On April 20, Beijing time, the Miami Heat defeated the Chicago Bulls at home to lock up the eighth place in the East, and they will face the Celtics with the league's best record in the first round of the playoffs. The Bulls trailed by 17 points in the first quarter, narrowed to 10 points at halftime, collapsed 0-12 in the last two minutes of the third quarter, and the difference in the final quarter stretched to 27 points into garbage time.
At the beginning of the first quarter, the Bulls led 11-6, but then Harkes hit an outside three-point shot to complete 2+1, he scored 8 points and 3 assists in the first quarter, and he played the starting efficiency better than Butler. Although Herro didn't feel good in the first quarter, he also had 6 points, 5 assists and 6 rebounds, and the bench Lefu hit an outside three-point shot, Dunroe made two three-pointers, and the Bulls were directly defeated, and the Heat led by as many as 17 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the Bulls improved their defensive intensity, the Heat's rotation in a single quarter was 5 of 20, 3 of 13 three-pointers, and the feel was a sharp decline, the Heat only scored 13 points in a single quarter, and the Bulls actually felt bad in this quarter It was 6 of 21, but there were 20 points, and the Bulls narrowed the gap of 7 points in the second quarter, DeRozan's 12 points and 1 block in the second quarter were the first contributors to the Bulls' chasing points, White was frozen by the Heat after scoring 42 points in the last game, and there were only 6 points in 2 of 10 in the half.
The first 10 minutes of the third quarter between the two teams were a tug-of-war, the Heat opened to 15 points, the Bulls narrowed to 10 points, White began to break through to score, Dosunmu also hit a three-pointer, the Bulls' original offense was already improving, but I didn't expect that everything changed when Donovan replaced Zhuang Shen, 1 in + 2 turnovers + 2 fouls to help the Heat play 12-0, every time he made a mistake, the opponent scored/free throws, and the 10-point gap directly became 22 points.
In the last quarter, the Bulls have been disturbed by Zhuang Shen, the opening Harks cut 2+1, Reba easily put it in under the basket, Highsmith scored the empty cut, Herro hit three points, the Heat directly opened the difference to 27 points, and soon Donovan took the lead in replacing the main force, DeRozan was frustrated, the Heat showed a smile on Lefou's face, White and DeRozan were very frustrated.
In the whole game, Herro scored 24 points, 10 rebounds and 9 assists in 33 minutes, 8 of 17 + 4 of 9 three-pointers, and DeRozan did his best in 41 minutes of 8 of 16 and 3 of 6 three-pointers with 22 points, 4 assists and 3 rebounds.
Text/Yan Xiaobai's basketball dream