Harden became the Clippers' thigh!4 games scored No. 1, and led the team in blocks: the offensive and defensive integration was too tough

Jialu takes stock of sports

2024-04-29 07:50Posted in Jiangxi Sports Creator

It's hard to believe that with Leonard and George, Harden became the best player in the first four games of the Clippers series. In fact, Harden is also very helpless, if Leonard can play, George is in a stable state, Harden does not need to play so tired, but for the sake of the team, Harden does take on more. In the regular season, his role is to handle the ball and only attack when he has the opportunity, and in the playoffs, because of Leonard's situation, the team is in dire need of a player who can consume the ball, and Harden naturally plays such a role.

After having more balls than in the regular season, Harden also played an extremely good individual performance in this round of the series, and in the series G1, Harden got 28 points, 2 rebounds, 8 assists and 2 blocks, leading the team to easily get off to a good start. In the G2 and G3 games, despite Leonard's comeback, his injury was not completely healed, coupled with George's very unstable state, Harden still needs to carry the team's offensive banner, in these two games, Harden scored 22 and 21 points respectively, and the scoring was the highest on the team.

After losing two games in a row, Leonard was officially absent from G4, and Harden continued to push to the role of the main offensive point, and in the first quarter when George broke out, Harden was also pass-oriented. But in the second three quarters, especially in the final quarter, when the team needed to attack, Harden stepped up, scored 15 points on 6-of-8 shooting in the final quarter, and continued to shoot to help the team stabilize the lead, and Harden scored 33 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists in the whole game, tied with George for the highest score on the team.

After the first four games of the series, Harden averaged 26 points, 4 rebounds, 7 assists, 1 steal and 1.3 blocks per game, leading the team in points, assists and blocks, shooting 54.1% from the field, 50% from three-point range, and 4.3 three-pointers per game, second in the league behind Lillard in this year's playoffs, while his free throw shooting rate was 91.3%. In the first four games, Harden played a 180 club performance, and the performance was obvious to all.

It is worth mentioning that Harden played an average of 41.3 minutes per game in this round of the series, ranking first on the team, and George, who ranked second, played only 36.8 minutes. In many cases, Tyronn Lue didn't dare to go down to Harden because Harden wasn't on the floor, and the team's intensity on both ends of the floor would drop and it couldn't match the Mavericks' intensity. From this point of view, it is enough to see how important Harden's series is for the Clippers.

The regular season is only the team's third choice, and in the playoffs, the Clippers will be the absolute thigh, who would dare to say that Harden in the playoffs will be pulled, when he is completely healthy and focused on the game, Harden can also play a tough performance that integrates offense and defense, and he is still trustworthy. Harden's play is important in this series, and if he can keep playing like this, then the team has a chance to eliminate the Mavericks and advance to the next round.

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