After the ga, when the comntator was recapping the match, he ntioned that this series really only had the scoring duel between Zhang Yang and Wade as its main highlight... When playing at the Miami Heat’s ho court, there was another highlight or rather a joke—the stands were half emptied midway through the last quarter...
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In the past, there were two instances of two rest days in the first round, between G2 to G3, and G4 to G5, but now it’s reduced to one instance, only during the first ho-court exchange. This season, after the end of the regular season, there was an extra rest day added, so the rest for the teams starting the playoffs extended from two days to three days, shaved off from here.
But in the first year of the new schedule, the Bobcats didn’t feel the change.
On May 2nd, at 10:20 PM, the Bobcats’ first round ended.
Wade scored 38 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists in the whole ga, marking the first ti in the series he outscored Zhang Yang, but his assists were also lower than Zhang Yang’s for the first ti.
With 28 points, 6 rebounds, 6 assists, and 4 steals, Zhang Yang led the Bobcats to a 97-89 victory over the Miami Heat, advancing to the second round with a 4-0 sweep!
Wade scored 39 points, 9 points, 33 points, 38 points respectively in the four gas, averaging 29.7 points, 7.5 rebounds, 6 assists, 1.5 steals, and 2 blocks, except for the abandoned G2, he averaged 36.6 points, 8.6 rebounds, 7.3 assists in the other 3 gas... Shouldering everything, topping the team in points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks, showcasing his individual ability to the extre, but also exposing how lacking the Miami Heat’s roster was to the extre.
Zhang Yang also perford well, averaging 29.5 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists, 2.25 steals, and 1 block across the four gas, and even with only one three-pointer in G2, he averaged 4 three-point shots per ga!
Excluding G2, he averaged 5 three-pointers in the other three gas! Averaging 8.25 attempts per ga, hitting 4, with an astonishing shooting rate of 48.48%!
In this G4, even trailing 0-3, the Miami Heat players were still fighting, showing good defense, but facing Zhang Yang, their defense crumbled. Any ti Zhang Yang advanced the fast break, the Miami Heat defenders retreated to gather around the arc’s top; during set plays, when Zhang Yang played off the ball and maneuvered along the three-point line using screens, both defenders guarding the pick rushed at him... His three-point threat reached an unprecedented level!
After the final whistle, Wade sighed heavily, having lost this ’number 3 superstar duel’ completely, from unwillingness at the end of the first match, collapse after G2, determination in G3, to a desperate edge-of-a-cliff effort in G4... Not winning a single ga.
Yet after experiencing so many emotional changes in just 8 days, once truly eliminated, he found himself quite at peace.
After the ga, the dia invited both number 3s for an interview together. Wade did not refuse, and even took the initiative to take off his jersey and hand it to Zhang Yang, offering his blessing: "Make this number great, bad boy Jack."
Zhang Yang really didn’t expect Wade to let go so easily after losing, in his impression, Big Cheek wasn’t such a person, maybe he hadn’t yet been beaten down by reality and still had that youthful passion?
He gladly accepted the blessing, also taking off his own number 3 jersey and handing it to Wade, responding: "Let’s make it the greatest number in basketball history together."
Just as Zhang San and Cheek’s mutual appreciation was reerging, a reporter untily asked: "Dwayne, before G1 you said you’d sweep the underdog Bobcats, yet now you were swept..."
Wade broke down on the spot, shouting before the reporter could finish: "What do you want to say? That our team is no match for this guy’s team? Screw you..."
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