31 points per game + 30 points per game, the strongest duo in the league! Harden became an outsider and had a home to return to

As legendary superstars such as James, Durant, and Curry age, NBA Mesozoic stars have quickly risen to the top with the help of the league. In the past few years, Brother Alphabet has led the Bucks to win championships; Jokic leads the Nuggets to a championship; The Celtics, led by Tatum and Brown, are guaranteed to play the East final; Doncic uses exaggerated data to break various NBA records for the youngest time and again, and the growth curve is like the next James. And last season, Embiid also won the scoring title and MVP. This summer, Harden clamored about leaving the 76ers, and when the market response was lackluster, he had to exercise the player option, hoping that the 76ers would send him away through a trade. But the Clippers are not willing to come up with chips that will satisfy the 76ers. At the beginning of the new season, Harden returned to the team, but the 76ers management politely refused Harden's request to accompany the team, and shirked it with the need to re-adapt.

To tell the truth, in the past few years, the 76ers have not been high or low, with or without Harden, they are all at the level of the second round of the East, and the regular season can basically guarantee the top three in the division, Embiid has grown into one of the strongest centers in the league. However, last season, the 76ers had a clear chance to bring down the powerful Celtics, leading from 3-2 to being reversed 3-4, and Embiid should also bear the greatest responsibility. But the 76ers management still has a few operations worth pondering: first, they signed defensive players such as Beverley and Danny Green, with a clear purpose, to fill more blue-collar workers around Maxey and relieve his defensive pressure; Second, the 76ers management did not renew Maxey ahead of schedule, they did not follow the old path of the Warriors renewing Poole, but gave Maxey another season to fully unleash his potential.

Third, the 76ers still have to send Harden away in the future, but they will wait for the rest of the league to seek a trade. In the first three games of the regular season, the 76ers lost to the Bucks by one point, then beat the Raptors, and beat the Trail Blazers by 28 points in the third game. In the words of the new coach Nas, Embiid and Maxey, the two cores of the team, are getting better and better, and are slowly adapting to their "new roles". The so-called new role is the task that Nurse gave Embiid and Maxey at the beginning of his tenure, he asked Maxey to make at least 20 shots at a time, asked Maxey to take on the organizational work, and asked Embiid to step up more often. In the words of the Philadelphia reporter, in fact, regardless of whether Harden has gone through this summer's farce or not, as long as he stays with the 76ers, he can only be a green leaf next to Maxey and Embiid.

So, Embiid and Maxi started their own show. In the first game against the Bucks, Embiid scored 24 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 7 turnovers on 9 of 21, and a series of mistakes in the fourth quarter led to the team being reversed, and Embiid took the initiative to apologize after the game; In the second game against the Raptors, Embiid scored 34 points, 9 rebounds and 8 assists in 14 of 21, turning the Raptors' interior upside down; In the third game against the Trail Blazers, Embiid only played 3 quarters, 12 of 22, scored 35 points, 15 rebounds and 7 assists, and led the team to a 28-point victory. After three games, he averaged 31 points, 10.3 rebounds, 7 assists and 3 blocks per game, compared with last season, the score did not drop much, and the assists increased significantly. Embiid's dominance of the ball is really improving: in the past, he used to hold the ball on the outside and stop the ball, causing the offense to stagnate, but now he makes the most of his pick-and-rolls, including directing his teammates to run, and the results are good.

Maxey has become the confidence of the 76ers to call Harden! In the first game against the Bucks, he scored 31 points, 4 rebounds and 8 assists on 10-of-22 shooting; In the second game against the Raptors, he scored 34 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists on 12-of-20 shooting; In the third game, he played the Trail Blazers, 6-of-14, 10-of-10 free throws, scored 26 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists, and averaged 30.3 points, 6.7 rebounds and 6.3 assists per game, with a shooting rate of 50%+56%, which is a significant increase from last season's average of 20.3 points per game. Beverley and Melton, not only help Maxey fill in the gaps on the defensive end, but the key two have good organizational skills, when they and Embiid dominate the ball, Maxey is extremely efficient off the ball, and the outside line is not missing. According to the analysis of salary experts, if Maxey maintains an average output of 25 points per game in the new season, the 76ers will definitely use a super maximum salary to retain people next summer. With an average of 31 points per game + 30 points per game, Maxey and Embiid's combination of one inside and one outside, one high and one fast, has made Harden an outsider.

So what should the 76ers do with Harden? Some media suggested that the 76ers settle Harden's salary at one time, send Harden to play overseas, and completely draw a line with the team. Coach Nurse responded that after Harden missed three games in a row, he needed to practice with the team at least once to get a chance to play if he was in good shape. To put it bluntly, Harden returned to the team because he didn't want to be grabbed by the 76ers to deduct his salary like Simmons at the beginning, and Harden took the salary of more than 35 million very seriously. But Harden's mind is definitely not on how to help the 76ers win the championship, and even his return, his ball handling, will affect Maxey to continue to improve, and affect Embiid to control the team.

Harden really has a home to come back to! Embiid's attitude was very clear: Harden is back, welcome; Harden left, and he didn't force him to stay. But management must deal with this matter as soon as possible and not let Harden continue to be the X-factor affecting the 76ers' championship race. In fact, Embiid and Maxey may not be able to lead the team to the championship, the Eastern Bucks, Celtics, and Heat are all strong opponents, mainly because they think Harden has affected the team. So where should Harden go in the future? Do you really want to play in China?