In this season's NBA league, the Philadelphia 76ers have become a big favorite in the eyes of many fans after completing a big deal to get Harden, but in the history of the NBA, there has never been a shortage of teams that have formed a luxurious lineup but ended dismally, whether they can truly become a championship-level team, or depends on the players' play on the court, Harden after coming to Philadelphia, the sharp decline in personal offensive efficiency, but also let the 76ers' championship prospects take a sharp turn, Even a lot of fans are not optimistic that they can win the first round of the playoffs against the Raptors to pass the first round! In the first game of the playoffs between the two teams, Harden's performance in terms of personal offense still did not meet expectations, but he used excellent passes to revitalize the team's overall offense, and helped his teammates take off directly, which also made many fans compare the beard to Philadelphia's São Paulo, and finally relied on the whole team's play, the 76ers defeated the Raptors 131-111, achieved the opening of the series, and also crushed the outside world's doubts with actions and performances!
The Rockets period of Harden's career is undoubtedly the peak of his state, he can not only play an inexplicable personal performance in the offense, but also create good offensive opportunities for his teammates after attracting the bag, but after leaving Space City, whether it is in the Brooklyn Nets or the current Philadelphia 76ers, Harden is difficult to continue to play the previous highly destructive personal offensive performance.
Although Harden also scored 22 points in this game, but there is still a big gap from the expectations of fans, and the personal offensive efficiency is not high, playing 40.1 minutes, 17 shots only hit 6 goals, but the score is not enough to assist to make up, Harden used his own performance to prove that helping the team is not only his own scoring this option.
Super passing ability and the overall situation is Harden's body has always been easy to ignore the advantage, this game against the defensive ability of the Raptors, Harden again and again with a sharp pass to tear open the opponent's defense line, the third quarter across the half-court hit the ground to assist Maxi's layup is more impressed by the fans, the whole game Harden alone sent 14 assists, and only 1 mistake, it can be said that his own efforts to improve the quality of the team's attack.
Such an excellent play, let many fans think of Harden's former teammate Sao Paulo, the latter is to make his teammates around him more outstanding league, and now Harden has also become the São Paulo of Philadelphia, under his pass combing, the role players around him have been given the perfect opportunity to show themselves, harris and the new West Emperor Maxi, who were once caught in the rumors of leaving the team, have become the beneficiaries of Harden's wonderful pass, of which Maxi fired a person with full firepower to shoot down the highest 38 points in the game. Harris scored 26 points second only to Maxi, all of which are inseparable from Harden's contribution.
The most important reason why many fans are not optimistic about the 76ers' championship prospects is that Harden's offensive ability is not as good as his peak, but if Harden is imagined to be Paul, his arrival makes the 76ers play more smoothly on the offensive end, Embiid can also put all his energy into personal offense, will it feel that the 76ers have the strength to impact the championship again?