The so-called record is used to break through. Now, the NBA’s “zero record” of losing three games first and winning four big turns is already in danger.
In the sixth match between the heat and the Celtics, the visiting team played almost the whole game, but in the last 3 seconds, they were punished by Jimmy Butler. Seeing that the heat was about to step into the finals, Xiao Bai White was strong with an amazing rebound in the front court, and the fire was killed by the backfire and the Celtics won the G6 with 104-103.
Smart said, don’t let me win one. Later, Jay Brown also said, don’t let me win another match. Now the Green Army has won three games in a row, and the historic G7 will be launched the day after tomorrow.
After East G5, in my article “heat G6 is like” grab seven “, the last sentence is like this: I believe G6 will reach the last moment, that is probably the most critical minute to determine the outcome of the East.
The meaning behind this sentence is that if the Heat wants to reach the finals, it is better to end the series in Game 6 and drag it to Game 7.
Whether we can witness the history and see if we have eyes.
At the end of that article, I once looked forward to today’s game like this: If G6 is very nervous, it is very important that which side can stand out as a hero outside the core, just like Vincent of G3 and white of G5, at this point, the Green Army has more choices and the choice of heat is narrower.
Because of forearm strain, broghton, the “best sixth man” in the regular season, did not appear in G6. He has actually dropped out of the series, because after 0-2, he can hardly play any role. In the last three games, he only got 2 points in total, and the injuries made him add up to 1 in 13. In this way, there were actually only 7 people left in the Celtics rotation lineup, symbolically making Hauser appear for more than a minute.
In order to win the last home court, the Heat team also made essential adjustments, removing the experienced starting No. 4 Leford and mentioning Martin, who performed well on the bench, as the starting place. In fact, this also shortened the rotation of the Heat team to only 8 people.
The change of the heat is equivalent to the Celtics sending Xiao Bai to the first start in the third game. Although it was a talent show, Martin did not disgrace his mission. He used attack and defense to change and kill the Green Army for many times. He scored 14 points in the first half and finally scored 21 points, with 4 out of 8 three points being the highest in the team.
White, who also integrated attack and defense, has won 9 points, 16 points and 24 points respectively in the last three games since the Vietnam War became more brave after starting. His six points in G5 let everyone describe him as “green version Library”, but no one thought that he would have more amazing performance waiting for everyone.
After Jimmy Butler sent the third goal, the Celtics paused and Tatum sat on the bench with his face all green. At that time, the score was 103-102, and the Heat exceeded again. This was also the second time Butler led the Heat by 1 point in the second half, but this time only left Celtics 3 seconds.
I don’t know why, every time until the fourth quarter, Tatum had to rest for a few minutes. This time after 2 minutes 14 seconds, Celtics’s 7-point advantage was chased to only 4 points, then there was Butler’s successful layup in 8 minutes, which made the Heat exceed 1 point for the first time.
At 6 minutes 54 seconds in the fourth quarter, Tatum scored for the first time with two free throws. At 6 minutes 11 seconds, he scored the first goal in the second half and the only goal. Tatum scored 25 points in the first half of G6. He thought he would take another 50 + points like 76 people, but in the second half, he scored 6 points in 1 out of 9.
Tatum is only 25 years old. Why does he have to rest for a few minutes every time until the fourth quarter? James is 38 years old. In the final key games of the playoffs, he never stops in the fourth quarter. In the G6 game alone, Butler, who was almost 34 years old, played for 12 minutes in the fourth quarter and Adebayor for 12 minutes. Among the five starting players of the Green Army, Jay Brown, white and smart played for 12 minutes.
Now the G7 is about to start fighting, and the Celtics must solve the two major problems of the first core Tatum: first, the uneven distribution of fire in the upper and lower half, second, the fourth section Tatum can not help but rest, do not leave any window period for the opponent to chase.
However, you must admit that after 0-3, Tatum’s one-on-one defense quality to Butler has improved significantly. He no longer allows Butler to conduct various classical Middle-throw singles at the zero angle on the right side of the basket at will. In G5, Butler got only 14 points under his defense.
Although Butler scored 24 points today, 15 of them came from the fourth quarter. In other words, due to various restrictions on Butler and his attempt to stand in front of him for a while, Tatum insisted on standing in front of him, butler only cast 1 out of 5 in the first two sections, and 0 out of 6 in the third section did not score. Butler only scored 9 points in the first three quarters, which was also the main reason why Celtics played the game most of the time.
The Heat players have a general talent, but the discipline is strict. In the first three sections, they mainly rely on defense to get the chance to fight back, allowing civilian players like Martin and Strous to score. In the fourth quarter, Butler had to take over the game, whether it was by singles or by killing for free throws. After two games, he showed the style of “Butler in the playoffs” again in the fourth quarter of G6.
Butler created a lot of free throws in the fourth quarter. He scored only 3 goals in 15 points, including three-point goals with a difference of 4 points in the last 2 minutes and 2+1 of 100-101. He fined a total of 10 balls and hit 8. The last three penalties came from a foul that he had little chance to make in downtown. Although his body leaned forward, the referee clearly judged his feet to take off from three points through replay.
However, Xiao Bai killed in the slant smashed Butler’s plan to end the series in six games.
I have to say that the tactics directed by the Pony are relatively fine, but the response to the heat is also relatively clear. The tactics of the Green Army were assigned to Tatum, but the serve White should have a very tacit cooperation with Tatum within 5 seconds, otherwise it may time out.
In the first two or three seconds, Tatum did not take the initiative to ask for the ball, and let the heat focus on smart in running or Jay Brown as a cover. The real purpose was to send it to Tatum, horford in the bottom corner is to open the space for a rainy day.
The heat almost became the goal. Butler was inseparable from Tatum. Tatum didn’t start to prepare for receive the ball until the second second. Xiaobai had to pass it to smart in the third second, and half of the tactics had failed.
But when Matt had no choice but to throw that low-quality three points, two people in the heat made mistakes: first, Strous paid too much attention to Tatum, he had moved closer to him before he received the ball, which led to Xiao Bai being missed, and he was able to rush to grab the front rebounder to make up the basket; Secondly, when the ball was thrown out, center Adebayor only wanted to block Jay Brown behind him, but forgot that there was only less than 1 second left at this time, so he didn’t have to worry about anyone, just wanted to rob this rebound.
In the whole game, the green army expanded its leading edge to double digits three times, and it was on the road, with the sixth man broghton missing. It can be said that the Celts have proved for the third time that their overall strength is better than the hot fire, as long as you can limit Butler, the core of the more prominent ability, the Celtics will have a chance to win this series.
I had to mention G4 again in the second half, especially in the third quarter, Tatum’s only 14 points. If the Celtics want to perform miracles and create history, Tatum must rob the seven warlords, instead of disappearing in the second half.
The Celtics are better at playing downwind, while the heat is better at playing wind the ball, which is the suspense of fighting the seven battles.
Moreover, although the Celtics survived in Miami, there are still some tactical problems that have not been solved. For example, in the case of leading 10 points in the last 5 minutes, how can they lose their advantages and be overshot by Butler? In fact, they do not know how to deal with the joint defense of the heat.
After the pause of the last 4 minutes, the heat began to use the joint defense, at least five times, and the Green Army did not score a goal.
The three points of the Celtics in this game were very bad. 7 in the 35th game and the last one still did not improve, only 2 in the 10th. However, in the last 4 minutes, none of the three points hit. In NBA, the simplest way to attack joint defense is to throw three points, and the Heat caught their unstable lifeline. If the three points are not accurate, they need to push forward quickly and try to start the attack before the joint defense is set. However, when the third joint defense attack was launched, they were still very slow. Every time the joint defense does not score, the Heat will get the chance to fight back, including Butler’s three-point goal, making foul free throws and so on, all of which take advantage of the Celtics’s unstable foothold.
Personally, I think the possibility of Celtics creating history will exceed 50%. However, due to the defect of joint defense, Coach Spo will definitely make great use of it. Therefore, it cannot be said that there will be no chance for the Home Heat in Boston.
Su Qun column