The NBA semifinals scramble continued, with the 76ers heading off the road to challenge the Heat, the first in a two-team series.
Due to injury problems, the 76ers' interior core Embiid was confirmed to be absent from G1, and did not follow the team to Miami, and will also miss the G2 matchup, and the Heat side Lowry continues to miss due to hamstring injuries.
Although the 76ers Embiid is absent, the team is still not behind in terms of star ability, the Heat rely more on the team and super six Hiero to decide the winner, the 76ers have every chance to steal a victory.
As soon as the game began, the Heat, who were at home, showed their determination to win and made a 4-0 start.
Since then, the Heat have been firmly in control of the situation, quickly establishing a double-digit lead, but in the middle of the section, the Heat were mute, and the 76ers successfully forced the point difference to single digits, and at the end of the first quarter, the Heat led by eight points.
In the second quarter, the Heat regained their offensive form, and the point difference was also pulled to double digits, but in the second half of the 76ers, led by Harden, set off a wave of counterattack, successfully completed the reversal before the end of the half, and entered the half-time break with a one-point lead.
The heat tightened the pressure on ball carriers, forcing Harden to deliver the ball, giving the 76ers a large number of outside shots.
Helplessly, none of the 76ers' shooters felt on the line, and the point difference was pulled back to double digits, but hardened in the second half of the quarter, and barely forced the point difference to 8 points.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, in Harden's short break, the 76ers fell into an absolute disadvantage, as Hiro hit three points in succession, the suspense of the game ended, and finally the 76ers who played away lost to the Heat 92-106, and the big score was rewritten to 0-1, and the Heat temporarily led.
Although the game was lost, the gap between the two teams was far less than the score seemed, and the 76ers still had a chance to win this series, even if they returned home with a 0-2 big score, as long as Embiid recovered, the team still had hope of winning.
The reason is also very simple, from the first round so far, the Heat is an 80-point team, the state is very stable, the lower limit is very high.
But the ceiling is entirely up to Hiro, and the core Butler is an 80-point star, but definitely not a superstar.
On the 76ers side, the team is a team that can't determine the score, the upper limit is very high, and the lower limit is also very low.
In this game, the team exposed all 3 major shortcomings, the first point is that the team lineup depth is insufficient, and the state of role players fluctuates greatly.
The Heat's defensive strategy is very clear, most of the time in the use of joint defense, on the line to give the ball carrier a lot of pressure and bag clips, test the ball carrier's ability to handle the ball, Harden as a whole did a good job, the whole game handed over 16 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists.
Unfortunately, the 76ers' outside line was all inaccurate, and Niang shot 0 of 7, which is a very exaggerated statistic, because so far in the playoffs, Niang's three-point shooting rate is as high as 52.2%, and his only role is to shoot three points.
In addition, Danny Green shot 1 of 5, Maxi 1 of 6, Harris 1 of 4, and the team shot 6 of 34 from the field, shooting just 17.6 percent from three-point range.
This performance is significantly lower than the performance of several players so far in the playoffs, and after Harden's score, most players get opportunities to shoot close to the open position.
The second point is that after Embiid's absence, the team lacked stable substitutes in the inner line, and the starting Jordan Jr. played to send points, not only the defensive pace was slow, but even the basic rebounding could not be guaranteed.
Reid is athletic but inexperienced, and the defensive end is very easy to be cheated into, which makes The Old Li have to use Millsap at one point.
The last point is Rivers's on-the-spot adaptability, in the case of the obvious uselessness of the inner players, the only killing move of the team is the five small, lao Li obviously has been hoping to drag the game to the last quarter, and then use the killing move five small to complete the turnover, did not expect that at the end of the third quarter and the beginning of the fourth quarter, the game suspense was directly lost, and the old Li's big behavior also made the team overturn a bubble.