On April 30, Beijing time, the NBA playoffs continued, and the Celtics defeated the Heat 102-88 away, leading 3-1. In this game, the Celtics took the initiative when they came up, and White was in a hot state, and then the Heat was passive, and they were unsuccessful in trying to launch a counterattack, and finally lost the opponent.
This season, the Heat still qualified for the playoffs as the No. 8 seed, but this time they were missing Butler, who suffered a serious injury in the play-offs and has not played in the first round so far. Without Butler, the Heat's combat power value has also dropped by a level, and it is difficult to take the initiative on the court, relying on the outside touch of the whole team in G2, and won a surprise victory. And this time their hand returned to a normal level, and the game was also one-sided, completely unable to create too much trouble for Celtic, and with this loss, it was also announced that the black eight was really gone.
Last season, the Heat went all the way to the Finals as the No. 8 seed, but this time they couldn't continue and may be out in the first round. After the first four games, the Heat has fallen behind 1-3, judging from the game process, the difference in strength between the two teams is still very obvious, and the Heat really don't have too many chances, unless they can hit a 20+ triple-double in every game, but this is really too difficult for the Heat. Without Butler, without Rozier, the offense was entirely on Adebayo, and he really did his best.
Adebayo scored 25 points, 17 rebounds and 5 assists this time, and it can be seen that he really tried his best on the court. Helplessly, the league's No. 1 Celtics on the opposite side are too unreasonable, after Porzingis was injured unexpectedly, the team still has a number of offensive players, this time Tatum and Brown have not played much, and the game has basically lost suspense, because White ushered in a big explosion this time.
White felt hot in this game, 8 of 15 three-pointers, and the Heat team hit a total of 9 three-pointers, hitting a new playoff career high of 38 points, scoring 16 points in the first quarter, and scoring 33 points after the third quarter, which was completely unstoppable. And White also set a record this time, becoming the first player in Celtics history to score at least 38 points and 3 blocks in the playoffs, and make at least 8 three-pointers, it is not easy to stay in the history of the Celtics.