[Introduction] News on February 28, In the NBA regular season, the Rockets beat the Nets 102-98 at home, winning 4 consecutive victories.
Although Harden only made 4 of 15 shots, he still scored 15 points, 12 assists and 5 rebounds, and sent key assists and points at the decisive moment.
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This season’s regular season MVP is basically determined to be selected among 4 people, namely Harden, James, Curry and Wei Shao.
Except for Harden, the other three have one thing in common, that is, their scoring and assists per game are all ranked in the top 10 in the league.
If this can be regarded as a hard indicator to measure the MVP of this season, Harden is not far behind. He ranks first in the league in scoring and 11th in assists per game, only 0.1 times behind Lowry.
In this game, perhaps the ankle injury was not completely healed, Harden’s desire to attack was not strong, and he only took one shot in the first quarter.
But in this quarter, Harden made full use of his offensive containment power, continuously dribbled and broke through, and sent assists for his teammates.
In a single quarter of the game, Harden sent out 6 assists, several of which were wonderful passes after breaking through several people, creating excellent open shooting opportunities for his teammates.
With 13 seconds left in the third quarter, the Rockets made the last attack, Harden passed the ball, Smith scored near the basket, and Beard got his 10th assist of the game.
In just three quarters, Harden completed a double-double, and this is his third consecutive game with at least 10 assists.
In his previous career, Harden has never done this. It can also be seen that he has indeed made greater progress in passing assists this season and has truly become the brain of the team.
According to this trend, it is not a big problem for Harden to enter the top 10 assists list.
However, due to the cool hand feeling, Harden’s performance in shooting was not good. He only made 3 of the first 14 shots, which made the Rockets always passive.
But Harden did not continue to try to shoot like some paranoid players, he decisively changed the attack mode.
1 minute and 10 seconds before the end of the game, Harden made a breakthrough and a fast break. Seeing that his chance was not very good, he passed the ball out, helping Jones and Beverly attack successfully, and the Rockets evened the score!
From this point of view, Harden and Zhan Huang are somewhat similar.
James Harden and LeBron James are two of the best players in the league today, and they currently hold the top two spots in the MVP race.
Judging from this season’s games, Harden and James are the kind of superstars who are comprehensive offensive and defensive, flexible, and know how to change according to the situation. Such players are the real leaders of the team.
And 27 seconds before the end, the Rockets attacked, Harden held the ball in singles, he completed a difficult jump shot, extended the advantage to 3 points, and the Rockets remained invincible.
Although the whole game felt bad, Harden played another MVP-level game and led the team to win the game.