Although James Harden has not yet returned, everyone knows that since Harden came to the Philadelphia 76ers, the team's strength and attention have reached a higher level. For Harden's arrival, the 76ers are very excited about the whole team, so even if Harden does not appear for the time being, the 76ers still show quite strong combat effectiveness, and the gap between them and the team in front of them is gradually narrowing.
The Philadelphia 76ers played against defending champion Milwaukee Bucks, which was obviously a strong conversation, and finally after a hard battle, the 76ers narrowly defeated the Bucks by 3 points on the road, laughing to the end. Joel Embiid looked unstoppable under the basket, cutting a double-double for 42 points and 14 rebounds. Of course, the 76ers can win the game, it is not just Embiid alone, the whole game they have a total of 5 players to score in double figures, Teres Maxi plus Tobias Harris became the best deputy around Embiid, the two scored 19 points each.
In addition to this, the 76ers game has some highlights and surprises. The first is that Kolkmaz, who came off the bench, became a miracle soldier, shooting 5 of 8, including 3 three-pointers, cutting 13 points and 7 rebounds, and the plus-minus of +18 was also the highest of all the players on both teams. As the first-round show of 2016, Colkmaz has been playing for the Philadelphia 76ers since entering the league, and it can be said that everyone has witnessed his growth over the years. Since the start of the 19-20 season, Kolkmaz has gradually become a member of the team's main rotation lineup, and last summer the two sides renewed a three-year, $15 million contract. The 24-year-old Kolkmaz averaged 8.9 points, three rebounds and 2.3 assists per game this season, and the 76ers clearly need him to maintain that momentum.
On the other hand, everyone originally felt that except for Joel Embiid, the 76ers' interior line was in a vacuum, especially after Drummond was sent away, the 76ers were even worse. Perhaps it is precisely because of this remark that the other insiders of the 76ers are holding back and trying to prove themselves. And this game against the Bucks, 76ers head coach Doug Rivers arranged for George Niang to start on top, he also lived up to expectations, shooting 5 three-pointers in the game, and with a 50% shooting rate, he cut 18 points and 6 rebounds. George Niang actually started relatively low, he came from the second round and played for the Indiana Pacers and the Utah Jazz at the beginning of his career, until last summer, when Niang joined the 76ers as a free agent. He has been a member of the main rotation lineup this season, and whether as a substitute or a top starter, George Niang has performed well, averaging 9.4 points and 2.7 rebounds per game so far this season, and shooting nearly 40% of the three-point range.
Compared to Georges Niang, Paul Millsap has been named an All-Star four times. However, with the increase of age and injury reasons, Millsap's career seemed very unsmooth. He joined the Nets as a free agent last summer, and like Blake Griffin and LaMarcus Aldridge, Millsap signed the Nets to a base pay contract. However, his performance was not too good, and before being officially sent away, Millsap was directly abandoned for a month. Until the last moment of the deadline, Millsap came to the 76ers with Harden, against the Bucks he scored 4 points and 4 rebounds, and in the last game when the 76ers challenged the Greenshirts, Millsap also scored 9 points and 3 rebounds with a 50% shooting rate, it can be said that he still has a battle. Therefore, in addition to Embiid, if Millsap and Lyon, the old and young, can also play their advantages well, it is really a solution to the 76ers' urgent needs.
In the end, despite the lack of Harden, the 76ers actually lack a stadium commander who can control the whole situation, and the impact is self-evident. Even in this case, the 76ers scored nearly half of the athletic goals, forming effective assists. In other words, the 76ers played very selflessly, not whoever took the ball and went to the wild, relying on personal ability to solve the problem, but constantly sharing the ball, patiently looking for opportunities, and finally the best player completed the shot. So throughout the game, Embiid gave 5 assists, creating opportunities for his teammates while scoring, while Tobias Harris and Maxi each delivered 4 assists.
Before Harden went to war, the 76ers will not be in a full-bodied form, to know that Harden can return, not only to complete the score, he can effectively reduce the pressure on Embiid, and can string the entire team together, then the 76ers' combat effectiveness is bound to be higher than now. The team's regular season record in these seasons can be guaranteed, but the playoffs will always drop the chain, because of the lack of players who have a final word at key moments, and the reason why the 76ers have exchanged Harden is also to solve this problem and let the team complete the transformation.