Heat vs Sixers
The Sixers came to play last night winning 116-108 tying up the series 2-2, James Harden looked real good last night putting up his 45th playoff career game scoring over 30 points. The 76ers shot 48.5% from 3 last night and that’s inexcusable for the Heat on the defensive end to allow that. Besides Jimmy Butler the rest of the Heat have been playing under par since going up 2-0 in this series, Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo came to play last night with Jimmy finishing with 40, 3 and 6 on 13-20 shooting and Bam finishing with 21, 7 and 4 it still wasn’t enough to get past the Sixers. Joel Embiid in his second game back had 24 and 11 and with Harden playing like that last night Embiid’s 24 and 11 will be enough to get past most of the teams remaining in the playoffs.
The Heat’s role players need to step up if they want this series to go the full 7 games because at this rate the Sixers are looking like they’ll be winning this in 6-7 games. Players and Media around the league are wondering why Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra hasn’t been playing Duncan Robinson in the playoffs especially when he’s completely healthy.
Suns vs Mavericks
Luka Doncic and the Dallas Mavericks tie the series up 2-2 with a 111-101 win at home Sunday night with the Mavericks making 20 threes at a 45.5% clip. Dorian Finney-Smith was great last night finishing with 24 points on 8-12 3 point shooting. Ever since members of the media started calling out the Mavericks role players for not giving Luka enough help they’ve been on fire, with Jalen Brunson coming up big in game 3 and Dorian Finney-Smith coming up big in game 4 the Mavericks are rolling now. Some of the Officiating in game 4 was questionable to say the least, from Chris Paul picking up 2 fouls that he didn’t commit to Devin Booker getting a flagrant 1 foul when he didn’t do anything wrong, Suns fans were furious on twitter last night calling it one of the worst officiated games in NBA history.
Luka and Devin Booker did both have good games though with Luka finishing with 26, 7 and 11 with 3 steals and Devin Booker finishing with 35, 4 and 7 it just wasn’t enough to win this game. Chris Paul had a night to forget fouling out early in the second half with just 5 points and getting into it with a Mavericks fan who reportedly laid hands on Paul’s wife and Mother in front of his kids, I’m sure Chris Paul will have a bounce back game heading back home for game 5 on Tuesday but the Mavericks have made this series interesting.
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