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Injury Report:
Miami Heat:
- Jamal Cain (illness) — AVAILABLE
- R.J. Hampton (G-League) — OUT
- Duncan Robinson (concussion) — OUT
- Dru Smith (knee) — OUT
- Tyler Herro (headache) — OUT
Los Angeles Clippers:
- Moussa Diabate (hand) — OUT
- Ivica Zubac (calf) — AVAILABLE
Starting 5:
Miami Heat:
- Terry Rozier, G
- Josh Richardson, G
- Jimmy Butler, F
- Haywood Highsmith, F
- Bam Adebayo, C
Los Angeles Clippers:
- James Harden, G
- Terance Mann, G
- Paul George, F
- Kawhi Leonard, F
- Ivica Zubac, C
Broadcast Info:
- Tipoff: 6:00 PM EST
- TV: ESPN, Bally Sports Sun (Eric Reid, John Crotty)
- Radio: AM 560 Sports WQAM & The HEAT Radio Network (Jason Jackson)
- Spanish Radio: WAQI 710 AM & The HEAT Spanish Radio Network (José Pañeda)
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That Tyler headache they say was a precursor to a trade! On going?! Just from unreliable sources lol. That’s a nervous laugh
I couldn’t watch the game. Did the announcers talk about Herro’s headaches? Could he have been held out?
Good try. Not good enough. Those Harden baits killed us but kudos to his difficult 3s made. It really kept them rolling. But the fight was there. Just keep fighting lots of games still to be played. Go Heat!
We just couldn’t hit enough 3s, that was the difference.
Win or loss, we played the current best nba team admirably while shooting bad from 3 and without are top 2 shooters.
didnt see a foul on that butler layup
Bad foul. Killed 17 seconds.
As they say, close only counts in horseshoes.
and nukes.
nobody ripping bam during this funk but he looks like a diff player during this 10 game terry funk all star on d for sure /1/2 his pts are alley oops
I did say he didn’t play well tonight
Damn, if Rozier hits his average 3s, we’d be right there. Other parts of his game are coming along. Those 3s have to start coming soon.
Yes, I agree, but hopefully he starts hitting them 3s soon.
rozier 36%3s 42%2s career
Closer to 37%. I previously pointed out that he isn’t a high percentage shooter. We already knew that. But, as I said, if he was just at that 37% now, we’d be in the game with 6 more points. Unfortunately, he didn’t. Typical. You were high on him early, looking to knock him now. But 17/7/5/2 is a good effort.
not a good shooter 37 42 not very good homer
Dude, you were amongst the people who wanted Rozier. You were unaware of his stats before he got here? Great research.
Impressive stats while going 0 of 5 from 3
Oh yeah, and as Eric just pointed out, 20 assists and 3 turnovers in the last 3 games. That’s stellar play from the pg position.
paul george has played such a bad game .
Great d for the whole game, but offense fell off in the 4th quarter.
jim took the night off
clips are tier 1 team heat tier 3
We was missing are top 2 3point shooters, but I agree ,we’re currently tier 3
Clips destroyed us with the 3s 16 for them and 7 for us
Clips defended the 3 well props to them
They didn’t defend it that well, we was missing a lot of open 3s, especially rozier,jaquez, and Highsmith.
Rozier looking better, and those 3s will come, like the other parts of his game.
Bam worst game in a while
Clips got double the Amount of 3s we got. Missing herro and Robinson really hurts us offensively
team not very good unless butler balls out today he didnt
Can’t win this between dumb refs and harden flopping.
nothing to do with losing missed a few calls yes.just not good enough
Missing 3s too
Missing our 2 primary 3 point shooters
Gotta hand it to these Clips. They’re really d@mn good. Nice to see we fighting toe to toe up to that point 😳
games over
game over, move on to the next
So weak smh
Come on with these flops
powell is sweet player
I don’t expect refs to be good, but at least be consistent.
we need a plumlee bruiser type sunman
These refs terrible tonight .
How he didn’t get a foul ? But can’t even breathe on harden
how could that not be a foul? You hit Harden with a feather, and he falls
is jaime still wiping the rust off injured no confidence ?playing like crape
Jimmy gotta takeover for jaquez
jaquez is borderline unplayable
Yes this is one of his worst games ever.
Impossible. The first or second best player on the team according to you. He is playable. We need him.
last month yea now he suks crazy what happened to him,not sure who he is a scrub average all star?
This is you dude. High on a player one minute, low the next. Players go through droughts within a season. Of course you want consistency, but life doesn’t work that way.
clippers with james and paul have zero chance to win a chip
Harden a crafty flopper
Totally
Smh
Jaquez off tonight missing bunnies
eric misses his football
Dumb foul
So game might go down to the wire
come on jjj lets go
Finally a jaquez 3
when i moved to mia in 67 there were like 3 tall buildings
The courthouse had to be the tallest for a long time. Then, probably 1968, two buildings went up, one maybe 21 stories, I think called First Federal Bank building, and the second was the taller blue glass building that is maybe thirty stories. I worked as a summer job on the shorter building, as an electrician’s helper.
Tight game going into the 4th. You wanna be a contender? This is where you step up.
rozier sht qtr jjj also .good defense keeps u in games
Almost didn’t call that goaltend
last game didnt getone
there best player ballin ours doing nada
Refs can’t even call an obvious double dribble smh
yeah how they miss that.double dribbled and traveled
Cuz they’re not good at there job
Jrich quarter
JRich ballin