For the NBA teams, the simplest and most effective way to enhance the strength and competitiveness is to introduce the league's top superstar through a big deal, and at the end of this season's trade, the Philadelphia 76ers got their wish to use Ben Simmons, who has completely fallen out with the team, in exchange for MVP winner Harden, his and the emperor Embiid's dual-core system, but also made the 76ers a big hit for the championship, but the luxurious lineup did not finally win the championship of the team, which is not uncommon in the history of the NBA. Whether it can reach the expected height depends largely on the state and ability of the stars, as well as the overall strength of the whole team.
After Harden came to Philadelphia, the overall personal performance did not meet the expectations of the outside world, which is why fans are worried about their prospects for the championship, and in this game with the Eastern Conference penultimate team Pistons, Harden's state is still sluggish, although the 76ers have been clinging to the score in the first three quarters by embiid, but the pistons, the second-to-last in the East, played an offensive climax in the final quarter, and finally defeated the 76ers 102-94, giving the latter a three-game losing streak. The lack of combat effectiveness of bench players exposed by the 76ers during the game has become the biggest hidden danger of their impact on the championship!
In the draft before the start of the season, the Pistons used their own title to get Corningham, trying everything to make Cunningham cash in on his talent, which became the pistons' most important goal this season, although at the beginning of the season, Corningham's poor performance made him a water cargo in the eyes of many fans, but as the season deepened, Cunningham gradually proved his strength.
In this campaign against the top of the table-winning 76ers, Cunningham played a very good personal performance, although the opponent has tried everything to limit his play, but Cunningham still played an efficient personal offense, in the 35.2 minutes of his appearance, 20 shots hit 12 goals, one person contributed 27 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals, and also did a very good job in controlling errors, only 2 turnovers in the whole game, His excellent performance is also the key to the Pistons' ability to overtake the score in the final quarter and win the upset!
Harden's personal state has become one of the biggest concerns of the 76ers game, this game Harden shot cold, 15 shots only hit 4 goals, only got 18 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, his performance did not meet expectations, but also led to the team's cold loss of the root cause, Embiid this campaign played normally, showed his dominance of the inside line, one person won 16 free throws more than the other team 1 more than the other team, the whole game also cut 37 points, Double-double stats for 15 rebounds and 3 assists.
However, the 76ers exposed a very big weakness of their own in this game, that is, the scoring ability of the substitute lineup is too poor, and the second lineup only scored 8 points in the whole game, while the Pistons' bench lineup cut 39 points, which also became the winner and loser of the game.
Harden is in a sluggish state, and can also hope that he can find the feeling of the game through the game, and the problem that the team's second lineup is not strong in combat is difficult to solve in a short period of time, in the NBA league where the pace of attack and defense is very fast, it is undoubtedly very difficult to rely on only a set of starting lineups to play the world!