The NBA regular season continued, with the East ushering in a strong and weak dialogue, with the 76ers sitting at home to face the Dark Horse Hornets.
After the last upset defeat to the Pistons, the 76ers have suffered three consecutive losses, the team has fallen all the way to the fourth place in the East, due to the existence of the Nets, the decline in ranking is not necessarily a bad thing, but the team is only 1.5 wins away from the sixth Raptors, or worth the team's vigilance, and Harden's role in the team system needs to be clarified urgently.
On the other hand, the Hornets, as one of the dark horses in the East, have won 8 of the last 10 games, and the team is in full swing, but the team is a team with distinctive characteristics, with a smooth offense, but the defense needs to be improved.
As soon as the game began, the Hornets showed a fiery state, Bridges and three goals in a row, the Hornets counter-attack to take the lead first.
Fortunately, the 76ers are online, Embiid, Harden, Harris and other players are online, and the multi-point blossom successfully completed the rebound in the middle of the section, after which the Hornets once again took the advantage, but the 76ers still took a 5-point lead at the end of the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Hornets worked hard at the beginning of the quarter, and with 7 minutes left in the second quarter, they tied the score with Thomas's three points and rebounded, but the 76ers re-energized at the end of the quarter, and at the end of the half, the 76ers still held a five-point lead.
The situation took a sharp turn for the worse, with the 76ers blossoming more on the offensive end, and Embiid on the inside.
Harris, Harden, Maxi and Sable on the outside were also fired in succession, and the point difference was quickly pulled to double digits, and then pulled to 20 points, the Hornets were completely unable to limit the 76ers from cutting points on the offensive end, and at the end of the third quarter, the 76ers held a huge lead of 23 points.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, the 76ers continued to exert their strength at the beginning of the quarter, Harris hit three points in succession, the point difference was pulled apart by 30 points in one breath, and the game lost suspense, and finally the 76ers beat the Hornets 144-114, taking a 30-point victory and ending the team's embarrassing 3-game losing streak.
Throughout the game, the Hornets failed to play their own offensive firepower and exposed defensive shortcomings.
In the whole game, only Bridges scored 20 points, 20 points, 5 boards and 3 assists, and 5 others scored in double figures, but the overall efficiency was worrying.
They are Washington 14 points, 3 boards and 3 blocks, Plumlee 11 points, 3 boards and 4 assists, Rozier 10 points, 4 boards and 6 assists and 5 assists, Ball 13 points, 5 assists and 2 breaks, and Oubre 11 points and 3 boards.
In contrast, the 76ers, the team can be described as a multi-point blossom, of which Embiid showed absolute dominance, played 31 minutes, 12 of 16, 3 of 3 three-pointers, 4 of 6 free throws, and easily cut down 29 points, 14 rebounds and 6 assists.
Because the team directly killed the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter, Embiid did not play again in the third quarter, and he ranked third in the league's scoring list with an average of 30 points per game before the game, just 0.27 points away from the first James.
The reason why Embiid was able to play in the third quarter was naturally due to the more blossoms of the players next to him, including Harris 23 points, 5 boards and 4 assists, Maxi 19 points, 4 assists and 2 assists, Sabler 12 points, 3 boards and 2 assists, Milton 10 points, 4 boards and 5 assists, and Niang 10 points, 3 boards and 2 breaks.
Harden played 31 minutes, 4 of 10 shots, handed over a quasi-triple-double of 12 points, 8 rebounds, 13 assists and 1 steal, and despite 5 turnovers, his personal plus-minus was still as high as +27, second only to Sable and Harris (+28).
It is not difficult to see from the offensive data that Harden took the initiative to make sacrifices in the game and left more physical strength in the tandem of the whole team, and also achieved very good results.
This is also the request of 76ers head coach Rivers, in the first two losses, Rivers successively named Harden, once directly criticized Harden for not passing the ball to the substitute next to him, and the other time for Harden's weakness at a critical moment, bluntly saying that the 76ers are not Rockets, harden needs to share the ball with good players.