On April 15, Beijing time, this season's play-offs are not over. Cavaliers and Hawks in the East, Pelicans and Clippers in the West will be fighting for the final ticket to the playoffs tomorrow. Compared with these four teams that are still struggling to reach the playoffs, those teams that have already locked up the playoff qualification have already begun to train accordingly to prepare for the next first round of playoffs. Among them is Harden's Philadelphia 76ers. Whether you like to admit it or not, Harden is a walking traffic package, no matter which team you join, it can help the team get a lot of attention.
As we've seen, the Philadelphia 76ers this season have become the most promising team in the East. The playoffs followed, and the Philadelphia 76ers were also interviewed by the media while training. Among them, head coach Rivers publicly responded to the question of embiidha's number of free throws on the field: you can try to be fouled and see if you can prevent Embiid and Harden. In fact, whether it is Embiid, who is from the inside line, or Harden, who is good at tackling tough problems, their aggressiveness belongs to the top existence of the league, and the average defender really can't do anything with them.
Moreover, both are recognized rules masters in the league, and in the process of shooting bad hand, they can also alleviate the pressure on the scoring end of the team through the means of free throw scoring. They will be challenged by the Toronto Raptors at home in the next first round. It must be admitted that the raptors' advantage of the front-line players with long hands and feet can indeed give the Philadelphia 76ers a lot of offensive pressure, but Embiid is not helpless. Based on past experience, the Raptors are likely to continue to implement a pack-and-clip tactic against Embiid, who is holding the ball. In response to this, Embiid also made a corresponding answer:
In the past many games, they have always liked to use bag tactics against me, which is not a good thing? Now that Harden, who scored equally efficiently, I had no need to continue to fight alone, so as to connect the team's attack, and my teammates continued to score points, and I could also win the final victory of the game.
Apparently, Embiid is sane at this point, and he no longer wants the first round of the playoff series, with an average of 40 points per game. Of course, Harden's performance in the playoffs in the past few seasons has not been very good, and he has not played the style of the regular season scoring king or even the assist king, and now he has suffered from an injury with a hamstring strain, which is a problem that Philadelphia must consider. However, in the face of these uncertainties and the full trust of his teammates, Harden also said bluntly in the course of the interview that his hamstrings are healthy and he does not have to worry about the pressure caused by injuries.
And, after gaining Embiid's trust, Harden responded: I'm training for the first round of the playoffs against the Raptors in the series. That's right, Embiid, worried about the defense of opponents' forward players, chose to trust Harden, and he must of course try to make some changes to improve his shooting percentage. The playoffs will officially kick off in the early hours of this Sunday, and hopefully Harden's efforts will pay off accordingly, no longer sending out a bad shooting rate of 3 of 12 and 4 of 15 to help the team advance to the Eastern Conference semifinals.