In the second round of the NBA playoffs, the Heat continued to meet the Challenge of the Hawks at home, and in the game between the two sides, the Heat easily defeated the Hawks and led the opponent 1-0. In G1, the Heat's advantage was very obvious, they had to suppress the Hawks at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, without giving them any chance to counterattack, and the fourth quarter of the game had already been divided into winners and losses. After the fiasco in G1, the outside world also believes that the Hawks can usher in an outbreak in the G2 game, especially Trae Young, who is expected to help the team win back the big score on the road, and the Heat want to easily beat the Hawks at home again, which is not too realistic, they need to perform better in the game.
As the outside world said, the Hawks performed much better than G1 in this game, and they played back and forth with the Heat in the first quarter, and the score gap was very small. In the second quarter, the Heat had pulled the gap apart, but the Hawks always had players who could come forward, and the team played very tenaciously and did not let the Heat further widen the point difference. At the end of the half, the Hawks trailed the Heat by just two points, a very small gap.
In the second half of the game, the Heat scored 15 points with Butler in the third quarter, and they were at most 16 points ahead of the Hawks. However, the Eagles did not intend to give up the game easily, they relied on Trae Young's play in the last quarter, the team in the last 2 minutes, they narrowed the score gap to 3 points, the game has suspense. Pogdan missed a three-pointer at a crucial moment, and Butler hit a tough three-pointer against Trae Young's defense, and the Heat widened the gap to eight points. Pogdan then chased down the three points, and Butler hit another layup, the gap reached 10 points, and the game lost suspense. In the end, the Heat defeated the Hawks 115-105 to win G2, and in the first two games, the Heat led the Hawks 2-0 to take the initiative in the series.
The main player data of the two teams in this game: Butler ushered in this battle, he bombed 45 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists in the whole game, and at key moments, he completed the scoring in succession, and he became the biggest contributor to the team's victory. Hiro scored 15 points, Strus 14 and Vincent 11. On the Eagles side, Trae Young cut 25 points, 6 rebounds and 7 assists, and in the final quarter, he only scored 3 points on 1-of-5 shooting, not performing as well as Butler. Pogdan had 29 points, Collins had 13 points and 10 rebounds and Hunter had 16 points.
The Hawks' performance in this game is very good, compared to G1, the team played harder and focused, and played better on the defensive end. When the Heat pulled the score gap wide open, they were always able to respond, and in the final moments of the game, the team also managed to close the score gap to 3 points, and there was hope of winning. Unfortunately, when the Hawks narrowed the score gap, they were not able to continue their good form, and the team could not further narrow the point gap. In terms of defending Butler, they also did not play well, this battle Butler was full of firepower, showing the true color of his star, his performance at both ends of the attack and defense was shining, at key moments, he scored 5 consecutive points to help the team lock in the game.
The main reason why the Hawks lost this game is that they can't limit Butler's play and let it fully enter the game state, in the next game of this series, the Hawks need to have a better performance in defending Butler, if you can't solve Butler's defense, then the Eagles want to win in this series, it is very difficult.