The rotation of the break, the recuperation of the injury, the regular season is nearing the end, the Lakers have withdrawn from the playoffs, the team's big three will not play in the last few games, so James will not care about the title of scoring king. In James's opinion, he is more focused on his injury situation, and he also hopes that he can stay in this league longer.
Many people would have thought that James would return in the game against the Thunder to compete for the scoring king, and now this statement is self-defeating. On the scoring list, he is slightly behind Embiid, who averages 30.4 points per game and James has 30.3 points. If Embiid can get the top scorer this season, he will be the first center player to win the top scorer after O'Neal the Sharks.
In fact, the scoring king is only a manifestation of ability, the reward of this season's hard work, but there is no doubt that Embiid's real goal is to lift the championship trophy. As a strong competitor to the MVP this season, his performance has also been watched all the time, which can be said to have become a direct dialogue between Tai and Embiid. Embiid's battle for mvp is also supported by the famous Perkins, who thinks Jokic is playing very well, but he thinks Embiid should take this mvp more, experienced a Simmons farce at the beginning of the season, and at one point led the team to the first place in the East, which is a leadership performance. But in a certain column ranking, the playoff ranking of the duo, Perkins put Embiid and Harden in the last place. It's actually a form of distrust, but Harden's recent form has had a hard time making it feel like the duo can go a long way in the playoffs.
Recently Harden is really difficult to say, on the court can not stand up at all, may be very good data on the assist side, the last game against the Raptors got 15 assists, but only 13 minutes into the account, in the offensive end of the cold hand, when the team needs him but can not stand up to help the team, but there are mistakes directly lead to loss, such performance is difficult to guarantee that he can help the team to win the game on the offensive end of the playoffs. So it's also normal that the outside world is not optimistic about the combination of Harden and Embiid.
In the Raptors' post-game interview, Harden directly pointed out the team's problem - space, Harden believes that the team needs to solve the space problem, pay attention to the 76ers know, Harden said the space problem, he has said many times. With only two games left in the regular season, can the team really fix that? Harden also said that he will solve the problem by constantly watching the replay and believe in the team's ability.
Harden in the playoffs was put on the hat of pulling down, and now there is this bad state before the playoffs, can Harden really do it in the playoffs? We don't know now, after all, the defense in the playoffs is completely different intensity, and I hope Harden can restore his form as soon as possible and help the team win in the playoffs, he is very important to the team.