Wade made 18 of 33 shots and 13 of 20 free throws. He scored 49 points, 5 rebounds and 6 assists. O'Neal also scored 24 points and 12 rebounds. He made 10 of 16 shots and was very efficient. However, the Heat lost 97 to 112.

Gave the Eagles 15 points!

No one on the Hawks team plays as violently as Wade.

Liu Mang broke out with 16 points in the first quarter, but was defended later. He only made 9 of 19 shots and scored 26 points.

McGrady broke out with 15 points in the third quarter, but only scored two points in the first quarter. In addition to being targeted most of the time in the third quarter, McGrady scored 24 points on 7 of 17 shots.

Jason Terry took advantage of Liu Mang's defense and played for 29 minutes, making 11 of 18 shots and scoring 30 points!

From a personal point of view, the Eagles' Three Eagles alone can only compete with O'Neal, and both of them still fall behind, but the three of them combined to score 80 points!

In addition to Josh Smith's 11 points and Kwame Brown's 9 points and 9 rebounds, the Hawks' five main players scored 100 points, while the Heat only had 100 points except Wade's 49 points and O'Neal's 24 points.

Antoine Walker scored 15 points, and no fourth player scored in double figures.

In the star battle, the Eagles and Three Eagles took turns to defeat the Heat!

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Won the first game!

The morale of the Eagles is greatly boosted!

At the beginning of the game, McGrady was fouled twice by Wade. He only played more than five minutes before being unable to play in the first quarter, which disrupted the Eagles' rotation plan. However, breaking the plan gave the Eagles an unexpected start.

33 points in one quarter, establishing an advantage in one fell swoop.

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

Today’s hot topic is Wade’s 20 free throws!

To compare, in the first two rounds of the series, the Hawks played the Pacers, which was almost a hand-to-hand battle. The Hawks only averaged 21 free throws per game. When they played the Cavaliers, it was a technical defensive battle, and the Hawks only averaged 17 free throws per game.

In the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals for the Hawks, the entire team only made 23 free throws, while Wade alone had 20 free throws. The Heat made 35 free throws as a team, a full 12 more than the Hawks!

Of course, almost all of them were focused on Wade and O'Neal. The two of them made 28 free throws, O'Neal made 8, and Wade actually made 20!

Except for Liu Mang, it is a foul if anyone else touches Wade.

In addition to the second half of the first quarter, the first half of the first quarter, the second quarter, and the third quarter were all the iron-blooded defensive mode set off by Pat Riley. The two teams faced off so fiercely that any physical contact was forced to be called.

, it is estimated that both teams will be punished and they will not be able to make up the five players.

But touching Wade would result in a foul, forcing the Hawks to defend one-on-one and Wade scored 49 points.

But just like that, the Heat still lost!

The league's whistleblowing issue has been strongly criticized, but the Hawks did not appeal. The main reason was that McGrady attacked the referees with misogynistic language. If he insisted on appealing, it would be over if he was suspended, and the league also kept silent.

Fortunately, because the referee's favoritism to Wade's whistle caused such a sensation, McGrady's scolding of the referee was not investigated by the media and did not expand the negative impact.

Of course, this is the view of the media and fans. The Hawks took the initiative to use Liu Mang and Prince to defend Wade alone, using Prince as a pure defensive player with a 33% three-point shooting rate.

No matter the physical strength, he used his footwork and height and wingspan as much as possible to interfere with Wade and consume Wade. He took advantage of Liu Mang's advantage that he would not be targeted by the referee and had no physical restrictions to consume Wade, so that Wade's physical fitness declined and he could only focus.

On the offensive end, the Heat's perimeter defense was weakened and they could only double-team Liu Mang more, giving McGrady and Jason Terry opportunities to break out in the second and third quarters.

This game has also been analyzed a lot. The media concluded that the Heat were suddenly widened in points because the Heat wanted to take advantage of the whistle given by the referee, but the Hawks took advantage of it instead.

The headline news given by the domestic media was "Cleverness leads to mistakes." Pat Riley wanted to be clever and use the referee's whistle that was biased towards Wade to make a fuss, but he gave up his excellent defense in the first half of the first quarter.

, will fall into the quagmire step by step.

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

If you analyze the fouls one by one according to the rules, every time Wade steps to the free throw line, it is justified. There is definitely a foul action. It is just a matter of scale.

The media and fans only criticized the scale of the call, not the foul issue, because Liu Mang faced a much stronger defense than Wade, but only made 6 free throws in the game.

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"Tracy, isn't it just 3,500 yuan? Let's treat it as a loss of money and avoid disaster!" Liu Mang comforted McGrady, who was worried about his wallet.

McGrady is so sad that the team did not appeal for the technical foul on his behalf. He can accept this, but he still feels sorry for the money!

This is his fourth time in the playoffs this year. Mainly during the five games against the Pacers, he received three technical fouls in multiple fights with Artest. This time the technical foul fine amounted to $3,500.

, it seems that McGrady has already lost 11,000 US dollars in the playoffs this year...

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

After the first game, the Eagles' confidence was greatly improved.

Even if Wade scored 49 points, they still won!

The playoffs are a place where stars compete for stars, especially in this kind of defensive competition. It is often seen that a role player who is usually a good shooter can shoot 0-for-N, just like last year when the Heat were blown away by the Bulls.

When it was cold, their regular season shooter Damon Jones, who averaged 2.7 three-pointers per game, made 4 of 15 three-pointers in the playoffs. He completely lacked the style of the regular season. Stan Van Gundy did not dare to send him on the court.

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The Heat and Hawks were the same this time. Both teams' role players shot very inaccurately. The Hawks relied on the Three Eagles, while the Heat relied on Wade, O'Neal and Antoine Walker to score.

If the situation remains the same in the next game, Liu Mang and Tracy McGrady will be very confident!

Fighting for stars and defense, they are not afraid of anyone!

After playing the first game of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Hawks' next game against the Heat will be on May 25, with two days of rest in between.

Among them, May 23 is the Western Conference Finals between the Lakers and Mavericks.

On the morning of the 23rd, the Eagles players went to the arena for a team meeting to study the shortcomings of the first game, discuss clearer strengths, and study how to expand the strengths.
Chapter completed!