On April 18, Beijing time, the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Miami Heat 105-104 at home to win the play-off G1, and Philadelphia locked up the seventh place in the East, and they will face the Knicks, who are second in the East, in the first round. The Heat led by 12 points in the first half, and Philadelphia narrowed it to 5 points after the third quarter.
At one point, Philadelphia played a 12-4 small climax, Maxey's breakthrough was very sharp, Embiid also continued to make fouls, when Spo waved his hand to take Lefou, Highsmith, the Heat began to play unpredictable regional defense, Embiid had no way to easily catch the ball, Maxey did not break through the space and made consecutive mistakes, and when Butler almost suffered a knee injury and hit both free throws, the Heat has achieved a comeback.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Philadelphia still made mistakes in front of the Heat's strong defense, they had 11 turnovers in the first half, the Heat took advantage of Philadelphia's mistakes to score as many as 17 points, Butler 10 points, 4 assists and 4 steals in the half was too hard, the most powerful thing for the Heat was that the 4 people on the bench scored a total of 21 points, while the Philadelphia bench 3 people scored only 7 points in total, and Nurse was defeated by Spo in the first half.
At the beginning of the third quarter, the Heat once stretched to a 14-point lead, or Embiid and Maxey blew the horn of counterattack, the Great steals and assists, Maxey backs up and jumps, Batum hits a three-pointer, Hield counterattacks and layups, Oubre makes a layup, and Philadelphia stops the Heat with a wave of 14-8. Batum and Payne hit three-pointers, and Harkes and Love also hit three-pointers, and Philadelphia narrowed the gap to two points at one point, but it was still stretched to five points before the end of the third quarter.
In the last quarter, Batum made two three-pointers, Embiid hit a three-pointer, Philadelphia once overtook it, but Butler steals and dunks, Hakes dunks the Heat again, Batum makes a basket and narrows it to only 1 point, Embiid hits Herro three-point response, Embiid key 2+1, Highsmith throws to equalize, Oubre 36 seconds key 2+1, and then Herro grabs three points but only 0.3 seconds left, the game is over.
In the game, Embiid had 23 points and 15 rebounds, Batum had 20 points, 5 rebounds, 6 three-pointers and 1 block, and Maxey had 19 points and 6 assists.
Text/Yan Xiaobai