The beginning of all Balm Adebayo was an opening.
He spent 44 hours between losing the Miami Heat Game 5 against the Boston Celtics and between the tip off of Game 6 on the 44th Sunday Seth. He blamed himself for the result – his lack of aggression.
“I was locked out,” Adebayo said after taking the heat game 6, 125-113 to advance to the NBA Finals. “My family knows how I can get when I’m playing bad – especially if we lose – I’ve put it on my shoulders.” Heat coach Eric Spolstra insisted that the entire team was responsible for the loss, but said nothing to make Adebayo feel good.
“No,” spoiled Straw interrupted, waving his eyebrows in surprise. “I liked it,” he laughed. That kind of self-flagging, holy heat knows well, is a feature of greatness, because only a great player can get 13 points, catch eight rebounds, and eight assists in Game 5 and grade himself poorly. Is. Adebayo doesn’t even blame his wrist. It was on him.
Spoilstra said, “All these great people have done this before. It was all ours. But he wanted to put it on his broad shoulders. Adebayo put up 32 points on 15 shots, and had 14 rebounds and five assists in Game 6 to take the Heat into the match against the Los Angeles Lakers starting Wednesday.
Adebayo lives up to Heat’s expectations, but not his own. “I put my teammates down in Game 5,” he said. “So I really had to rearrange myself with who I wanted to be, and I showed up that night. You say you haven’t seen me scorer in the first quarter, “he said,” so you go there. “
Adebayo had 22 points before the fourth quarter, when the Celtics did something unexpected: they moved away from a lineup that slowed them down and hit down. At first glance, the attack may seem scripted, but that’s because de Debayo confirmed something that was a pre-game suspicion: you can’t smell blood on it.
Celtics 6:54 did exactly the same with the rest. The Celtics went on a 22-8 second half run with Grant Williams, whose strength and side speed turned the Celtics into a game. Then Daniel Thesis checked in for him, and the flood gates opened.
On the subsequent possession of the substitute, the debio rib fell, turned the thesis aside, led it to the basket and sank. He then threw the balance into the paint, glanced at the floater and misdirected. He then double-paired on the drive, twirling his arm around Kemba Waker and hitting Jimmy Butler for a lap before Thais or Jason Tatum could recover. This fouled Adebayo twice. Within 90 seconds, Thias was fouling and the heat was on again.
This allowed Adebayo to receive a sufficient amount of steam head for his rear barrel, constantly retreating it. Williams, instead, flew to Adebayo as soon as possible. Williams knocked Adebayo before the catch, pushing his chest to his base. It made the wide and tailed Adebayo tail like a brick wall, forcing it to bend horizontally when it tried to turn. The Smart Fronting Adebio in the post is good. Jalen Brown put him on the catch.
“[Adebayo] Celtics coach Brad Stevens said after the game that he dominated, especially in the fourth quarter. “Even in plays where he didn’t make it, his presence was so effective and it puts us in bondage.” Including dribble handoffs, Adebayo had a hand in 14 points in the fourth quarter for Miami. Stevens continued: “The best thing we did – the best area of defense we had all night, maybe the only good pull – was when we were switching with Grant. But the end was a little open there.”
I’m curious – really – about what Stevens saw in the end he chose him with Gordon Hayward instead of Williams. It’s hard to blame the coach for playing his best five players, but Hayward was missing out on a game of rabbits and companions, and the Celtics weren’t using his on-play playmaking skills.
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