Suns vs Mavericks
The Dallas Mavericks cook the Phoenix Suns 113-86 to force a game 7 in Phoenix. Thanks to the Mavericks defense this game wasn’t close for the whole second half, between Phoenix shooting struggles and committing 22 turnovers to the Mavericks 6 Phoenix seems to be letting off the gas. Luka had a good game finishing with 33, 11, 8 and 4 steals, some of other Mavericks players showed up like Reggie Bullock finishing with 19 points with 5 three’s, Jalen Brunson with 18 and Spencer Dinwiddie with 15 points off the bench.
The Suns need to get it together for game 7, heading into this series much of the media and fans didn’t expect this series to go more than 5-6 games, but with Chris Paul playing bad for most of the series and Devin Booker having a couple bad games Phoenix has really opened the door for Dallas to advance to the next round.
Heat vs 76ers
Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat close out the Philadelphia 76ers in 6 games to advance to the eatern conference finals for the second time in three years. Butler had another terrific game finishing with a game high of 32 points with also 8 boards, 4 assists, a steal and 2 blocks. Joel Embiid has played decent through this series but couldn’t get it done last night to force a game 7, you have to feel for Embiid, with all the injuries he’s playing through, being the runner up to Jokic in the MVP voting the last two years and James Harden’s lack of assertiveness Embiid just can’t catch a break these last two years. Harden last night finished with 11 points and 9 assists but only took 9 shots the whole game.
This Sixers team could be shaken up again with Doc Rivers being on the hot seat, James Harden drastically underperforming and an early exit in the playoffs again, but not to take anything away from the Heat, they played great for most of the series and they were a number one seed for a reason.
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