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MIAMI: The Miami Heat engineered a 58-point turnaround against the Milwaukee Bucks in 24 hours.
And thus, a shameful loss was avenged.
Goran Dragic scored 26 points off the bench; Bam Adebayo finished with 22 points, 10 assists and eight rebounds; and the Heat beat the Bucks 119-108 on Wednesday night (Thursday in Manila), a day after Milwaukee hit an NBA-record 29 3-pointers en route to a 47-point break on the Miami court. .
Tyler Herro scored 21 points and grabbed 15 rebounds, the best of his career, for Miami, which fell behind by 14 earlier in the second half and rallied for a two-game, two-night series split against the team. which finished with the best record in the NBA in each of the last two regular seasons.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had a triple-double (26 points, 13 rebounds, 10 assists) for the Bucks. Donte DiVincenzo scored 15 and Jrue Holiday 13 for Milwaukee, while Khris Middleton was limited to eight on 3 of 15 shots.
Avery Bradley scored 16 and Kelly Olynyk had 15 for Miami.
Milwaukee’s lead was 72-58 at the start of the second half, 84-73 with 3:44 left in the third. It was all Miami from there, with the Heat missing Jimmy Butler for the second straight game due to a sprained right ankle, beating the Bucks 40-15 in the next 12 minutes.
Herro beat the bell of the third quarter with a triple to put Miami to three, Dragic opened the fourth quarter with another 3 to tie and the Heat, who were behind by 51 on Tuesday, took the lead definitively in a 3 from Olynyk with 9 : 04 remaining.
From the start, it was nothing like Tuesday’s Milwaukee romp.
Milwaukee scored 21 points after four minutes Tuesday; the Bucks were limited to four in the first four minutes Wednesday. The Bucks had 46 points after a quarter on Tuesday; they had 45 in the first 19 minutes on Wednesday.
And finally, the Heat found a way to end 2020 with a victory.
Suggestions
Bucks: Brook Lopez, arguing that Adebayo missed a foul in the first half, fell theatrically to the court before Adebayo took the next free throws. … Pat Connaughton scored 12 and Bobby Portis 11 for Milwaukee.
Heat: Andre Iguodala had his first start as a member of the Heat, which means that for the seventeenth year in a row, 2004-2020, he has started at least one game. … Miami used 11 players in the first quarter alone.
2020 record
Milwaukee finished the calendar year 33-20 (28-15 regular season, 5-5 playoffs). Miami finished 2020 at 36-29 (22-22 regular season, 14-7 playoffs).
4 by 4
The Heat have used four starting lineups in their first four games, first a franchise. The only other teams to use four lineups in four games this season: Cleveland and Minnesota. The Bucks have had the same starters in all five games.
Until next time
Bucks: Chicago host on Friday.
Heat: Visit Dallas on Friday.
Irving gets hot in fourth as Nets top Hawks 145-141
Kyrie Irving rocked three difficult quarters to score 17 of his 25 points in the quarter, Kevin Durant had 33 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, and the Brooklyn Nets gave the Atlanta Hawks their first loss with a 145-141 victory. Wednesday night. .
In the first game of a two-game series between the teams that was almost entirely on offense, the third game in the Nets franchise where both teams had 100 points in three quarters, Irving couldn’t get into action. He only made 3 of 16 shots from the field and was outscored by his point guard counterpart Trae Young.
But he hit three 3-pointers in the final period after missing all-seven as the Nets lied to win after losing two in a row after their 2-0 start.
Young had 30 points, 11 assists and six rebounds, and John Collins had 30 points and 10 rebounds. But it wasn’t enough for the Hawks, who had won their first three for the first time since 2016.
Bogdan Bogdanovic hit six 3s and scored 22 points and Cam Reddish had 20 for the Hawks, who led most of the first three quarters, but never by much because the Nets, except Irving, were just as hot.
Brooklyn put seven players in double figures, with Joe Harris adding 23 points.
The teams play in Brooklyn again on Friday night.
Suggestions
Hawks: Danilo Gallinari, who missed the last two games with a blow to his left foot, came off the bench in this one but played just five minutes before leaving with a sprained right ankle. … Coach Lloyd Pierce wasn’t sure how the Hawks planned to spend New Year’s Eve in New York. “We are definitely not going anywhere. But depending on what is allowed, we will have a team dinner, maybe some champagne or something at the hotel, but it will not be anything extensive, “he said. “We are in New York, it is a business trip, in the middle of a pandemic, I think we will be smart and do what we have to do continuously.”
Nets: Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot started in place of the injured Spencer Dinwiddie and had 3 points. He made his first start Monday against Memphis and scored 21 points. … Coach Steve Nash said F / C Nicolas Claxton, sidelined with a right knee injury, is on the mend, but thought he was still weeks away from being ready to return.
Teammates together
Nash welcomed Pierce on his college visit to Santa Clara, where they played together for two years and became close friends. Pierce said some of his teammates had a group text message before the game and noted the slim odds that two guys from a mid-level college would train with each other in the NBA. Nash said he was proud of all of Pierce’s accomplishments and praised his work on voting and civil rights initiatives in Georgia. “He has inspired me and having the opportunity to train against him is really special,” Nash said.
Until next time
Teams will play again Friday at the Barclays Center.
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