After the Miami Heat nearly squandered an 11-point lead with 1:55 left to the Memphis Grizzlies, rookie Jaime Jaquez Jr. came up huge for Miami, as he has multiple different pockets of time to begin his NBA career.
Up 105-102, Jaquez buried a corner triple–off a swing pass from Duncan Robinson–with 18.1 seconds left. Jaren Jackson Jr. was not able to make it a 3-point game after missing a 27-foot pull-up 3-point attempt with less than 10 seconds left, etching the Heat their third straight victory and their first win on the road this season over the Grizzlies.
Sealed the W ๐ฅถ https://t.co/rhhsqnga5l pic.twitter.com/7KjEytuRcE
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Coming off a 22-point, 19-rebound (yes the NBA took one away … for some reason), 10-assist triple-double Monday, Bam Adebayo followed up with 30 points–16 in the fourth quarter–11 rebounds and three blocks on 8-of-15 shooting, including 14-of-16 from the charity stripe.
Bam followed up his big triple double with a dominant double double, scoring 16 of his 30 points in the 4th ๐ฅ pic.twitter.com/ZYDXGDIYLN
โ Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) November 9, 2023
Tyler Herro sprained his ankle toward the end of the first quarter. He finished with just six points on 2-of-4 shooting in eight minutes. Amid his absence, Kyle Lowry stepped up for 17 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists on 5-of-11 shooting. Jimmy Butler had 15 points on 5-of-13 shooting, while Haywood Highsmith had 14 points, two steals and three blocks.
Miami collectively shot 45.5 percent from the floor, including 11-of-28 (39.3 percent) from 3-point range and 27-of-32 (!!!) from the free-throw line. Memphis struggled offensively, knocking down 38.9 percent of their shot attempts and just 29.7 percent from 3-point range. Jaren Jackson Jr. finished with 28 points on 9-of-18 shooting. Desmond Bane had 15 points on 4-of-16 shooting while Luke Kennard had 13 points and 3-of-6 from distance.
The Heat’s third straight win comes in the first game of a stretch where they have nine of 10 on the road. Meanwhile, Memphis has dropped seven of its first eight games and are just 0-4 at home. Miami will travel to Atlanta to face the Hawks on the the first leg of a back-to-back Saturday.
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Glad we got the win especially after losing Herro to injury. Looks like he’ll be gone for about a month.
We need JRich to come around offensively but if he continues to shoot like sht from 3 then his azz is going to have to take a seat..
Bryant is another player who should also be taking a seat. He’s defensive sieve who hoodwinks people into thinking he’s a good player because he can score.
Sit him down and play KLove in his place so that we can get some offensive spacing with all these poor shooters that Spo loves putting on the floor.
Also I would love to see Jovic get some playing time off the bench. Especially now that Herro will be out a while.
In Jovic’s last game against the team with the best defense in the nba the Timberwolves, he shot 50% from 3, had 11 rebs, 4 asts in 21 minutes and was a team best +6 in a game we lost by 16 points.
Play Jovic and let him handle the ball for the bench unit. He’s a big who can handle and he has great court vision.
He’ll make the bench unit more dynamic offensively.
The bench unit has been a disaster so far.
It’s a good time for Spo to get more creative offensively.
I agree about Jovic. Itโd be nice to see him get some minutes. But I disagree on Love. Heโs never been much of a defender and heโs pretty slow up and down the court. He is a savvy vet, great passer, and can hit the occasional 3, but if not Bryant, Iโd like to see O Robinson get some minutes at center.
Love can’t be any worse a defender than Bryant. Bryant is terrible.
And while Love may be slow getting up the court he gats the ball up the court probably quicker than anyone else on the team.
Having watched JJJ in these few games, he plays very well when he is allowed to play his game. Most rookies are given a structured or restricted game pattern in their first year to ease them into the NBA. Heat will be making a mistake with JJJ in that respect. He should be allowed to play freely and unencumbered within Spo’s scheme as he develops the confidence and skills playing amongst elite players
I believe the sensible temporary move the Heat should make now is to have Swider active while Herro is out. They need that 3 point shooting.
Yes, I agree because jrich was supposed to provide us with 3 point shooting, but he’s been terrible on the offensive side of the ball.
He declined over the years and was surprised the Heat signed him. Only explanation I could think of was that he was familiar with Spo’s system, so his learning curve will be short or non existent.So far neither him nor Dru Smith has been effective as a PG to give Lowry needed rest.I look at their assist numbers and defensive stops. I am not impressed and neither with their shooting.
Well if none of then turn it around, then spo has to do something about. If they continue this downward ineffective pg play….then we gotta call up rj from gleague, or experiment with jjj as backup pg.
Agree…so we can post Swid3r!! ๐
I haven’t actually looked but Highsmith must be shooting a high percentage in 3s.
Just about every 3 I have seen him take this season was…wet. dripping with net splashes
Highsmith will be the next Heat find that will make the NBA go wow! Where did he come from?
It also sucks to see JRich playing instead of Cain or Jovic.
JRICH looks like the least talented of all Heat players.
But Spo. Will be Spo.
JRich should be thrown in with whatever player/pick we send out for another PG. For example: Caleb and Richardson for Monte Morris.
Idk what happened to jrich offense, but it fell off big time, he was supposed to be 3&d…now he all he his just D.
Highsmith is the new and improved PJ Tucker 2.0.
Plus younger by a decade
Interesting stats. Team 3 point shooting looks very good. FG% also looks good. Highsmith 50% from 3. https://www.espn.com/nba/team/stats/_/name/mia/table/game/sort/threePointPct/dir/desc
Trade Lowry was the chorus before yesterday’s game. Like I have always said, the Heat are ok. Let us pray for health for all and stop hitting the panic button.
Can’t afford to trade Lowry unless we get two PGs in return. The team is already down one rotation two-way PG.
Trade Lowry for a starting level point guard was more like it. With Herro down, I m not sure we are ok.
I was glad to see Lowry’s performance yesterday. That’s the player we were supposed to get when we traded away Dragic and Prescious, but never did. Unfortunately, he is too inconsistent and not always healthy. He’s an excellent mentor for a younger PG (RJ Hampton for example). He seems to be play better with Herro out. Let’s see how he performs these next 9 games and how he performs when Herro performs. Hopefully, Riley gives the team a Christmas present with a new PG soon, even if it is just a new and improved RJ.
GO HEAT!
Atlanta will give us a stern test. Now, the Tyler out, and JR struggling, we need help, and it looks like it has to come from outside. We needed it even if Ty didnโt get hurt, but now we need it more. Still, everyday the wisdom of not blowing up the current and future team for Dame, comes more into focus.
And yet, we barely beat a undermanned team. Look what the Rockets did to the Lakers last night after we were lucky to beat them. By looking at relative scores against teams we already played, we donโt look too strong. I am so happy for the win and the play of several on the team, but we still need more.
30 at the end of the year all we will remember is a big fat w.panthers vs two mediocre teams 2 ot ws.stack them w’s.we got jamal jumping jack cain ready to be unleashed if spo will ever do that.caleb my fav martian gotta be ready soon especially with ty going down.be positive 30 w’s are rolling in
I like j- poor, but Caleb, my favorite Martian is a stretch. Also, I also mix up Badfinger with the Beatles, as they were trying to be Beatlesque. Anyway, we both date ourselves (which is better than dating ourselves).
Not a surprise at all as they were on the Apple label. Of their 4 hits, one was produced by McCartney and one by Harrison. McCartney also wrote Come And Get It.
The Heat are fine.
The Heat are ok. The team is a long way from fine. Fortunately, of the next nine games (8 on the road) none are against the league’s top tier teams. https://templatetrove.com/Schedules/NBA/2023-2024/2023-2024-Printable-Miami-Heat-Schedule-Pacific-Times.pdf
I hope youโre right. They were much finer than I thought last year.
This is a very important win and well deserved it. But with Herro out, it takes a monster game from a 37 years old Lowry to get this one.
Dru is not ready yet, but for JRich is beyond terrible right now. He should be sitting, but there is no other guards available right now, so Heat have to survive his minutes to rest the others.
This is gonna be a long road trip without Tyler.
rj hampton very very intriguing prospect.looks the part long lean young unleash him think youll be pleasantly surprised vagibugi.drus shot was off but he was ok on the defensive end
They are prospects, but we need proven guards, younger then 37.
dwade was a prospect at one time.
Wade was a productive player from the beginning. Hampton and Smith are projects. Both have some potential. Neither can be compared to Wade on any level.
Siuox Falls starts season on Saturday. Hope to see RJ, Cain and Swider all get game minutes, confidence and experience and progress to the point they are get meaningful minutes with the Heat soon.
https://basketball.realgm.com/gleague/teams/Sioux-Falls-Skyforce/6/schedule
Man these nail biting wins are 2 1/2 hours of great sports.Blowouts are boring give us this drama every night with a big fat w ill take it.Props to kyle for a great game now string about 75 more of those and earn that 30 mil.At 30 mil we expect that every night lolMr adeabayo i think u are the best defender in the nba your defensive instincts size and speed make u elite but this offense wow fantastic please keep it up.Mr butler contributing mightily last few games could be more just saving your body for the real season thats ok .Brother hh just fitting in perfectly always gives us great d making 3s one day coach might use u to close i knows its frustrating to u just keep balling and one day u might be a spo closer.J poor whats up bro your playing yourself out of the rotation, please heat nation loves u your a great kid but please practice your shooting calebs due back soon and i like u to still get some minutos.mr jacquez u dont play like a rook .love your game and u have big balls to take the dagger last night.in summation the heat when whole def top 4 team in the east on paper and will be on ct.Gotta get caleb back and ty back and then we can see our beloved team kick some ass.lgh
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Ha! By the way, I was listening to the Locked on Heat guys and they said HH was at the scorers table ready to check in to the game in the 4th when Jaime had a steal and dunk and Spo decided to stick with JJ, who ended up hitting the game clincher.
Jaquez played the entire fourth quarter! When is the last time a non-lottery rookie Heat player did that 8 games into the season? He is definitely a keeper and is only going to get better. You can never have too many two-way versatile g/f combos. Now if we only had another two-way guard. Once Ivey, Morris, Burkes are healthy, Detroit will have a couple of extra players to spare. Caleb Martin for Killian Hayes?
dunc needed to be removed he suked in 4th qtr
I was surprised he was in when they were 10 up. Highsmith should have played those minutes.
Bam=A+, Butler=B, Lowry=A-, Highsmith=B+, Herro=Inc*
Jaquez=B, DRobinson=B, Bryant=C, Smith=C-, Richardson=D-
* Tyler Herro Expects to be out “a couple of weeks” with ankle injury.
Great win by heat….. even though it became very close in the end. I really loved that JJJ CLUTCH DAGGER to seal the game…that was impressive from the Rook. BAM was in his bag against the the Dpoy. I noticed 3 aspects of his game that improved: his aggressiveness, his midpost to lowpost game, and getting to the line. I think this is the year he finally becomes DPOY. Lastly Mr. Near triple double Lowry, played by far his best game if the season ๐ . We’re gonna need his scoring, also get well soon herro.
as someone said Heat should win this vs a mediocre team, they did not disappoint though it gave everyone here a scare again. hehe (nervous laugh). Bam dominated, big help from Kyle, pedestrian Jimmy but enough i guess, great minutes from HH and JJJ (dagger 3!). not so good was that Ty ankle. report says he’ll miss at least 2 weeks. yikes! Josh R. offense very concerning, and growing…1-9 for 2pts. Heat win still and hope they can keep this up birdies up next lets go 5-4!
No comments? Still a lot of loose ends to tie together, but 3 in a row is good. Some very encouraging signs – Bam, Lowry, Highsmith, and Jaquez.
Get well soon Tyler!