Tale of Turnovers

[GreenlyGreeny]

23 turnovers. It’s a miracle we almost came back. We need to knock it off.

Fortunately, we stole one in Miami so we just need to win game 4 to get back it down to a best or three series.

[Rhyso]

JT and JB just not prepared for this Heat defense, they are swarming them and cutting the passing lanes. Lob Williams would have helped with this.

[86MaxwellSmart]

Really dumb plays by Smart---should have left Pritchard in there....now Smart will most likely miss the next game.

[Surferdad]

Too many forced passes inside that were easy to pick off.  Heat simply would read it every time they tried to get it ahead of the defender.

[Redz]

Too many forced passes inside that were easy to pick off.  Heat simply would read it every time they tried to get it ahead of the defender.

Yeh.  Not crazy about guys getting stripped so much, but at least that's due to quick hands by the D.  The careless passes are really deflating.

[CelticSooner]

You are begging to lose a series if you keep playing stupid and are constantly playing catch up series wise.

[jambr380]

Too many forced passes inside that were easy to pick off.  Heat simply would read it every time they tried to get it ahead of the defender.

Yeh.  Not crazy about guys getting stripped so much, but at least that's due to quick hands by the D.  The careless passes are really deflating.

Jaylen has had a ton of almost TOs in the last couple of series. Unfortunately, it finally caught up to him in this one. I agree, though, just carelessly tossing it to the other team for a fast break is infuriating. I do not know how Ime wasn't able to make some kind of in-game adjustment to stop this.

[flybono]

Brown is not a ball handler!

Like I said previous, your two players short to make a legit run at a title. There is to much inconsistency from Brown Tatum Smart

A legit Veteran point guard and a Shooter who can pick up the slack

[0003323344]

You are begging to lose a series if you keep playing stupid and are constantly playing catch up series wise.

Yep came out flat down by 21 after the first quarter at home. Bad, bad loss. They better be careful, they could be down 3-1 before they know it.

[0003323344]

I'm really disappointed in the effort tonight. I really thought they would come out and put the Heat on their heels but now they are the ones that are on their heels.

[CelticSooner]

You are begging to lose a series if you keep playing stupid and are constantly playing catch up series wise.

Yep came out flat down by 21 after the first quarter at home. Bad, bad loss. They better be careful, they could be down 3-1 before they know it.

Game 4 will be the C’s 5th must win game in these playoffs. Impressive to be undefeated but a very dangerous game to play.

[ozgod]

We have won 10 of the 12 quarters played so far. But those 2 quarters were bad ones that led to us losing 2 games. That's why I'm still confident. We're still the better team. We turned in a shocker in Q1 but the team fought back to only be down by 1. We could have raised the white flag like Miami did in Game 2 but we didn't. We had Smartacus suffer what looked like a season ending injury to come back to show some courage and heart.

But we just made too many mistakes and yes we were our own worst enemy. 24 turnovers to 7, 2 steals to 19, 33 points off turnovers by Miami. That's an enormous hole to climb out of. But we were still in there with a chance to win. We're the better team. We just have to cut out these big lapses. This is mental stuff, just either mentally lazy, or making high risk passes, or being unprepared for a swarming, high intensity defense. It kind of shows you they're still a young team that can get knocked off their game. But have to credit the fightback and heart. Just need to cut out the mistakes.