Miami Heat looking to break as Bridges looked to break them in Brooklyn, 116-105
The Miami Heat had a chance to go into the All-Star Break with a win and not only just any kind of win but a win over a team that’s directly ahead of them in the Eastern Conference standings.
Heading to Brooklyn on Thursday evening to face off against the new-look Nets squad, the Miami Heat seemingly came in with the All-Star break already on their minds. Playing the Nets tough for most of the first half, they would actually take a four-point lead into the halftime break.
But finding themselves down double digits coming down the homestretch, the Miami Heat wouldn’t be able to contain the Nets in the end, as they would eventually allow them to score 116 total points on the night. And of those 116 scored by the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday evening, 45 of them were scored by their newly acquired swingman, Mikal Bridges.
The Miami Heat closed the first half of the year with a stinker. Allowing Mikal Bridges to go for nearly 50, the new-look Nets would down them in Brooklyn.
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Setting a new personal career-high across his young tenure in the NBA, it’s actually a notch on his belt to have that come against this iteration of the Miami Heat. To that very same notion, this Miami Heat team is supposed to be one of the best defensive teams in the league.
But to allow a team that just traded away Kevin Durant to score on you like this, in the process of allowing a young player to set his career high with nearly 50 points is definitely something to raise your eyebrows at.
Again, this is the Miami Heat‘s last game before the All-Star break, so you hope that they were simply looking forward, although you hate that they did that if this is the case. Hoping to get to the break on a high before coming out with a second half of the season run into the postseason, this isn’t a taste that you want to be left in your mouth as you go there.
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But hopefully, they can turn this negative into a positive, still being able to use it as motivation to help catapult them onto a nice run beginning the second half of the year.