On May 26, Beijing time, the Heat lost to the Celtics series on the road to 3-2. To be fair, the East finals evolved from G3 to today's G5, and before that, only the Celtics themselves may not believe in the whole league, and it was only a matter of time before the Heat defeated the Celtics to reach the Finals, but with two consecutive losses, the outside world had to begin to doubt Butler's ability to lead the team, and even look forward to the birth of the first 3-for-4 in NBA history.
However, we have reason to believe that the defeat is only temporary, after all, the Heat have played a little too smoothly along the way, whether it is Butler or Adebayo, and even a second-round backup of the Heat has been held up by the media, so they need some failures to get themselves back into play.
In this regard, Heat star Butler said disappointedly in an interview with the media: The Celtics limited Adebayo, and we need to help him find better scoring opportunities and feed him by watching the video repeatedly. And in both series, the Celtics were the first to get into form than us, and as starters we had to cause more difficulties for the opponent. Of course, the last two games are not our true level, we just happened to play like this, and the next game we will definitely win.
In this game, the Celtics started by 51 points against the Heat, Butler scored 14 points on 5-of-10 shooting, and almost did not play much throughout the fourth quarter can be said to have given up the game early, which is in stark contrast to his spirit of not admitting defeat at the last minute, if G6 is brought back by the opponent, then the Heat will collapse across the board mentally, and it is only a matter of time before the G7 is made history by the Celtics.
It is worth mentioning that in addition to Hiro and Oladipo, the Heat's main players Love, Vincent and Martin have suffered injuries of varying degrees in these series, which may become the key to affecting the trend of the game.