The time came to 7:00 p.m. on May 4.
Game 4 between the Brooklyn Nets and the Miami Heat tipped off right on schedule that night.
Compared with the first three games, Game 4 was noticeably less intense.
It should have been an extremely important game for both sides.
Yet, on this particular night, Lady Luck had very plainly chosen to favor Brooklyn...
And so Miami was left to play the part of the abandoned child.
Over the course of the game, the Heat shot a dismal 9-for-34 from three, an absurdly low 26.4 percent. From start to finish, their players saw no hope of winning.
That directly led to the Heat's easy 118–97 defeat at the hands of the Nets.
The Heat were a team that relied heavily on their perimeter shooting to score.
When they ran into a night like this, all they could do was chalk it up to bad luck...
They had the best group of three-point shooters in the entire League, after all.
Lowry, Herro, Duncan Robinson, Powell, Strus.
Not one of them had shot below 35 percent from three during the season.
But on this night...
Lowry went 1-for-6, Herro 1-for-5, Duncan Robinson 2-for-7, Strus 0-for-3, and Powell 1-for-4...
Their frigid shooting spread through the entire Heat roster as easily as the most terrifying contagion in the world.
Even a superstar of Kawhi's caliber could only rely on his own ability to attack the basket and create offense inside.
He was just 2-for-5 from the perimeter, too.
In that situation, there wasn't much more to say.
If they shot like that from outside and still expected to win, then their frontcourt would have to be a combination of Shaquille O'Neal and the Big Dipper~~
Not long after the Nets-Heat game officially ended,
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