After sweep of Pacers, is Bam Adebayo ready to slow down Giannis?由那么爱呢_ 发表在翻译团招工部 https://bbs.hupu.com/fyt-store
Bam Adebayo had a hard time hearing longtime Miami Heat sideline reporter and FoxSports postgame show host Jason Jackson after the team’s 99-87, series-clinching victory over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.
It was just too loud inside the bubble.
When the Heat’s 23-year-old All-Star big man finally heard his 19 rebounds had fallen one shy of the franchise playoff record held by Rony Seikaly and Shaquille O’Neal, Adebayo couldn’t hide his disappointment.
“One short?” he asked Jackson. “I’m blaming Spo for this one.”
Adebayo didn’t set a franchise playoff record in any game in this series, but the Heat, which completed its sixth playoff sweep and first since 2014, certainly relied on him a lot to set some team records along the way.
In Game 1, it was a playoff-low one turnover as a team in the second half. Adebayo didn’t have any in Miami’s first two games.
In Game 2, it was a playoff-high 18 3-pointers made as a team. Adebayo set screens for seven of them.
In Game 3, Miami set playoff marks for points (124) and free throws made (43). Adebayo scored 22 and made 8 of 9 from the free throw line.
In Game 4, it was a record 60 rebounds. Adebayo fell short of matching his own single-game career high (21) but snatched six offensive boards.
“He was so big on the glass — the six offensive rebounds, but everything else on the defensive end too,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “(He was) switching on to their guards protecting at the rim if somebody got beat off the dribble, trapping when necessary, and then finishing off our defense with great pursuit of the ball. But that’s who Bam is. He’s a winner. I’m so glad that he’s able to experience like everybody else, a first round where he had a major impact. I don’t care what the stats said.”
Except for his 12 combined turnovers in his last two playoff games and some first-half foul trouble in Game 2 that hurt his overall numbers, Adebayo’s stats look just fine.
He ranks fourth in the league in rebounding in the playoffs with 11.3 per game. He ranks fifth in screen assists, seventh in plus/minus (55), 10th in blocks (1.3) and his 5.3 assists per game are tied with All-Star Nikola Jokic for the most among centers.
A matchup with the MVP?
As fast as Adebayo has risen up the ranks and proved to be one of the best big men in the league, we can forget at times how a season ago Adebayo he was still splitting minutes with Hassan Whiteside. To steal a line from Spoelstra, Adebayo’s fingerprints were all over Miami’s first playoff series victory since 2016, when it was Goran Dragic and Dwyane Wade who led the Heat past the Charlotte Hornets in a thrilling first-round seven-game series. Adebayo was a senior in high school then.
Monday, he looked like a savvy vet in the postgame interview room. He didn’t bite the cheese when he was asked if he was looking forward to a second-round matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks and reigning league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Bucks lead the Orlando Magic 3-1 with Game 5 slated for Wednesday. If he answered the question honestly, he would have been disrespecting Orlando. Instead, he sidestepped the question with the kind of ease Spoelstra would appreciate.
“I’m excited for whoever we’re playing in the next series,” Adebayo answered. “If we play Milwaukee, we’re just gonna get geared up and ready for that matchup.”
As it stands, there may not be a better player suited to guard Antetokounmpo left in the East than Adebayo.
According to the NBA’s Advanced Stats, Adebayo held Antetokounmpo to 42.9 percent shooting (12 of 28 from the field), his eighth-lowest field goal percentage against players to guard him in at least 30 partial possessions during the regular season.
Boston’s Semi Ojeleye (6-6) is the only player still active in the East who held Antetokounmpo to a lower field goal percentage — albeit at a smaller sample size (36.4 percent on 4 of 11 shooting).
Adebayo (6-9) is only two inches shorter than Antetokounmpo, and is quick enough to stay in front of him and guard him out on the perimeter.
Former Heat and Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, who served as an analyst for TNT during Monday’s broadcast, thinks a Miami-Milwaukee would be a great series.
He gives the Heat a shot to pull off the upset for a few reasons:
One, the Bucks gave up more 3s than any team in the league (14 per game) in the regular season, and Miami was the second-most accurate 3-point shooting team (37.9 percent) in the league.
Two, the Heat gave up the second-fewest fast-break points in the league (11.3 per game). The Bucks ranked third in fast-break points per game (18.0 points per game).
Thirdly, Miami allowed the fifth-fewest paint points in the league (44.1) and that is one of Milwaukee’s biggest strengths (49.3).
Although the Heat swept a short-handed Indiana squad with a bit of ease, the feeling inside the locker room is Miami has room to grow.
“A hundred percent I think our team can get to another gear,” Adebayo said. “Everybody’s got to pick it up. This next series might be different.”
The Heat, though, were not in a rush to begin focusing on the Bucks yet. The earliest that series could start is Friday.
“That series isn’t over yet,” Heat All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler responded when asked what a potential playoff matchup with Milwaukee might look like. “I’m not counting anybody out. So come back in however many days and I might be able to tell you the answer to that question.”
Butler’s shoulder
There are several Heat veterans who will try and take advantage of some rest days going forward. Jae Crowder has been fighting through a sprained ankle he said is “the size of a golf ball.”
Dragic, 34, led the Heat in scoring (22.8 points per game) in Round 1, but averaged 34.2 minutes per game in the series — six more per game than he did in the regular season.
Butler, meanwhile, strained his left shoulder before Game 4. He played only six first-half minutes because it was bothering him. After he was done with interviews following Monday’s game, Butler complained, “(Now) I’ve got to put my fucking mask on with one arm.”
Spoelstra said Butler did not have an MRI on the shoulder and called it a “soft tissue” injury.
“What he needs more than anything is just rest and then he’ll start to work his way back into it,” Spoelstra said. “I asked him if he’s like Wolverine. If he heals like that. I have seen (him battle through) some other injuries that looked more significant than this. They look like tough injuries, and he comes back the next day and he’s ready to go.”
‘Unlucky’ Pacers
Indiana, meanwhile, has lost nine consecutive playoff games, and there’s little doubt the team missed All-Star big man Domantas Sabonis, who averaged 18.5 points and finished sixth in the league in rebounds (12.4 per game).
Indiana went 6-2 in seeding without Sabonis, but really didn’t challenge the Heat much in the series.
“Once you get into the playoffs you need everybody,” Pacers coach Nate McMillan said. “We know we’ve been swept the last two years. We’ve also been unlucky the last two years as well. Last year, we were missing Victor (Oladipo).”
Said Myles Turner: “At some point, you have to get over the hump, man. It’s five years I’ve made the playoffs, five first-round exits. I take that shit personally. You have to find a way.”
Turner said the Heat outworked the Pacers.
“Playoff time, that can’t happen,” he said.
McMillan said the Heat was just a tough matchup.
“Physically, they did a good job making everything tough for us with all the switching,” McMillan said. “We saw some switching, but not as much as we did in this series. We didn’t win our matchups. What coach Spoelstra finished with most of these games was a defensive lineup and they pretty much switched everything offensively and forced us into a 1-on-1 isolation game and we didn’t win those matchups. They made plays — winning plays — throughout these four games.”
Miami’s bench outscored Indiana 41-3 in Game 4.
Rookie Kendrick Nunn, who was Miami’s starting point guard in the regular season, finally saw his first action of the playoffs Monday after Butler exited with his shoulder injury. He had seven points and two assists in 14 minutes.
“Man, I’m so proud of Kendrick,” Adebayo said. “He’s been through some tough times in the last couple of weeks. Don’t tell him I said this, but I’m proud he stayed ready. I’ve really been talking to him a little bit, telling him to stay locked in because you never know when your time could be.
“I’ve been sharing stories of how my rookie year was when Spo would put me in for 30 seconds and I wouldn’t play a game the rest of the game. Just keep stacking those winning plays. He got his number called and he produced. I’m truly proud of him.”
Bam Adebayo had a hard time hearing longtime Miami Heat sideline reporter and FoxSports postgame show host Jason Jackson after the team’s 99-87, series-clinching victory over the Indiana Pacers on Monday night.
It was just too loud inside the bubble.
When the Heat’s 23-year-old All-Star big man finally heard his 19 rebounds had fallen one shy of the franchise playoff record held by Rony Seikaly and Shaquille O’Neal, Adebayo couldn’t hide his disappointment.
“One short?” he asked Jackson. “I’m blaming Spo for this one.”
Adebayo didn’t set a franchise playoff record in any game in this series, but the Heat, which completed its sixth playoff sweep and first since 2014, certainly relied on him a lot to set some team records along the way.
In Game 1, it was a playoff-low one turnover as a team in the second half. Adebayo didn’t have any in Miami’s first two games.
In Game 2, it was a playoff-high 18 3-pointers made as a team. Adebayo set screens for seven of them.
In Game 3, Miami set playoff marks for points (124) and free throws made (43). Adebayo scored 22 and made 8 of 9 from the free throw line.
In Game 4, it was a record 60 rebounds. Adebayo fell short of matching his own single-game career high (21) but snatched six offensive boards.
“He was so big on the glass — the six offensive rebounds, but everything else on the defensive end too,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “(He was) switching on to their guards protecting at the rim if somebody got beat off the dribble, trapping when necessary, and then finishing off our defense with great pursuit of the ball. But that’s who Bam is. He’s a winner. I’m so glad that he’s able to experience like everybody else, a first round where he had a major impact. I don’t care what the stats said.”
Except for his 12 combined turnovers in his last two playoff games and some first-half foul trouble in Game 2 that hurt his overall numbers, Adebayo’s stats look just fine.
He ranks fourth in the league in rebounding in the playoffs with 11.3 per game. He ranks fifth in screen assists, seventh in plus/minus (55), 10th in blocks (1.3) and his 5.3 assists per game are tied with All-Star Nikola Jokic for the most among centers.
A matchup with the MVP?
As fast as Adebayo has risen up the ranks and proved to be one of the best big men in the league, we can forget at times how a season ago Adebayo he was still splitting minutes with Hassan Whiteside. To steal a line from Spoelstra, Adebayo’s fingerprints were all over Miami’s first playoff series victory since 2016, when it was Goran Dragic and Dwyane Wade who led the Heat past the Charlotte Hornets in a thrilling first-round seven-game series. Adebayo was a senior in high school then.
Monday, he looked like a savvy vet in the postgame interview room. He didn’t bite the cheese when he was asked if he was looking forward to a second-round matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks and reigning league MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo. The Bucks lead the Orlando Magic 3-1 with Game 5 slated for Wednesday. If he answered the question honestly, he would have been disrespecting Orlando. Instead, he sidestepped the question with the kind of ease Spoelstra would appreciate.
“I’m excited for whoever we’re playing in the next series,” Adebayo answered. “If we play Milwaukee, we’re just gonna get geared up and ready for that matchup.”
As it stands, there may not be a better player suited to guard Antetokounmpo left in the East than Adebayo.
According to the NBA’s Advanced Stats, Adebayo held Antetokounmpo to 42.9 percent shooting (12 of 28 from the field), his eighth-lowest field goal percentage against players to guard him in at least 30 partial possessions during the regular season.
Boston’s Semi Ojeleye (6-6) is the only player still active in the East who held Antetokounmpo to a lower field goal percentage — albeit at a smaller sample size (36.4 percent on 4 of 11 shooting).
Adebayo (6-9) is only two inches shorter than Antetokounmpo, and is quick enough to stay in front of him and guard him out on the perimeter.
Former Heat and Magic coach Stan Van Gundy, who served as an analyst for TNT during Monday’s broadcast, thinks a Miami-Milwaukee would be a great series.
He gives the Heat a shot to pull off the upset for a few reasons:
One, the Bucks gave up more 3s than any team in the league (14 per game) in the regular season, and Miami was the second-most accurate 3-point shooting team (37.9 percent) in the league.
Two, the Heat gave up the second-fewest fast-break points in the league (11.3 per game). The Bucks ranked third in fast-break points per game (18.0 points per game).
Thirdly, Miami allowed the fifth-fewest paint points in the league (44.1) and that is one of Milwaukee’s biggest strengths (49.3).
Although the Heat swept a short-handed Indiana squad with a bit of ease, the feeling inside the locker room is Miami has room to grow.
“A hundred percent I think our team can get to another gear,” Adebayo said. “Everybody’s got to pick it up. This next series might be different.”
The Heat, though, were not in a rush to begin focusing on the Bucks yet. The earliest that series could start is Friday.
“That series isn’t over yet,” Heat All-Star swingman Jimmy Butler responded when asked what a potential playoff matchup with Milwaukee might look like. “I’m not counting anybody out. So come back in however many days and I might be able to tell you the answer to that question.”
Butler’s shoulder
There are several Heat veterans who will try and take advantage of some rest days going forward. Jae Crowder has been fighting through a sprained ankle he said is “the size of a golf ball.”
Dragic, 34, led the Heat in scoring (22.8 points per game) in Round 1, but averaged 34.2 minutes per game in the series — six more per game than he did in the regular season.
Butler, meanwhile, strained his left shoulder before Game 4. He played only six first-half minutes because it was bothering him. After he was done with interviews following Monday’s game, Butler complained, “(Now) I’ve got to put my fucking mask on with one arm.”
Spoelstra said Butler did not have an MRI on the shoulder and called it a “soft tissue” injury.
“What he needs more than anything is just rest and then he’ll start to work his way back into it,” Spoelstra said. “I asked him if he’s like Wolverine. If he heals like that. I have seen (him battle through) some other injuries that looked more significant than this. They look like tough injuries, and he comes back the next day and he’s ready to go.”
‘Unlucky’ Pacers
Indiana, meanwhile, has lost nine consecutive playoff games, and there’s little doubt the team missed All-Star big man Domantas Sabonis, who averaged 18.5 points and finished sixth in the league in rebounds (12.4 per game).
Indiana went 6-2 in seeding without Sabonis, but really didn’t challenge the Heat much in the series.
“Once you get into the playoffs you need everybody,” Pacers coach Nate McMillan said. “We know we’ve been swept the last two years. We’ve also been unlucky the last two years as well. Last year, we were missing Victor (Oladipo).”
Said Myles Turner: “At some point, you have to get over the hump, man. It’s five years I’ve made the playoffs, five first-round exits. I take that shit personally. You have to find a way.”
Turner said the Heat outworked the Pacers.
“Playoff time, that can’t happen,” he said.
McMillan said the Heat was just a tough matchup.
“Physically, they did a good job making everything tough for us with all the switching,” McMillan said. “We saw some switching, but not as much as we did in this series. We didn’t win our matchups. What coach Spoelstra finished with most of these games was a defensive lineup and they pretty much switched everything offensively and forced us into a 1-on-1 isolation game and we didn’t win those matchups. They made plays — winning plays — throughout these four games.”
Miami’s bench outscored Indiana 41-3 in Game 4.
Rookie Kendrick Nunn, who was Miami’s starting point guard in the regular season, finally saw his first action of the playoffs Monday after Butler exited with his shoulder injury. He had seven points and two assists in 14 minutes.
“Man, I’m so proud of Kendrick,” Adebayo said. “He’s been through some tough times in the last couple of weeks. Don’t tell him I said this, but I’m proud he stayed ready. I’ve really been talking to him a little bit, telling him to stay locked in because you never know when your time could be.
“I’ve been sharing stories of how my rookie year was when Spo would put me in for 30 seconds and I wouldn’t play a game the rest of the game. Just keep stacking those winning plays. He got his number called and he produced. I’m truly proud of him.”
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