The results of the night in the NBA
Sixers @ Heat : 85-120
Mavs@ Suns : 80-110
Miami Heat – Philadelphia Sixers: 3-2
Perhaps the Sixers expended too much energy to come back to 2-2. Perhaps the Heat simply found the manual of its method so effective during the entire season plus a round and a half of the NBA playoffs. Maybe it’s a bit of both… In any case, there wasn’t an ounce of suspense in Game 5 of the series between the two teams. Miami won by 35 points at home, the biggest gap between two teams since the start of this post-season.
From 12 points at the break, the gap grew under the blows of Jimmy Butler (23 pts, 9 rebounds, 6 wt), who continues to remind Sixers fans and his former teammates that they missed out on a superteam if his freelance in Pennsylvania had been better managed. Butler did not need to register 40 points like two days earlier and it was obviously the collective efforts that allowed the Floridians to be so dominant in this part. Philadelphia never found a way to get in the way Max Strus (19 pts) or the replacement squad of Erik Spoelstra, who compiled 41 points.
Strus letting it fly 🎯
He’s got 19 points. pic.twitter.com/uuC6S0Chtm
— NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) May 11, 2022
The Heat regained their defensive virtues by limiting the Sixers to 85 points, without Joel Embiid (17 pts at 7/12) or James Harden (15 pts at 5/13) are able to catch fire and bring their team back up.
The Sixers, who were thought to be resuscitated after Game 4 and on a good dynamic in the absence of Kyle Lowry in the opposite camp, are now one game away from elimination. The fervor – not to say the madness or the crushing pressure – that is able to put the public of the Wells Fargo Center will be decisive.
Ja Morant uncertain for the rest of the playoffs
Phoenix Suns-Dallas Mavericks: 3-2
Here too, we said to ourselves that with the two tactical demonstrations of Jason Kidd – we would not have thought to write that one day a few years ago – in particular on the defensive level, the Mavs were on a dynamic which would allow them to worry Phoenix, even in Phoenix. Missed.
It is also the perfect adjective to qualify the second half of the Mavs, completely in the game before the break (+3 at the end of the 1st quarter, -3 at the break), then totally annihilated afterwards . We found this kind of aura in the Suns which allows them to be totally unplayable in the last two quarters of an NBA game.
Devin Booker (28 pts) and Deandre Ayton began not to miss anything, Chris Paul (10 assists) to serve them caviar and the entire group of Monty Williams, newly elected Coach of the Year, put Dallas in check defensively, to the point of causing the Texans to lose 12 balls in the 3rd quarter alone. The 17-0 inflicted in this 3rd quarter hurt a lot.
Tea @Suns were led by @DevinBook in their Game 5 W!
🔆 28 PTS
🔆 7 REB
🔆 2 STLs
🔆 The Suns take a 3-2 series leadGame 6: Thursday, 9:30pm/et on ESPN pic.twitter.com/27Q9rovYzz
— NBA (@NBA) May 11, 2022
The Mavs never got up, Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson (49 pts between them) became dumb and no one could take over.
In the end, a gap of 30 points which will restore confidence to the Suns completely inside on the two previous matches.
It should be noted that tempers flared between Bismack Biyombo and Marquese Chriss, who raced in the tunnel for a few moments after their simultaneous expulsion at the end of the match…
Bismack Biyombo and Marquese Chriss almost fought in the tunnel after getting ejected pic.twitter.com/9NzaXoTRiZ
— Action Network (@ActionNetworkHQ) May 11, 2022