On March 26, Beijing time, the Philadelphia 76ers faced the Los Angeles Clippers, and in the absence of Leonard and Paul George, the strength of this game was large. For Embiid, it's more of a game to win the leading score, and once he scores 37 points in this game, he can surpass James to become the league's leading scorer.
Similarly, the next few regular season games will play a crucial role in his selection of MVP, so for Embiid, playing a supernatural performance in this game is a major purpose of his own. And for the Clippers, can they stop harden and Embiid's offense?
Unsurprisingly, Philadelphia showed a very fluid offense at the start, first Harris turned around and jumped, then Harden showed a terrible personal offensive ability, first a retreat jump shot from outside the three-point line, and then an aerial relay dunk to Sebel, just right between the offense and the organization. The Philadelphia 76ers opened the scoring.
Even the Clippers had Batum's consecutive mid-range stop jump shots to fight back, but they were still outnumbered, and it had to be admitted that after the lack of two superstars, almost no one could carry the banner of the Clippers offense, and the 76ers led by 16 points in the first quarter.
As the game entered the second quarter, Philadelphia's overall offense stalled, but Harden's personal form in the game was indeed unstoppable, and successive three-point shots after coming up blocked the Clippers' frenzy of counterattack. Although the Clippers' side Mann caused fouls in consecutive baskets, Embiid also had consecutive strong shots from the basket.
At this time, for the Clippers, this game has been more fierce, it is bound to have players stand up, the veteran Batum is a pioneer, the outside line Zhang bow and arrow into the three points. But Harden is still too scary, like going back to the Rockets period, continuous retreat three-pointers, and there are baskets to make up the basket hits, almost one person blinded the Clippers team, halftime handed over 25 points of data, to help the 76ers with a 21-point lead into the second half.
After coming to the third quarter, the two sides turned on the confrontation mode, the Clippers had Jackson's throwing hits on the side, however, the 76ers also had Embiid's basket to take strongly, although Harden's hand was cool, but the 76ers were still unstoppable, in the case of a bad three-point feeling, the Clippers could only rely on the basket to force, but this was obviously not enough to compete with the 76ers.
In the second half, Kofi stood up and helped the Clippers hit consecutive three-point shots on the outside, and then there were two points in the emergency stop jump shot, but the East was not bright and the West was bright, Embiid's basket was like a bamboo, after making a wedding dress for Harden in the first half, he opened a personal offensive mode in the second half, and before the end of the third quarter, he scored the 27th point of the game with a three-point long-range shot.
The final quarter of the game was also completely reduced to garbage time, but harden still stayed on the court at the moment, assisting Green's three-point long-range shot from the outside to win the seventh assist of the game. Subsequently, the fast-break throw scored two more points, and Green also performed at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, Covington's three-point shot was directly blocked by Green, at this time, the game was eight minutes left, and the Clippers were still 20 points behind.
For the Clippers, Leonard and Paul George were absent, Reggie Jackson was not in good shape, and shooter Kennard did not play what he should have, 20 points behind, obviously unable to return to heaven, with the main players being replaced, announcing the complete end of the game, and Harden handed over a satisfactory answer in this game.