Miami Heat Failure To Guard Three Point Line Bites Them In Defeat To Clippers
The Miami Heat did it again. They allowed a team to go nuclear on them from distance and it costed them another game.
Coming into Monday night’s contest against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Miami Heat would face the Clippers team again without Kawhi Leonard or Paul George. This time though, they would be with their star player in Jimmy Butler, a guy they were without when these two teams faced each other a few weeks back.
Also. Coach Spoelstra too volatile with the lineups?. light
The Miami Heat got beat from deep by the Clippers on Monday, plain and simple.
That should have made the difference, as the Miami Heat only dropped the previous game by a few points when they last played. Surely, Jimmy Butler was good enough to make up for that difference, right?
Well, he would have been, had they not allowed the Clippers to go absolutely insane from deep. As a team, the Clippers shot 15-32 from deep, near 50 percent at 46.9 percent to be exact.
In looking at what they were able to do as a complete team, they had to have individuals go absolutely nuts as well. That they did.
In the first half alone, Marcus Morris Sr. made six threes and scored 25 points. Second year guy, Amir Coffey, also managed to sink four trey balls in the first half.
The Miami Heat have either given up bonkers nights to the opposing team or a single opposing players throughout this season and it beat them again on Monday. While it hasn’t tended to matter if someone was there or not defending for Miami on quite a few of the occasions from throughout the year, Monday night was a completely different scenario.
All too often, Clippers shooters found themselves wide open and when they are already obliterating you from deep, that just can’t happen. It’s tough right now if you play for, coach, or support the Miami Heat.
That’s just the reality of it all. They’ll have their hands full again as they face-off against Steph Curry and the Warriors on Wednesday.
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If we’re lucky and based on this showing, he’ll only make 15 threes against them, not 20. Let’s hope that the reality doesn’t really match that sarcasm.