With the offseason upgrades of multiple Eastern conference teams, this season's Eastern Conference championship battle has become extremely fierce, and the Nets with the core lineup of the Big Three, because of the poor performance in the middle of the season, the ranking has also fallen sharply, from the current situation, they most likely need to win a playoff seat through the playoffs, the first round to die against the Nets, must be all the top teams in the East do not want to see the scene, but from the probability point of view, the Nets won the first round of the playoffs, Thus the probability of entering the playoffs with the second place in the East is the largest, so winning the first place in the East has become the best choice for the top four teams with a very small winning margin at present.
Out of the infighting crisis of the Heat, although temporarily in the first place in the standings, but the defending champion behind them is very tight, once the record declines may fall to the second position, so the rest of the regular season, they still dare not take it lightly, in this regular season, the Heat encountered a very strong momentum of the challenge of green Kai, the whole game the two sides played extremely anxious, but also retained the suspense to the last moment, the defense of the lost draft Strus decisive moment made a great contribution, Helped the Heat narrowly beat Green Kai 106-98 and retained the first place in the East!
Green Kai is a typical team in the league to defend as the basis of survival, and the performance of the offensive end depends largely on the performance of the double detective Lang Tatum and Jaylen Brown, when the two of them are in excellent offensive state, they can rely on individual attack to drive the team's overall attack, so as to have the strength to break the wrist with any team, but once the two of them can not find the shooting feel, Green Kai's overall attack will fall into a state of stagnation.
The most direct reason for the loss of the leader Heat in this game is that the performance of the offensive end of the two of them did not meet expectations, this campaign Jaylen Brown hit 9 goals in 22 shots, got 28 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists, the offensive success rate did not reach 50%, and Tatum was even more cold in three points, the whole game 5 shots were all biased, only got 23 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists, the double core did not play the expected performance, directly led to the final defeat.
Compared to the Green Kai, the Heat rely more on the overall offense, Lowry, Butler and Hiro all have excellent passing ability, which is why they can still win when the core players are not very high, before this campaign, Lowry, who showed more defensive skills, found a three-point feel, one hit 6 three-pointers, contributed 23 points and 8 assists.
Under his passing combing, the Heat had five players score double-digit points in this game, of which Butler cut the team's high of 24 points, Adebayo also played his role as the axis of the offense, cut down 17 points, 12 rebounds and 8 assists of the quasi-triple-double data, the decisive moment with excellent personal defense for the team to lock the win of Strus also has a comprehensive personal performance of 14 + 7 + 1 + 3 + 2, the three military life is the key to their victory.
After winning this game, the Heat are still in the standings to suppress the defending champion Bucks, high in the East, if according to such a ranking into the playoffs, the first round of the Nets and Bucks will most likely meet again, Durant can lead the team to revenge, it has become the biggest attraction!