The first two games of this year's playoff semifinals are over, and judging from the scores of the 4-group series, there is not much of a cold, the Heat and the Suns, as the first team in the East and West Sections, they have shown a better overall strength in the semifinals, and they have played very well against the challenge of the 76ers and the Lone Ranger, the team has won the first two games, the big score is 2-0, and they are close to advancing to the next round. The Warriors Grizzlies and Bucks Celtics these two sets of series play very glue, the two teams are relatively close, in the first two games, both sides won one game each, the current series big score to 1-1 draw, in the same running line.
Well, after talking about the current ranking of the teams, let's take a look at the 5 players who performed in the first two games of the semi-finals, who did not play very well in the semi-final series, did not show their ability, and did not help the team much.
The first is the Lone Rangers' Dinwiddie and Brunson, who faced the Jazz in the first round of the series, and these two players were the team's promotion heroes, especially Brunson, who performed well in the game after Doncic's absence and return, and played a brilliant performance on the personal offensive end. After the first round, it was rumored that Brunson was expected to sign a big contract with an annual salary of more than $30 million this offseason.
However, entering the second round, Brunson's performance did not continue, he and the Suns G1 game, 16 shots 6 only scored 13 points, and in the G2 game, Brunson's performance was even worse, he only got 9 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists in 12 shots, both games were lower than his average performance, this round of the series, Brunson's play is very crotch.
Dinwiddie scored 20+ points in the first round of 3 games, playing the role of the third offensive core in the team lineup, while in the semifinals, Dinwiddie only scored 8 points and 11 points in the first two games, a total of 6 of 18 shots, shooting only 33.3% from the field, and played less than ideally.
Brunson and Dinwiddie, as Doncic's most capable teammates, pulled their crotches at the same time in this series, which is the main reason why the Lone Rangers fell behind the Suns 2-0 in the second round, and they were not able to give Doncic more help to make him stand alone in the game.
In the Warriors and Grizzlies series, the second core of the two teams, Klay and Bain, also performed crotch, Clay completely lost his crosshairs in this series, his shooting efficiency was very low, and the defensive end could not help the team, and could not share Curry's offensive pressure in the game. The data shows that in the first two games of the semifinals, Clay handed over 15 points on 6-of-19 and 12 points on 5-of-19 shooting, respectively, for a total of 5-of-22 shooting outside the three-point line, which was far below his normal level. In the game, Clay was a little bit competitive with himself, he couldn't shoot, he kept shooting, completely in his own rhythm, and the performance was not ideal.
And Bane's performance in the first round was very eye-catching, ranking first in the first round in the average number of three-point shots per game, playing better than the Splash Brothers. However, in the series with the Warriors, Bane was limited, his presence in two games was very low, only 9 points and 5 points, a total of 5 of 17 shots, 9 of 2 three-pointers, which is also not his true level, in the game he could not hit the shot, shot is not confident enough, play poorly.
The last one is Harden, Embiid is injured and can not play in G1 and G2, the outside world expects Harden to play better in the game and help the team win the game. But Harden failed to do so, having played well in the first half in the first two games and completely invisible in the second half. The data shows that Harden scored 0 and 2 points in the fourth quarter of G1 and G2, respectively, as a team leader, in such a key game as the playoffs, play such a performance, Harden's play is difficult to satisfy. It is undeniable that if you want to talk about who has performed the most so far in the second round of this year's playoffs, then Harden is definitely the most mentioned star, and he is completely lost in this series.