To describe this season's NBA Eastern Conference, that is, the crowd is together, many teams have shown enough strength to impact the championship, after a long regular season competition, the Miami Heat temporarily ranked first in the standings in the closing stage, and also saw the hope of locking in the regular season championship, so as to maintain home advantage before entering the Finals! In the penultimate regular season, the Heat encountered the Hawks who were still fighting for a better play-off place, the two teams played extremely anxiously in this game, neither side was able to establish a double-digit lead, but in the final tiebreaker, the more experienced Heat performed better, and in the end they also narrowly defeated the Hawks 113-109, winning six consecutive games while also locking in the regular season Eastern Conference champion, and now they just have to wait for the first round of the playoffs to appear!
The Eagles, who also reached the Eastern Conference Finals last season, after the curtain opened in the new season, it was exactly like changing teams, the poor performance once made them count down in the Eastern Conference standings, fortunately, with the return of the injured, they gradually found the feeling of winning, and locked in a qualification for the play-offs at the last moment, and the core of the backcourt, Trae Young, is undoubtedly the barometer of the team, and his personal performance directly determines the team's winning prospects.
In this game with the Heat, Trae Young was taught a good lesson by championship guard Lowry, from the personal data point of view, Trae Young can be said to be a complete victory over Lowry, played 36 minutes and 23 shots to hit 12 goals, one person contributed 35 points, 2 rebounds and 8 assists, while Lowry's personal data is only mediocre 16 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals, but Lowry used his excellent defensive ability to force Trae Young to make 7 personal mistakes, in addition to cutting high scores, Defense can also help the team to win, and it is this game that Lowry tells Trae Young the truth with reality.
Driven by Lowry, the Heat also showed their defensive intensity, the Eagles started the five Tigers, the Italian cannon Gallinari three-pointers 6 of 1 only 7 points into the account, and this season can average 13.4 points per game rookie Hunter, is completely lost in the Heat's defensive system, 7 shots 1 of 1 only 2 points into the account.
On the other hand, although the Heat did not score very high, the highest Adebayor only had 24 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, but their entire team made a huge contribution at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, a total of five players scored in double figures throughout the game, of which Hiro came off the bench to cut 15 points, 5 rebounds and 9 assists, and the final quarter of the score was anxious, and it was a murderous three-pointer to lay the foundation for the team's victory.
For the Heat, they have only one requirement for their first-round opponents in the playoffs, that is, as long as it is not the Nets, any opponent can do it, but from the strength of the four Eastern Conference playoff teams, the Nets are definitely the only one, they are the most likely to enter the playoffs with the seventh place in the East, and the remaining Cavaliers, Eagles and Hornets are difficult to stage the black eight miracle in the playoffs!