The scoring king Embiid did not score too much and won, and the assist king Paul did not have many assists but lost

The Philadelphia 76ers, who returned home, won a hot 20 points.

Scorer Embiid returned today with 18 points in 36 minutes and a bit of rust between his hands and feet. But just one stop in the penalty area is worth enough:

Hot center Adebayor, who had 47 points and 21 rebounds on 15-of-21 shooting in the first two games, committed 9-of-9 fouls today.

— Adebayor shot 15-of-21 in the first two games, including 9-of-10 when Jordan Jr. defended him.

Today Adebayor is facing Embiid.

Adebayor is a good terminator, able to maneuver, but not enough range, so he is afraid of people who can move and figure to take care of him - such as the thick eyebrows of two years ago.

Adebayo's change of defense is probably comparable to Thato's Dream and Rowey among the League Elders. But for the seven-foot-long man, he had to work harder—the Swiss Army knife cut and cut everything, but it was not so comfortable to deal with the big bone stick.

Of course Embiid only had 18 points today, but he was there for enough — Philadelphia shot 14-of-64 from three-pointers in the first two games and 16-of-33 today. Although there were many mistakes lost - the heat blocked the outside pass inside a lot - but the outside was much more comfortable.

The changes don't stop there.

Harden today is neither Philadelphia's scoring champion (17 points in the team's fourth) nor Philadelphia's assists king (6 assists tied with Maxy, not as good as Harris).

But here's why.

Harris didn't have a basket today, but handled the ball aggressively. He and Danny Green counterattacked with various dribble pushes in the first half, bursting points and interspersing, so that the heat was too late to fall into the position, and the position was not in place.

After all, the defense of the hot iron cable Yokogawa was on the top and was buckled. Philadelphia insisted on speeding up in the first half today, With Harris and Green taking turns pushing the rhythm and Embiid both playing a chase basket. Philadelphia scored 19 points on the field. Harris had 8 assists and 2 early offense.

There are also three second passes from Harden Harris' vacant teammates.

That's when Coach Rivers took Harris as Griffin/Horford/Dreamer.

Defensively, because embiid was there, the heat situation changed dramatically. Jordan Jr. moved slowly in the first two games, reed young and unable to hold back, and the heat was on philadelphia's line. Today, Philadelphia is quite targeted, expanding the defense, allowing Jimmy Butler to break through with the ball but not too pinched: as long as the hot three-pointer does not get up, it can make Jimmy score 33 points.

When the heat of the third quarter was up, Coach Rivers also made a joint defense. Probably:

"Running with them sooner or later is exhausting, and embiid is here... What are you afraid of? Three-pointers and long-term man... AdebayonBead looked on, not afraid... Pointers? Hot best three-pointer is Dunroe? He's not going, okay, joint defense. ”

Embiid didn't recover after all, so the second half was more of an offensive deterrent. But with him there, that's enough.

Harris, Maxi and Harden all have room to block and cut outside, and Sebel can also be tied under the basket - this "Embiid three-point line, no three-point defensive monster under the basket" is also a traditional skill of the Ben Simmons era.

Although Embiid is a strong deterrent, it also tests Harden.

Although Harden scored the fourth in the team today, assisted the second on the team, had a sparse shooting percentage, and 7 turnovers, he took advantage of Embiid's offensive threat.

After Harris and Green's chase and empty cut opening three-plate axe were targeted, Harden's scheduling in the second half was crucial. In the second half of the third quarter, hot chased the score close, looking like it was going to reverse.

Embiid hit a key three-pointer, hot back with a big shift, and Hiro scored three-pointers.

Harden took advantage of Embiid's threat, a blocking break, and Niang scored three points.

At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Harden rebounded in front of two people, broke through the pile of people and fed Sebel a throw, and made a layup himself. Pulled away 10 points.

The two assists and a layup were a pivotal moment in Philadelphia's game.

Then there was a somewhat touching scene:

After Harden conceded a three-pointer, he pounced on the basket, took the rebound from Jimmy Butler, couldn't get his heels on, and pulled the ball to Harris by hand, and Harris passed back to Maxi, three-pointer, 81-70. The narrator shouted, "Hustle play!!! ”

Harden, hustle play.

Harden's ability has always been reflected in the data.

But today, he did a lot of things that the data can't see, such as this penalty that doesn't even count his frontcourt rebound (counting Harris's), but he works hard.

If I had gone back two years and told myself two years ago that Harden would have won without scoring but by desperately trying, I'd have shook my head like a rattle that year — but today he had a hustle play, including 4 jam shots and 2 wrecks, as many as Harris, Embiid, Green, and Sable.

Embiid's appearance completely changed the offensive and defensive situation, with Harris tandem, Green's long-range shot, and Maxi's second-half explosion. Harden adjusted the situation at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter, did not let Philadelphia be reversed, and he was like a good teammate and a good role player.

It's one thing to do it or not to do it — for example, he still doesn't have a basket, and he has to pull his leg when he gives Harris a rebound in the front court — but it's another thing to refuse to do it.

Today Harden did not have basket assists and fewer mistakes, but +27 was the highest in the team. Probably in the sober mind, and these little things.

Hustle play。

One last thing...

It seems that when the NBA official website reported this game today, it first said that "MVP Embiid had 18 points and 11 rebounds..."

Then it was changed to "MVP candidate Embiid had 18 points and 11 rebounds..." to add finalist.

Is this a mistake in the hand, or has the truth been accidentally revealed? ......

The day before Paul turned 37, he ended the Mavericks with 2-0.

Today's 37-year-old birthday star seems to be getting old in an instant.

It's not surprising that the Suns lost to the Lone Ranger back at home, but Richard Jefferson of the U.S. commentary today said something that was not, such as the last minute, after watching Dallas Bullock's long-range shot in the bottom right corner, what was the "Sun death time nine or eleven o'clock?" By Central Time or Western Time? Coach Monty hung the white flag "(replaced Paul)...

But it also said, this game is really weird, "Paul made 7 mistakes in the first half - 0 mistakes in the second half".

Back at home, Dallas certainly has adjustments, and a lot.

For example, Brunson's style of play today, the calf rampage. 10 shots were made, except for a three-pointer chased by Luca and a free throw line shot, all in the box, including a hit with Booker in the third quarter. His 77th point for Dallas was the best: Booker went into the box, top one, top two, Booker had roots at his feet, Brunson almost out of balance, stood firm, and threw hard.

Brunson broke through 23 times in the first two games, and 26 times in today's game.

For example, Luca's goals today include:

The face basket singled out Ayton and McGee, "You elders are not as fast as me!" "Back hard against Booker and Bridges," pork belly has its own uses for pork belly!" "After the last game, I thought: Playing this series with Paul, Luca can probably learn a lot, and the result is that today I am selling it now. In the second half of the second game, the Sun kept hanging on to Luca's cover, and in the fourth quarter Paul chased Luca; he also bullied Brunson's small stature and pulled up a shot above his head. In the third quarter of today, Luca continued to find Paul's block, shooting three points above Paul's head, floating in the middle of the shot, and returning the other way.

Paul: What church disciple starved the master?!

Dallas didn't go all the way, and Luca and Brunson scored 54 points on 46 shooting. Thanks to Klebe's form today: his high cover and empty three-pointers opened up space for Brunson and Luca to eat inside. Or: Dallas did his best, but the offense was only enough.

Today they won by defense.

Paul made seven turnovers at halftime today — he had just one single-game eight turnovers in his career regular season: the game against the Kings in Houston in early 2018. There was only one single-game 8-turnover in the playoffs: a decade ago with the young Clippers against the Spurs.

The Pelicans also gave him enough trouble in the first round, but Paul made nine turnovers in six games.

7 mistakes in today's half.

- The free throw line and Ayton looked for a block, the penalty area line squeezed five people, hitting the ground wrong.

- Forced to the bottom line by Powell and Bullock, trying to feed the ball to Ayton in the middle, he was copied by Bullock.

------------ Ripped off the field , met two loners at the three-point line , hesitated after the breakthrough , tried to hoist Ayton , and was copied.

- Pressed to the sideline by Bullock, closed, split, copied by Bullock.

- Trying to block the demolition, being pressed to the sideline by Bullock, and dribbling the ball himself: after that, he was happy.

- Pushock in the middle line, running out of time, wanting to pass long, was copied by Dinwiddie.

- Forced by Bullock to dribble on his back, looking for Booker to turn around and attack fouls.

Probably Paul's own emotions are not the most compact - after the fifth mistake, he still grins self-deprecatingly, not like the usual eyebrows are broken and pouting, "How do I do this, I would like to give myself two shots on the spot."

But dallas' layout is also serious.

Bullock hit a three-pointer today that killed the game, but the real value was on the defensive end.

Nirikina's only steal today was the start of the fourth quarter, the Suns formed a counterattack, Klebe changed to defend Payne, Bullock went around the front defense giant McGee, the pass was down, and Nirikina had a quick attack.

Probably, today Bullock dealt with Paul, just like Tucker had previously led Harden in the whole field, strictly restricting Paul's advance and passing, waiting for the opportunity to change defenses or pinch shots, and taking the opportunity to copy the ball.

Booker cuts out the ball, basically not allowed to take the ball near the three-point line to get rid of the trend, forcing Booker to grab the shot, hold the ball single or cut inside, forcing him to make quick decisions.

Of course, there is a price to pay for playing like this:

Dallas blocked passes to Ayton and McGee today (Paul's nearly half of his turnovers came from this), desperately trying to wear down Booker, at the cost of emptying Claude, who did get the Suns' high 19 points and 5 assists higher than Paul. Although Claude's playoff score has surpassed the thick eyebrows of his peers (the real thing... But when the Suns had to rely on Claude to decide, it was like the first-round net had to watch Bruce Brown.

In the third quarter, after Claude tried to give a mistake to the inside pass, he was embarrassed for a while: Claude probably wanted to pass a LeBron-esque high and low position, but he was not LeBron after all...

And Dallas is really fighting, one detail: Nirikina's time today, more than Bertans and Powell. That is, although the 198 cm Bullock was used to interfere with Paul's shot, only Powell was more than 201 cm of the top seven people who played the most in Dallas.

Swinging formations, chaotic battles, changing defenses, short rotations, two peripheral ball carriers hard.

Familiar?

Over the past two years, luca and Dallas have been held in the first round of the playoffs by the Los Angeles Clippers and Coach Lu's short rotation swing stranglehold.

Today Dallas played this set - and there are more on-line pinches than Coach Lu.

Coach Lu: What church disciple starved the master?!

So the first round of the Jazz, today's victory over the Suns, can be regarded as a successful transformation of Kidd to Dallas.

He was following Coach Carlisle to the 2011 ring, but his Dallas team was tougher and wobbly than Coach Carlisle.

Today, Ayton and McGee are drowning in the Crowd of Dallas, and it's probably not far from the Crowd of Clippers that have been trapped in the Dallas elders of the past two years— Polkingis and Boban.

But at the end of the day, paul's pass was pinched from the source — the shot was OK, the pass was strangled.

Paul made six games against the Pelicans in the first round, made 9 of 68 assists and averaged 57 percent from 22 points per game.

Now in three games against Dallas, he is averaging 61% from 20 points per game, but has made 11 of his 15 assists.

Kidd laid it out.

Paul is 37 years old today and is fighting for his first ring. Kidd's only ring was one he got at the age of 38.

They know each other's worth the most, and they know how a great old defender can't pass the ball or get intercepted, and what impact it will have on the game.

After all:

Paul is now the third in NBA assist history. The second is Kidd.

Paul is now fourth in NBA history for steals. The second is Kidd.