Chapter 17: The Battle of the Heat Triumvirate

In the summer of 2010, LeBron James, the first person in the NBA league and has become a free agent, brought his talent to Miami, the beach on the south coast of the United States, along with James, the leader of the Toronto Raptors, the "Dragon King" Chris Bosh, who averaged 20+10 per game in his career, plus the original leader of the Heat "Flash" Dwayne Wade, the Heat formed a super powerful "Terror Triumvirate", although at the beginning of the season, The Big Three have not found the winning state because of the run-in and role player problems, but as the game progresses, the Heat gradually show their hideous minions, and they come from behind, and by the end of the regular season they have won 58 games, and the Big Three can score an average of 70 points per game! And the shooting percentage is over 50%!

But the powerful Heat is not invulnerable, because the huge salary of the Big Three makes the team have no salary space to operate at all, so their role players are either inexperienced rookies or old players with a base salary, all in all, the 76ers must withstand the strong firepower of the Heat's starters to compete with this team, and then look for a chance from the bench!

The first game between the two sides was a typical "Heat-type" game, and Thaddeus Young, who came off the bench for the 76ers, played comfortably against the Heat's weak bench, scoring 20 points and 11 rebounds, including 8 rebounds in the frontcourt! But the 76ers still lost 89-97 because the Heat's Big Three game was even more brutal, with a total of 63 points, 11 assists and 33 rebounds!

The second game was the same as the first, Thaddeus Young played well, he scored 18 points and 6 rebounds in the game, Evan Turner, who had not played well all season, played a value in this game, he came off the bench for 26 minutes, scored 15 points and 6 rebounds, but the 76ers still ushered in a heavy defeat 73:94, the Heat Big Three scored 64 points, 9 assists, 5 steals and 24 rebounds, leading the Heat to beat the 76ers in the same way again.

The first two games of the 76ers were defeated by a large score, the third game, the 76ers who returned to the home court obviously held their breath, and tried to win a victory at home, the first quarter of the game 76ers were like a rainbow, Zhu Holiday , Spencer Hawes and Louis Williams three people combined to score 20 points, leading the team to lead the Heat 29:21 in the first quarter, but in the second quarter of the sudden change, Wade scored 12 points to lead the Heat to chase the score to 52:50, and the 76ers entered the second half with a 2-point lead. In the third quarter, the two teams played inextricably, tied 23:23 in a single quarter, and in the crucial fourth quarter, the 76ers failed to withstand this last breath, the 76ers only scored 19 points in the last quarter, and the Heat triumvirate combined to score 23 points, just like that, the 76ers unfortunately lost the game at their own home, the Heat triumvirate combined to score 75 points, 31 rebounds and 15 assists, and the substitute player Ilgoskas had a good performance, scoring 10 points and 8 rebounds in 16 minutes, and the 76ers side, Although Brand played at his peak, scoring 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Holiday also scored 20 points and 8 assists, it still couldn't stop the Heat from winning, and the result of the game was the same, but this time the loss was more dignified.

In the fourth game between the two sides, the 76ers sitting at home showed the Heat what team basketball is and what it means to be a soldier, in the first quarter, Brand took the lead, he scored 8 points in a single quarter, and Iguodala, who had little performance on the offensive end in the first three games, scored 7 points in a single quarter, and the two led the 76ers to play a wave of 28:16 scoring**! The rhythm of the game was exactly the same as the previous game, in the second quarter, the Heat began to fight back, and the first person to stand up was still Wade, who scored 14 points on 6-of-6 shooting in the second quarter, and James also scored 9 points to help Wade, on the other hand, the 76ers were a little blindsided, and Turner scored 6 points in 3 of 4 shots in a single quarter, which turned out to be the highest score in a single quarter of the whole team! The Heat launched a wave of 31:18 attack in the second quarter, and at halftime, the 76ers entered the second half with a disadvantage of one point behind! In the third quarter, both teams did not shoot well, and at 18:19, the 76ers trailed by two points and entered the final quarter!

In the fourth quarter, James began to take charge of the game, he used his strong body, constantly hit the basket to score points, he scored 12 points in a single quarter, the 76ers gave Louis Williams who fought back, he scored 11 points on 4-of-6 shooting in the fourth quarter, and a minute and a half from the end of the game in the final quarter, James missed, Wade grabbed the rebound in the front court, and made a basket, these 2 points helped the Heat lead the 76ers by as many as 6 points at 82:76, and then Jrue Holiday assisted Turner to shoot and scored 2 points, Heat's starting point guard Mario Chanmos missed a three-point shot, Jrue Holiday hit a three-pointer to chase the score to 83:84, the 76ers only fell behind by one point, this is not the end, in the next round, Wade's two-point shot did not score, and Louis Williams made up for the three-point knife! 84:82! The 76ers lead by 2 points! At this time, there are only 8.9 seconds left before the end of the game, the ball is in the Heat, they either take 2 points into overtime and fight again, or throw the winning three-pointer to kill the enemy, after the Heat serve, James obviously wants two points, with his best crushing offense forward to rush inside, just about to score points, a pair of giant palms slapped the basketball in James's hand to the ground, he is Brand! James was bloodied by Brand for the key shot, and then Wade was forced to foul Turner, who made two free throws to ensure the final victory of the game!

In the whole game, James scored 31 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists, and scored 11 of 20 shots, but only the last most critical shot was not made, Wade also scored 22 points, and no five players on the 76ers side scored more than 20 points, Iguodala scored 16 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, Brand scored 15 points and 11 rebounds, Jrue Holiday scored 10 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists, Louis Williams and Evan Turner each scored 17 points, These two players blew up the Heat bench.

In the fifth game, the 76ers still played extremely hard, but the gap in the team's hard power made it difficult for the 76ers to find a win, the last 10.3 seconds of the game, the 76ers fell behind by three points, Iguodala missed the shot so that the team had no power to recover, 91:97 defeated, the 76ers Iguodala and Brand both scored 22 points, Thaddeus Young scored 13 points, and the Heat scored 64 points in the Big Three, Chalmers also scored 20 points, reversing the trend of the game in one fell swoop.

Although the final result of the game was still the 76ers eliminated by the Heat, the Philadelphia Warriors who worked together were still respectable, Elton Brand faced the Heat's weak interior line, averaging 15.6 points per game, 8.4 rebounds, 1.2 blocks and 54.8% shooting per game, and the performance was quite good, Jrue Holiday averaged 14.2 points per game and delivered 5.6 assists, and the three-point shooting rate that was criticized in the past also hit a super high shooting rate of 52.4% in the second-round series. He proved that he can effectively play the starting number one position of the team, Iguodala averaged 11.4 points, 7.0 rebounds and 6.8 assists per game, and is still the team's all-around king, connecting the team's playmaking offense and defense, Thaddeus Young's performance in the series first and then down, averaging 11.4 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, Louis Williams is the most disappointing player for the team in this series, facing the Heat's weak bench, the Super Sixth Man averages "only" He scored 10.8 points and shot just 32.7 percent from the field.

Next season, the 76ers' lineup basically did not change, except that the rookie conference selected the big center Nicolas Vucevic with the 16th pick in the first round The team entered the playoffs again with a record of 35 wins and 31 losses in the eighth place in the East, and their first round opponent was the Chicago Bulls, a super strong team with a 50-win record in the regular season and the top record in the East for two consecutive years. Do you know that in the NBA's thousands of series, only four teams have ever done it? Will this seemingly weak 76ers do it? No one believed this, no one could be optimistic that they would be able to beat the Bulls, this time, it seemed like time had gone back to the 2001 Finals, and no one was optimistic about them, and that time, although they were still defeated, they still lost, this time!

In the first game, the 76ers lost the game without surprise, Richard Hamilton took away 19 points efficiently on 6-of-7 shooting, Bulls interior pillar Joakim Noah scored a double-double of 12 points and 13 assists, 76ers veteran Kevin Korver became the Bulls' bench No. 3, he scored 11 points on 5-of-8 shooting in the game, while the Bulls' starting No. 3 Ruhr Deng played normally, scoring 17 points and 6 rebounds on 8-of-14 shooting, and 76ers Iguodala scored 16 points on 7-of-18 shooting, Thaddeus Young scored 13 points on 6-of-12 shooting, Evan Turner scored 12 points, and Elton Brand, who averaged just 11 points per game in the regular season, entered the playoffs and began to give full play, finishing with 19 points, seven rebounds and four blocks on 8-of-15 shooting, but unfortunately failed to bring the team a victory. Although the 76ers lost, there was an episode in the game that was enough to change the entire series, with 1 minute and 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter, the Bulls led by 12 points at 99:87, it should be said that the victory was decided, but the head coach of the Bulls has not removed the team's star Derrick Rose, Rose jumped to the basket after blocking and dismantling with Noah, just after Rose landed, his knee was hit hard, and his whole leg was soft after jumping, and Rose couldn't stand at all after landing, limping, Half lying down and half crawling to the court, and then lying there, full of pain, as for why Rose could stay on the court when the victory was decided, the grapevine said that the Bulls head coach Thibodeau wanted Rose to get a triple-double who had already scored 23 points, 9 rebounds and 9 assists, or that Rose insisted on getting a triple-double, as for who it was and why, it is impossible to investigate, anyway, the consequence of this episode is that Rose was reimbursed for the season.

You must know that Rose averaged 22 points and 8 assists per game in the regular season, and Rose's season reimbursement is a very bad news for the Bulls, and for his opponent 76ers, it is a very good news.