The Celtics won the tiebreak! In the finals against the Warriors, Butler did his best with 35 points.
Butler has done his best.
King-to-king, will-to-general, give everything he has until he dies.
On May 30th, Beijing time, the Heat and the Celtics fought a tiebreak, and finally the Celtics defeated the Heat 100-96 and returned to the finals after 12 years.
Butler played 48 points and scored 35 points and 9 rebounds, still playing a lonely hero. Unfortunately, this victory failed to favor the Heat …Among other Heat players, Adebayor had 25 points and 11 rebounds. Lori had 15 points and 7 rebounds.
Tatum won the East Finals MVP.
On the Celtics side, Tatum scored 26 points and 10 rebounds to win the East Finals MVP "larry bird Cup"; Jaylen Brown scored 24 points and 6 assists; Smart scored 24 points and 9 rebounds.
It is worth mentioning that in the past 13 seasons, the Celtics won Tianwangshan four times, but in the end they were all reversed by their opponents. Now the Celtics have not let the victory slip away.
Lori clings to Tatum (right).
A narrow escape to a close match.
Before deciding the G6, the data organization FiveThirtyEight predicted that the Celtics’ promotion probability was as high as 89%. At that time, almost everyone thought that the Heat was at the end of the road.
However, when it came to Dong Jue G7, the data agency updated the probability of winning the championship again, and the probability of Celtic advancing to the finals was only 52%, while that of Heat was 48%, which was the closest between the two teams.
From a narrow escape to a close match, it is enough to prove the stalemate of this series.
When it comes to tiebreak, coach Spock of the Heat said, "There is nothing like tiebreak, and I am really happy that we can all experience this."
In the history of the Heat’s team, they played in the tiebreak for 10 times, with a record of 6 wins and 4 losses. Since entering the Spock era, the Heat have won 4-2 in the tiebreaker, including 4-0 at home.
Butler is the only one in the Heat who can be trusted.
On the Celtics’ side, they experienced seven away games, and the Celtics won the most three away games with a winning rate of nearly 80% at home.
Among them, in the NBA finals in 1974, the Green Army beat the Bucks away to win the championship. However, after that, the Celtics lost four away tiebreaks in a row.
But history doesn’t mean that the Celtics have no chance-so far this season, the Celtics have been able to beat their opponents by 7.49 points, ranking fourth in NBA history.
In addition, the Celtics have never lost in a row this season. Since the playoffs, the Green Army has won every game after every defeat, with a record of 6 wins and 0 losses.
Brown broke through in the game.
The ability to adjust after losing is the label of Celtic this season. So at the beginning of the tiebreaker, the Green Army showed their aggressiveness.
They obviously strengthened the speed of changing the attack. In this section, the Celtics’ fast break score was 13-4, far ahead of the Heat, and the Celtics’ fast break score in the first quarter was only 1 point less than G6′ s whole game.
It is worth mentioning that Uduka canceled today’s pre-match shooting training. "In this series, I want players to have energetic legs and make them full of energy and vitality."
Under the continuous switching attack, the Celtics led by 32 to 17 in the first quarter, and the 15-point lead was also the biggest difference in the first quarter in the history of NBA tiebreak, while the Celtics led by 15 points in the first quarter in the history of playoff team, and their record was 21 wins and 0 losses.
At the home of the Heat, the Celtics made a perfect start, and the famous mouth Skip even tweeted: "The Celtics should set their home in Miami when they play the finals."
Butler hit the basket again and again.
Open Fire
In the Celtics’ voice tiebreak, the Heat can only rely on Butler.
In this game, Hiro, who missed three games, returned to the game list. He originally needed to rest for 1-2 weeks with a groin strain, but in the moment of life and death, Hiro forced his comeback.
Hiro’s forced comeback is commendable in spirit, but it’s hard to ask Hiro to do more in the intensity of the tiebreak. As Adebayor said: "This is a sensitive injury and he must take it slowly."
Hero, who appeared in the second quarter, not only failed to score, but also became the weak link of the Celtics’ main attack. Not only Hiro, but also the Heat’s starting lineup is quite weak on the offensive end-Lori made 0 shots in the first 5, and Struce and Tucker all missed the first 4 shots.
So the lonely hero Butler went online again. Butler, who scored 47 points in the last game, was still brave in the tiebreaker. At the beginning of the game, the Heat missed the continuous sports battle, and Butler broke the deadlock with a fast-break dunk.
In the second quarter, when the team’s attack was weak, it was Butler who propped up the whole team’s attack and scored 18 points to tie the single-quarter scoring record of his career in the playoffs.
Butler also made adjustments in the game. At the beginning of the game, Butler tried several shots and found that he felt bad, so he immediately switched the mode to kill the inside. Butler made 11 shots in the first half, and only 3 were out of the three-second zone.
Butler acupuncture treatment of knee.
The most representative goal was in the middle of the second quarter. Butler successfully scored 2+1 against the encirclement of the Green Army in the transition.
Throughout the first half, Butler scored 24 points on 8-for-11 shooting, Adebayor scored 11 points on 5-for-10 shooting, while other Heat players scored only 14 points on 3-for-17 shooting.
Before this game, Butler, who finished shooting training, even needed acupuncture to treat his knee.
In the case of Butler’s continuous attack on the inside, the game has already become a hand-to-hand combat. The Green Army made 16 fouls in the first half, which set a new high for the Green Army in the first half of this season.
Butler, who didn’t rest for a second in the first half, led the Heat to chase the score to 49-55, and the biggest difference between the two teams was only 6 points from 14 points.
Hiro came back with an injury.
Give everything you have until you die.
It’s more about the details that determine the outcome of the game.
As coach Spock said before the game, "It really depends on what kind of team you are, and it is a test of team habits. How much trust do players have?" What can you do at these critical moments? Can you do more than your opponent? "
In the last two minutes of G6, Butler scored a crucial 7-pointer, while Tatum and Brown of Celtic scored only one sports game in the last 4 minutes and 43 seconds. Not only that, Tatum also made many mistakes, and Brown wasted the key two penalty opportunities.
However, at that time, the shooting choice of double exploration was related to the defensive strategy of the Heat. As Tatum said after the game, "I think all I have to do is go on the court and feel the game, attract the defense’s attention and find the dislocation."
The same is true in the second half of the tiebreak. When the heat pressure gave us a double exploration, the role players of the Green Army stabilized the situation-Smart scored 9 points in a single quarter, and the Celtics once played a 17-9 offensive climax, but then the heat approached the score, and the Celtics led by 7 points in the third quarter and entered the last quarter.
Horford (right) tries to block Butler.
By the fourth quarter of the game, both sides had already given everything they had. Even when Adebayor fell, he elbowed White’s head and caused bleeding. Both sides still focused on the ball.
However, the Heat missed 7 shots in the fourth quarter and the score was pulled to double digits. But in the last two minutes of the game, the Heat scored 11-0, but Butler and Struce missed 3 points, and the Celtics finally won the victory.
When the smoke of Dongjue gradually dispersed, the warriors in the west were on a two-day vacation. The warriors who broke into the finals in advance will not start the team’s formal training until tomorrow.
As Cole said, "I think it’s important to rest. Both sides are very tired in the regional finals, and I think both teams in the East have felt this."
The Celtics will face an experienced warrior who has reached the finals six times in eight years.