On March 11, Beijing time, today's closely watched NBA regular season game, the Philadelphia 76ers at home ushered in the Challenge of the Nets, which is also the first time that the two teams have ushered in a head-to-head showdown after the completion of the harden and Simmons trades. Just when everyone thought it was a pin-and-needle match against Mai Mang, the result surprised everyone.
The Philadelphia 76ers never took the lead, with a maximum point difference of more than thirty points, and finally the 76ers lost to the Nets 100:129! Only four players on the team scored in double figures, and except for Embiid, who had 27 points and 12 rebounds, the rest of the team played abnormally, especially Harden's performance.
Harden played 29 minutes in the whole game, hit only 3 of 17 shots, including 3 of 7 three-pointers, only 11 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists, and 4 turnovers, plus-minus -30 the lowest in the game, and became the second player of the season to shoot 10 of 10 in a single game, the first is the Lakers' Westbrook! Before that, Harden averaged 24.6 points, 7.6 rebounds and 12.4 assists per game in the 76ers, and Harden's sluggish performance also caused a lot of controversy.
O'Neill criticized: "In the last few years, this is the way Harden has played, has he ever stood up in a key game? It was as if he hadn't done it in a long time. The 76ers traded Harden to the team because they needed you, and when the team got into the seventh, when the team faced a key game, the team needed Harden to stand up, but he hadn't stepped up in a long time. Bagley next to him also said that Harden can not play particularly well, but the performance of such a encounter is somewhat unreasonable.
Harden also talked about his sluggish performance after the game, Harden said: "I just didn't score a lot of shots, and there was no excuse for this. Both I and the team need to find a solution through videotape, we have only played 6 games together, and a lot of cooperation is still looking for. We did get blown up tonight, but it's also a good thing that we can recognize reality and continue to get better. ”
After today's loss, the 76ers' record has reached 40-25, third in the East, and in the playoffs, harden is expected to prove himself and prove that he is a player who can fight a hard battle.