On the morning of April 25, Beijing time, in the second game of the first round of the NBA Eastern Playoffs, the powerful Celtics sat at home and lost to the Heat who lacked the tough guy Jimmy Butler. The first against the eighth, but the Heat were not scared at all, and they also overturned a strong opponent on the enemy's turf, and the style of this team is really tough. They made as many as 23 3-pointers in the game, and the Green Army's Porzingis played erratically, shooting 1-of-9, which equaled the loss of a firepower point for the Celtics, which was the cause of the home team's defeat.
Last season, the Heat went all the way to the Finals as the eighth in the East, and before winning the Eastern Conference championship, they were able to succeed in every round, which was really admirable, and almost made American professional basketball history. Although it failed to win the championship in the end, it can be regarded as a legend. This season they won the East Eight again through the play-offs, and the opponent in the first round of the playoffs this time was different from last season, from the Bucks to the Celtics, which became more difficult to play, but the Miami players still did not believe in evil, and pulled their teeth out, and defeated the league boss Celtics in the regular season on the second road, which made this series suspenseful.
After the Heat's loss in the first game, most of the media and fans thought that the Celtics would easily get through the first hurdle of the playoffs, at least a home win, but these experts and fans were slapped in the face by the score and results brought by the Heat's change of offensive strategy. In the case of not having an advantage on the inside, the Heat simply strengthened the proportion of outside projection, and the shooters felt really good, coupled with the Celtics' light enemy and relatively loose defense on the outside, the Heat bet was right and saw the effect. In this game, the Heat made 57.3% of all 3-pointers, 11.6% more than the previous game, shooting 23 of 43 and shooting 53%. In the regular season this season, when the Heat hit more than 17 3-pointers, they went 8-1, and this time the Heat won again. With just 3-pointers, the Heat scored 33 more points than the Celtics. Taking the initiative to change, this is an important factor for the Heat to defeat the strong with the weak in this game.
Another is the decline in the offensive efficiency of the Celtics themselves, the two "Tanhua" players Tatum and Brown played normally and teamed up to score 61 points, but the data of Porzingis, another offensive point, is a bit eye-catching. As the team's starting interior power center, he only scored 6 points in the game, shooting 1-of-9 from the field, and went to the outside to shoot 0-of-4 3-pointers, and his personal plus/minus was the worst of the game at -32. Although Porzingis contributed three steals and two blocks on the defensive end, it still couldn't make up for the damage he caused the team on the offensive end.
In short, the Heat gambled and succeeded, returning to Miami with a score of 1-1, with two home courts, not without a chance to continue to win while the iron was hot. This time, the strength and state of the opponent in the first round of the Heat playoffs far exceeded that of last year's Bucks, but the ball is round, who knows if the Heat will stage another "Black Eight" miracle.
Text/Beiqing Sports Liu Ailin