On April 18, 2022, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and in the game between the First Heat in the East and the Eighth Eagles in the East, the Heat did not give the opponent any chance at all, and the whole game occupied the advantage. The first quarter won the opponent by 6 points, the second quarter won the opponent by 13 points, the third quarter won the opponent by 7 points, the third quarter game had already won 26 points, and finally they beat the opponent 115:91 and got the playoffs!
On the Heat side of the game, Butler had 21 points, six rebounds and four assists, and Duncan Robinson scored 27 points on 8-of-9 shooting from three-point range. In addition to these two people, the team's best player is veteran PJ Tucker, who played 24 minutes and 20 seconds, shot 6 of 8 shots, 4 of 4 three-pointers, and got 16 points, 5 rebounds and 1 assist, which is very efficient!
Tucker's four three-pointers in this game were all bottom corner three-pointers, three hits in the right bottom corner, and one hit in the left bottom corner, and his grasp of the bottom corner was very good, which was the king of the league's bottom corner. Tucker shot 42 of 88 three-pointers in the bottom right corner this season, shooting 47.7% from the bottom corner and 34.1% from three-point range in the bottom left corner!
Tucker missed several games due to injury before the playoffs began, and many Heat fans were very worried about him, after all, Tucker was the most valuable in the playoffs. But before the first game started, Tucker said that he could play, and this game was also able to play such a good performance, and indeed did not live up to the expectations of the fans!
In fact, the Hawks are not so much of a threat to the Heat in the first round of the playoffs, and once they enter the back of the playoffs and encounter teams such as Durant, Tatum, and raptors' forward groups, Tucker's role will be more obvious!