledged his strength on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. Then before Harden and Embiid work together, Embiid's personal problems are not much, he is already in that rank, waiting for a better union.
The question is hardened.
Harden in the peak season mainly leads the team through singles linkage with other offenses, and the core of his offense is still singles. He's used to possession in number one, but he's not a playmaker. After coming to the Nets, the team didn't match him with this type of lineup, and when he was second in the league in singles stats, his scoring and efficiency dropped. Strictly speaking, it also has to do with his injuries, tweaks to league rules and overall discomfort with the Nets. What we have to say here is that the 76ers still can't create the Rockets' lineup type for Harden, so will Harden have the same offensive efficiency decline as when he was at the Nets?
As O'Neal said, Harden needs to recognize that the 76ers are Embiid's team, and once that perception is established, harden is actually far away from the Rockets' peak style of play. In this case, if you can still maintain efficiency, you can only have Harden to debug himself.
You can't hide. As soon as Harden reached 76, he would face the problem of cooperation with Paul that year. Once this problem is solved, everything will be fine, and once this problem cannot be really solved, then the team results can be imagined.
The above briefly talks about the problem of team tactical order and leadership order, and its core content is how Harden places himself.
Of course, there is also a direction in which Embiid abandons his role as the boss and instead assists Harden, only to obey. However, Embiid is not Capela, and when he has a strong ball holding and a face frame attack, he will definitely divide Harden's attack and domination ratio to form a center point. So embiid is difficult to fully assist Harden unless he completely obeys Harden.
Briefly discussing the above-mentioned issues involving the ball rights of each game, in fact, the two have to have longer patience and breakthroughs. What we are talking about here is the certainty of facing the key moment, which must be enough.
Harden has struggled at key moments throughout his career, as if he has lost this gene, he is also a person who has completed the kill, why is he always unable to lift his spirits in most key moments? The same is true of Embiid, who is a man who lacks luck, and together with coach Rivers, he has to concentrate his luck first.
Why did Rivers always lack luck?
One is the lack of flexibility, and the other is the lack of authoritarianism. Why does Embiid tend to become the background emperor, in the end, it is still a lack of dominance. From the simmons incident last season, we can also see that Embiid has some emotional intelligence problems, and there is no sand in the eyes of grievances.
So I don't want to see the new combinations complaining to each other at critical moments, but rather see them have the ability to slow down and get through. Once a person crosses a node, he immediately becomes a new self, and it is clear that Embiid and Harden are not at this point quenched. Therefore, in some moments that determine the trend of the series or disagreements, the two must not forget their original intentions, which is the most difficult to do.
When they dare to face themselves and sacrifice, they can be called the "OK combination" of this era, and they are still a long way from achieving a good story.