Despite Jimmy Butler’s electrifying triple-double, the Miami Heat suffered another overtime loss to the Detroit Pistons, 125-124, inside Little Caesars Arena Monday evening.
Jimmy Butler finished Monday with 35 points, 19 rebounds–a career-high–10 assists, four steals and one block on 12-of-21 shooting and 10-of-12 from the free-throw line. He was spectacular down the stretch, helping the Heat crawl back from multiple 19-point deficits–and leading an 18-2 run in the final 5:27 of regulation to force overtime.
Even when he struggled to overcome Ausar Thompson’s physicality for most of the night, Tyler Herro’s contested 3-pointer over two defenders gave the 17,810 in attendance free basketball. He canned the shot with 5.1 seconds left with Cade Cunningham’s potential game-winning triple clanking off the buzzer as time expired at the end of regulation.
Herro finished with 23 points and four rebounds on 9-of-25 shooting. It was his cleanest game, by any stretch. Bam Adebayo had 15 points and eight rebounds; Duncan Robinson had 13 points on 3-of-7 from 3-point range; Jaime Jaquez Jr. posted 13 points on 5-of-12 shooting while Terry Rozier had 11 points, five rebounds and six assists.
Herro’s game-tying 3-pointer fueled an 8-0 run to begin overtime, but three Tim Hardaway Jr. 3-points gave the Pistons a 123-122 lead with 1:10 left.
Miami had multiple chances to take the lead in the final 37 seconds, but came up short. Oddly enough, Jimmy Butler’s second of two layup attempts with less than 10 seconds left wasn’t a shooting foul. Tyler Herro couldn’t replicate what he did to force OT, missing a 29-footer to end it.
Detroit outscored the Heat by 24 from 3-point range with eight more rebounds and nine more fastbreak points–backbreakers throughout the evening.
Cunningham had a triple-double of his own, finishing with 20 points, 11 rebounds and 18 assists (!!!) on 7-of-17 shooting and 3-of-6 from deep. Hardaway and Malik Beasley combined to make 12 of the team’s 20 triples; Thompson was all over the floor on both ends, finishing with 19 points, nine rebounds, four steals and one block in 27 minutes.
Monday’s loss snaps a four-game win streak for the Heat, dropping to 13-11. Detroit, meanwhile, improves to 11-16–and 2-1 against the Heat this season.
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Team continues on a good trend inspite of the loss.
Go, Heat Go1
if we cant get greek how bout his brother sunman
If not his brother then maybe his seester.
if he has 1/2 the ability of his brother hes better than k love coolio
Maybe better than Bryant, but not Love. Check out his stats.
https://www.espn.com/nba/player/_/id/3102533/thanasis-antetokounmpo
love cant jump 2inches off the ground.greeks bro never plays
Thanasis is the Zoran Dragic of the family.
greek is the first or second best player in the league the dragics didnt have the bball genes of the greeks.they have lopez portis dont really need him we have no bigs except small bam,id take a flyer on him brothers so good how bad can he be
Very bad. Been in the league about 10 years. 32 years old. Career 2.4 ppg and 14% 3p%. 53% ft%. 1.6 rpg. Oh, btw, he had surgery in May for a torn achilles. His NBA career is likely over.
There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.
milw is upper echelon with greek and dame best 1 2 punch in nba
Reality check:
The formerly 10-16 Pistons came into the game without two starters, PF Tobias Harris and SG Jaden Ivey and lost C Isaiah Stewart in the first half to injury. Yet they still outrebounded and beat a Heat team with a full rotation. This was despite a superhuman triple double (35/19/10) performance by Jimmy Butler. That tells us a lot about the caliber of this year’s team, even with “Playoff Jimmy” if it doesn’t get reinforcements.
I’m with you on this. Exciting? Sure. Disappointing? For me, most definitely. On a 4 game winning streak against an improved, but still mediocre or less team, and it took a super human effort just to tie it after 4, and then lose an 8 point lead in OT. Good teams don’t play like that.
jimmy needed reinforcements 3 years ago prob to late now.one guy that would improve the miami midgets well i wonder ware that person is .his ass is super glued to the bench thats ware he is
malike beasley was at one time 6 for 7 on 3s with cats that dont guard that well that sht will happen
Jimmy was the only one who came to play, the rest of the rooster walk into the game sleeping. The defense on their shooters was terrible. With Pelle or Nico playing it would be better.
Detroit was the better team all night. They deserved to win.
Some exciting games ahead. Another test where Heat belongs.
OKC on Friday.
Looks like “Playoff Jimmy” has returned. Butler became the first player in 40 years to record a 30-point triple-double with 0 fouls and turnovers. Now if Spo can just get the rest of the team to play at the 2022 playoff level. Personally, I think Kel’el Ware and Keshad Johnson are the missing pieces. Time will tell.
in his prime jimmy couldnt give u games like that consecutively like lebron and dwade did,ill never forget jimmy vs lebron in the finals the close out game jim had nothing left in the tank.jimmy doesnt have the endurance of duncan who runs around all game.one thing i like about dunc hes setting mini screens on every possession.one of these days a brother kinda hit him side the head.lebron gave dunc a nice shoulder when they played the lakers.
cade was in tylers landing zone that should have been a foul.refs def helped det last night
Should of won this game, refs was on bs, blew a lead in ot the Hardaway. jimmy Should of took that last shot instead of herro, and spo needs to realize that bam ain’t a center, rim protection last night was horrendous.
bam just doesnt bust ass enough besides being undersized.ty and dunc give 100% every friggin minute.all nba coaches can do is play the right people at the right time.erics use of personnel from day 1 is always a spo scratcher.players win nba games coaches little effect play ware already
I think bam does bust his ass enough, but your right he his undersized, and he can’t do it by himself, especially with 3 guard lineup, and heavy switch d.
Exactly.
bam gets ball in crunch time its like a hot potato .great defender.good rebounder.not much of a shot blocker or a good offensive player
That’s because he’s playing out of position. Bam is a natural POWER FORWARD!
u r correct when u look in the dictionary for def of a power forward it says bam adebayo.he has the prototypical build of a pf.ware has the protypical body of a center.
Nothing much to say but
congrats to Detroit for well deserved win.
Great 3 minute comeback after 45 minutes of crap. Heat missed out on chance to steal one. Miami outrebounded 52-44. Out shot on 3’s 50% to 27.9%. Heat cannot compete against better teams without more rebounding. Time to play Ware even if it costs a few games. One step back in order to take two steps forward.
P.S. Dru Smith had 6 steals.
The inside game, the center position, is our biggest shortcoming. Playing Ware is the only answer we have on this roster. Spo continues to confound. I agree, that there is little to lose. We can’t give up games to Detroit and have much chance of getting a good playoff position.
didnt see isiah stewart last night is he still a piston.hed be a good roughen to pair with bam.they have duren
Stewart got hurt in the first half. Pistons were without starters Tobias Harris and Jaden Ivey and lost rotation player Stewart in the first half…and still beat the Heat. That tells you something.
That was a tough one, as we came so close. It was exciting, at the least.