2023-04-11 07:00:00
The Tournament play-in starts tonight for our greatest happiness! We open the ball with a superb Heat – Hawks at 1:30 am. The two conductors Jimmy Butler and Trae Young will face each other to qualify their franchises for the big picture of the Playoffs. Take your coffee, it’s the preview!
MIAMI HEAT – ATLANTA HAWKS : 1h30 (aired on BeinSport 1)
Miami-Atlanta… Well, well, this reminds us of something. It was indeed the poster for the first round of Playoffs last season. At the end of a regular season above all expectations, the Heat had finished first in the East (yes yes) with an impressive record of 53-29. They then kindly released the Hawks (4-1) to finally lose in the conference final (4-3) once morest the Celtics. Make way for revenge this time in an SEC match… play-in and in a completely different context. The winner will go directly to the Playoffs to face Boston, the loser will have a new ball once morest the winner of tomorrow’s Raptors-Bulls.
Let’s start with Atlanta. For the second year in a row, Snyder’s band will play in the play-in tournament. Too irregular this season to fight with the leaders of the East, the hawks nevertheless have the merit of always being in ambush. With a balance sheet in the regular season (41-41), we (necessarily) expected a little more from the Georgian franchise. With a major 5 articulated around Trae Young and Clint Capela, this team (on paper) has a face but clearly fishes defensively. 22nd defense in the NBA with 116 points average collected per game, we will have to seriously close ranks tonight at the American Airlines Arena (yes, we know it has changed its name). In attack, no clouds on the horizon, it crashes in Atlanta and we’ve known it for a while. If it falls in tonight, watch out for Miami…
The current extra sporty dynamic is not crazy (lol). It is said in the passageways of the Hawks that Trae Young would no longer necessarily be the cornerstone of the Falcons project. Not necessarily the best timing for such a rumor to surface but hey… Ice Trae has seen others. It might even motivate the boy to take us out for a mutant game tonight to shut some mouths, to be continued…
The Heat now! There Miami’s regular season is bound to be disappointing. It was necessary to digest and assume the great success of last season when the Heat finished 1st in the East with a conference final behind. But still, playing the play-in remains a poor performance. With a positive number de 44-38 the Floridians fought to the end with Brooklyn for a place in the Playoffs. Finally it did not and Miami finished 7th.
Despite a good season for executives: Butler, Adebayo, Herro, Miami’s rotation failed to bring the necessary stamina to the Heat to turn a corner. We necessarily think of players like Kyle Lowry, who struggle (to say the least) to really weigh in the workforce of Spoelstra. Nevertheless, the dynamic is good and the last weeks of the Heat are rather (very) reassuring for this play-in. At home in addition, Miami obviously has to take this game right away to avoid any hassle.
The keys to the match:
- The stars must carry their teams. Whether it’s Trae Young, Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo or Clint Capela, major players from both squads are expected to perform at Playoff level. Non-negotiable.
- The Atlanta defense. Mandatory bolt-tightening operation for the Hawks tonight. Especially outside, Atlanta must defend better to hope for anything.
- Home field advantage. This is necessarily a non-negligible parameter in such meetings. the public of American Airlines will necessarily weigh in the balance. But beware, we know that Ice Trae loves installing air conditioning.
- X-factors. And if the answer came from players who are not or little expected… And if Kyle Lowry came out of his box when he left the bench and found his bonus from the Raptors? For Atlanta, one might imagine Bogdan Bogdanovic totally taking fire from the parking lot…?
MEET AT 1:30 AM FOR THIS UNMISSABLE HEAT-HAWKS!
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