On March 24, Beijing time, the Lakers sat at home to face the invasion of the 76ers. In fact, from the strength level, the current two teams are not a level at all, after all, the 76ers were already a strong team in the East before getting Harden, and now after getting Harden who left the Nets, the overall strength has been improved again. In contrast, the Lakers, who are currently struggling on the edge of the play-offs, are very depressed, first, after the team lineup has completed the big shuffle around Zhan Mei, the overall level of the Lakers has declined sharply, second, the thick eyebrows can not play, James is also absent from this game, so this game, there is no fan optimistic that the Lakers can withstand the attack of the 76ers.
However, in this game, the Lakers were not crushed by the 76ers as expected. In the first quarter, the Lakers, who sat at home, took the lead in blowing the horn of attack, and won the dominance of the game at the first time, laying a good advantage. In the first quarter, Howard, who started, really played very well, although he did not fall behind at all against Embiid, one of the league's top interior lines now, as if to prove that he was once the first center, doing a good job in the defensive end of the frame, and secondly, the offensive end was also in the box. At the end of the first quarter, the Lakers led the 76ers by 3 points 30-27 into the second quarter.
At the beginning of the second quarter, the 76ers began to wake up, there was still a clear gap in strength, and directly played a wave of 12-2 shockwaves to surpass the score. But then Anthony and Westbrook also gave a counterattack, nibbling the point difference tightly and not giving the 76ers a tie. Embiid then began to exert his strength, and successive points also helped the 76ers maintain the lead. In the second quarter, Harris also performed well, scoring 21 points with Embiid and Maxi in a single quarter to take the initiative back in the hands of the 76ers. At halftime, the 76ers led the Lakers by nine points at halftime.
Easy side to fight again, back Harris directly hit two goals in a row, the point difference continued to open, and the Lakers at the beginning of the third quarter, did a little crotch, all kinds of mistakes came out, fortunately, then Wei Shao, Anthony, Munchzi forced, has been the score tight, do not give the 76ers a wave of opportunities. The 10-point gap remained there for a long time, and finally, in the second half of the third quarter, Anthony took the lead with a three-point shot, followed by a zombie jumper on the next round to narrow the gap to six points. In the final moments of the third quarter, through Gabriel's whistle-pressing hit, the Lakers chased the point difference to 2 points into the final quarter of the decisive moment.
The final showdown began, originally the Lakers side has created a lot of suspense, but the fourth quarter came up, the Lakers were slow to enter the state, the opportunity to overtake was frequently lost, but was played by the 76ers a wave of small climax, the score was completely opened. But the Lakers also did not give up, at this time Howard was placed on the court again, the effect is obvious, the Lakers still keep the point difference near 5 points. But Maxi stepped forward and opened up the point difference in one fell swoop through internal and external bombardments. Later, the Lakers began to lose their temper, and the overall situation began to tilt towards the 76ers. At the end of the game, the 76ers successfully won the Lakers away from home through the efforts of the last quarter, winning two consecutive wins!
In fact, I have a lot of admiration for the Lakers, although in the end the 76ers won the game, but you know, this Lakers do not have superstars to sit, James did not play, can fight with the 76ers to the end, this tenacity is enough to make people give them applause. In this game, substitutes Munch and Anthony contributed a lot of firepower to the Lakers, Wei Shao is still a bit crotch, the shooting rate is low and the error is high, which is also one of the reasons why the Lakers have never been able to seize the winning opportunity. Another thing to mention is the starting Howard, who did not have many opportunities to play this season, played very well in this game, and embiid did not fall behind at all, seeing that there must be a lot of fans here who want to spit on Vogel's employment problem.
And the 76ers, in fact, their internal run-in problems are still a lot, Harden did not play well this game, the overall is relatively average, but we did not see a championship team show the dominance. Embiid's play is as stable as ever, which is the basic set of the 76ers, and if he wants to go further in the playoffs, then Harden must play better on the offensive end, otherwise it is likely that even the old club Nets will not be able to play.