For the third time in four years, the Miami Heat met the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Finals.
For the third time in four years, the Heat won their first game against the Celtics — a good starter.
Miami heat exclusively for Mawi.
In the first game last year, Jimmy Butler scored 41 points. Today is only 35 points - very face-giving.
Probably Jimmy is this rule: when he sees Shuangjie, he will kill the stick first, but today the stick is already quite light, and the middle is given to the Celtics when they breathe.
But the Celtics' own parents said: "Don't stop!" ”
The Celtics won three quarters in the fourth quarter by a total of 14 points, but were beaten 25-46 in the third quarter.
The Celtics have said more than once before to the 76ers series: Coach Mazura, at best, is very stable and even a little cool; At worst, the change of tricks on the spot - mainly the first five - is not even as good as Lao Li, who has just finished class.
In the third quarter today, the Heat scored a quarter-high 46 points in the team's history playoffs, playing 46-25, and coach Mazura said after the game that the team lost its sense of urgency and discipline.
- He himself saw that the heat was beating the Celtics, but he did not call a timeout.
"Fight to the death, don't stop!"
When asked after the game why he didn't call a timeout in the third quarter, he looked unmoved:
"I called two timeouts in the first quarter."
Playing with Lao Li like this, there is still a little chance, after all, Lao Li is often affectionate and spills soup and leaks.
Spoh is almost the strongest coach at the moment, Jimmy's execution and ruthlessness, the East. Play this with them?
Three days ago at the field, Embiid scored 15 points on 5-of-18 shooting. Adebayo scored 20 points on 9-of-13 shooting today.
It's not that Adebayo is tougher than Embiid — after all, he's also perennially said to be soft on offense — it's Spoh who knows how to use routines.
The Celtics expanded the perimeter defense, combined with a change of defense, took away the hot three-pointers in the opening game, and left Lowe and Horford at the basket:
So Adebayo ate Jaylen on his back, cast Lowe, and cut inside on the weak side: all hit the gaps of the Celtics.
- Embiid wrestled with Horford to be a strong shot, is a raw chopped stick; Adebayo wandered around and stole points, and he was at ease.
On the other hand, Jimmy also did the same: first force the Celtics to change defense, find the wrong position and grab the hit; The Celtics opened the game by expanding their defense to prevent the hot three-pointers — who made just four three-pointers in the first quarter — so Jimmy and Adebayo were in the middle of the range, and the inside cut played well.
The most thief's shot: Jimmy faced Smart without a shot, immediately rushed to the front court to rebound, and scored the 10th point in the first quarter, "The rest of you can't take care of me, I'm taller than you, you can get me for rebounding?" ”
In the second quarter, the Celtics began to care about the basket, and Jimmy and Adebayo also did not attack; Lowry's chasing three-point and holding the ball to find a block, Adebayo looking for Vincent and Martin at the three-point line, playing in an orderly manner:
With five three-pointers in the second quarter, the Celtics were forced to make just four three-point attempts. Tatum scored 11 points in the second quarter, basically bursting into the three-point line and found the hot penalty area empty.
This is probably Coach Spoh's strategy:
In the first quarter, the Celtics expanded their defense to find a misplaced shot by Jimmy and Adebayo, and in the second quarter, when the Celtics locked the box, they found Lowry's ball to block the three-pointer, and the defense took away the Celtics' three-pointer.
Then comes the choppy third quarter.
The Heat trailed by 12 points early in the third quarter, so Adebayo made one of the shots and bumped Horford to a 10-point margin. Strong side stacking people on the defensive end, cutting weak side pass lines, Jaylen mistakes; Loew countered with a three-pointer, Jimmy moved Horford out of the box and allowed Vincent to break through the mid-range shot, and Loew's long pass found Strus to counterattack:
72 flat.
The Celtics replaced Horford, and Jimmy immediately let Adebayo attack Tatum to score; Adebayo himself assisted Strus on a counterattack.
The Celtics were confused, and Jimmy scored the second frontcourt rebound of the game to tie 78 and hit a three-pointer.
Smart tried to find Rowe to catch up, but was copied by Jimmy, and Adebayo scored his 20th point in two and a half quarters; Lowe rebounded and passed the ball, which was copied by Loew in front. Then Jimmy scored 9 points in a row in one go, completely pulling away from double digits.
Hot cut passes, counter-attacks, Adebayo face basket, Jimmy took over, this series of plays, the Celtics were knocked unconscious.
Coach Mazura didn't call a timeout.
Thanks to Jimmy taking over the segment, Tatum played against him for a while, otherwise the Celtics would have accounted for it in the third quarter.
Spoh understood.
In the fourth quarter, Jimmy or Strus buckled on Tatum, made Adebayo switch defenses, blocked the coverers, forced Tatum into a corner, and cut the passing line.
Tatum hit six free throws in the fourth quarter, but didn't make a single shot.
- Coach Mazura didn't specifically suspend calling him tactics, so be it.
Jaylen shot 3-of-7 from the field for 6 points and 3 assists in the fourth quarter, but had 2 turnovers — 6 turnovers in the game. Coach Spall probably doesn't mind if he holds the ball more and passes more: we have a chance to fight back.
Jimmy's last three-point shot locked the game, and it was a matter of course. The scary thing is that he made 3 broken balls in the fourth quarter:
——Jaylen hit him on his back, and he easily saw through the fake action and directly copied the ball.
- Horford tried to pass the ball to Tatum, but Jimmy saw it and took it away.
- Tatum tries to find Jaylen, but Jimmy robs him.
The 35 points can be said to be Jimmy's ferocity and toughness, but the 6 broken balls in the game reflect the Heat's grasp of the Celtics.
Adebayo basically didn't play hard, scoring 20 points with ease.
The Celtics locked up the hot three-pointers in the first quarter, but Jimmy and Adebayo broke it up, and the heat shot 14 of 27 in the second three quarters.
Tatum shot 9-of-17 in the first three quarters and was so controlled in the fourth quarter that he couldn't shoot.
Jaylen Brown has had three playoff games with six turnovers in his career — once against the heat today and twice against the heat last year.
So the heat took down the first one.
When Philadelphia was eliminated a few days ago, Mr. Lee said he had a plan for the heat.
Coach Mazura also said he had to watch hot game videos overnight.
They all care about the Miami heat, but the truth is...
In the past two years, the Miami Heat have won six consecutive series, home and away, and the Miami Heat have won the series opener.
No one is better at getting off the horse than they are.
In fact, in all series since Jimmy Butler arrived in Miami, the Heat have only lost two openers:
One is the 2020 Finals against the Lakers, and the other is the 2021 first-round game against the Bucks - that game ended up in overtime.
That is: against Miami, against Jimmy Butler, against Coach Spoh, a true championship team can pass the trial of opening the door.
No matter how well prepared you are, Coach Spall will always make you understand:
No, you're not ready.
——A team with full execution like the heat may not be able to win if they go all out from beginning to end.
Coach Mazura actually dared, was played by the opposite side to play the team history record single quarter climax, and the entire third quarter was not called a timeout?