I’m at ease.
The Heat are stepping on the accelerator and finding out that there’s no gas in the tank. The Celtics have taken full control of the series with their defense, offense, pace, ECF schedule, and the Heat’s offensive style of play all playing a part.
Our team excels against Miami’s jump shooting dependent offense with only one excellent isolation player (who’s not reliable every game) and it only gets tougher for the opponent the longer a series wears on.
Their success came in 2 great quarters reliant on aggressively pressuring the ball handler and jumping passing lanes on defense AND having to run in transition on offense. If the Heat have to run in transition to score efficiently against us, they’re done. Even if they have a quarter in them, they’ll spend all their bullets and give up whatever lead they get.
This series is over.