Today, Philadelphia lost to the bull during the double plus, and the eight-game winning streak ended.
Enbyde still scored 37 points, 30 + for the tenth consecutive game, but unfortunately he was sent out at last; Harden played the worst game in Philadelphia’s career: 5 mistakes in 2 of 14 shots.
So should harden be blamed? No.
Coach Rivers explained after the match that Harden had a foot injury and did not attend the post-match press conference. He went for an examination.
Harden scored only 5 points in 14 shots today. Although it was caused by a foot injury, there was also a bull defense: Caruso didn’t play today, but Lavin, who just praised himself as an excellent defender a few days ago, performed well today.
Of course, he is not the only one to defend Harden.
The bull’s strategy today is to press the ball holder closely. Harden is going to throw three points and be disturbed by the previous step; If you break through with the ball, the peripheral bull defense will delay and limit Harden’s breakthrough line; When he is forced to the specified position, he will be added to the position.
Even went on a joint defense, waiting for Harden to fall into the trap.
There were even five people encircling and suppressing Harden, and enbide, who went online Vucevic, was released-last year’s scoring king and this year’s scoring king enbide! Empty!
Of course, it is not really empty. Today’s Bull play is to round up the ball holder. Enbide receive the ball, the bull was still in groups, not to let enbide shoot comfortably. Today, enbide, a seven-foot melon, rarely received one ball outside the penalty area-37 points, almost all of which came from the penalty area and free throws.
The method of blocking the shooting, which could not stop enbyd from scoring, but could control Harden with injured feet-and control the attack of the Philadelphia team? Let Philadelphia double plus only have 105 points?
Why was harden obviously in poor state and targeted by the bull, and Coach Rivers spent 46 minutes on him?
It is also a Philadelphia problem.
Harden couldn’t break through today, but he still had 12 assists. He averaged 10.9 assists this season and still led the league.
In fact, Ha gave 28 points to his teammates on the stage, and he also led the league.
But at the same time, the potential assists of Philadelphia Field average were only six or 43 times in the league.
After a pass, even a shot/foul/mistake is considered as a potential assist.
That is, Philadelphia has 43 chances for each pass, of which 25 times are cashed as assists; 18 times out of 43 times are transmitted by Harden, and 11 times are cashed as assists.
There are not many opportunities for manufacturing, but the quality of opportunities is high and the opportunities are well grasped.
The receive the ball shots of 76 people in Philadelphia-41% of the shots, 40% of the three points, and 60% of the effective hits-are all the first in the league.
The end capability is equal to one.
After all, when it comes to the reserved basket, Harden, Maxi, enbied, Harris, Melton, Tucker, Milton, Niang can all vote.
— Those that cannot be cast, such as saibull, such as Simmons, have all gone……
But at the same time of strong end ability, Philadelphia still relies too much on Harden and enbede in terms of passing creativity.
In fact, Philadelphia averaged 25 assists this season, 15 times from Harden + enbyd.
There is another detail here.
Ha’s debut was nearly 11 assists, but in terms of breakthrough ability, he was no longer himself in 2018.
His games averaged 11 assists. To a large extent, it was not his sudden points, but his vision and rhythm.
For example, today his first assist was to feed enbide. After a round, he fed enbide, waited for enbide to attract the attack, received it back, and immediately shot to Harris on the weak side; in the second section, the assist of feeding Maxi was also transmitted inside and outside on one side and enbede twice, and attacked maxi on the weak side.
Find enbide to block and remove, Maxi will also.
While feeding enbide, he played by himself, and at the same time, he used enbide’s restraint to make balls for his vacant teammates at any time-this job requires vision and rhythm, and Philadelphia will do it alone.
Today, enbide only had one assist: it was not that he refused to pass the ball, but that the bull swung with a bunch of people, and he could not find a comfortable passer.
House station is not often right. Philadelphia lacks Tucker’s ball-free cover wall again.
So today, the bull’s defense became a biting Bureau: joint defense, attack, round up the ball holder, and let enbyd and Maxi burst out. After the game, Coach Rivers chanted that the team transferred the ball too badly. Obviously, it was quite good to pass the ball in the previous winning streak!
This shows that under this kind of strangulation, only Harden can stably remove the ball and give it to the empty space in Philadelphia.
Even after enbide came off, Philadelphia’s second plus score-Maxi and Harris’s singles-was the layout of Harden’s weak side of scoring.
So Harden was injured for 46 minutes Today. He was in a bad state because he couldn’t get in or hit, so he had to continue:
Milton may be able to play this role, but Rivers only let him play for 10 minutes.
In fact, Harden missed 14 games this season due to injury. After all, he was also 33 years old. But he played 37 minutes per game this season, which was more than the fifth in the league.
Coach Rivers trusted the veteran, but also because of his position, Philadelphia was not replaced. This was not in November when Harden was not there last year, enbide had to cut 59 points in succession 42 points the day before and the next day, and finally he was exhausted to injury.
Today’s game is no more than another proof:
Philadelphia has the league’s top defensive scoring king enbyde, the league’s top accurate receive the ball shooting end group, and continuous defensive communication and toughness.
However, the whole team can continuously, accurately and timely, and only Harden can give the shells to the scoring king, the vacant basket and the maxi’s cannon.
If Philadelphia still has weaknesses, this is their weakness:
When the scheduling situation was needed, Coach Rivers only believed, and I’m afraid he could only believe Harden-he would rather be injured than Milton.
The thickness of Philadelphia is very good, and the whole team can take turns to grasp the opportunity, but it is the two people who start to create the opportunity.
Last thing:
From 2012 to 2015, there were four consecutive attacks: two Rondo and two Paul.
The head coach of the four-time team that assists king is Rivers.
This season has helped King Harden, and the head coach is still Rivers.
If you find a master of organization, you will give him all the keys to be in charge of the family, and the on-the-spot adjustment will all belong to him. You will use him for all your work-at this point, the two coaches, Tony and rivers, are really yoga for a while.