On April 4, Beijing time, the NBA regular season ushered in a focus battle, Philadelphia away to challenge the Cavaliers, the first quarter of the two teams of defense are very high, in the inside of the fierce hand-to-hand combat, the first quarter Ofi Philadelphia fell behind 21-23.
Philadelphia just beat the Hornets yesterday to temporarily finish 4th in the East, but they are only 2.5 games away from the first-place Heat, and they are fighting back-to-back. The Cavaliers have been in average form recently, falling to 7th in the East, two wins behind the 6th-place Raptors. In the first two meetings of the season, Philadelphia had the last laugh.
Philadelphia's starting lineups are: Maxi, Harden, Harris, Sable, Embiid. Cavaliers Brown and Mobley are absent, starting from Garland, Okoro, Brown, Markkanen and LeVert. As soon as the first quarter came up, Embiid made two free throws, and then scored under the basket, the Cavaliers did not open the attack well, the first 5 shots were all deflected, and they failed to score in more than 3 minutes. Both teams made more mistakes, wrong in and out, Brown finally used the free throw to break the scoring drought, then the Cavaliers began to exert force, Brown dunked under the basket, LeVert broke through, the Cavaliers 7-4 rebounded, Philadelphia fell into a long scoring drought, only scored the opening 4 points in the first 5 minutes.
Back from the timeout, Markkanen received a dunk in the air, Maxi hit a three-pointer to break the scoring drought, and Harris then played 2+1 to chase 10-12. Philadelphia's shooting percentage is very low, Le Vere's breakthrough is very sharp, Milton hit a three-pointer to stop bleeding, and the defensive intensity of the game is very high, and there are many times when people are upside down.
Jordan Jr. hit two free throws, Philadelphia chased down just one point, Brown elbowed Niang to eat the technical foul, Philadelphia used the free throw to reverse the score, Niang hit a three-pointer, Philadelphia led 20-16. The Cavaliers quickly scored five straight points to come back, with Philadelphia trailing 21-23 in the first quarter. Embiid had four points and four rebounds on 1-of-6 shooting, and Harden scored two points on free throws on 0-of-3. On the Cavaliers side, LeVert had 8 points and 3 assists.