The NBA semifinals battle continued, with the 76ers continuing to challenge the Heat on the road, and in the G1 meeting, the Heat won easily at home to take a 106-92 lead.
Due to injuries, Embiid continues to miss the G2 showdown, for the 76ers, the team can adjust a lot of aspects, but the most critical is whether the outside player and the second boss Harden can get back to form at the same time.
On the other hand, the Heat, the team needs to adjust less, stability has always been the label of the team, the team as far as possible to continue the G1 offensive and defensive strategy.
At the beginning of the game, the 76ers swept away the haze of the first defeat, and the inside and outside blossomed early to take the lead.
But since then, the team's offensive efficiency has declined seriously, but the Heat have gradually entered a better situation, playing better and better throughout the season, ending the first quarter with a 7-point lead.
In the second quarter, the 76ers did not form too much of a threat, and the point difference was also pulled to double digits by the Heat, but Harden stepped forward to help the team close the point difference to single digits, but the Heat still entered the halftime with an eight-point lead.
The 76ers have never formed any substantial threat, and the point difference has remained in double digits.
Although the 76ers found their form on the offensive end and played an extremely efficient performance, the defensive end could not limit the Heat at all, and the Heat gave and demanded on the offensive end, and the Heat held an 11-point lead in the third quarter.
Entering the final quarter of the scramble, the situation on the court did not change in the slightest, the 76ers could score on the offensive end, but in the defensive end, they could not limit the Heat at all, and could not protect the rebounds in the backcourt, and finally the Heat won easily 119-103, rewriting the series score to 2-0.
This is the first time since the semi-finals that the big score has been 2-0 behind, because both the Green Army and the Grizzlies have successfully pulled back a city in G2 after losing in G1, and the 76ers are the only team to lose consecutively.
And from the scene point of view, the 76ers do not have any desire to win, and the intensity of the confrontation between the two teams remains at the regular season level.
After Embiid's absence, the 76ers' defensive system completely collapsed, and only Reid and Jordan Jr. could use the inside line, and it was not difficult to see the low intensity of the confrontation in the first 13 minutes of the colander player like Jordan Jr.
Even with such low intensity of confrontation and competition, Harden still failed to complete the self-proof and became invisible again in the second half.
Throughout the game, Harden played 42 minutes, shooting 5-of-16, with 20 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists and 1 block, and 3 turnovers.
It is worth mentioning that Harden scored 16 points in the half, and as a result, in the crucial second half, Harden only scored 4 points on 6-of-0 shooting, without any sense of existence.
In contrast, Maxi, who was successfully limited in G1, ushered in a rebound performance in this game.
Played 43 minutes, 12 of 22 shots, handed over 34 points, 3 rebounds and 2 steals, facing the team's unfavorable situation, Maxi has not given up, again and again to hit the inside line, but still unable to return to the sky.
Harris also continued the fiery performance, playing 38 minutes, 9 of 17 shots, handing over 21 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals, and scoring 15 points in the second half of 6 shots, but there was no substantial impact on the outcome of the game.
Judging from the performance of G1 and G2, Harden has been completely untrustworthy, and it is a fool's dream to hope that he will lead the 76ers to complete the following grams.
The 76ers can only hope for embiid G3 return, otherwise the team will most likely lose this series.
Because from the performance of the two teams in the history of the team, the Heat have never reversed when they lead 2-0, and when the 76ers are behind 0-2, they have never completed a reversal.