Despite another remarkable performance from Miami Heat big Bam Adebayo, the Minnesota Timberwolves bested the shorthanded Heat 106-104 Friday evening inside Kaseya Center.
Adebayo finished with a team-high 29 points and 13 rebounds–his third-straight double-double–on 11-of-21 shooting, in addition to four assists and one steal. But the Heat were not able to conjure up enough offense over the final four minutes despite just one made field goal from the Timberwolves over that span.
Tyler Herro scored 22 points with six boards, seven assists, two steals and two blocks on 4-of-8 from 3-point range. Duncan Robinson was a huge contributor off the bench once again, posting 15 points with four triples in 28 minutes off the bench.
Miami buried 14 3-pointers, but the Timberwolves outmatched them from deep on 12 points despite shooting just 8-of-14 from the charity stripe. Minnesota had a very equally-distributed offensive attack with seven players scoring at least 12 points with no player scoring more than 15 points.
Five Timberwolves players–Anthony Edwards, Naz Reid, Mike Conley, Donte DiVincenzo and Nickiel Alexander-Walker–buried three 3-pointers apiece. Julius Randle tallied nine boards with a team-high nine assists; Edwards hauled down a team-high 13 rebounds in Rudy Gobert’s absence, dishing out six dimes; DiVincenzo and Jaden McDaniels had six boards and four assists apiece.
Friday’s loss drops the Heat back to four games below .500 for the second time this season at 29-33. They have not beaten a Western Conference foe since Jan. 19 — a near-two-month span. Though they still own the No. 7 seed in the East with one game separating between them and the No. 9 Orlando Magic.
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Miami Heat’s loss to Timberwolves highlights key roster flawAll-Star caliber contributions from Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro weren’t enough to lead the Miami Heat to victory— which could turn into a repeated pattern until real reinforcements come aboard.
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ware wiggins hurt were top 6-8 team in east
We’re #7 now without them. I can’t believe Orlando went to crap. They were top 4 when Bancaro and Wagner went down and haven’t returned to form since they returned. They are below Atlanta in 9th place now and on 5 game losing streak.
Miami Heat star duo flashes what is possible in loss to WolvesBam Adebayo and Tyler Herro working together, plus two more observations from Friday night’s loss.
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WTF?
Heat’s Erik Spoelstra defends Terry Rozier amid rough season
“When asked before Friday’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves about the thought process of playing Rozier when he was struggling heavily in the second half, Spoelstra downplayed the decision, saying he doesn’t “want Terry to be a target right now.”
“I don’t want Terry to be a target right now, that’s easy,” Spoelstra said. “I mean, this is the thing, when we’re playing all these tight games and really close, competitive games, and this is what I remind the locker room, we have to stay so laser focused into the process and not just the result. Everybody just watches the end result. Any one of these games, if we finish it off and a lot of this narrative, a lot of the dialogue, it just quiets on its own. And that’s the lesson. If we want to quiet the noise, we find a way to win, we have to take all the responsibility if we don’t.”
https://www.yardbarker.com/nba/articles/heats_erik_spoelstra_defends_terry_rozier_amid_rough_season/s1_17113_41870145
dunc was a plus 23 last night thats hard to do in a loss.bottomline duncs playing as good as anybody lately not named bam.play him spobot hes earned it,his d has improved also hes keeping his body between player and basket much better hasnt been as handsy lately hats off to u dunc
They are close lately, but somehow always a bit too short. It is what it is. Lets stay at 7th position, win a game against Atlanta and make Boston scared.
I don’t think Boston would be very scared
I see this team at full strength can win 2 games against Boston.
The optimism is based on the first qt. of last game against Boston, when it was clear, that the long starting line up can make troubles to Boston.
Seems like Heat try to win in 4th quarter on 3’s instead of working for mid-range or shorter shots and drawing fouls. Team doesn’t have an inside scorer who can create his own shot, other than Bam. This offseason (or next) Miami needs to find a good two-way PG and a closer.
Maybe Heat was short handed, seems Spo wants to go back to small balling.