From today on is the king

Chapter 1204 1203. First victory in the East Finals!

韦德全场33投18中，罚球20罚13中，爆砍49分5篮板6助攻，奥尼尔也拿到了24分12板，16投10中的效率非常高，但热火队却以97比112, 输给了老鹰队15分！
No one on the Eagles played as violently as Wade.

Liu Mang broke out with 16 points in a single quarter in the first quarter, and was targeted for defense later. He only scored 19 points on 9 of 26 shots.

McGrady broke out with 15 points in a single quarter in the third quarter, but only scored two points in the first quarter. Except that he was also targeted most of the time in the third quarter, he scored 17 points on 7 of 24 shots.

Jason Terry took advantage of Liu Mang to attract the defense, played 29 minutes, made 18 of 11 shots and scored 30 points!
From a personal point of view, the Eagles can only compete with O'Neal alone, and they still have to lose the wind, but the three together scored 80 points!
In addition, Josh Smith scored 11 points, Kwame Brown scored 9 points and 9 rebounds, and the five main players of the Eagles scored 100 points. In addition to Wade's 49 points and O'Neal's 24 points, only Antoine Walker scored 15 points for the Heat, and no fourth player scored in double figures.

In the star confrontation, the Eagles Mitaka took turns to overthrow the Heat!

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The first game won!
The morale of the Eagles is boosted here!
At the beginning of the game, McGrady was fouled twice by Wade, and he couldn't play in the first quarter after only playing for more than five minutes. This disrupted the rotation plan of the Eagles.

After the game, the Eagles beat the Heat by 15 points and did not become the focus of today's topic.

Today's focus topic is Wade's 20 free throws!
For comparison, the Eagles averaged only 21 free throws per game against the Pacers in the first two rounds of the series. The Eagles averaged only 17 free throws per game against the Cavaliers.

In Game 23 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Eagles made only 20 free throws, while Wade alone had 35 free throws. The Heat made 12 free throws, [-] more than the Eagles!
Of course, almost all of them were concentrated on Wade and O'Neal. The two had 28 free throws, O'Neal had 8, and Wade had 20!
Except for Liu Mang, it was a foul for anyone else to touch Wade.

In addition to the second half of the first quarter, the first half of the first quarter and the second and third quarters were all Pat Riley's iron-blooded defensive mode. The two teams confronted each other so much. If there was any physical contact, if they insisted on blowing, it is estimated that both teams would be fined.

But if you touch Wade, you will be called a foul, forcing the Eagles to defend one-on-one, and Wade scored 49 points.

But just like that, the Heat lost!
The league's whistleblowing issue was strongly criticized, but the Eagles did not appeal. The main reason was that McGrady attacked the referee with discriminatory language.

Fortunately, the fact that the referee favored Wade's whistle caused too much sensation. McGrady's scolding of the referee was not investigated by the media, and the bad influence was not expanded.

Of course, this is the opinion of the media and fans. The Eagles are taking the initiative to use Liu Mang and Prince to defend Wade alone. Prince is a pure defensive player with a 30.00% three-point shooting rate. Clamping Liu Mang gave McGrady and Jason Terry a chance to break out in the second and third quarters.

This game has also been analyzed a lot. The conclusion drawn by the media that the Heat were suddenly opened up is that the Heat wanted to use the whistle given by the referee, but the Eagles used it instead.

The headline news given by the domestic media is "Smart but Misunderstood by Clever". Pat Riley wanted to be clever and used the referee's whistle to make a fuss about Wade, but he gave up his excellent defense in the first half of the first quarter, so he fell into the quagmire step by step.

However, no matter how bombarded by the media and heatedly discussed by fans, the league has not explained the issue of whistleblowing scale.

If we analyze the fouls one by one according to the rules, every time Wade goes to the free throw line, it is justified, and there are definitely fouls, it's just a matter of scale.

What the media and fans criticized was only the issue of whistle-blowing scale, not the issue of fouls, because Liu Mang encountered a much stronger defense than Wade, but there were only 6 free throws in the game.

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"Tracey, isn't it just 3500 yuan? Let's treat it as a bankruptcy and avoid disaster!" Liu Mang comforted McGrady who was distressed about his wallet.

McGrady is so sad, the team did not appeal the technical foul for him, he can accept this, but he still feels sorry for the money!

This is the fourth time he played in the playoffs this year, mainly during the five games with the Pacers. He got three technical fouls in many battles with Artest.

Fortunately, he was not suspended. McGrady could only accept Liu Mang's statement of "breaking money and avoiding disaster".

After the first game, the confidence of the Eagles has been greatly improved.

Even if Wade scored 49 points, they won!
The playoffs are a place to compete for star players, especially in this kind of defensive confrontation game. You can often see a role player who is usually a good pitcher.

The same is true for the Heat and the Hawks this time. The role players of both teams are very inaccurate.

If the situation is still the same in the next game, Liu Mang and McGrady are very confident!
Fighting for stars and defending, they are not afraid of anyone!
After the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the next game between the Eagles and the Heat will be on May 5, with two days of rest in between.

Among them, May 5 is the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and the Mavericks.

On the morning of the 23rd, the Eagles players went to the arena for a team meeting, studied the deficiencies in the first game, discussed the clearer advantage points, and studied how to expand the advantage points.

Strengthen the inherent advantages and make up for the exposed disadvantages.

(End of this chapter)