Miami Heat: Bucks Obliterate Them In Game 2 Of Opening Round, 98-132

Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, and the Miami Heat should have had a renewed interest in the series after they took tough a close Game 1 defeat to the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday. You would have thought that it would have made them come out fired up and more ready to go than they were in that game.

That couldn’t have been the furthest thing from the truth. Where the Heat proceeded to make 20 threes across the entirety of Game 1, the Milwaukee Bucks tried to match that in the first period of Game 2.

Well, they only made 10, but that was enough. On top of that, everything else they were able to do offensively, the huge 19-5 lead they got out to, and the Miami Heat’s refusal to do the simple things, such as rebound, that was enough to propel them to victory.

The Miami Heat were manhandle in Game 2 of the NBA Finals and need to figure it out as they head home.

The Miami Heat didn’t seem to be all there on Monday. While they allowed the Bucks to go nuclear on offense early on, whether or not all of that is on them and their lack of defense, it was bigger than that as the game progressed.

Though down a ton throughout, there were times where it appeared as though the Heat could begin to look as though they wanted to try and climb back into the game. Their lack of, seeming, want to and ability to finish sequences proved otherwise though.

The Miami Heat wouldn’t rebound the ball all night long and at some point, the Milwaukee Bucks started to crash the board with everything they had, because it was clear that the Heat weren’t into it in that area. The final score was 132-98, with the Bucks going 46-94 from the field (48.9 percent) and 22-53 from deeps (41.5 percent).

That’ll always be hard to beat and especially when you aren’t giving it all you have. That’s the foundation of Miami Heat basketball, the effort, the want to, the sheer willingness to give all that you have as a player.

That’s the very least that a guy can do and the Miami Heat didn’t even do that on Monday. Again, the Bucks were on a different level offensively on Monday, but the Miami Heat didn’t help themselves out any either.

They better get their acts together as they head back to Miami, but if they don’t, the series and their playoff lives won’t last that much longer. With the way they played on Monday, that’s the only thing that can be said with certainty.