Harden takes a break, the emperor is alone; Luca is injured! Fox exploded at the American Airlines Center; 116-124, the Golden State Warriors continued their losing streak.
82-99, Philadelphia 76ers defeated Miami
After defeating the Cavaliers, the Philadelphia 76ers rushed to Miami to challenge for first place in the East. In order to protect Harden's physical condition, the team suspended Harden before the game on the grounds of recovering from a hamstring injury. On the Heat side, the last game was to defeat the Nets in the absence of Butler and Tucker, and in this game, both of them have returned, and the team can basically play except for Oladipo and Lowry.
This game should be the most unbearable game played by the Philadelphia 76ers since the 48-point defeat to the Celtics. The whole team seems to have forgotten how to play before Harden came. In the whole game, the Philadelphia 76ers had only 13 assists and only 17% shooting from three-point range, and only Harris, Maxi and Embiid scored in double figures among the 11 players, scoring only 25 points off the bench, which was almost the same as the Score of the Heat's bench guard, Hiro.
Joel Embiid had no feel, barely scored outside the paint, only four of his 15 shots into the center of the net, and thankfully he made 14 free throws, otherwise the overall numbers would have been too dismal. Gavin Vincent was the Heat's third-highest scorer of the game, and after the slump of the previous game, the draft-turned-point guard recovered again, hitting four three-pointers with 66 percent of his three-point shooting and 16 points without free throws, the second-most scored player in the Heat's pure positional battle, behind Only Giro.
Dinwiddie exploded, and the Lone Ranger completed a 20-point comeback
Luka Doncic missed a game against the Sacramento Kings at home, the American Airlines Center, due to a toe injury. The good news is that, according to Lone Ranger insiders, Lucas' injury doesn't seem to be serious and he's likely to miss this game.
Without Doncic, Spencer Dinwiddie stepped forward and shouldered the team's heavy responsibilities on the offensive end. It took him 36 minutes to cut a 36+2+7 statistic, shooting a full 50%. It is worth mentioning that the 36-point score is also his highest single-game score of the season. In his five games with the Lone Ranger, he averaged 22 points and six assists per game, shooting a whopping 53 percent from the field, and the team only tasted one defeat during this period.
Both teams have limited ability to protect the basket, and Sam hasn't been defensive since his debut, otherwise the Pacers wouldn't have had to worry about how to get him and Turner to coexist. This season, his defensive efficiency is only 1/3 of that of centers, which is very bad. The Lone Ranger had no "unicorn", Powell alone supported the basket, and did not have enough defensive deterrent, and this game was scored by the Kings in the 66-point penalty area.
The Kings were able to score 66 points in the penalty area in large part thanks to Fox's impact. Statistics show that Fox made a total of 21 shots under the basket, hit 12 of them, and the three-point shots totaled 3 of 4, of course, the excellent three-point shot also subtly improved his aggression in the paint.
The Lone Ranger was once 19 points behind his opponent at home, and under the leadership of Dinwiddie, the Lone Ranger began to launch a counterattack, and the "Bitcoin Big Guy" repeatedly broke through the basket with a difficult ball holding. Josh Green started defensively, repeatedly defending Fox's layups and grabbing 12 rebounds (6 front and 6 backs), and Fanny Smith repeatedly responded to vacancies on the outside, especially the last two three-pointers, saving the team from fire and water at key moments, and the Lone Ranger won 114-113 at home to complete a 20-point comeback.
The highest score in the league in a single game
At home against the Golden State Warriors, LeBron James exerted all his strength, and when there were 8 and a half minutes left in the game, he cut a new season-high 46 points, scoring a total of 56 points, 10 rebounds and 3 assists, leveling the "Yang Shaoxia" single-game single-game highest score record in the league this season, leading the Lakers to end the losing streak, while the Warriors' losing streak also expanded to four games.
The Golden State Warriors have pulled the point difference to double digits many times in the game, but the maximum has not exceeded 14 points, and the Lakers have a strong desire to win, and they have never let the Warriors spend the game. Austin Reeves has become a stable starter for the Lakers in the last five games, and he has played a very important role in this game. Outside the three-point line, he hit three three-pointers, providing the Lakers with good offensive space, in addition, he also grabbed 5 rebounds and 3 steals, which is one of the Lakers' highest plus-minus players in this game.
With LeBron hitting three difficult three-pointers in a row in the fourth quarter, the Lakers finally regained the initiative. Klay Thompson had a cold hand throughout the game, scoring just seven points in 13 shots and scoring no points in the fourth quarter. Curry scored 9 points alone in the final quarter, but the Warriors as a whole fell into a scoring drought, and in the entire fourth quarter, the visiting team only shot 42% of the way in the position battle, 15 percentage points lower than the opposite, and the team scored only 13 points in addition to Curry.
The most speechless thing about the Warriors is not this, the Warriors' free throws in this game are really bad, they and the home team almost created the same number of free throws, but the number of hits is exactly twice as low as the opponent, the shooting rate is less than 48%, setting a new low for the Warriors this season.