Middleton scored 21 points at halftime, Butler was completely dumbfounded; Embiid, Harden and Maxi combined to score 78 points, and the 76ers won easily.
Holliday hit the key shot again! The Heat ended the winning streak
The Heat, who have already won four straight, have travelled to Milwaukee to challenge the defending champions. The two sides have met three times this season, with Miami taking the upper hand 2-1. The most recent game was in early December last year, when the Heat won 114-103 without Butler and Adebayor, with Lowry and Martin scoring 50 points on a single occasion.
Jimmy Butler played very badly in this game, scoring just six points on 14 shots, the lowest score in nearly a month. After so many years of fierce confrontation, the Bucks' coaching staff has a good understanding of Butler's offensive characteristics, they use very strong players to defend him (basically by Matthews and Holliday directly against him), increase the difficulty of his shots, force Butler to shoot some of the ball he is not good at, unfortunately this Butler feel is too bad, otherwise it will not be so bad shooting.
Gavin Vincent and Duncan Robinson came to partner in today's Heat's starting backcourt. The strengths and weaknesses of the two men at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends are very distinct, both belong to the static talent of the average player, the bucks can get 36 points in the first quarter, largely because of the existence of the two of them. Middleton was particularly efficient in the defense of these two players, scoring 21 points in the defense of both of them in the first half.
But both men contributed very good space value on the offensive end, with Mr. 90 million — Duncan Robinson (who just signed a five-year, $9,000 contract last offseason) scoring 15 points on 5-of-7 shooting from three-point range. Vincent shot 5-of-11 from three-point range, and even more remarkably, his sharp breakout created very good offensive opportunities for other Heat players. In the paint, Vincent shot 75 percent from the field, forcing the Bucks' players to give up their opponents and arrange for personnel to pinch his breakout route, creating six assists.
The overall situation of the game was very anxious, the home team started with a downside, but in the second quarter, it was quickly used by the visiting team to take advantage of Giannis's foul problem and play an attack wave to overtake the score. The Heat climaxed twice in the second half, but were filled in by the Bucks' offense. In the final nine seconds, Holliday marched to the front court with the ball, faced Vincent's defense to complete a key layup, and fixed the score at 120-119, and the Milwaukee Bucks won at home to win a wave of two consecutive wins.
123-108, Harden made the 76ers home debut perfectly!
The New York Knicks and Philadelphia 76ers played two straight games, and three days ago at Madison Garden Square, the 76ers won their third game in a 125-109 victory over their opponents, Embiid and Harden played their most exaggerated offensive performance since the two worked together, scoring 66 points on 32 shots, a total of 19 rebounds, 19 assists, and 37 free throws....
This game came to the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, and the two star players on both sides showed great fighting ability, Randle and Barrett combined to score 54 points, and the latter shot 3 of 8 from three-point range. The 76ers' Embiid scored 27+12 from 4-of-4 from three-point range; Harden scored 19 points in halftime, a total of 26 points, as well as nine assists and nine rebounds, with a true shooting percentage of nearly 75 percent.
The 76ers took full control of the second half, scoring exactly twice as much as their opponents in the third quarter (38:19), with Embiid and Maxi combining to deliver 21 points. In this quarter, the 76ers' three-point shooting also completely blew up, hitting 8 of them in 11 three-point shots, and the home team's three-point shooting rate was also close to 48% in the whole game, nearly 20 percentage points more than the opponent.
The trio of Embiid, Harden and Maxi showed enormous offensive influence on the court, scoring 78 points on 22 shots. For teammates to score, it is also very impressive, in the third quarter against the Knicks, these three people whether they take the ball to break through, will cause great damage to the Knicks' defense, the rest of the players often get a very good open shooting opportunity. Statistics show that during the time period when the Philadelphia trio was on the court at the same time, the overall shooting rate of the 76ers increased by 12 percentage points compared with other times, the three-point shooting rate increased by 11 percentage points, and the average per 100 rounds could be nearly 40 points more...