It’s not that the enemies don’t get together. Jimmy Butler has come to avenge Tatum.
In the first game of Dongju, Butler was once again transformed into “playoff Butler”, leading the Heat team to reverse strongly and stealing an away game with 123-116.
To say that things in this world are really strange, Tatum can’t hide from Butler in his life, and in the playoffs, Tatum often disappears in the fourth quarter, and Butler is the king of the fourth quarter of this year’s playoffs. When the two met together, the fourth quarter became lively.
Butler scored 8 points in 3 of the fourth quarter 8. He was determined to find “xiao bai” White in the name of his idle place. He played freely in the middle distance. If you attack him under the basket, he will give a bottom corner assist and let his teammates throw into the deadly three points. Butler is not an excellent three-point pitcher, but he often throws strange three points at critical moments. It seems that God will help him. For example, at the last 1 minute 4 seconds, facing broghton, Butler’s three-pointer hit the back edge of basketball hoop and jumped to the front. He jumped high and unexpectedly fell back to RIM.
This ball makes the Heat’s lead reach 10 points again, and only the last 1 minute is left, so it is a symbolic goal to kill the game.
Finally Butler scored 35 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, and 6 steals, he is the second star in NBA history who played 35 points +5 rebounds +5 assists +5 steals twice away from the playoffs. The first one is naturally Jordan, the leader.
Compared with Butler, Tatum’s playoff qualifications are actually not shallow: Butler is about to be 34 years old and has played 107 series of 20 rounds, of which 2 rounds are East and 1 finals; tatum is only 25 years old. At a young age, he has played 87 games in 15 rounds of series, including 3 East games and 1 finals.
Like Butler, Tatum has won 10 rounds of series, but from the fourth quarter to the fourth quarter, Tatum will change back to that doll soldier, as if it will never grow up. Butler is like Jordan, in the words of coach SIBO, “he is one of the best players in the league. Every critical moment, Jimmy can do everything, he will contribute whatever we need, whether it is scoring or dominating the ball.”
In our Wuxi words, it means that people like Butler are “old Ghosts” (pronunciation “fishing Giant”), which means they are very sophisticated.
As if there was this enemy in his life, God specially used “old ghosts” like Butler to reflect Tatum’s innocence. Butler was omnipotent in the fourth quarter. So far, the final score is the first in the playoffs. In fact, it was Tatum who ranked second. However, when he met Butler, Tatum seemed not to play in the fourth quarter.
After the pause entered the last 3 minutes, Tatum directly made a passing mistake and was cut off by Butler. At that time, the Celtics were only 5 points behind. But who could have thought that in the last 2 minutes, in a short period of 30 seconds, Tatum was blown twice to violate the rule of walking. The second time was in downtown, jumping up and preparing to shoot, and meeting Martin who flew in, unexpectedly, the ball was not shot, but the feet fell to the ground again.
As a result, the whole fourth quarter Tatum did not record a shot, and all his 6 points came from free throws.
Tatum walked twice in half a minute
Tatum’s semi-finals scored 51 points and killed 76 people. We still have great expectations for him, although we met the old enemy Jimmy Butler. Last year, Tatum and his comrades actually came out of Butler’s shadow and “snatched seven” to kill the heat. This year, the Green Army was much smoother than the heat. Originally, the first round of the 27th meeting, it would fight with the heat, but the first game of the Heat play-off lost, I thought that I would never pass it, who knew Butler “black eight” killed the stag, like a ghost shadow, and pestered Tatum again in the east decision.
G1 was the Battle of setting tone. The Celts in the first two sections were quite smooth, leading up to 13 points, and entered the second half with a 9-point advantage. In the first two quarters, the heat has played well. Butler scored 15 points, lorry scored 13 points, and the third goal was 7 out of 15. This play was still behind double digits, and the Green Army won at home without any problem.
In the third quarter, the Celtics played more than 1 minute, and the advantage was expanded to 12 points again by Smart’s three points. Maybe the advantage came too easily. When the later changes came, coach Ma Zula was not alert.
It was from the leading 12 points that bad luck came. They lost 3 three-pointer shots in a row. The Heat played a wave of 13-1 in 3 minutes and quickly leveled the difference. In this process, Ma Zula didn’t know where the confidence came from, but he didn’t call a pause, even if he had already caught a tie. It was not until the 7-minute dead ball was automatically suspended, but it was from this official suspension that the Celtics never took the lead again until the end of the third quarter that they fell by as many as 12 points.
In the whole third quarter, the Heat scored 46 points and the Green Army only scored 25 points.
Until meeting with reporters after the game, Tatum was in a state of circle. A reporter asked him what happened. Tatum said, “I don’t know either. I don’t know why……”
In fact, losing the first game in the series is not the end of the world. At this time last year, they also lost the first game when they met the Bucks in the semi-finals. In the first three games, they also lost the “Battle of tianwangshan”; Then they eliminated the heat in the east and lost the first game as well, the first three games were 1-2; Before the hot fire this time, they lost the home court in the first game, which made Harden score 45 points.
But I am afraid of losing. At the end of the game, I saw the technical statistics. The two teams had similar rebounds, similar assists and similar mistakes. The three-point goal might be a little worse, but they also scored 10 and 16 in the heat. Moreover, 10 more free throws than the heat.
Although plot twist happened in the third quarter, which gave the Heat 46 points, the Green Army finally caught up with single digits and did not collapse. What’s the problem? — Is mazula not called pause? Did Jay Brown and Horford make too bad three points? Or two steps at the critical moment of Tatum?
Tatum is like the embodiment of this team. He is young and talented. He is not bad at Defense. His seniority does not lose to anyone or even to Jimmy Butler. But compared with Jimmy Butler, Tatum seems to have something missing, which is not the first time.
Who let Jason always meet Jimmy, still so hard.
Su Qun column