Observations and different notes of curiosity from Monday night time’s 101-99 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers:
– This is what makes the Heat so confounding.
– Uncompetitive in opposition to the Bucks workforce missing Giannis Antetokounmpo.
– Abysmal to the looking-to-lose Hornets.
– And then this in opposition to a 76ers workforce that but could win the East.
– They will be so good.
– Which is why the so dangerous is so troubling.
– This is the kind of night time when Erik Spoelstra says “we have enough” and you’ll agree.
– And this mainly is what the Heat need to be.
– A workforce that forces turnovers.
– Maximizes possessions in zone.
– Makes 3-pointers.
– And will get one of the best of Jimmy Butler.
– Because it isn’t precisely a workforce stuffed with Plans B, C or D.
– Of course, when the supporting gamers assist, it additionally makes it simpler.
– As Gabe Vincent, Max Strus and Victor Oladipo did on Monday night time.
– Which made it simpler to resist an off night time from Bam Adebayo.
– Who had his arms full with Joel Embiid.
– Still: Too a lot break day for Butler in the beginning of the fourth quarter?
– The irony is he closed one help shy of a triple-double as a result of he’s the one who needed to be the offense on the end.
– With it turning into Butler or bust.
– The Heat remained with the beginning lineup of Adebayo, Kevin Love, Butler, Tyler Herro and Vincent.
– That lineup entered 0-2.
– Love and Herro had been on the Heat harm report earlier within the day.
– The recreation was the four-hundredth regular-season look for Adebayo.
– The begin was the ninth straight for Vincent and 14th of the season.
– Orlando Robinson once more was inactive for the Heat, nonetheless with 4 NBA days remaining on his two-way deal.
– Also inactive for the Heat have been Kyle Lowry, Omer Yurtseven and Nikola Jovic, with Jamal Cain shifted again to the G League on his two-way contract.
– Lowry, again in his hometown, watched from the Heat bench.
– Strus, Oladipo and Cody Zeller performed because the Heat’s first three reserves.
– With Cody Martin following.
– Zeller once more had his moments together with his exercise.
– Butler’s second help moved him previous Sherman Douglas for eighth on the Heat all-time listing.
– Love’s first offensive rebound moved him previous Maurice Lucas for eighty fifth on the NBA all-time listing.
– Vincent’s third 3-pointer moved him previous Dion Waiters and Chris Bosh for twenty fifth on the Heat all-time listing. Later shifting previous Ray Allen for twenty third.
– With the groups additionally to play Wednesday at Miami-Dade Arena, that is the sixth of eight instances the Heat will play the identical workforce in consecutive video games. They have swept three of the earlier occurrences this season and break up the opposite two.
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