G4 is a game of warm boiled frogs, and the atmosphere is not even like the playoffs. The Heat actually cost the Eagles in three quarters, and the Eagles resisted the surrender of the main force in the fourth quarter. But this ball is not a common single-quarter explosion, a three-point game with a rapid up-point score, the Heat's all-field three-point shooting rate is 31%, the iron is going to die, and the scores in each quarter are relatively average. In the whole game, the Heat's offensive efficiency was only 90.8, but with a 37% rebounding rate in the frontcourt, a layup and a front board to give the outside three points, the Heat just relied on the second offense to take 26 points.
The Hawks lose in this way, which may be unacceptable to them. G4 Capela returned, the Eagles posed capela + Collins + Hunter's frontcourt, the size is very large, of course, to fight a defense, and the Heat is actually a team that is not particularly large in overall size. While Capela and Collins only played 21 and 22 minutes respectively, adding up Okongu's 18-and-a-half minutes and Gallinari's 15 minutes, the Eagles didn't have much time on the big man.
In turn, the Heat in non-garbage time, substitute center position, only 3 and a half points of Edmond, Adebayo 30 minutes away, the Heat also put a small lineup without centers. In terms of size, the eagle does not suffer at all. While there is some serendipity about where the rebounds go, there are also some balls in which Reba, Butler, and Tucker pulled the rebounds behind Capela and others.
In addition to rebounding, another way for the Heat to blow up the Hawks is singles and pass cuts. Part of the reason the Hawks missed pass cuts was that after the point difference gradually widened, the defensive concentration fell. Singles are very random, Butler this time like G2, and hit the Eagles a variety of opponents, not by the three-point explosion, really the face of the basket or low to the basket, relying on aggressiveness, near the basket turn jump shot and foot technical scoring. But what's more interesting this time is that Tucker also has one-on-one, low-post playing Yang, and low-post playing Hunter. There are also such as Vincent's three-pointer to young, Strus singles to Gallinari and so on - the Heat is still that style, very strong "bulk", not necessarily where someone appeared, and killed the opponent.
Capela's role in this game may be negative, his basket performance is fluctuating, the first quarter is OK, the second quarter is half a beat slower, the body speed and the strength of the next set do not look at the best, and there is no presence on the offensive end. In fact, the Eagles' best time this time was the transition between the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter, and the wave of substitutes for Okongu, Gallinari and Wright came up and played better than the starters. The Eagles started this offensive and defensive problems, the defense missed rebounds, and the offense had the problem of DEBUFF superposition:
Capela and Collins already have positioning conflicts, and both of them are in a state of return from injury, and neither end of the attack nor defense has shown enough size and vitality;
Hunter was the most ruthless presence in the series, scoring 11 points on 4-of-4 in the first quarter, and responded well, with 24 points being the Hawks' highest score. But the Hawks relied on Hunter to play the ball in a large number of rounds, and obviously could not maintain the finale, which is the same as the Nets relying on Brown to cut points;
The Eagles put Hunter, Collins, and Capela together, and the advantage of the Heat's multi-point contraction was too easy to play, and the Eagles' mid-range was not accurate, and it was very uncomfortable to be stuck outside the reasonable collision zone by the Heat.
In addition, the quality of the Eagles' passing and receiving is also very low. Some rounds were forced by the Heat's defensive pressure to make mistakes, and some of them were simply poor passes, delaying the fighters and even being counterattacked. The turning point of the game was a bottom line ball that Collins once snatched in the face of Butler after coming on the court in the second quarter, which was a reflection of the Eagles' concentration on this pass. Coupled with some inexplicable offensive fouls, the Hawks' fluency was greatly reduced.
How can the Eagles adjust behind them?
The Hawks need to take a good look at the G4 footage, discuss internally, they missed so many rebounds, and a large number of singles to eat rounds, how many are accidental, can they do better? Capela's return brings the possibility that the Hawks can swing the center in 48 minutes and improve the defense with a larger size, and they are fully capable of doing it, and every position outside of Young does not suffer from the size of the opponent, or even has the advantage. If you go this way, then what happened in G4 should not happen again, let the Heat all kinds of rebounds, butler do whatever he wants under the basket, and the Hawks' big lineup will fail.
Another possibility is that the Hawks regain the G3 to help them win, a relatively balanced one of the big four small. Okongu's performance in this series is good, and deputy attackers such as Bogdan, Huert and Wright can also decompress Yang, and these people's G4 status has declined, which is also one of the reasons why the Eagles can't open the situation.
But the Heat aren't unaware of the Hawks' strategy. Lowry was injured, the Heat took Oladipo out, Martin's time increased, the team's overall defensive ability was probably improved more than before, Butler against Bogdan, Audi on Wright, and increased pressure on the Hawks, these sub-attackers, Young continued G2G3 to give up the main offensive power, his own strategy of dealing cards, the possibility of working is also reduced. The Eagles also did not design a richer starting style, introducing more running, Yang's ball holding initiation or grasping the three-point opportunity of the moment of changing defenses, and the opponent forced to shoot ultra-far after changing defenses, and his shooting feel in this round of the series is really not online.
G4 may not be able to explain that the Hawks have no room to adjust, because G4 has a big difference in execution, the performance of the two sides in rebound protection and control errors is very different, and the Hawks' game completion is very low. But the score of 3-1 is placed here, and without some special circumstances, the suspense of this round of the series is basically lost.
It should be said that so far, the Eagles have only proved that they can play with the Heat, but Yang's magic has not been shown too much, and the defensive end has been targeted. How to play the top defensive team will also become a major issue for Yang's future career.