Adebayor made a comeback
The Miami Heat's winning streak was ended by the Philadelphia 76ers, but you can't expect Butler to shoot 1-of-11 per game, Lowry 11-of-2, and Dunroe 1-of-9, who are still one of the best teams in the East and still in third place in the East. This game, the Heat are going to face the Toronto Raptors, Kyle Lowry's old club. However, Lowry could not play in this game against his old club for personal reasons, but Adebayor ushered in a comeback, which is self-evident in the help of the team.
The Toronto Raptors spent just one season rebuilding, selecting Barnes with the fourth overall pick, a forward player with a good attack and defense. Today, the Raptors are in eighth place in the East, and Siakam plus Anunoby, as well as Barnes' forward combination, can definitely make any team hungry.
The Raptors are in hot pursuit
At the beginning of the first quarter, Butler was full of firepower, with 9 points, 6 rebounds, 3 assists and 1 steal on 4-of-7 shooting, directly out of the quagmire of the previous downturn. Although Adebayo did not score, he had 3 points and 1 rebound, Dunroe and Vincent's starting backcourt combination each scored 5 points, the Heat scored 27 points in the single quarter, and the Raptors bombed 30 points, of which VanVleet had 11 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist. After returning from the second quarter, the Heat stepped up their defense, allowing the Raptors to score only 21 points in a single quarter, and the team successfully reversed the score.
Adebayor finally scored, with 7 points, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block in a single quarter, Hiro on the bench had 10 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal on 3-of-4 shooting, and the Heat scored another 31 points in a single quarter, successfully surpassing the Raptors by 7 points at the end of halftime. In the second half, the Raptors started with a wave of 7-0 tie, and then Adebayor responded with a dunk, but Siakam also threw a shot, and the score of the two teams was glued. Hiro came off the bench to score seven more points to help the Heat maintain a five-point lead at the end of the third quarter.
In the final quarter of the game, the Heat's second team still had the upper hand, and the point difference once reached 9 points. However, the Raptors did not give up, and Van Jordan even cut off Butler, once chasing a 3-point difference. Tucker's bottom corner three points kill the game, familiar position, familiar bottom corner king. VanVleet also had a long three-pointer, but it was too late, and in the end, the Miami Heat beat the Toronto Raptors 104-99 and refused to make a losing streak.
Heat laughed to the end
The Miami Heat laughed to the end, it was a playoff-level intensity game, both sides left suspense to the last minute, Barnes paid tuition for the young in the last minute, and the Heat Chance made no mistakes. Butler finished with a rebound in the final moments and achieved a triple-double of 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, with a plus-minus of +13 for the team. Adebayor also had 14 points, 9 rebounds and 2 assists in his return, Vincent had 15 points, 2 steals and 2 blocks, and Hiro on the bench had 23 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 steals. After winning the game, the Heat moved to second place in the East.
The Raptors only used 7 player rotations in this game, of which Carmpini only played 9 minutes, did not score a single point, only 6 players were really rotated, and Yuta Watanabe, who had been the first to play before, was also abandoned in this game, and it is obvious that in Nas's view, Yuta Watanabe can not adapt to the intensity of this game. Boucher had 23 points and 10 rebounds, VanVleet hit six three-pointers for 22 points, four rebounds and four assists, Siakam had 18 points, six rebounds, 10 assists and five steals, Barnes had 16 points, eight rebounds and six assists, and Anunoby had 14 points, two rebounds and two assists. Although we lost the game, we still saw the resilience of this Raptors team.