The Heat and the 76ers in the Eastern Conference semifinals, both teams have different degrees of injury troubles, just in the current situation to see who can laugh to the end is really difficult to say. If you put aside the injury factor, what are the advantages of the Heat against the 76ers?
The Heat don't have a strong offensive point, the heat's highest average score per game in the regular season this season is only Jimmy Butler's 21.4 points per game, although Butler averaged 30.5 points per game in the first round of the playoffs, but this will not become the norm, the 76ers are not eagles, the Heat are unlikely to beat the 76ers with Butler's offense alone, offense is not the Heat's strength, team and defense are the key to the Heat's regular season record of the First place in the East.
The Heat's three-pointer defense is the league's top. In the regular season, the Heat limited their opponents' three-point shooting rate to 33.9%, together with the Celtics, the lowest three-point shooting rate of opponents in the league's 30 teams; in the first round of the playoffs, the Heat limited their opponents' three-point shooting rate to only 32.6%, bearing in mind that the Eagles' three-point shooting rate in the regular season this season is the second highest three-point shooting rate in the league at 37.4%, and under the focus of the Heat, it is 38.2% in the regular season this season. Trae Young, who hit 3.1 three-pointers per game from three-point range, hit just 1.4 three-pointers per game with just 18.4 percent three-point shooting in the first round of the playoffs!
The Heat's tough defense is not only reflected in the outside defense, the Heat's interior defense is also suffocating. In the regular season, the Heat averaged only the second fewest 41.7 rebounds per game of the league's 30 teams, and in the first round of the playoffs, the Heat only let the Hawks average 39.4 rebounds per game, and the Hawks averaged 44.0 rebounds per game in the regular season. The 76ers averaged 42.3 rebounds per game in the regular season, the second-to-last of the league's 30 teams, and only 41.8 rebounds in the first round of the playoffs.
In addition to rebounding, the 76ers' interior offense will also be limited by the Heat. The Heat averaged just 45.7 two-pointers and 24.6 two-pointers per game in the regular season, the fewest of the league's 30 teams, while the Heat averaged only 43.2 two-pointers per game in the first round of the playoffs, the second fewest of the 16 playoff teams.
The Heat performed better when it came to limiting opponents' penalty areas. In the regular season, the Heat averaged only 41.3 points per game in the restricted area, the only team in the league's 30 teams to limit the opponent's penalty area score to less than 42.5 points, and in the first round of the playoffs, the Heat limited the Eagles' average penalty area score to 34.8 points per game, the second lowest of the 16 playoff teams. Whether in the regular season or in the first round of the playoffs, the 76ers have scored worse in the box than their opponents, and the 76ers may suffer more in the penalty area against the Heat.
Embiid has a huge internal threat but in the face of the strong defensive Heat may not be able to play a big advantage, Embiid NBA career so far in the playoffs against the Heat only 37.5% shooting rate averaged 18.7 points per game, not to mention that he will miss the first few games of this series due to injury, and James Harden is no longer the offensive weapon that can compete with the opponent's entire team, such a 76ers will be difficult to cross the Heat.