The NBA regular season continues, the East ushered in a strong dialogue, the Heat in the East no. 2 against Philadelphia, the 5th place in the East, both teams have performed very well recently, winning and losing less, and both teams are relatively complete, and the core players can play. The confrontation between two traditional teams in the East, who can win the game, has also become the focus of attention.
In the first quarter of the game, the Heat showed a better overall performance, they performed well in defending Embiid, allowing Embiid to score only three points on 1-of-6 shooting in a single quarter, while the team itself played well on the offensive end, with full play, they led Philadelphia by 29-20 by nine points in the first quarter.
Entering the second quarter, Philadelphia's form began to pick up, with Harris scoring 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting and Embiid scoring 4 points to score 23 points. On the Heat side, their offensive efficiency declined, Butler did not score on 0-of-3 shooting in a single quarter, and the team only scored 21 points in the second quarter. At the end of the half, Philadelphia trailed by two points, just seven points behind the Heat.
In the third quarter of the game, Embiid ushered in an explosion after adapting to the Heat's defense, whether it was on the inside line or in the long-range shooting, he had a good performance. He had 12 points and two rebounds on 4-of-5 shooting in a single quarter, and with his help, the team blasted a 32-23 offense in the single quarter, and at the end of the third quarter, Philadelphia successfully overtook the Heat by 2 points.
In the final quarter, both teams played very stiffly, the score gap could not be widened, and with 5 minutes left in the game, Philadelphia still held a 4-point lead. In the final moments, the Philadelphia team completed consecutive offenses on the inside, and Embiid faced the Heat's defense and played very calmly. When the Heat were behind, they were not able to play a wave of high-quality counter-attacks, and the score gap was further widened. In the end, Philadelphia won the game with two straight wins on the road to reverse the Heat by 13 points on the road, taking advantage of the game.
The main player data of the two teams in this game: Embiid began to exert his strength in the second three quarters after the slump in the first quarter, and he blasted a double-double of 32 points and 12 rebounds in the whole game, and in the second half of the game, he personally scored 25 points and became a major contributor to the team's reversal. Harris had 22 points and eight rebounds, Cescuri had 21 points, five rebounds and five assists, and Maxi had 13 points. On the Heat side, Butler was in no shape, he only had 8 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists on 11 shooting, the performance was crotch, Lowry had 8 points and 7 assists on 2 of 11, and the lost draft Yutsevin played steadily, he had 22 points and 11 rebounds.
The game was a high-level showdown, the two teams as the strongest teams in the East, their ability to attack and defend at both ends of the game is relatively close, and the depth of the squad is almost the same, the victory and defeat are between millimeters. In the game, the Heat had led Philadelphia by 13 points at most, they had a certain advantage in the first half, but in the second half, the game situation came to the Philadelphia side, they were led by Embiid, the team played very actively, the aggression on the offensive end and the pressure on the defensive end made the Heat powerless, plus, the Heat core Butler was in no state, the Heat were unable to respond when they were behind in the big score, and finally the Heat also lost to Philadelphia at home. His four-game winning streak was thus ended, and he had no chance to hit the No. 1 position in the East.