Old Huotou couldn't help frowning and took a deep breath of smoke. This little money in the fold, it is not enough to keep the pension to see a doctor. The grandson wants to get married, the house, the car, it is not the same as the neat, I heard that the bride price is 188,000, I am afraid that this little savings is a drop in the bucket, and I can't sit idly by. ”
I have a friend who said that Tatum's performance today is like emptying 6 wallets and killing the down payment in the garage. I think that the teammates of the Green Army want to silently like it. This season, Tatum will give you a 7-of-17 error, which is not unusual, and this game has to add two notes:
The 76ers didn't pinch Tatum aggressively, and even, Tatum didn't take the initiative to attack with the ball;
The 76ers didn't hold Tatum down with a big lock, PJ Tucker was pulled to top Horford, and Tatum was guarded by Melton, who was two sizes younger than him. And, Harris. Tatum met Harris and was once reluctant to make a move, which is an unexpected effect.
The result of a match may not tell much about it. However, I will admit that Harris has been undervalued to the 76ers in the past. The objective reason is that the 76ers' offensive reinforcements during the off-season were not successful, Tucker only occasionally flashed in certain matchups, and House did not play. Due to Niang's poor athleticism, new signing McDaniels is thin and thin, Harris is still the 76ers forward, the best combination of attack, size, athleticism, and confrontation. Of course, he took more money than several other strikers plus a piece, and his comprehensive ability should also be stronger.
If Rivers had ended up taking Harris higher instead of Melton against Tatum, there might not have been that three-point shootout. But even if the 76ers win, the gap between them and the Celtics is still clear, after all, this is the home court that Embiid cannot win.
Embiid played an offensive and defensive domination without any impeccable perfect game. Even, after Tatum completed the final kill, he also responded with a timeout backcourt three-pointer, like the sword twenty-three void hit the stab of the hero, and he was unable to win, just because the destiny of heaven was decided.
With Embiid, the Celtics gradually lost control. Over the past few years, even if they have suffered losses, they have had the experience of limiting Embiid. Embiid evolved, and there was a Harden brush BUFF by his side, so he had various ways to play with the defense:
Breakdown to mid-range emergency stop jumpers;
Give Harris a hint, go low and do the ball.
This first ball is already a daily routine for the 76ers, and with Harden, how Embiid gets jump shots in the dessert position is no longer a topic to study. This also upgraded Embiid's standard from the past tonnage to non-tonnage mobility. At the same time, the team's pinch rotation ability is excellent, and there is capital to add troops in the middle to resist the Diden duo, and then take into account Harden's three-point shooting on both wings.
Is it just Harden's split-shot?
You really can't ask Embiid to raise the accuracy of his shots to the standard of a master tackler, his height and flexibility also determine that dribbling and turning will leak flaws that can be picked up in the fourth quarter, which is exactly the opportunity that Jaylen grabs with a steal counterattack in the fourth quarter. But Embiid has really improved in the past two years, so much so that the Celtics subconsciously prepare, "We'll start when this kid dribbles." Unexpectedly, Embiid turned passive into active and engaged in a sneak attack with Harris. These things, two or three years ago, the Celtics did not have to worry about.
But the bigger gap is in Lao Huo. For many years, Horford has been an effective interior lineman against Embiid, he can effectively slow down Embiid's low-post offense, cooperate with the Celtics' defense, and put Embiid in an embattled encirclement. Horford is older and more demonized, his brain is clear, and the kung fu on his wrist is more and more evolved, but his legs and feet are not as good as before, and this top Embiid has fallen a little faster, which in turn led to the failure of the overall strategy of the Green Army:
What Mazura thought was that Horford topped, Lowe let Tucker go to the middle to sweep, 2-on-1 is a win.
The actual situation is that before the assistant defense mechanism could operate, Embiid squeezed to the basket, strong 1 to 3, in addition to Lao Huo and Xiao Luo, hang up White by the way, which is considered a gift.
With Tucker's two-shot bottom-corner three-point response in the first half, the Green Army's plan was shattered.
However, the Celts didn't care at all. Or rather, the Celtics could well withstand the failure of the momentary plan. If the basketball game isn't just 12 minutes, how much advantage the 76ers build up is a mirage. In the first quarter, the 76ers were much more exciting than the Celtics, and the Green Army was only 2 points behind, and the second quarter started with a minute overcome, and the second half was a similar plot ups and downs - the gap between the lineups between the two sides was too large, even so large that they didn't need to analyze each other's games, just list their names:
76ers: Harden, Maxi, Jaylen McDaniels, Niang, Reid
Green Army: White, Brogdon, Jaylen, Gwe, Lowe
Reid played four minutes and the 76ers lost by 14 points, and I called the good guys. In the starting lineup, Lowe was somewhat negative on the floor, but in the bench, with three breakthrough masters on the outside, there was this basket Optimus Prime, beating the 76ers don't want. Don't talk about this version of Harden, it's the peak Harden over, he took this configuration to Gangkai, Step, and Stabbing Alliance, and he also had to shout "Tap, it hurts!" ”
With the blood coming back in the articulation segment, the Celtics have plenty of time to adjust and find an effective way to deal with the 76ers. Tatum played poorly this time, and a dozen could not help the 76ers' defense, and the blocking was also a mess. Embiid was inside the pestle, Tatum couldn't get in, and he couldn't make any difference with Lowe's blocking. Lowe's fast-moving pie-eating center is best suited to work with defenders who can take position, pass the ball, and have plenty of mid-range means, and Tatum clearly avoids the above keywords perfectly.
Tata prefers a center with cover and strategy, especially a center with an outburst. With Embiid on the floor and Lowe on the floor, the Celtics' way out is to fight defense, play fast offense, play Jaylen's strengths — which is one of the key points for the Celtics to win — or play some three-point shots and no-balls with high cover quality, but Tata feels too late to show this trick in the end.
A better way is to take Lowe down, directly go to the all-space five-outside lineup, and eat the 76ers rotation ability is insufficient. Against the 76ers, the Celtics don't have much pressure to put five outside, because their player against Embiid was not originally center Lowe, and even, the first pick was not Horford. In the decisive moment of the fourth quarter, Mazura took out five outside the decisive battle, with Gwi and Horford on the floor at the same time, and the player against Embiid at this time was Gwe. It can be seen that Mazura also realized that Horford is an old man after all, there is an old family in the family, if there is a treasure, this treasure must be saved, and the wallet should not be cleaned at one time.
Lao Huo did not accept the old age. In the third quarter, the Celtics turned things around, relying on Horford's four-shot three-pointer. This kind of ball, Embiid can't help.
How familiar the plot, the old routine of the Green Army to deal with the 76ers, Horford's external demolition, fixed point, Embiid can not take care of it.
The Celtics have a roster thickness, a wealth of means, and ample fault tolerance. The 76 people only had an absolute advantage point for the Great Emperor, and they used this advantage point almost 100%. Embiid put his energy to the maximum, playing 39 minutes, not to mention pulling full, and it is difficult to squeeze anymore. Embiid deserves a win, but unfortunately in addition to his own feeling, various variables have evolved in a direction that is not favorable to him, as if the bottom corner of the basket bounced off, not dividing in the direction he did not expect by his own will, and he threw this more difficult today, but it was 0.1 seconds worse.
Then I think of it, the champion of muscle disease, another champion of mental illness, the strange passive attribute of the head coach, the unexpected injury every time the competition for honor is critical, and the lifelong enemy of Yu He Shengliang... And so on and so forth. Maybe Embiid hasn't been as tough as he is today in all the big moments, but when I think of his weird fortunes, I really want to say:
Brother, it's hard for you.
So, Harden patted him on the shoulder and sighed.
", that's life."