The new season is about to begin, and teams have moved from the "vacation mode" to enter the training state. In fact, basketball has a different meaning for ordinary players and stars. For those stars who make a lot of money by making great performance in the game, playing games is often not just about work, but more like a part of life.
However, even when facing life, many people have different choices. There are players such as Kobe and Curry who are chasing victory; there are also players who pursue status and money like Anthony back then, and players like James Harden, who have both, as of now, have rarely seen them.
Obviously, after experiencing the confusion in the early stage of his career, his choice at the end of his career was to strive for the championship.
Although Harden was "locked into a small dark room" by public opinion due to poor personal performance in last season, he gradually warmed up his reputation with a series of operations during the offseason, which shows that he is indeed a representative figure of "high emotional intelligence".
"Train hard during the offseason, salary cuts and renews contracts, recruits players", etc. James Harden tries to help the team win the championship in and outside the court. However, basketball is not a one-person "game". To achieve the highest honor requires the cooperation of every link in the team. Many times, not everything can be done with personal efforts.
Old Rivers's speech on New Media Day successfully brought himself and Harden to the forefront, which is obviously not a good thing.
In fact, after the four Celtics won the championship, Old Rivers, who entered the peak of his coaching career, has always made "amazing moves". The Clippers' nepotism and self-willedness during Paul's period; the tactical rigidity of Leonard's hiring conflicts during the 76ers' slashing the blame, etc., these "achieves" more or less represent part of his personality.
In fact, all of the well-known coaches in the league have outstanding business capabilities in tactical adjustments and can help the team enhance their strength. Such as Spoo, Kidd , etc., can be said to be an adjustment expert, but Old Rivers is a "famous" tactical rigidity. He formulates tactics before the game, and there will be no changes in the game.
James Harden has seen the old Rivers turnaround 3-1 by the "Rockets Head-up Gang" in the Clippers. Can such a coach really lead the 76ers to the peak?
In other words, Old Rivers, who has "restricted attacks + reduced status" at this stage before the new season has begun, is really trustworthy?
can only say that Harden seems to be re-taking Ben Simmons' path.
Harden was restricted by old Rivers , and 76 people cut off their own arm.
What did Old Rivers say to make the outside world question him?
When talking about the team's core guard James Harden 's offensive positioning in the new season, Rivers said that Harden no longer needs to be the player who averaged 30+ games during the Rockets, and Embiid is the team's first offensive choice.
"If you see him averaging 30 points in the Rockets and averaging only 20 points here, it's crazy. In Houston, he always needs to score, and many of us can score, Embiid is the first option here, right?"
Objectively speaking, Embiid, who performed at the MVP level last season, did perform one level higher than Harden. After all, both sides are no longer the same age group. It is quite reasonable for Harden to give way to Embiid, who is gradually entering his twilight years. Although this is not nice, there is nothing wrong with it.
But the next thing is a bit beyond control.
Rivers continued to "spoken words", and he said in the media that James Harden will not be the team's "first, second and even third offensive candidate."
"Harden never became a "second option", Maxi is also one of our main offensive players, and Tobias is also an option.So yes, Harden doesn't need to take that much personal scoring pressure. "
When this statement came out, the outside world was shocked. As the head coach, Old Rivers' attitude undoubtedly means that Harden's positioning has been clear. In addition to assisting his teammates, his unlimited right to take action in the team was completely deprived. Not only that, he even became the fourth-ranked scorer at the team level, which is undoubtedly a very distrustful performance.
Obviously, Old Rivers' "arbitrary and arbitrary" attitude began to make people disgusted again.
Other players relieve Harden of pressure, which is acceptable, but as a top star who once averaged 30+ games, Harden, no matter how powerful his teammates are in attacking, it should be an indispensable thing to protect his right to take action. This is the minimum respect. Becoming the team's fourth offensive choice is already a means to question Harden.
Moreover, although the 76ers are known as "double giants". The configuration of the head" + powerful players is not inferior to that of other "big three" teams, but its core selling point is still the duo of "Harden + Embiid". The outside world has always expected that Harden can return after "harden practices", and other teams will also defend Harden again. Both core cores have unsolvable offensive strength points, so that they can play in the new season of heroes competing for hegemony. If James Harden, one of the core, is not trusted on the offensive end , didn't the 76ers break his own arm?
can only say that Old Rivers' words make Harden's "hard training" in the offseason become meaningless. After that, Harden may be restricted from taking action in the game. What will Harden be like then?
Will the next Ben Simmons?
Maybe, after the 76ers' failure in the future Old Rivers will give another "inappropriate" sentence and directly put the blame on someone. Look at Griffin , Paul George , and Ben Simmons. This is already his old trick.
James Harden's status has been severely reduced, and the internal dispute of the 76ers began.
In addition to restricting the attack, James Harden's status in the team has also been suppressed by Old Reeves, which reflects Old Reeves' "steady thinking" - he believes that Harden's offensive end is overwhelmed , every ball in each round should be handed over to the more stable Embiid to solve.
When reviewing one round of the training game, Embiid and Harden performed pick-and-roll, Melton replaced defense against Embiid, Harden against Harrell, Harden's "small play big" was not recognized, Rivers said he did not want this to happen.
"The way Harden has chosen for many years has happened again today. After the pick-and-roll switch occurs, the ball must be given to Embiid because he faces a small man. "
As we all know, the pick-and-roll tactic is to allow the attacker to quickly switch the opponent to a misplaced defender, such as "small play big or big play small". If the two players are two stars, this can generally be discretionary based on the situation, and the ball handler is more often determined by the ball handler.
However, Old Rivers forced Harden to give up the attack was quite surprising. Although Embiid's misplaced methods and grasp of both play misplaced, Harden may not be unable to score.
In other words, Embiid cannot rely solely on Embiid on the field, only Harden on the outside and Embiid on the inside Only when Germany plays smoothly can we complete the harvest of the situation.
This strategy of blindly giving the ball to Embiid will not only make the opponent guard against it, but will also make Harden's feel quickly and cold.
At that time, Embiid alone will be blocked and double-teamed by countless people, which is obviously not conducive to the development of the team.
Moreover, if Harden does not have the discretion of , this ball will undoubtedly hurt his position in the team. Reeves even said, "For Harden, 8 of this situation in this case are to give the ball to Embiid in 10 times. The remaining 2 times, Harden may play by himself, but a tacit understanding is needed."
For a team, except for players who can only play without the ball and "eat cake", the scoring terminator obviously has a higher position in the team. If he plays like this for a long time, the team will even forget that Harden is the "second leader" of the team. At that time, the team's locker room will easily have conflicts like the original Clippers.
At that time, the scene of Harrell being dissatisfied with Paul George is still vivid in his mind. The reason is that Rivers used George as a "3D" shooter?
This time he tried to transfer Harden again As a "single ball handler", the practice of restricting his own star from taking action and reducing his status is not only the "first one" in the league, but also a determined executor who is unrepentant.
As a regular season MVP, three-time scoring leader. Although Harden's competitive state has declined in the past two seasons, through training, he may not be unable to return to his state. Even if he recovers to the peak of 70% is enough for him to "dominate" on the outside. Rivers' arrangement is really bad for Harden.
"Harden faces Harrell, Embiid faces Melton, this ball must be given to Embiid, do you know? "Rivers said.
The new season, without Harden's offensive restraint, Embiid would not be able to score easily in the inside, and the team's high-end game will continue to be sluggish as last season.
As the team's head coach, can't Old Rivers understand this?
can only say that sooner or later, the 76ers will have big problems, and Harden will not be willing to be completely restricted by Rivers.
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