This season's NBA regular season has been almost two months old, and the situation in the East and West has gradually stabilized. The Western Timberwolves are riding the dust, from the second-place Thunder to the ninth-place Pelicans, with only 2 wins left behind, including the Los Angeles Lakers and Clippers, as well as the Rockets and defending champion Nuggets who have risen rapidly this season. The performance of several teams is unexpected, such as the Timberwolves, Thunder, and Rockets, they are all based on defense (defensive efficiency is among the top five in the league), and the way the Lakers and Clippers are on track is also defense (the Lakers' defensive efficiency has risen from 17th in the first 15 games to 9th, and the Clippers' defensive efficiency has risen to fifth in the league), the Lakers rely on thick eyebrows, and the Clippers are small cards and Harden leading by example, with defense as the foundation, and the record will not be bad!
In the past few years, there have been three rivalries in the Eastern regular season: the Celtics, the Bucks, and the 76ers, and this season is still the same, the Celtics Big Four dominate, the Bucks use offense to make up for the lack of defense, and the 76ers are a little scary, second in the league in offensive efficiency + third in the league in points per game + seventh in the league in defensive efficiency, very balanced! Similarly, the 76ers have shown a strong ability to abuse vegetables this season, and have had three cases of beating opponents with more than 40 points: 44 points over the Lakers, 45 points over the Wizards, and 53 points over the Hornets. In addition, the 76ers have won 6 consecutive games in the last 4 games, especially in the last 4 games, beating the Wizards by 45 points, beating the Pistons by 28 points, beating the Pistons by 32 points, beating the Hornets by 53 points, and winning by 148 points in 4 games, the second most in history!
In these four games, Embiid has clocked in three quarters, with 42 points, 15 rebounds + 35 points and 13 rebounds + 41 points and 11 rebounds + 34 points and 10 rebounds! So far this season, Embiid has played a total of 746 minutes and scored 752 points, scoring more than playing time! It is worth mentioning that in NBA history, Chamberlain can do this! In addition, scoring 30+ points in 11 consecutive games has set a new team record, and 10 consecutive games have 30+10, the third person in the past 50 years (after O'Neal and Moses Malone), 37 times in the past 5 years, 40+, first in the league; these records are not worth mentioning for Embiid, too simple!34.2 points, 11.7 rebounds, 6 assists and 1.9 blocks per game, first in the league in scoring, fifth in the league in rebounds, ninth in the league in blocks, 19th in the league in assists, first in the league in plus/minus +11, fourth in the league in net efficiency value +16.1, and first in the league in game contribution value!
In the MVP list released by the NBA league, Embiid dominated the list for two consecutive weeks, and he has caught up with Jokic in PER. After Harden left the 76ers, Embiid has truly been able to do whatever he wants this season. Except for Maxey, who can share a part of his ball (Maxey's main score is still concentrated in the transition section, and the staggered peak travel leads the team to play impact), others can't threaten Embiid's statistics and scores, and he can even snatch the backcourt rebound directly from his teammate Batum, and then Youzai Youzai dribbled through the half court for an easy layup: this scene appeared in the Wizards, and this scene also appeared in the Hornets! To put it simply, Embiid can use his skills and body to crush the opponent when facing some fish belly, and he will have some behaviors that go beyond tactics, as for directly holding the ball and directly organizing the offense, there have been countless times this season.
Since it is so strong, and it leads the 76ers to guarantee the top three in the East (other teams in the regular season, in fact, it is difficult to threaten the Celtics, Bucks and 76ers), gorgeous data, excellent team record, and no active data in garbage time, the games are all three-quarter punch cards, and the character is perfect! Then the league will directly award the MVP and scoring champion trophies to Embiid! Alexander, including Jokic, can't have such domineering statistics, and the competition in the West is so fierce, and it is impossible to guarantee the top three. We don't deny that Embiid is strong, he is also the strongest center in the league, and he can even directly remove the "one", but have you ever thought about a question: why is Embiid not so dominant in the playoffs? For two consecutive years, he has averaged 23.6 points and 10 rebounds per game in the playoffs!
Especially last season, and the Celtics' Eastern Conference semifinals, when Harden was 40+ in a rowThree-point kill, leading the team to a big score of 3-2 lead, G6 battle, Embiid got 26 points, 10 rebounds and 4 turnovers in 9 of 19, complained about not having the ball after the game, and insinuated that Harden held the ball for too long; Can you dribble through half the court on your own? Can you still organize offense on the perimeter as you like? Can you squander opportunities with ease? Without tactical discipline, how can you dominate the playoffs if you don't give full play to your expertise when facing strong teams? But what did you do in the regular season?
No wonder Harden will leave you! Embiid is the strongest interior player in the league today, in fact, he lacks external constraints, and no one can control him, but this also breeds all kinds of shortcomings and psychological emotions, resulting in a serious lack of psychological tolerance + pressure resistance in the playoffs, and extremely low efficiency! So what is the use of Embiid's gorgeous data in the regular season now? Is it to prove that you are the strongest interior player in NBA history, or to prove that you are worthy of the MVP + scoring champion of the bank, or to prove that you will live better after leaving Harden? No, it only proves that you're more vulnerable, and Embiid's regular season honors aren't worth much until he proves himself in the playoffs.