Last season's Bucks won the championship in one fell swoop, so that many Eastern Powerhouses saw the hope of a championship, and many teams in the offseason also held an arms race, from the current situation, the Miami Heat and Chicago Bulls were the most successful, these two teams are also the biggest favorites of the Eastern Conference champions in the regular season this season, after the end of the first fifty-eight regular season games, the Heat temporarily ranked second with a record of 37 wins and 21 losses. Just 0.5 wins behind the Bulls, and in this regular season, they will face the Hornets, and if they can win this game, they will take advantage of the direct dialogue record to surpass the Bulls and regain the lead! However, in the face of the Hornets, who are not as strong as themselves and are in a state of losing streak, the Heat played extremely hard, and once fell behind by 7 points in the third quarter, but they still relied on the excellent performance of the last quarter to drag the game into overtime, the two teams experienced a double overtime war, and finally the Heat relied on the excellent play of Butler and Lowry in overtime to win the Hornets 111-107 and return to the throne of the First Place in the East!
In today's Hornets team, the three-goal Ball is the well-deserved core, his personal performance on the court directly determines the team's winning prospects, this campaign in the face of champion guard Lowry's oppressive defense, Ball although also cut 14 points, 10 rebounds and 14 assists of the triple-double personal data, but his personal offensive efficiency is not high, 15 shots only hit 5 goals, of which the three-point shot is only 9 shots 1 performance, but also as many as 5 personal errors.
In the case that Ball's performance did not meet expectations, the Hornets were able to fight the Heat until the last minute before the victory and defeat, and the role players played a crucial role, including the starting Bridges scored a team-high 29 points, and Harrell, who had just joined the team, also scored 24 points on the bench.
Lowry is arguably the biggest contributor to the Heat's victory in this game, not only did he restrain Ball well on the defensive end, but his performance on the offensive end was also remarkable, in the 46.2 minutes he played, he hit 6 three-point shots in 11 shots, one person contributed 25 points, 9 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals, and lowry scored 8 and 4 points in two overtime games.
As the core of the team, Butler did not perform well overall in this game, playing 51 minutes of crazy shots 24 times, but only hit 5 goals, but in the second overtime, Butler stepped up, 2 of 2 to score 5 points, the whole game contributed 15 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, 1 steal and 2 blocks of quasi-triple-double data, his awakening is the key to the team to be able to laugh to the end.
In addition to Butler and Lowry, the biggest contributor to the Heat in this game is Duncan Robinson, who was questioned for his poor performance after signing a big contract, hit the three-pointer multiple times at key moments of the game, hit 6 three-pointers in 13 shots in the whole game, and cut 21 points second only to Lowry, if he can maintain such a state, the Heat will be very promising to break through from the East in the playoffs!