Miami Heat Still Proving To Be One Of Most Physical Teams Since 04 Pistons

Miami Heat Still Proving To Be One Of Most Physical Teams Since 04 Pistons

From the very beginning, emotions were high. Both teams were playing without most of their best players, which has a history of bringing out the grittiness and physicality of a team.

Miami, a team that plays physical regardless of how their talent stacks up, was challenging the Trail Blazers in every way they could.

Kyle Lowry had a very good start to the game, in terms of sharing the ball. However, he was called for a technical foul early and later received his second technical at the end of the half for tossing the ball back to the referee.

The Heat were not happy about that call and for good reason. Nevertheless, they would have to play harder and with more spirit if they were going to win without their star point guard.

The Heat did, indeed, bring more effort, putting themselves in position to win the game. Still, it was fairly obvious that the whole team had the unfathomable loss of Lowry on their mind.

When Tyler Herro got hit with a hard screen late in the game, he retaliated by pushing Jusuf Nurkic. That made Nurkic angry, who then threw a punch at Herro.

The whole situation was a wild scene, where both players were ejected.