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Harden played in game four for Philadelphia, and the team won again.
Compared with the previous reversal of the Knicks, the gold content is higher, and they have reversed the Cavaliers with 21 points at home, which is also the first time in Philadelphia's history that it has completed at least 15 points in two consecutive games in nearly 25 years.
It wasn't Harden who helped Philadelphia complete the comeback, not Embiid, but Maxi. He scored nine points on 3-of-6 shooting in the first half and exploded in the second half, scoring 24 points on 7-of-9 shooting at the half.
With seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, Maxi hit a 3-pointer from 45 degrees on the left. In the next turn, Maxi hit another three-pointer in almost the same position. Immediately after the Cavaliers shot out, Maxi reached the basket and set off an 8-0 offensive climax.
In this game, the "Ma Daha" combination once again joined forces to stage a terrifying scoring ability, scoring 80 points.
28 points, 21 points, 25 points, 33 points, this is the personal performance of Maxi after Harden's arrival - averaging 26.8 points per game with 64.9% shooting, averaging 70% of 5 three-point shooting per game, and scoring 20+ in four consecutive games for the first time in his career.
When talking about the current situation in Philadelphia before, the word "Big Three" was used, and there was a comment at the time that responded: "Now anyone dares to call the Big Three." ”
But when you see the second-year Maxi playing like this and still improving, it is no exaggeration to describe the three of them as a big three.
It's just that Maxi is growing up too fast, faster than people think.
Maxi, 21, has captured two take-off nodes this season. One was Simmons forcing the palace to leave a vacancy, which made him the team's starter; the other was Harden's addition, which unleashed Maxie's enthusiasm and made him replace Harris, who was 180 million in 5 years, and became Philadelphia's third firepower point.
At this moment, you may think: "This child's life is really good, and everything good has happened to him." ”
But if you attribute Maxie's outburst to Harden's arrival, you seem sorry for the days and nights he practiced alone in the training gym.
Maxi is the 21st pick in 2020, and such a rookie is destined not to be cultivated as a core at the beginning, not to mention Philadelphia, which has been competing for the championship last year. So looking at the Philadelphia 14ers rotation roster last season, you'll see that Maxi is the second-least-time player to play.
As for why he landed on the 21st pick, there is a story like this: at that time, the draft predicted that there was Maxi from Kentucky in the top ten, but in the trial of the bottom line, he shot only 4 of 31 shots to make him go all the way down.
But every player with a low pick often has a similar statement after playing: he was in high order at the beginning, and for various reasons it will end up like this.
But the paradox of this kind of story is that these stories are chicken soup for successful people. If he hadn't typed it, would you still care about that?
The lack of stable long-range shots was the most criticized content for Maxi at that time. In his rookie season, Maxi shot just 30.1 percent from three-point range, averaging 0.5 three-pointers per game, with the vast majority of shots coming from within a three-second zone.
But when you already have an Embiid on the court, plus Simmons who doesn't shoot, not shooting means you have to sit on the bench, not to mention you're a defender who's only 1.88m tall.
But Maxi's efforts allowed him to grow rapidly. After playing the Knicks last game, when Embiid was asked by reporters if he was surprised by Maxi's rapid growth, Embiid said calmly: "Not at all, he is the hardest player I have ever seen." ”
The same answer was heard from head coach Embiid: "Maxi and Reid (2020 No. 28) are the two hardest working young players I've seen so far in my coaching career. ”
Such a trait was cultivated by Maxi from an early age.
Fast forward to 2009, Tyrone Maxi, who was directing the game at Adams Middle School, was furious because it was his son who was running around at any time and hit the circuit switch, causing the stadium lights to suddenly go out, and the game was interrupted for 5 minutes.
In that match, 9-year-old Teres Maxi missed the entire game because he was punished by his father for doing push-ups in the dark hallway until the end of the game.
Tyrone Maxi is a well-known local middle school basketball coach, so from the age of 4, Maxi has been playing basketball, and his father has become his coach, sparring partner and guide.
In the first 4 years of studying ball, basketball was just Maxi's hobby. It wasn't until he was 8 years old that his father had a deep conversation with his Maxi. Maxie's idol is Wade, and that day at the gym, after the father-son bullfight, Tyrone started a conversation that was crucial to Maxie's basketball career.
"Do you want to be a player like Wade?" The father asked the question and got An affirmative answer from Maxi, and then the father continued to educate: "Wade, their kind of players, after coming to the gym, they don't run around randomly, they play one-on-one. They come to the gym to train hard. ”
I don't know if Maxy understood, but after ending this conversation, Maxie still began to run around. For a second-grader, it's hard to ask for more.
Originally, the story ended here, and it was over. But the next day, when the father and son came to the gym again, Maxi seemed to be a different person. "He said to me, 'Dad, let's train well.'" Tyrone recalled.
"We've been training like this since that day. We've got three days in the gym and two days a week in the basketball gym; you could say we're going to do basketball-related training five times a week. On weekends, he would play tournaments, sometimes 6 to 10 games in two days. This pace of life continued until he attended the University of Kentucky. ”
This life has lasted for 11 years. Sometimes, Tyrone would ask his son to take a few days off, but the latter always pestered his father to go to the gym to "play for a while.".
Father Tyrone couldn't understand why: "He's really special, why is this kid addicted to training?" ”
And this habit has been maintained to this day. At the beginning of the season, Maxi would sneak to Camden's team training center every morning to train, until he was banned when the team found out.
Because Simmons does not play games this season, he has a lot of playing time, so the coaching staff repeatedly stressed to him: "We must ensure rest time, rather than blindly practicing." ”
So you can see why Philadelphia was reluctant to put Maxy on the trade list when Harden and Simmons got involved.
With personal efforts, Maxi not only sat firmly in the starting lineup, but also continued to grow. The rookie season averages 30% of the shooting rate per game, and now it has reached 42.1%, ranking 19th in the league. Meanwhile, he averaged 17.6 points, 3.6 rebounds and 4.5 assists per game.
Before Harden arrived, Maxie was the team's point guard, averaging only 1.2 turnovers with 4.5 assists per game, the seventh in the league for assist turnovers, but compared to those passing masters, Maxie's control ability is slightly lacking.
But with Harden's arrival, Maxi was finally able to do what he was better at. He is essentially a scoring guard who organizes the body of a guard, and with a player harden in the no. 2 position, this is a perfect match.
As commentator Jaylen Ross put it: "Maxi and Harden are like yin and yang in tai chi, one black and one white." Harden can pass the ball to him, and he can score like lightning. ”
But before that, it was Maxie who grew up alone, as Maxie himself said: "The days and nights of practicing alone on the training ground is the source of my confidence." ”
"My motto in life is to train super hard. I want to be able to realize my potential as much as possible. By the end of my career, I want to be able to say to myself that I don't have any unfulfilled 'possibilities'. What if I play harder? What if I went to the gym one more time? I don't want that kind of assuming. By the time it was all over, I wanted to say I had done my best, and that was it. ”
It was never Harden who activated Maxi, but every day and night he worked alone.
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