On April 26, 2022, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and in a focus battle in the East, Philadelphia faced the Raptors at home. Originally, they thought that Philadelphia would be able to win this game to complete the promotion, but from the beginning of the game, the overall state of the team was very bad, they only scored 14 points in the second quarter of the game, and finally lost the game 88:103, and the big score was also pulled to 2:3 by the opponent!
Philadelphia is currently in trouble, although the big score is still 3:2 leading, but the next game is to go to the opponent on the road, it is likely to lose again, if the big score is pulled into a 3:3 draw, then everything may happen! So what exactly happened to Philadelphia in this game that caused them to be suppressed by their opponents throughout the game?
The first is that the team's absolute strength in this series Embiid is plagued by injuries, after Embiid's right thumb ligament was torn, although now no surgery is required, but the impact on his field is still very large. He only scored 20 points in this game, in large part because of injuries! After being affected by injuries at this strongest offensive point, Philadelphia was indeed very helpless!
In addition to Embiid, Harden, as the team's superstar, his offensive desire on the court must be improved. Harden only made 11 shots in this game, which is hard to imagine for a star of this class in the playoffs. You know, in this game, Embiid, Maxi and Harris all have a higher number of shots than Harden, even a role player like Danny Green has 10 shots, and Harden's 11 shots are indeed a bit too shabby!
So for Philadelphia, if they want to complete the promotion in the first round of the season, then they really need to make adjustments, since Embiid is plagued by injuries and there is nothing he can do, then Harden needs to stand up and help the team, he came to Philadelphia to fight for the championship, if he can't stand up at this time, then really don't want to fight for the championship!