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Re: Game 63: Wed, 3/2 Heat @ MIL (&IggieCC) 8:00 PM EST 

Post#801 » by Shewasfly » Thu Mar 3, 2022 6:11 am

carnageta wrote:Imagine if Spo benched Jimmy and we still lost.. ya'll would be doing a 180 and saying he should have rode with Butler due to his defensive instincts and ability to catch awkward inbound passes. Lol

Actually they wouldn't have even waited that long. If the Bucks got the lead down to say 9 from 14, they'd be screaming that Spo is stupid and why was he waiting for the Bucks to start coming back to get our best player in. The hindsight is really egregious lol.

That said, Spo saying stupid **** like this and not holding Jimmy accountable but scapegoating players who contributed infinitely more than he did tonight make him harder and harder to defend:
somerandomdude wrote:Erik Spoelstra on Tyler Herro
For all of Tyler Herro’s inimitable shot attempts, Spoelstra said Wednesday there are limits with the third-year guard.

“It’s about efficiency,” Spoelstra said. “It’s about making the right read. He has great instincts and a skill level for scoring. But that doesn’t mean that he just has a license to shoot anything that he wants. That’s not realistic, either.

“It’s got to be about winning basketball, and efficient offensive basketball. He’s just continuing to get better with all those kinds of reads and responsibilities.”


Erik Spoelstra on Jimmy Butler

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Its like Spo is afraid of Jimmy.

If we do end up getting an actual superstar to come here somehow someway, Spo is going to have to be a lot better at managing egos than he's showing he is with Jimmy. Because Jimmy ain't even a superstar. So if he thinks this is scary...
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Post#802 » by Wiltside » Thu Mar 3, 2022 6:37 am

OP you wanna phuckin explain yourself on this one?
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Post#803 » by HeatFanLifer » Thu Mar 3, 2022 6:55 am

Wiltside wrote:OP you wanna phuckin explain yourself on this one?


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Post#804 » by Johnny Fontane » Thu Mar 3, 2022 6:59 am

Spo’s a pussy for calling out Herro but not Butler

On another note we win this game comfortably if Lowry plays we need this dude back already
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Post#805 » by somerandomdude » Thu Mar 3, 2022 7:11 am

somerandomdude wrote:Erik Spoelstra on Tyler Herro
For all of Tyler Herro’s inimitable shot attempts, Spoelstra said Wednesday there are limits with the third-year guard.

“It’s about efficiency,” Spoelstra said. “It’s about making the right read. He has great instincts and a skill level for scoring. But that doesn’t mean that he just has a license to shoot anything that he wants. That’s not realistic, either.

“It’s got to be about winning basketball, and efficient offensive basketball. He’s just continuing to get better with all those kinds of reads and responsibilities.”


Erik Spoelstra on Jimmy Butler

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In addition to closing 2 of 14 from the field, Butler went 0 for 3 on 3-pointers and was just 2 of 2 from the line. He closed with six points, three rebounds, two assists in 35:08.

“I like those shots,” Spoelstra said of Butler’s attempts.
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Post#806 » by 3ballbomber » Thu Mar 3, 2022 7:23 am

I'll leave this here.....Tim Donaghey's mate. Phone buddies during Tim's days officiating. Most calls after games. He's taken over from crook fat Joe Crawford. 27 to 12ft's Bucks favour. That's a huge discrepancy.
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Post#807 » by rate_ » Thu Mar 3, 2022 7:29 am

Herro's scoring post-ASB:

4 G | 25.5 PTS | +8.9 rTS | +14.3 OnCourt

Jimmy's scoring post-ASB:

4 G | 17.8 PTS | -8.0 rTS | -2.5 OnCourt
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Post#808 » by fishfuego. » Thu Mar 3, 2022 7:34 am

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Shouldn’t have came to this either way.


It shouldn't, but it was a foul. If they are still doing thay stupid 2 minute report, I would be interested in seeing that.

Lol 2 minute report. They don’t give 2 flying ducks about the 2 minute report. It is all one big pretense to give the impression the referees are evaluated and held accountable, when in reality their call behavior in many selective games seems to be by design to influence the outcome.
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Post#809 » by GopherIt! » Thu Mar 3, 2022 9:28 am

ttyl op
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Post#810 » by HeatingUp3 » Thu Mar 3, 2022 10:38 am

How the hell we lost this game??! That's embarrassing loss. Those "confused" faces Spo is doing in those moments are so annoying because you know a bad decisions are coming.
Why the F Gabe is inbounding the ball in TWICE!? No play was called by Spo and no one even came to get the ball.
Jimmy can't be that trash if we gonna make a deep playoff run. He needs to wake the F up.
All those turnovers ugh! So annoying man. What Herro was doin in that play at the end?
I hope we gonna learn from this. Spo needs to do a better job, it's like we have a rookie coach. Shame on us. Now to the next one.
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Post#811 » by KingDavid » Thu Mar 3, 2022 12:08 pm

HeatingUp3 wrote:How the hell we lost this game??! That's embarrassing loss. Those "confused" faces Spo is doing in those moments are so annoying because you know a bad decisions are coming.
Why the F Gabe is inbounding the ball in TWICE!? No play was called by Spo and no one even came to get the ball.
Jimmy can't be that trash if we gonna make a deep playoff run. He needs to wake the F up.
All those turnovers ugh! So annoying man. What Herro was doin in that play at the end?
I hope we gonna learn from this. Spo needs to do a better job, it's like we have a rookie coach. Shame on us. Now to the next one.

Take some solace in Lowry's return, Oladipo in less than two weeks to back him up, and Kieff next week to play backup 4.

Just Lowry and Dipo alone are high IQ players that would have prevented the foolishness we saw in this game.
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Post#812 » by Dc__20 » Thu Mar 3, 2022 12:25 pm

What is with the nba and rolling out the red carpet for this yuk bucks team. Giannis shouldn’t even be in the game because he ran up almost pushed bam off the floor at mid 4th quarter. I hope we don’t face them, not because they aren’t bearable but because I’ve never seen a player commit so many fouls as much as giana and not get called for them, then he palms and travels his way to the line on the other end. Uuuurggghhhh I hope it’s Philly Milwaukee second round. FARK them! And fark guanos!
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Post#813 » by twix2500 » Thu Mar 3, 2022 12:48 pm

All the Heat shooters were lighting it up, Duncan, Strus, Vincent and Herro but still wasn't enough without Jimmy playing well

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Post#814 » by Tony15 » Thu Mar 3, 2022 1:13 pm

somerandomdude wrote:
somerandomdude wrote:Erik Spoelstra on Tyler Herro
For all of Tyler Herro’s inimitable shot attempts, Spoelstra said Wednesday there are limits with the third-year guard.

“It’s about efficiency,” Spoelstra said. “It’s about making the right read. He has great instincts and a skill level for scoring. But that doesn’t mean that he just has a license to shoot anything that he wants. That’s not realistic, either.

“It’s got to be about winning basketball, and efficient offensive basketball. He’s just continuing to get better with all those kinds of reads and responsibilities.”


Erik Spoelstra on Jimmy Butler

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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/fl-sp-miami-heat-milwaukee-bucks-20220303-vcbq5isthvaxfc4er4ifhqaenm-story.html
In addition to closing 2 of 14 from the field, Butler went 0 for 3 on 3-pointers and was just 2 of 2 from the line. He closed with six points, three rebounds, two assists in 35:08.

“I like those shots,” Spoelstra said of Butler’s attempts.

Tyler shot 11-21 (6-10 on 3s), and scored 30. Had 7 boards and 5 assists on top of it. Butler was passive all night and shot 2-14. Be better Spo. This is not the game for Herro tough love.
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Post#815 » by Flash4thewin » Thu Mar 3, 2022 2:18 pm

For everyone saying don't worry we will play with Lowry next time, remember Lowry is on the older side and has not had a big injury this season. Older players break down near in the playoffs, in a way its good Lowry it taking personal days (hope whatever it is get resolved).
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Post#816 » by IceColdCubano » Thu Mar 3, 2022 2:21 pm

IggieCC wrote:one play that stood out to me was when Middletown got the offensive rebound form Giannis miss and he just hoisted the ball up without looking at the rim for Portis' put back. that was epitome of small vs big

Offensive rebounding and put backs are back breakers in a series where both teams are equal. The bigger team will 90% of the time have an advantage over the other team in the closing minutes. The only thing that kills a big team is an efficient offense, and killer 3pt shooting, which is why we struggle at crunch time, our offense slows down we can't score, we also cannot defend the opponent outside of a weakside block, or steal from our smaller faster small ball setup ( our legs are also spent from guarding bigger stronger opponents so our jump shoots are going to be very marginal.) That's why in closing games the better your half court and shot creation in ISO will always beat out the other team. We don't have the ISO scorer that we can go to to go get us a bucket, Hero can get there but he isn't there yet. Our half court scoring by committee needs to be on point. Problem is our top 2 stars (Jimmy, Bam) in the closing lineups do not have reliable jumpers. The other support ( PJ, and or Duncan ) can only shoot if assisted and open. Lowry & Hero are the only ones capable of scoring off the bounce and break the defense down (Hero, is still slightly green and capable of mistakes like we saw last night). so Lowry is really the only guy who can get us out of a pinch in a close game with clock winding down.
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Post#817 » by AirP. » Thu Mar 3, 2022 4:43 pm

twix2500 wrote:All the Heat shooters were lighting it up, Duncan, Strus, Vincent and Herro but still wasn't enough without Jimmy playing well

Butler was horrible shooting last night and put Miami in a hole overall but the 4th quarter meltdown was way more then Butler being bad so I decided to go back and watch the 14 point meltdown when Butler came in, Butler wasn't actively looking to score and only took 1 shot and had a TO on a shot clock violation where got the ball late but 1 shot and had 1 TO when he got the ball late in the shot clock, the rest were everyone else Miami had 13 possessions, scored 6 points(3 of 8 from the field) and had 4 TOs(Herro 3, Butler 1) and of course the TO/Steal from not being able to cleanly getting a ball passed in late and Butler having to jump against Giannis.

Looking late in the game(I don't have a replay of the game, going by the play by play video from NBA.com).

6:29 Butler subs in (113-99)
H- (Miss) Heat out of bounds has to go to Herro with 2 seconds left on the shot clock for a tough but necessary 3, miss but highly understandable.
B- (2pts)Bucks go to Giannis in the low post vs Butler, Miami tries to swarm him but he does a small spin and goes straight up and dunks it.
H- (Miss)Bam isolates with Portis and misses a jumper in the lane.
B- (2pts)Holiday drives with little intentions/chance to make the shot but Giannis follows for the put back score.
H- (TO)Herro brings the ball down and a lazy pass to Bam is stolen by Portis, I get tougher defense down the stretch but make some type of real effort to make a good pass.
B- Portis makes 1 of 2 FTs.
H- (TO)Butler shot clock violation. What a bad possession, Herro gets the ball with 17 seconds on the shot clock, dribbles and probes for 10 seconds and then passes it to Strus with 5 seconds on the shot clock, Strus goes up to shoot but doesn't have a clean look so mid shot dumps it to Butler with 4.2 seconds left, he then goes to the high post for a turn around shot and gets a shot clock violation(he also missed the shot).
B- (3pts)Holiday brings the ball down and hits an open 3. Butler is initially picked by Giannis, Butler goes over the pick while Middleton who picks Bam but Bam doesn't aggressively fighting through the pick and actually seems surprised with no switch and tries to recover. A good play call by the Bucks and they will use it again but differently.
H- (Miss)Butler misses an open jumper 2 feet behind the FT line.
B- (Miss)Porter misses a Butler contested 3.
H- (2pts)Bam goes into the low post and scores with a hook shot. Another interesting play because Butler passes the ball to Bam then goes to set a pick for Herro to get an open shot on the strong side. Since Bam was already in the low post Herro breaks off the play(which is fine) but the play looked to have Bam #1 option, Herro #2 option.
-B (Miss)Middleton misses and PJ Tucker contested 3.
-H (Miss)Vincent takes a fading to the baseline 3 in the corner that hits the top of the backboard with 7 seconds left on the shot clock. Terrible shot since he wasn't close to squaring up.
-B (2pts)Bucks run the same play that gave Holiday a 3 recently but this time aren't looking for a Holiday 3, both the Bucks and Heat decided to handle the play differently, Butler gets picked by Giannis again but goes under allowing Bam the ability to leave Giannis to contest if Holiday takes a 3 but that's not happening. Middleton picks Gabe(guarding Holiday) and he fights through, Holiday just dribbles closer and with Gabe on him, just shoots about 5-7 feet out over Gabe(NBA.com says 15 feet, they're wrong, he's 2-3 feet outside the arc under the basket).
H- (TO)Herro brings the ball up, Mathews tries to poke it from Herro, does poke it away, Herro is able to use his left hand to knock it down to control it but swings his right arm/hand and bats it into the back court for a TO. It sucks but this wasn't because of Herro being lazy, just unfortunate after Herro got control of the ball again.
B- (2pts)BIG PLAY/LUCKY Play Giannis air balls or barely touches the rim on a turn around jumper over Bam(so not in rebounding position). Now this is where luck comes into play, Butler isn't in front of Middleton on the other side of the basket but puts his arm out to block him out, Portis behind Middleton actually pushes Middleton which stutter steps him forward through the Butler block out enabling him to catch the miss and throw up a reverse shot which misses(which he had to put up or he may have walked, still off balanced from being pushed by Portis), Butler and Tucker both were going for the missed shot with their momentum but since Portis pushed off, his momentum had stopped and was by himself for a tip in of Middleton's wild miss. Watching the play something didn't look right about Middleton's movement and Portis just stopping, had to keep rewatching this to actually see what was going on since it happened so quickly.
H- (Miss)Bam attacks the basket and passes it out to Tucker, the pass is low and to Tucker's left, he does get the shot off and it's contested by Portis... miss.
B- (2pts)Bam fouls Giannis, he makes both FTs.
H- (2pts)Herro gets the ball and a pick from Butler, goes to the other side of the lane and hits a 16 foot jumper over Mathews.
B- (2pts)Middleton from the arc passes to Giannis in the low post, Butler doubles and fouls Giannis when he's passing out to a wide open Middleton. Giannis makes both FTs again.
H- (2pts)Bam goes into the lane and hits a 13 foot jumper.
B- (Miss)Giannis missed a finger roll.
16.8 seconds left 118-114
H- (TO)Herro makes a lazy pass through a double team that is stolen by Portis.
B- (3pts)Middleton brings the ball up and hits an uncontested open 3.
H- 2 horrible tires to inbound the ball, leading to a jump ball between Butler and Giannis.
B- Giannis wins tip, Holiday just drives in and shoots over Gabe(who went for the flop vs just play defense) for a layup.
H- Disgusted Gabe doesn't look down court in hopes of an open teammate and just gives the ball to Herro for a 3/4 court heave.

https://www.nba.com/game/mia-vs-mil-0022100936/play-by-play?period=Q4

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Post#818 » by AirP. » Thu Mar 3, 2022 5:05 pm

IceColdCubano wrote:
IggieCC wrote:one play that stood out to me was when Middletown got the offensive rebound form Giannis miss and he just hoisted the ball up without looking at the rim for Portis' put back. that was epitome of small vs big

Offensive rebounding and put backs are back breakers in a series where both teams are equal. The bigger team will 90% of the time have an advantage over the other team in the closing minutes. The only thing that kills a big team is an efficient offense, and killer 3pt shooting, which is why we struggle at crunch time, our offense slows down we can't score, we also cannot defend the opponent outside of a weakside block, or steal from our smaller faster small ball setup ( our legs are also spent from guarding bigger stronger opponents so our jump shoots are going to be very marginal.) That's why in closing games the better your half court and shot creation in ISO will always beat out the other team. We don't have the ISO scorer that we can go to to go get us a bucket, Hero can get there but he isn't there yet. Our half court scoring by committee needs to be on point. Problem is our top 2 stars (Jimmy, Bam) in the closing lineups do not have reliable jumpers. The other support ( PJ, and or Duncan ) can only shoot if assisted and open. Lowry & Hero are the only ones capable of scoring off the bounce and break the defense down (Hero, is still slightly green and capable of mistakes like we saw last night). so Lowry is really the only guy who can get us out of a pinch in a close game with clock winding down.

Last night's small ball created a big lead by middle of the 4th quarter, it took really 5 TOs(4 TOs and a jump ball) in just under 7 minutes for Milwaukee to win by 1. Small ball was working and if a lot of things didn't go right for the Bucks at home, they would have still lost the game.

That miss by Giannis, how lucky was it that Portis pushed off on Middleton enabling Middleton to get the rebound off an airball, still off balance having to throw up a reverse layup before he traveled to end up going to Portis who hadn't moved since pushing off on Middleton for an easy put back.

At 16.8 seconds left in the game Miami was up by 4 had the ball and then a bad pass out of a double team led to a pull up 3pt the other way using VERY little time.

Basically most everything had to go wrong for Miami while Milwaukee had to have nearly everything go right with a little luck tossed in to win by one.

Small ball was working, Miami just lost by 1 on the road to a true contender with a MVP caliber player. A missed oppertunity but Miami put themselves in position to win that game.
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Post#819 » by IggieCC » Thu Mar 3, 2022 5:18 pm

Good point P.

on the flip side we got Giannis foul trouble and our shooter going off (neither is given on a daily).

I'm confident but not entirely confident against the Bucks. Jimmy really needs to snap out and I'll believe

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Post#820 » by IggieCC » Thu Mar 3, 2022 5:19 pm

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twix2500 wrote:All the Heat shooters were lighting it up, Duncan, Strus, Vincent and Herro but still wasn't enough without Jimmy playing well

Butler was horrible shooting last night and put Miami in a hole overall but the 4th quarter meltdown was way more then Butler being bad so I decided to go back and watch the 14 point meltdown when Butler came in, Butler wasn't actively looking to score and only took 1 shot and had a TO on a shot clock violation where got the ball late but 1 shot and had 1 TO when he got the ball late in the shot clock, the rest were everyone else Miami had 13 possessions, scored 6 points(3 of 8 from the field) and had 4 TOs(Herro 3, Butler 1) and of course the TO/Steal from not being able to cleanly getting a ball passed in late and Butler having to jump against Giannis.

Looking late in the game(I don't have a replay of the game, going by the play by play video from NBA.com).

6:29 Butler subs in (113-99)
H- (Miss) Heat out of bounds has to go to Herro with 2 seconds left on the shot clock for a tough but necessary 3, miss but highly understandable.
B- (2pts)Bucks go to Giannis in the low post vs Butler, Miami tries to swarm him but he does a small spin and goes straight up and dunks it.
H- (Miss)Bam isolates with Portis and misses a jumper in the lane.
B- (2pts)Holiday drives with little intentions/chance to make the shot but Giannis follows for the put back score.
H- (TO)Herro brings the ball down and a lazy pass to Bam is stolen by Portis, I get tougher defense down the stretch but make some type of real effort to make a good pass.
B- Portis makes 1 of 2 FTs.
H- (TO)Butler shot clock violation. What a bad possession, Herro gets the ball with 17 seconds on the shot clock, dribbles and probes for 10 seconds and then passes it to Strus with 5 seconds on the shot clock, Strus goes up to shoot but doesn't have a clean look so mid shot dumps it to Butler with 4.2 seconds left, he then goes to the high post for a turn around shot and gets a shot clock violation(he also missed the shot).
B- (3pts)Holiday brings the ball down and hits an open 3. Butler is initially picked by Giannis, Butler goes over the pick while Middleton who picks Bam but Bam doesn't aggressively fighting through the pick and actually seems surprised with no switch and tries to recover. A good play call by the Bucks and they will use it again but differently.
H- (Miss)Butler misses an open jumper 2 feet behind the FT line.
B- (Miss)Porter misses a Butler contested 3.
H- (2pts)Bam goes into the low post and scores with a hook shot. Another interesting play because Butler passes the ball to Bam then goes to set a pick for Herro to get an open shot on the strong side. Since Bam was already in the low post Herro breaks off the play(which is fine) but the play looked to have Bam #1 option, Herro #2 option.
-B (Miss)Middleton misses and PJ Tucker contested 3.
-H (Miss)Vincent takes a fading to the baseline 3 in the corner that hits the top of the backboard with 7 seconds left on the shot clock. Terrible shot since he wasn't close to squaring up.
-B (2pts)Bucks run the same play that gave Holiday a 3 recently but this time aren't looking for a Holiday 3, both the Bucks and Heat decided to handle the play differently, Butler gets picked by Giannis again but goes under allowing Bam the ability to leave Giannis to contest if Holiday takes a 3 but that's not happening. Middleton picks Gabe(guarding Holiday) and he fights through, Holiday just dribbles closer and with Gabe on him, just shoots about 5-7 feet out over Gabe(NBA.com says 15 feet, they're wrong, he's 2-3 feet outside the arc under the basket).
H- (TO)Herro brings the ball up, Mathews tries to poke it from Herro, does poke it away, Herro is able to use his left hand to knock it down to control it but swings his right arm/hand and bats it into the back court for a TO. It sucks but this wasn't because of Herro being lazy, just unfortunate after Herro got control of the ball again.
B- (2pts)BIG PLAY/LUCKY Play Giannis air balls or barely touches the rim on a turn around jumper over Bam(so not in rebounding position). Now this is where luck comes into play, Butler isn't in front of Middleton on the other side of the basket but puts his arm out to block him out, Portis behind Middleton actually pushes Middleton which stutter steps him forward through the Butler block out enabling him to catch the miss and throw up a reverse shot which misses(which he had to put up or he may have walked, still off balanced from being pushed by Portis), Butler and Tucker both were going for the missed shot with their momentum but since Portis pushed off, his momentum had stopped and was by himself for a tip in of Middleton's wild miss. Watching the play something didn't look right about Middleton's movement and Portis just stopping, had to keep rewatching this to actually see what was going on since it happened so quickly.
H- (Miss)Bam attacks the basket and passes it out to Tucker, the pass is low and to Tucker's left, he does get the shot off and it's contested by Portis... miss.
B- (2pts)Bam fouls Giannis, he makes both FTs.
H- (2pts)Herro gets the ball and a pick from Butler, goes to the other side of the lane and hits a 16 foot jumper over Mathews.
B- (2pts)Middleton from the arc passes to Giannis in the low post, Butler doubles and fouls Giannis when he's passing out to a wide open Middleton. Giannis makes both FTs again.
H- (2pts)Bam goes into the lane and hits a 13 foot jumper.
B- (Miss)Giannis missed a finger roll.
16.8 seconds left 118-114
H- (TO)Herro makes a lazy pass through a double team that is stolen by Portis.
B- (3pts)Middleton brings the ball up and hits an uncontested open 3.
H- 2 horrible tires to inbound the ball, leading to a jump ball between Butler and Giannis.
B- Giannis wins tip, Holiday just drives in and shoots over Gabe(who went for the flop vs just play defense) for a layup.
H- Disgusted Gabe doesn't look down court in hopes of an open teammate and just gives the ball to Herro for a 3/4 court heave.

https://www.nba.com/game/mia-vs-mil-0022100936/play-by-play?period=Q4

There's a lot to learn from that meltdown that should help this team come playoff time.

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