On April 20, Beijing time, the Eastern Playoffs G2 competition, the Heat continued to face the Hawks at home. The G1 Heat showed the strength of the first place in the East, with a 115-91 opening score, and the whole team scored in double figures, including the sharpshooter Dun Luo 8 of 9 three points, efficiently cutting the team's high 27 points!
In addition to the offense, the Heat's defense also perfectly limited the opposing core Trae Young. The Mayor of New York was completely lost in the first game, scoring just eight points on 1-of-12. The Hawks shot just 27.8 percent from three-point range, compared to 47.4 percent for the Heat. Capela continued to be absent today, blowing Up before the game: "When a bully tries to bully you, you have to fight back!" That's how I feel, and that's what we have to do tonight. ”
Sure enough, today the Hawks made an adjustment, and at the end of the half, they trailed the Heat by 2 points! Remember that the Hawks were 19 points behind after playing in the last two quarters. Trae Young recovered in time, shooting 7-of-13 at halftime and scoring a maximum of 18 points on 7-of-7 three-pointers! Plus 3 rebounds and 3 assists, the lack of 4 turnovers.
The rest of the team also stepped up, with Hunter 4-of-8 in the half and 1-of-3 three-pointers contributing 11 points and 2 rebounds. In the last few seconds of the first quarter, the Heat Strus missed three points on the outside line, the Eagles immediately launched a counterattack, Hurth counterattacked a dragon, throwing towards the basket, Hunter slashed out of the oblique side, pressing Hiro to catch the ball in the air! This ball is really magical.
Hultert 6 points, Collins 5 points, the latter received a pass from Trae Young in the second quarter, fake shot point flying Butler, burst into the basket under the big loop to deceive Tucker to score a layup! I have to say JB jumped really high.
On the Heat side, butler still carried the team's offensive banner, shooting 6 of 12, 3 of 3 of 3 three points, and scoring a game-high 21 points! In the final 2 minutes and 10 seconds of the first half, JB scored 7 consecutive points to help the Heat come back. The first quarter was full of firepower, and the three-point dunk was everywhere.
The last time Trae Young and Butler clashed, today the two teams once again had a gunpowder smell! In the middle of the second quarter, Lowry and Hunter clashed in a verbal altercation, but were separated by the referee and teammates in time.
At that time, the Heat attacked, Hunter reached out to block Lowry who wanted to overtake behind him, Lowry also took the opportunity to dance and try to create a foul, the referee did not blow the penalty, but he fell to the ground and rolled a few times, and after getting up, the two began to engage in physical contact for a war of words.
Easy to fight again, Trae Young is again a series of mistakes, the Heat seized the opportunity to continue to fight back, with a wave of 31-22 in the third quarter, the Heat extended the point difference advantage to 11 points in the third quarter!
hard! In the third quarter, Butler went on a rampage again, shooting 5-of-6 and 2-of-2 for 15 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal! He took half of the points in this quarter. Blowing Young's pass error, Strus took the rebound and jumped up to a long pass to Butler, who received the ball and then slammed a two-handed dunk!
The Hawks' highest score was Borgdan's 7 points, and this quarter blew Yang only 2 shots to get 4 points, including 5 mistakes in a single quarter! The mayor has already made 9 mistakes before the game is over, the Heat team has only 12 times, and Yang has contributed 9 times! This is quite fatal in the playoffs.
Give the damn ball to Borgdan! In the final quarter, Bogdan opened the mid-range of three points, and the Eagles once chased the point difference to single digits. At the critical moment, Trae Young also scored three points, but Butler really killed crazy, and the last three points + breakthrough directly harvested the game! In the end, the Heat defeated the Hawks 115-105 to take a 2-0 lead.
Butler of the game, 4 of 7 of 3-pointers on 15-of-25 shooting, scored 45 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals! The key is also 0 turnovers and 0 fouls! 45 points is also a new playoff career high for Mr. Jimmy. Strous 14 points and 4 assists, Lowry 9 points, 3 boards and 2 assists, Adebayo 9 points, 4 boards and 3 assists, Tucker 3 points, 6 boards and 2 assists, Hiro 15 points, 3 boards and 2 assists, Vincent 11 points, 3 assists and 2 breaks.
Trae Young was blown up by JB again, scoring 25 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists on 20-of-10 three-point range, 10 turnovers! Bogdan 29 points, 4 boards and 3 assists, Hunter 16 points and 2 boards, Collins 13 points, 10 boards and 2 assists, Ert 9 points, 5 boards and 6 assists, Wright 9 points, 3 boards and 2 assists.
With the Hawks back at home, do you think they still have a chance to equalize?