The Miami Warmth (3-4) misplaced to the Phoenix Suns (7-1) 115-112 on Wednesday night time for his or her second consecutive heartbreaking defeat.
Here is a take a look at the 4 principal takeaways from this match:
1. The Suns performed a flawless possession to shut out the sport
The Warmth have been down three factors with slightly below 5 seconds left. Jimmy Butler handed the ball to Terry Rozier, who was instantly doubled by Royce O’Neale and Devin Booker. This pressured Rozier’s move to Butler to navigate contained in the three-point line, which means he was pressured to retreat off the dribble. He started his capturing movement with one second left, however was pressured to pivot to move to Tyler Herro because of the aerial defender in entrance of him. Time ran out as soon as Herro received the ball, leaving them and not using a game-tying shot.
2. Herro is evolving into an All-Star caliber participant.
The consistency of his capturing was arguably Herro’s greatest flaw final season. Now that is turning right into a power. Herro by no means shied away from open appears to be like, or in different phrases, aggression wasn’t the issue. The previous Sixth Man of the 12 months has put up 20-plus factors on environment friendly capturing in 4 of the Warmth’s final six video games. He completed with 28 factors, six assists and three rebounds on 9-of-15 capturing in opposition to the Suns.
3. Butler and Bam Adebayo’s scoring woes proceed.
By way of regularity, the 2 stars wrestle to take care of it. For Butler, that is a handful of video games with totals within the teenagers (15, 18, and so forth.) whereas Adebayo has recorded 20+ factors simply as soon as this season. For the Warmth to actually be aggressive within the Jap Convention, Butler and Adebayo every must common over 20 factors.
4. Haywood Highsmith shined in elevated alternative.
On an evening the place ahead Nikola Jovic unusually solely performed 5 minutes, the lockdown wing had an opportunity to thrive. And that is what he did, recording 19 factors, seven rebounds and two steals on 7 of 8 capturing. With performances of this magnitude, it should not be shocking that coach Erik Spoelstra begins to regulate the rotation .
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Anthony Pasciolla works as a contributing author for Miami Warmth On SI. He might be reached at ampasciolla@gmail.com or observe him on @AnthonyPasci.
