The day before the fourth game between the Heat and the Bucks, the Flash Wade announced that he would be out of action due to injury, and many commentators thought that the Heat was not floating, you must know that the Big Three have not swept their opponents since they were formed, so the whole team hopes to create history. Wade was also a little hesitant because of this, although he had a knee injury, he still wanted to continue playing. Coach Spostela didn't want Wade to take any risks and ended up resting him.

The day before yesterday, the whole Heat team was on vacation, and Wade was treated at his alma mater, Marquette University. Yesterday the Heat started training and Wade was also involved, but sat on the sidelines most of the time. With a 3-0 lead, the Heat are on the line, and even if Wade doesn't play, they have plenty of firepower. The likes of Ray Allen, Anderson and Kerr on the bench have made it difficult for the Bucks to deal with.

The Heat took the lead, with Bosh scoring four straight points in the opening period to start the game 6-0. The Bucks played four minutes before Sanders scored for the first time. Halfway through the quarter, James made a layup in the air and the Heat maintained the advantage. In the first seven minutes of the game, the Bucks only hit two shots. With 1:26 left in the quarter, Allen hit a three-pointer to extend the Heat's lead to 22-13. Dunleavy also scored four straight points with a three-pointer to narrow the gap slightly. James hit the final shot of the quarter to give the Heat a 24-17 lead.

The Heat had a double-digit lead in the second quarter, but the Bucks improved. Dunleavy and Ilyasova hit back-to-back three-pointers to tie the score at 31-34 halfway through the quarter. Miller just hit a three-pointer and Ellis hit a long-range shot, leaving the Bucks trailing by three points with 4:37 left in the quarter. At one point, the gap was just two points, and James added two more points to a layup with six seconds left in the quarter to give the Heat a 45-41 lead.

James scored 12 points in the first half, while Bosh and Ray Allen each scored eight. Ellis scored nine points for the Bucks, Ilyasova had eight points and seven rebounds, and Jennings didn't score a point.

With 9:34 left in the third quarter, Jennings finally scored for the first time, and after hitting a three-point shot, the Bucks trailed by just one point at 48-49. With 4 minutes left in the quarter, there was still only a 2-point gap between the two sides, Haslem shot a shot, Chalmers [Weibo] grabbed the rebound after that, and made a long pass directly from the backcourt, James received the ball under the basket, and the layup was missed, but the rebound still fell into his hands, and the defenders did not dare to start, James still made a layup, and the Heat opened the gap slightly with 60-54. James scored 23 points in the first three quarters, and the Heat led 67-62.

The Bucks closed the gap to two points shortly after the start of the fourth quarter, but James had two straight assists and Ray Allen and Chalmers each hit a three-pointer as the Heat pulled the score away. James scored back-to-back points to create plenty of chances for his teammates, and then had two more assists. With 5:54 left in the quarter, Ray Allen hit a three-pointer to give the Heat an 83-72 lead. The Bucks missed back-to-back shots, and James then hit a three-pointer to give them an 88-72 lead with 2:41 left in the game. The Bucks didn't score a point in nearly five minutes and collapsed.

The Heat were the first team in the East to advance, so they recuperated and rested for several days before they could wait for the Bulls, who had fought the Nets for seven games.

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The Pacers and Hawks series can be said to be a dull game for both teams, with the Pacers leading the league in defense during the regular season, suppressing opponents' shooting percentage at 42% and conceding only 90.7 points per game on average.

The Hawks and Pacers have played each other five or five in the four meetings in the regular season! What's even more bizarre is that both teams lost on the road, but the Pacers had a better regular season record, so they got home-court advantage in the first round.

Although the Pacers' roster is very deep, with Paul George and Roy Hibbert adding David West, their playoff starting lineup can be said to be very luxurious, and several core players have no injuries that affect their condition in the second half of the regular season, which makes Indiana fans very much looking forward to the Pacers going further.

Of course, they didn't think about winning the championship, after all, there are too many obstacles, and the desire to break through the second round has been realized last year, and they only hope to be able to play until the East Finals! Although the Hawks' defensive system is very good, but the face of the Pacers is still a little worse, the first half of the Hawks and the Pacers played well, although the Pacers led by 8 points, but the Hawks still have to fight!

However, the situation changed suddenly in the second half, the Pacers strengthened their defense in the second half, and were scored 50+ points by the Hawks in the first half, which made the Pacers feel that the defensive strategy laid out before the game was not perfect, so they changed their defensive strategy in the second half.

After nearly 4 minutes of playing in the second half, the Pacers only let the Hawks shoot one shot, and quickly stretched the advantage to double digits, the two teams scored in this quarter, the Hawks scored 19-26, and the Pacers led 84-69 after the third quarter, and the maximum difference between the two teams was 17 points!

Although the Hawks struggled to narrow the gap to 9 points in the first half of the fourth quarter, Paul George hit a mid-range shot and an assist to create 6 points for the Pacers in one go, and the difference between the two teams returned to 15 points again, and then the Hawks' shooting percentage dropped seriously, Paul George sent the last assist to complete a triple-double and went off the break, and the remaining 4 minutes became garbage time.

The Pacers' starting five all hit double-doubles, and the Pacers beat the Hawks 107-90.

In the second game between the two teams, although the Hawks changed their offensive tactics, head coach Larry Drew thought that from the defensive corner, the Hawks did not lose to the Pacers, so they stepped up their offense.

The opening was really a miracle, scoring five points in a row at the beginning, and also allowing the Pacers to play 3 minutes and only make one shot on the defensive end, just when the Hawks coach felt that he was playing the right game today, the Pacers suddenly picked up.

Now George Hill hit a three-pointer, and then Paul George hit a back-to-back jumper to score five straight points to stop the bleeding for the Pacers, and then the two teams began to tug-of-war!

It took the Hawks less than a minute to go from leading to trailing in the first quarter, and the Hawks' offense was unsuccessful in one minute, but the Pacers seized the opportunity to fight back and end the first quarter 25-19.

The Hawks did not change their original intention in the second quarter, and still played against the Pacers, but the Pacers were very accurate in this quarter, hitting a total of 5 shots and scoring 34 points in a single quarter.

While the Hawks were also doing well, shooting 3-of-7 from three-point range and 12-of-19 from the field compared to the Pacers' 13-of-26 shooting, they only scored 31 points, and the Hawks scored nine points at halftime.

In fact, the two teams had already decided the winner of the game in the third quarter, and the Hawks could not close the gap at all, and once they had a scoring streak, the Pacers would step up and stop it alone, and pull the difference away again.

In the fourth quarter, the Hawks can surrender when they play 5 minutes, after all, they are 19 points behind, and it is difficult to catch up or even turn the tables with the current state of the Hawks, at most narrow the score and lose better, but the Hawks coach has no intention of surrendering, so the Pacers can only sacrifice their lives to accompany the gentleman, but when Hill George scored five points in a row and expanded the difference to 24 points, the Hawks still gave up, but the remaining 4 minutes The Hawks' benches failed to narrow the difference to less than 15 points even if they worked hard.

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The defeat in the last game did not discourage the Hawks' coach, but instead made a drastic change to the starting lineup, putting sharpshooter Wall on the bench and elevating Pedro to the starting center position.

The Hawks' change was very sudden, the Pacers did not adapt at the same time, they themselves were not very adaptable, the Pacers started the game to beat the Hawks an 8-1, but the Hawks did not back down, and soon Pedro, who started the game, made contributions, and the empty dunk helped the Hawks open the situation, and then Josh Smith and Horford hit consecutive shots, and the Hawks returned a wave of 11-1.

At this time, the Pacers were blinded in the face of the sudden outbreak of the Hawks, and after the first wave of attacks, they also completed several good quality attacks, but in the last three minutes of the first quarter, the Hawks played a wave of 12-0 attacks again, and the Pacers did not score a point, the Hawks led 27-14 in the first quarter, and the Pacers' 14 points also became the playoffs this season.

After the Hawks raised the height of the interior, the Hawks' advantage under the basket became very large, and the Pacers maintained a double-digit lead in the second quarter, and the Pacers in the second quarter were even more miserable, scoring only 16 points, while the opponent scored 27 points again, and the Pacers almost broke their lowest score in a single quarter of the playoffs......

Horford had 12 points and nine rebounds in the first half, Smith also had 12 points and Harris had eight. George scored 12 points for the Pacers, who shot just 23.8 percent from the field.

The most impressive thing about the Pacers in the first two games is that even if the Pacers lead by more than 15 points, they have always maintained pressure on the Hawks, so they don't look at the lead to 20+, but they still did not relax and continued to maintain the lead, but their shooting rate also decreased a lot at this time, only 21 points in the third quarter, and the Pacers only scored 19 points although the shooting rate improved.

In the fourth quarter, the Hawks still gave their all and sent their main players early, except for Petro, all four starters were on the court, but they played nearly six minutes in the quarter and scored only four points, and the Pacers chased the score to 61-79. With 6:11 left in the quarter, Horford dunked and the Hawks regained a 20-point advantage. The Pacers had to give up and play on an all-bench lineup halfway through the quarter.

The Hawks did not dare to relax, and with 3:05 left in the game, they let the main team go to rest, at this time they led 86-67, and the victory was no longer in doubt, and finally the Hawks defeated the Pacers 90-69 to tie the series at 1-2.

The Eagles who won 20+ finally breathed a sigh of relief, in fact, the most fortunate thing is the Hawks coach, he is almost the starting lineup that changed under pressure, if there is no way to win this game, then the 3-0 Hawks can go home directly to wash and sleep, and there is no need to play the fourth game! But fortunately, the Eagles won this game, and it was a 20+ big win.

However, the Pacers are lucky, the Jazz in the 98 Finals scored 69 points, which is not the lowest score in the playoffs, and the Jazz Finals only scored 54 points, in comparison, there is nothing wrong with losing 20 points after rounding! The Bulls scored 96 points that year, and the Jazz scored less than half as much as the Bulls when rounded!

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In fact, fans of this round of the series are very concerned, after all, both teams are known for their defense, but I didn't expect the game process to be not what many people think, the score is tight, the first two games The Pacers led the Hawks by a wide margin, and when it came to Atlanta, the Pacers fell behind.

In the fourth game, they still used the tactics of the previous game, Pedro seemed to be in poor shape because he went to Miami to visit his wife in labor, and the performance in the first quarter was not as good as the previous one, the Pacers started the game with a wave of 6-2, but then the Hawks took advantage of the Pacers' mistake to chase the score back, and then the two teams staged the situation that the audience was expecting, but the rhythm was slow and the offense was not very smooth, the difference between the two teams in the first quarter was only 1 point, and the Pacers felt cold in the last 1 minute and 40 seconds and did not score a point.

The Hawks' pitchers finally found their groove after three games in the second quarter, with Toliver and Korver each hitting three-pointers at the start of the second quarter as the Hawks started the quarter on an 8-1 run to take a 30-22 lead.

But then it was two more and hit two three-pointers again, and at this time, the Hawks had hit five three-pointers before they were halfway through the second quarter, and Devin Harris also shot 1 of 2!

Although the Pacers also showed color on the outside, they only hit 4 of 10 three-point shots in the third quarter, which is a good shooting percentage according to the general situation, but compared to the Hawks, it is unsightly.

Tolliver didn't make a shot after hitting two three-pointers, and Korver and Josh Smith each hit another three-pointer, at which point Korver made 3 of 3 three-pointers in the second quarter! Tolliver shot 2-of-2, Josh Smith made 1-of-2 and Harris made 1-of-2 shooting, and the Hawks hit 7-of-8 three-pointers in the second quarter, a whopping 87.5 percent.

Heading into the third quarter of the game between the Pacers and the Hawks with a 17-point difference, Iwan Johnson, who was not in good form today, was not very good, and when Iwan Johnson could take his place in the restricted area, the Hawks were a completely different team.

They hope that the "bearded" will continue to make waves under the basket. Horford was the best player in the last game, but Johnson, who came off the bench, became the backbone of the Hawks, making them tougher. He had five fouls and seven points and seven rebounds in 26 minutes as the Hawks took a 90-69 victory.

Although Johnson was also tough today, he fouled 4 times in 18 minutes, so he could only rest off the court most of the time!

In the third quarter, the Hawks were a little confident in honey, although 7 of 8 in the second quarter, but 0 in 8 in the second quarter, which directly ignited the hope of chasing points for the Pacers, and the Pacers directly beat the Hawks 21-8 shortly after the beginning of the third quarter.

Thankfully, they woke up in time to go into the fourth quarter 69-62, and if they were shooting three-pointers, they might have hit them, but they would have given the Pacers more chances.

In the third quarter, the Hawks were a little confident in honey, although 7 of 8 in the second quarter, but 0 in 8 in the second quarter, which directly ignited the hope of chasing points for the Pacers, and the Pacers directly beat the Hawks 21-8 shortly after the beginning of the third quarter.

Thankfully, they woke up in time to go into the fourth quarter 69-62, and if they were shooting three-pointers, they might have hit them, but they would have given the Pacers more chances

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