The NBA regular season has entered a critical stage, and as the schedule deepens, the game has become more intense and exciting, the teams in front of the standings want to compete for the most suitable standings for themselves, and the teams on the edge of the playoffs, especially the playoff schedule, need more game wins to get rid of the playoffs to fight for playoff places. With the end of the day, the number of wins and losses of each team in the standings has also changed, and then let's take a look at the latest NBA rankings: Philadelphia's 3 consecutive wins, the Suns' rare losing streak, and the Lakers have no chance to narrow the gap.
Philadelphia have been in excellent form lately, having previously acquired Harden through a trade. After many days and other places Harden made his debut in the last game, and the performance of the debut we also saw was perfect. Harden's game against the Knicks also ushered in the second game of His Philadelphia career. Not surprisingly, Philadelphia beat their opponents to win, which was also their 3-game winning streak, with their 37-23 wins in third place in the East and only 1.5 wins away from the second-place Bulls.
Harden continued the excellent form of the previous game throughout the game, hitting 8 of 14 shots in 39 minutes, 3 of 7 three-pointers, 29 points and 10 rebounds on 10 of 10 free throws and delivering crazy 16 assists. To know that the current Embiid is also exploding, this game once again contributed 37 points, 9 rebounds and 3 assists, 23 of the 27 free throws in the whole game, he and Harden accounted for 85% of the team's free throws, so what kind of performance Philadelphia will have in the follow-up and playoffs is worth the expectations of the outside world.
Compared to the winning streak of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, the Western Summit Suns have recently received a rare losing streak this season. This season, the Suns have shown strong momentum, singing all the way, and have occupied the top of the Western Conference table for a long time so far this season. But recently they have been plagued by injuries, the core of the team Paul missed the game due to injury, this loss also reflects Paul's importance to the Suns.
Facing the jazz with equally good strength, the two teams played very well throughout the game, the Suns fell behind their opponents at the end of the game, the Suns trailed by 3 points in the last 5 seconds, the Suns ball, The Crowder Legend made a mistake, and the Suns also lost the opportunity to equalize. Imagine if Paul were present, with his experience of the game obviously wouldn't have such a problem. After losing to the Jazz they suffered two straight defeats. Even so, they still rank first in the West with 49 wins and 12 losses, six wins ahead of the Warriors behind them. They then need to wait for Paul's return and then go to the championship in the playoffs.
The Lakers lost again, lost without suspense, the whole game was completely suppressed by the opponent, to know that the Pelicans' record is behind them, but the Lakers' performance is incredible. In the whole game, he lost 13 rebounds, 14 fewer assists, shot 10 percentage points lower, shot only 20.6% from three-point range, was robbed by his opponent 16 times, and the whole team made 23 mistakes.
Although James's data is eye-catching, in the final moments of the game, the Lakers are still behind James, but they were questioned about brushing points in the game. Now the Lakers can be said to be full of problems, old problems have not been solved New problems continue to emerge, recently James has been constantly pushed to the cusp of the storm, frequently bursting out of various problems. Wei Shao's side also continued the previous bad performance, saying in an interview that the gap in record could not be caught up overnight, fighting for the championship.
These words sound pale and weak, after all, their current performance makes people unable to look at it directly, and they can't win the right team that is behind them, not to mention that many of the opponents in the later schedule are better teams. In this way, I am afraid that they will not even be able to keep the place in the play-offs.