Before this game, the Hawks were already in a 0:2 predicament, and Trae Young, who has the "mayor of New York", has no way back. On the one hand, if they lose again in this game, then the Hawks will face a 0:3 disadvantage, and no team in NBA history has been able to complete the turnaround when they are 3:0 behind. On the other hand, in the first two games, Trae Young was perfectly limited by the Heat, and the poor performance in two consecutive games also brought the outside world's doubts and ridicule to the peak. As such, the campaign is extremely important for both the Hawks and Trae Young.
In this campaign, the Eagles were still 16 points behind in the third quarter, but with the suppression of the offensive and defensive ends of the second half of the third quarter and the final quarter, the Eagles were back in the same running line as their opponents in the last two minutes. In the final moments, with Trae Young hitting a key layup and the Heat failing to kill, the Eagles finally narrowly won the game by one point, pulling the big score to 1:2, still retaining a glimmer of life. In this campaign, Trae Young ushered in self-redemption, scoring a comprehensive stat of 20 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists on 5 of 8 three-pointers in the game, and helping the team seal the victory.
After hitting the killer ball, according to media statistics, in the past five years of playoffs, only Trae Young and James in the league have been able to hit the anti-score killer ball in the last ten seconds of the game many times. And this is only the third season of Trae Young's career, he can be compared with the first man in the league, which is a very remarkable achievement, and it also proves that Trae Young has an extremely strong psychological quality in the final moments of the game. So far in his career, Trae Young has only made the playoffs twice, but he has hit the deadlock many times.
In the final minute of the game, although Trae Young hit a key free throw to help the team lead by two points, in the next offense, the Heat grabbed a key offensive rebound, and Tucker received the ball and hit a three-pointer in the bottom corner, allowing them to temporarily surpass by one point. In the next round, neither side was able to hit the shot, and after Butler missed the shot, Trae Young took the ball to the front court, faced the chase and interception of multiple defenders and rushed into the inside line, hitting a crucial throw to help the Hawks complete the rebound again. And with Butler's whistle-pressing shot missing in the final attack, Trae Young completed the kill to help the team tenaciously pull back a city.
And this is not the first time in Trae Young's career that he has hit a deadlock in the final moments of the playoffs, in the playoffs last season, Trae Young led the unpromising Hawks all the way to the Eastern Conference Finals to fame, including a wonderful killing scene. In the first game of the playoffs against the Knicks, with 9.8 seconds left in regular time, the two sides still stood in a draw. The Hawks have the ball, and their first choice is undoubtedly Trae Young, and the Knicks have clearly noticed this and have defended it extremely strictly from the start.
While carrying the ball to the three-point line, he faced the opponent's bag defense and randle's defense after the first inside line. As in this game against the Heat, Trae Young still hit the layup of the deadly game under great defensive pressure when facing the chase and interception of multiple defenders. After completing the kill, Trae Young, who was targeted by the Knicks home fans for the entire game, arrogantly gestured to them to shut up, and this was also the beginning of his love-hate relationship with the Knicks. In this series, the Eagles also completed the following grams under the leadership of Trae Young's anti-heavenly play, and finally successfully eliminated the opponent 4:1.
In the next two rounds of the series, although the Hawks faced the 76ers with Simmons Embiid and the Bucks led by Antetokounmpo, Trae Young still performed extremely well in many key moments, and eventually led the Hawks to eliminate the 76ers 4:3, and was unfortunately eliminated in the Eastern Conference Finals with the later champion Bucks for six games. Last season's playoffs also made Trae Young famous, and even though he faced great difficulties many times, he still tenaciously led the Eagles forward.
This is still the case this season, although it is the East Conference Finals team last season, but the Eagles did not perform well in the first half of the season, affected by various factors such as injuries, the Eagles' record once fell out of the top ten in the East. In the middle and late part of the season, with the outbreak of Trae Young and others, the Eagles gradually completed the rebound and successfully entered the ranks of the playoffs in the regular season. In the first game of the playoffs, facing the dark horse Hornets of the season, led by Trae Young with 24 points and 11 assists, the Hawks relied on the six-man double-double performance to win 132:103 to enter the second playoff.
In the second game of the playoff, the Hawks were against the Cavaliers, who were once in the top four in the East in the first half of the season, and facing the Cavaliers who ushered in the main force, the Hawks were also very passive in the first half, and they were still behind their opponents by double digits at the end of the half. Throughout the first half, Trae Young's offense was sluggish, scoring just six points on 3-of-11 shooting. But in the second half of the game, Trae Young suddenly ushered in an outbreak, scoring 16 points in the third and fourth quarters, and finally led the team to complete the reversal, and successfully advanced to the playoffs 107:101. Because of his frantic performance and arrogant response in the second half of the game, Trae Young was once again dubbed the "Mayor of Cleveland" by the fans.
Although only in his third season, Trae Young is currently one of the most talkative and controversial players in the league. Many fans think he can only brush up on the data, but he has led the Eagles from a fish-belly team to an Eastern Conference finalist team. Many fans also think that Trae Young is too arrogant, which also makes him suffer from the boos of new York home fans, but he is also to some extent to improve the morale of the team, after all, in the current Eagles, he has undoubtedly become the leading big brother of the team, and he must stabilize the team's military spirit through his own momentum.
In short, although Trae Young has suffered a lot of denigration, his tenacity and outstanding strength cannot be denied, just like in the first two games of this series he was mocked as a "Miami citizen", and in this game he re-proved himself through the kill. Whether fans like it or not, this is the truest Trae Young.