The Miami Heat cruised to a 147-116 win over the Utah Jazz inside Delta Center, tying their season high in total points scored. It marked the eighth time the Heat have scored at least 140 points this season after doing so eight combined times in the franchise’s first 37 seasons.
As a result of its dominant 31-point win, the Heat avoided dropping to .500, improving to 24-22.
When it scored 147 points against Denver in late December, Miami shot 53.5 percent from the floor while burying 22 3-pointers. While they still hit 19 triples in Saturday’s win, Miami wasn’t as efficient, shooting just 43.5 percent from the floor.
The key? Well, they outrebounded the Jazz by 30, hauling down 26 offensive rebounds, including 19 in the first half. Its 19 first-half boards set a franchise record for a half while also being the most in any half by an NBA team this season.
Heat star center Bam Adebayo had seven offensive rebounds (game-high 15 total), scoring a team-high 26 points. Dru Smith and Andrew Wiggins had four offensive rebounds apiece. Four more Heat players recorded at least two.
Additionally, seven Heat players reached double figures, led by Adebayo’s 26 and Nikola Jovic’s 23 points off the bench. It was a quality bounce-back game for the fourth-year wing, who shot 6-of-12 from the floor and 3-of-6 from distance.
Pelle Larsson added 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting; Kasparas Jakucionis had 12 points and five rebounds (before a late-game head injury); Andrew Wiggins finished with 17-6-6 in 27 minutes.
Everyone ate for Miami, albeit against a poor Jazz defense.
Utah was doing a good job creating open opportunities against the Heat defense, in all fairness. Jusuf Nurkic posted a 17-12-10 triple-double as Utah’s primary high post hub. Brice Sensabaugh was the biggest beneficiary, scoring a team-high 23 points on 4-of-7 shooting from deep.
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dog park next to arena pretty cool
hows miami rc beautiful city
I’m not generally a big fan due to traffic and stuff, but enjoying our time. We walked past the dog park several times.
This is what happens when u let a ss leave the building.Players like donovan mitchell cant leave your building for any reason.Utah has lots young players but it s hard to say what any of them will become.That is one terrible team though.
As always, you are 100% correct. To think, we could have had a player earning $55m this year and next, with an injury that might be the end of his career. He certainly could have earned that $109m by entertaining us with clown like hairdos and funny faces. Darn you, Pat!
Its unbelievable that Miami could play that sloppy and still score 147 points. I guess when you are playing Utah anything is possible. Up next are the Phoenix Suns, minus Booker.
If the Heat trade for Ja Morant or Giannis, I will buy a pair of their Nikes. Otherwise, this team has zero players with a signature shoe, and they’re cruising towards their 4th straight season as an 8-seed. If that’s the plan, what are we even doing here?
Waiting to see if Riley pulls a rabbit out of his ***?
ass
I’m in agreement not only are they headed toward an 8th seed their about to play their playin rival Chicago bulls. I mean must see tv kinda stuff
The play-in kings! Undefeated lol
One game. Against a bad team. But there were some encouraging efforts. True success comes from consistency. I look forward to what’s next.
You’re practicing what you preach. Rightfully so. There are great disparities in the quality of teams in the nba, much wider than in hockey, for example. Then there are injuries and how they impact results as Utah was quite shorthanded. I like winning no matter who we play, but it’s only realistic to take a longer range view. One nice thing is the players all played limited minutes which will help with the b2b coming up next. Another nice thing is that winning sometimes breeds confidence and just about everyone played well.
Speaking of injuries…
On Saturday, the Grizzlies announced that Morant will miss approximately three weeks with a left elbow UCL sprain. The timeline suggests he could be out through mid-February, depending on how his recovery progresses. He has played in 20 of Grizzlies’ 43 games so far this year and is expected to miss at least 11 more. 20 out of 53 is terrible availability for a player scheduled to make over $100M through 2027-2028. I can see why Memphis wants to get rid of him.
Oops, make that 11 out of 54 games (20.3%).
Herro has only played 11 games as well
Exactly! We aren’t talking about trading for him but trading him away. Point is we don’t need either one of them. Makes no sense, unless you like playing Russian Roulette.
I hope this game from jovic can Jumpstart him. I selfishly want him to play better to become a better trade asset.
WTF was he doing passing up a sure dunk or lay-up to make a poorly thrown behind the back pass? Dude scores a few points and thinks he’s Meadowlark Lemon.
I hate to say this, but from everything I’ve seen, Jovic appears to be low IQ.
if he did that in close game rip him to pieces but game was over by that stage.but either way that was a dum pass,he was feeling out as the sports term goes.guy finally had decent game need to put more of these b2b b2b b2b but as weve seen over his career here he has not been able to do that.but pat has ordered his step child to play his stepson cause pats bf payed him.
I doubt he is low IQ, he is able to assist and move the ball when he plays as he should.
But still wasn’t a good game from him. For a change some shots were mostly falling, but awkward and stupid plays were still there.
Yes I was thinking the same, doing too much with that fancy pass smh.
Wow! Playing with our emotions lol
When you thought its gonna be .500 boom they decimate the opponent. But others would just shrugged this off. Good win for me on to the next