Miami Heat can’t escape ‘Circus-Shot Randle’ and the traveling Knickerbockers

Julius Randle #30 of the New York Knicks hits the game winning shot with 1.7 second left on the clock against the Miami Heat(Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images)
Julius Randle #30 of the New York Knicks hits the game winning shot with 1.7 second left on the clock against the Miami Heat(Photo by Eric Espada/Getty Images)
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Jimmy Butler #22 of the Miami Heat steals the ball away from Julius Randle #30 of the New York Knicks(Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

Miami Heat Can’t Escape ‘Circus-Shot Randle’ And The Traveling Knickerbockers

And to that notion, the Knicks would score 71 points in the first half on Friday night. But after that shooting anomaly, the same one that has seemed to bite the Heat in their previous five or six games, things would even out in the second half as the Miami Heat would only allow 51 Knicks points.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, the Miami Heat would come back behind the efforts of Tyler Herro, Bam Adebayo, and Jimmy Butler.

That’s, not to mention, two huge late triples by Victor Oladipo.

Because with all of their collective efforts on both sides of the ball, the Miami Heat would close a one-time 17-point deficit to go up with less than 30 seconds remaining in the game.

And with the Miami Heat up one point, Randle would take the toughest of fading threes from the far right-hand corner of the court—and nail it to put the Knicks up by one with what would be less than two seconds left in the game.