The NBA regular season continues to advance, and the Heat are at home to usher in the challenge of the Jazz, who have won two straight games.
On the Heat's side, Lowry continued to serve as a backup, and the Jazz's Clarkson was waived due to injury.
Finally, after 4 quarters of play, the Heat narrowly defeated the Jazz 119-115 and refused to reverse!
Both teams start
Heat: Butler, Hilo, Adebayo, Gabe Vincent and Love.
Jazz: Markkanen, Olynyk, Horton Tucker, Kessler and Abaki.
Match Review
In the first quarter, the Heat took the lead, Gabe Vincent hit three consecutive 3-pointers, the Jazz were passive, and the Heat took a seven-point lead.
In the second quarter, the Jazz fought back, Markkanen scored 14 points in a single quarter, and von Teichio added the icing on the cake, and at the end of the first half, the Jazz rebounded by one point.
Not to be outdone, Butler hit a 2+1, Love hit a three-pointer, and the two teams fought until 90-90 into the final quarter.
In the final quarter, the Heat's offensive was undiminished, Butler attacked and defended, Adebayo hit 2 free throws, and the Heat had a 4-point advantage and narrowly defeated the Jazz!
Refuse to reverse! The Heat narrowly beat the Jazz
In this game, the Heat blossomed more and refused to reverse, and the team played a team performance with 7 double-doubles, and strongly defended the home defeat against the Jazz.
It is worth mentioning that after defeating the Jazz, Heat coach Spoelstra won 697 regular season coaching games, rising to 20th all-time!
Heat player statistics, Butler 24 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists, 4 steals and 2 blocks; Adebayo 16 points, 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 steal and 1 block; Hiro 18 points and 6 rebounds; Gabe Vincent 18 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals; Loafer 11 points; Oladipo 11 points; Caleb Martin 10 points, 2 steals and 1 block.
In this game, Butler was good offensive and defensive, shooting 5 of 14 and 13 of 15 free throws, with team-high scores, steals and blocks.
Gabe Vincent was very efficient in this game, shooting 6 of 9 from the field, shooting nearly 70% from the field, and made 4 three-pointers from the outside.
It is not difficult to see that with his outstanding performance on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, Gabe Vincent has replaced Lowry and secured the Heat's starting point guard position.
More importantly, after beating the Jazz in this game, the Heat's current regular season record improved to 37-33.
As a result, the Heat are already 2.5 wins ahead of the Hawks, are firmly in seventh place in the East, and even have a chance to hit the top six!
In contrast, on the Jazz side, the team's reversal defeat in this game to the Heat is obviously yet to be seen.
Rationally speaking, against the Heat in this game, Horton Tucker shot 3 of 13 and made 6 mistakes, which is indeed to blame!
Jazz player statistics, Markkanen 38 points, 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 3 steals and 1 block; Horton Tucker 9 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists; Abaki 14 points and 4 rebounds; Dunn 9 points, 6 rebounds and 8 assists; Von Teckio had 23 points and five rebounds.
In this game, Markkanen was on firepower, shooting 14 of 26 from the field and hitting 6 three-pointers from the outside, crashing a game-high 38 points.
Von Taiqiao exploded, came off the bench for 28 minutes, shot 8 of 17 from the field and made 5 three-pointers, efficiently cutting 23 points!
More importantly, after losing to the Heat in this game, the Jazz's regular season record fell to 33-36, dropping to twelfth in the West.
In this way, due to the existence of the winning and losing court relationship, the Lakers accepted the gift and returned to the ninth place in the West, and the Western Play-off pattern was fiercely competitive!