2023-05-22 04:40:58
The Heat are only one victory away from their seventh NBA final, following crushing (128-102) the Celtics on Sunday in Act III of the Eastern Conference final.
Miami made a show of strength and collective self-sacrifice, the complete opposite of its overly willing victims.
Miami therefore leads 3-0 in this one-sided Eastern Conference final, which was not necessarily expected given its status as the No. 8 seed. The Heat had to go through two play-offs six weeks earlier. , undergoing Clint Capela’s Hawks Law in the first.
But the games of spring have the gift of transfiguring the Florida team, whose combativeness at all times only asks to be unleashed. Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Bucks paid the price in the first round, followed by the Knicks. And lo and behold, it seems, the same fate awaits the Celtics for their third meeting at this stage in four years.
To hope to reverse an extremely bad situation, the C’s, like the LA Lakers also led 3-0 by Denver in the West, are now forced to win the next four games. A feat that has never happened in NBA history.
K.O. palpable
And we do not see how, following the humiliation inflicted by the Heat, dreaming more and more strongly of a fourth championship title following those of 2006, 2012 and 2013, how they will achieve the impossible. Because mentally, the knockout is palpable.
On the floor, he was reflected very quickly in the score in the first period, completed with a score of 61-46 in favor of Miami which had even led by 22 units in the heart of the second quarter. But the problem for Boston is that, subsequently, the starving people opposite drove the point home.
In the second half, in the wake of Gabe Vincent (29 points), Miami thus counted up to 33 units in advance, with an overall address of 57% on shots (19/35 behind the arc). Accustomed to playing the saviors when necessary, Jimmy Butler did not have to work like this (16 points) this time.
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