The NBA's playoffs this season have begun, and teams are fighting for the championship. As we all know, the NBA playoffs are the most test of a player's strength and fame, and every year, the NBA playoffs give stars who have already played in the league a chance to prove themselves.
In the NBA, however, there are countless famous stars who need to prove themselves on the playoff stage. For young players, what they are currently proving does not have much weight, but they still have a long time to enrich their resume, and the most important thing to prove themselves is the stars who have repeatedly broken into the playoffs but have struggled to get results. For the rest of their current careers, their only goal is championship.
Number one: James Harden
James Harden has long been criticized by fans for his performance in the playoffs, and in 13 seasons, he has never missed the playoffs, but he has never won a championship. His closest time to a championship was with the Thunder, when he was a substitute and won the honor of the best sixth man.
As a veteran who has played in the league for 13 seasons, James Harden has won numerous honors, he has won the MVP of the regular season, the best sixth man, 6 league best first team, three consecutive seasons of scoring champions, and 10 times all-Star.
He has been the master of a team since the moment he joined the Rockets, and after experiencing Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Westbrook, Durant and Irving, he chose to join the 76ers in the middle of the season and join Embiid to fight for the championship. His past performances in the playoffs have made him one of the stars who need to prove himself the most this season.
Second place: Rudy Gobert
Gobert has also been controversial since he entered the league. Last year's Western Conference semifinals, the Jazz achieved Mann's career highlight, and this year's regular season, Gobert became Stanley Johnson's background board. Nominally sitting on the internal and external dual core, the team can support a few famous guns in the outside line at random. But when it comes time to fight the opponent's bayonet, the Jazz will always be the one who can't lift the momentum.
Where should Gobert appear? How should the Utah Jazz lay out their defense? The root cause, quite simply, is that Gobert has no offensive threat. It's not that he can't score, it's that he has more preconditions for completing efficient scoring. Gobert is able to provide quality cover, but his threat of downs is relatively average, his grasp of the position and timing of the inside is not top-notch, and he does not have the low-post singles ability of a top center to handle the attack at a high position. In short, it is a poor attack.
Now the playoffs are in full swing, with harden's 76ers leading their opponents, the Toronto Raptors, 2-0, and Rudy Gobert's Jazz drawing 1-1 with the Lone Rangers. To prove themselves in the playoffs, they need to work harder.