Beijing time on March 3, the 76ers sat at home to usher in the Knicks' challenge, the two sides in the last game in New York Madison Garden met, when the 76ers easily defeated the opponent with 16 points, and this time to fight again, the light enemy of the 76ers at most once behind the Knicks as many as 16 points, but fortunately in the second half in time to wake up, blasted out a 68-46 shock wave, the 76ers finally successfully reversed the Knicks with 123-108, and recently ushered in a wave of 4 consecutive wins. With only a 0.5-point difference between them and the second-place Bulls in the East, they will have a good chance of overtaking their opponents and rushing to the second place in the East.
In this game, the 76ers started the Five Tigers all scored in double figures, and three of the players scored more than 20+, except for Embiid, who cut 27 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists, and Harden, who had 26 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, and another Mr. 20 points, who happened to be a hot second-year rookie In the 35 minutes of playing time, Maxie shot 7 of 12, 4 of 6 three-pointers, 25 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists, +22 plus or minus and Embiid tied for the first place on the team. Counting today's game, this is already Maxi's 3 consecutive games to score more than 20+.
According to relevant statistics, in the last 3 games, Embiid, Harden, Maxi, the "big three" can average 84.7 points for the team, and 76 people have also won in these 3 games, embiid and Harden The power of the double core is indeed unquestionable, but the third big of the team is not Tobias Harris, who averages 18.2 points per game, but has become a second-year Maxi, which is more or less unexpected. Since Harden joined, Maxi has indeed been given plenty of offensive space, thanks to his significant improvement on the projection end (this season's three-point shooting rate has increased to a career high of 40.8%), so Maxi can easily grasp the pie fed to him by Harden, the top passer, and become the "outside cake king".
Now 21 years old, Maxi graduated from the university of Kentucky, a basketball school, and after being selected by the 76ers with the first round of the 21st pick in the 2020 draft, Maxi also talked about his Kentucky senior and veteran point guard Rondo who was also playing for the Lakers in a later interview with the media: "I learned a lot from him, I am grateful to him, he trained with me every morning, thank you (Rondo) for giving me this opportunity. In addition to the interview, Maxi also shed tears of excitement at one point.
And from kentucky this basketball school produced by the players, to the NBA almost few water off the players, in the past few years, such as thick eyebrows, Wall, Booker, Towns, Adebayo these all-star players are from the University of KFC, and in recent years there are no lack of such as Quickley, Hiro, Alexander, Munch, are also produced by KFC, so this time as the 76ers first round selection of the NBA rising star, Maxi naturally also wants to add glory to the alma mater.
As of now, Maxi has improved his stats to 17.3 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists, and the three shooting rates have reached 47.9%, 40.8% and 87% respectively, and now it has become the left arm of the Harden + Embiid duo, and the 76ers management was reluctant to let Go of Maxi at the beginning, which was really too prescient.