On February 11, Beijing time, the Heat played away to the Pelicans, and the Heat successfully defeated the Pelicans 112-97 at the end of the game. The Pelicans are welcoming their new signing McCollum in this game, so what kind of state the Pelicans play in this game is still expected, but now that the competition in the East is fierce, the Heat will definitely go all out to win, so this game the Pelicans want to win is still not a small difficulty. In the first half of the game, the Pelicans were still able to bite the score, but in the second half of the game, the Heat forced to open the score, but in the fourth quarter, the Pelicans once chased the score to 4 points, but unfortunately, the Heat stabilized the situation and opened the score, and finally the Heat rejected the Pelicans' reversal.
The Heat quickly took the lead in the first quarter, but relying on Ingram and McCollum Pelicans were also able to closely follow the score, and although Butler and others tried to help the team open the score, the Pelicans could still bite the score by relying on Ingram and others, and at the end of the final stage, Adebayor helped the team maintain the lead, and the Heat led by 3 points at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, McCollum helped the team to tie the score, but then Adebayo played a multiplayer to help the team open the score again, and then Lowry hit a three-point heat to lead to 7 points, then Graham scored to stop the bleeding, and then relied on Valanciunas and McCollum Pelicans to equalize the score, robinson scored to stabilize the situation at the critical moment, but then the Heat made a mistake, Valanciunas and Jones helped the Pelicans to surpass the 3 points. In the final stage, Adebayo and Strus helped the team to reverse the score, and the Heat led by one point at the end of the half.
In the third quarter, Robinson and Adebayo continued to help the team extend the lead, but then Ingram and McCollum helped the team to close the score, and the Pelicans were able to bite the score under the leadership of Ingram, but then the Pelicans' offense was sluggish, and Strus hit a three-pointer and the Heat led to 11 points. In the following games, both teams played offensively, and the Heat led by 10 points at the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, the game relied on Adebayo and others to play the Heat to still maintain a double-digit lead, and valanciunas scored after the Pelicans trailed by eight points. After the timeout, the Pelicans broke out on the outside three-point line to chase the score to 4 points at one point, lowry hit a three-pointer at the critical moment to stabilize the situation, then Butler also scored, Hayes scored a free throw, and then Tucker hit a three-pointer and the Heat led to 10 points, and the next game The Heat continued to maintain a double-digit lead, and finally the Pelicans chased the points and lost the game without success.
Although the Pelicans once saw the opportunity to chase points in the second half of the game, Ingram's mistakes in the game became a turning point, originally at this time the Pelicans only trailed by 7 points, and then the Pelicans still had a chance to chase the score, but after Ingram's mistake, the Heat directly opened the score, and finally the Pelicans lost the game, and At the end of the game, Ingram got 15 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist. McCollum was in a slump in offense in this game, and McCollum finished the game with 15 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists on 6 of 21. At the same time, in this game, Alvarado is an explosive performance, which is also the key to the Pelicans' ability to close the score in the fourth quarter, but unfortunately the Pelicans still can't win, and Alvarado has 17 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist on 7 of 12 in the end of the game.
Although the Pelicans eventually lost the game, but at this time the Pelicans still showed their strength, at least they can still play with the Heat most of the time, so the Lakers at this time are really dangerous, after all, at this time the Pelicans definitely want to impact the playoffs, and now the Lakers have added a strong enemy. In this game, Butler and Adebayor are in good shape, relying on the two in the game to play the Heat is to win the game, the end of the game Butler, Adebayo got 58 points, 18 rebounds and 4 assists, and Lowry here got 14 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists.