Heat (38-38) at Celtics (45-32) Game #78 4/1/19

[Big333223]

Miami cut it to 14 on a waiters 3

They can’t afford to come out flat in the 3rd Miami are desperate

Yep. I feel like the third quarter usually tells the tale of a game. This one almost definitely will.

[The Oracle]

Boy, as good of a coach as Spoelstra is, I have no idea why he continues to stick with this defective zone defense. We are absolutely shredding it with our ball movement. Props to Stevens for the gameplan.

Spoelstra has no choice as the Heat are very shorthanded on the perimeter.  Their defense is no where near as good without Richardson, Winslow and McGruder.  They are to slow with Dragic, Waiters and Wade.  The C's shredded them while in man defense to start the game.

[gpap]

Why hasn't Stevens been playing Monroe? Would rather see him than the undersized Theis

[gpap]

Tatum has to just take the easier jumper there. No need to do the extra dribbles and move there.

that is not the Kobe way.

Tatum needs to let Pierce tutor him this summer.

[ozgod]

11 point lead

[ozgod]

Big 3 from Marcus

[liam]

Big 3 from Marcus

and good defense!

[jpotter33]

Lazy, bad shot Tatum.

[ozgod]

I hope Kelly doesn’t pick tonight to kill us from 3

[jpotter33]

Back to dumb, dumb offense.

[SCeltic34]

I'm not sure why Kyrie didn't start running back once that ball was deflected.  It's like he thought it was going out of bounds, but even then he has to sprint back and give that effort.  Unacceptable.

[ozgod]

Horrible sequence

This team needs a killer instinct it doesn’t have one

[liam]

The energy is down so far....

[SCeltic34]

For all of our great ball movement, we're only shooting 42% overall.  If our 3's weren't falling we'd be in trouble.

[ozgod]

Smart is bailing us out with these 3s