Game Thread 2022-2023 Game #10 BLAZERS @ HEAT - NOVEMBER 7, 2022 - MONDAY - 5:30 PM (PDT) ROOT

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wizenheimer said:
wow....couldn't disagree more, at least about the team. I'm all for seeing Sharpe play

but this is the most entertaining Blazer team since 2013-14. The 7 years of reboots of Olshey's love affair with CJ started out boring and became more boring each & every year. This team is an incredible change of pace from the Stolshey era

love watching them
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I meant in tonights game, as at the time they were not playing well.
 
Idog1976 said:
Im excited to see Sharpe get major minutes next to Dame!
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At what point will you tone down your expectations for this kid? You are setting yourself up for a letdown. Just sit back and enjoy watching him grow over the next few years. Was it you who claimed he’d be our 2nd best player on our team but the end of the season, if not sorry, but that type of shit is MINDBLOWING!
 
MIAMI HEAT

HEAT 27-42 all-time against the Portland Trail Blazers, which includes
a 12-22 record in games played here in Miami. HEAT and Blazers split
the two-game 2022-23 season series and Miami has its four-game win
streak against Portland snapped. Miami has still won seven of the last 10
meetings vs. Portland.

HEAT and Trail Blazers conclude their 2022-23 two-game series tonight in just
the HEAT’s 11th game of the season. It is the third fewest games in franchise
history in which they have completed a season series with an opponent with
the first two instances occurring within the last week when the HEAT
finished their season series with Golden State on November 1 (eight games)
and with Sacramento a night later (nine games).


HEAT becomes just the second team in league history to complete a season
series against three different opponents within the first 11 games of a season,
joining the 2005 Golden State Warriors, who did this against the Bulls, Knicks
and Bucks within the first nine games of that season.

HEAT knocked down 10-of-their first 19 threes tonight but missed nine of 10
attempts in the third quarter. They made 14 in the game, the fourth game this
season with at least 14 made and the second such game against the Blazers.
Miami made a then season-high 15 threes at Portland on October 26.

Fourth consecutive fourth quarter in which the HEAT have been tied, all within
the final 5:35 and three of the four (all here at FTX Arena) having been tied
with under 2:10 to play.

HEAT made 13-of-15 free throws, including 11-for-11 in the second half (86.7
percent). They have shot at least 80 percent from the stripe in a team-record
10 consecutive games, matching the Chicago Bulls streak at 10 entering their
game tonight vs. Toronto. The league record for consecutive games shooting
at least 80 percent from the free throw line is held by the Oklahoma City
Thunder, who shot at least 80 percent from the free throw line in 15 straight
games over two seasons (2010-11 & 2011-12). The single-season mark is 14
straight games by Charlotte (2017) and Golden State (2012).

HEAT had seven players score in double figures tonight, led by a trio of starters,
Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo and Max Strus with 16 points each. HEAT
played only eight players in the game and the lone single-digit scorer, Duncan
Robinson, finished with nine points. HEAT have had eight double-figure
scorers seven times in franchise history, but never when playing just eight
players.
 
JIMMY BUTLER

Returned after missing the last two games with left hip tightness, playing the
699th game of his career. He led the HEAT with 16 points.

Scored six points in the first and fourth quarter and four points in the second
quarter tonight. He was scoreless in the third quarter, his first scoreless
quarter on the floor this season. He has scored in 34 of the 35 quarters he
has played this season (did not play in the fourth quarter at Portland on
October 26).

Still impacted the third quarter though scoreless, adding three assists and three
steals. Finished with a season-high-tying six steals tonight, his second six-
steal game this season.

Added seven assists with four leading to made three-point field goals.
He has 51 assists this season, with 27 leading to three-point field goals.
 
GABE VINCENT

Scored nine of his 15 points in the first quarter, his highest scoring first quarter
this season and tied for his second highest scoring first quarter of his
career.

Has scored 15 points in consecutive games.

Knocked down all three of his treys in the first quarter tonight, the 12th
quarter of his career with at least three made threes.



BAM ADEBAYO

Led the HEAT with 16 points and added five rebounds.

Over his last seven games, he is averaging 20.0 points per game on 58.9
percent shooting from the floor (50-for-85), shooting at least 50 percent in all
seven games.

Played all 12:00 minutes in the fourth quarter for a team-leading sixth time this
season. He leads the HEAT in fourth quarter minutes played with 116:37.



KYLE LOWRY

Scored 15 points and added a team-high seven rebounds along with a game-
high eight assists. Has scored in double-figures in seven straight games and
in nine of his 11 games played this season. His seven straight double-figure
scoring games is the second longest streak with the HEAT.

Over his last seven games he has averaged 14.9 points per game.

Knocked down his first three threes tonight and has made at least one in each of
his last 10 games, tied for his second longest streak while with the HEAT.

His four threes made bring his career total to 1,996 made, 12th most all-time
 
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS

Trail Blazers win their second game (2-1) on this six-game, five-opponent
road trip, defeating the HEAT on a walkoff three-point field goal by Josh Hart
at the buzzer. They entered the fourth quarter down eight points (81-73) and
scored 37 fourth quarter points, their highest scoring fourth quarter this
season

Trail Blazers made five threes in the fourth quarter (seven attempts) including
two in the game’s final 29.3 seconds. Overall in the fourth quarter, the Blazers
made 13 of 17 from the floor (76.5 percent) and committed just two turnovers.

Trail Blazers had 19 turnovers, one shy of a season high which led to 24
HEAT points. They had 13 turnovers in the first half.

Trail Blazers and HEAT concluded their two-game season series tonight,
the second opponent they are finished with this season. They began this
six-game road trip with back-to-back games at Phoenix and with that they
completed their three-game series with the Suns in the season’s first nine
games.

Damian Lillard returned to action after missing the last four games with a right
calf strain and was held under 20 points for the first time this season. He
scored 19 points on just 4-for-12 from the floor.

Damian Lillard has scored 17,684 career points, second only to Blazers Hall-
of Famer Clyde Drexler (18,040) on the Blazers all-time scoring list.

Anfernee Simons scored 12 of his game 25 points in the fourth quarter.

Jerami Grant scored 10 of his 23 points in the first quarter. It is his sixth
career 20-point scoring game against the HEAT (19 games).
 
wizenheimer said:
oh....doesn't matter

you meant to say what I thought you said. I know your heart
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Yeah..That didn't read as a "tonight's game only" sentiment.
If it was, why would he term Chauncey's potential use of him in this game only as "Stotts treatment"?
Takes a month to earn that title.
 
Wade Garrett said:
Yeah..That didn't read as a "tonight's game only" sentiment.
If it was, why would he term Chauncey's potential use of him in this game only as "Stotts treatment"?
Takes a month to earn that title.
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And 3x5 cards
 
Wade Garrett said:
Meanwhile Heatfan is saying how they blew the fucking game in the 4th.
48 minutes.
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Although they tightened up and played not to lose, the Heat were better than us for most of the 48 minutes by a considerable margin playing without Herro and Oladipo while we shot ourselves in the foot. That kind of defensive effort or laziness with the ball will lose us a lot of games if it becomes a habit.

We found a way to win, but let's not pretend we played particularly well or that winning excuses sketchy play.
 
Cugel said:
I still feel funny that Brooke has to make the post-game interview with Hart about Dame. Is she contractually obligated to do so? I am not joking. Why can't she just ask Josh about Josh and not Dame?
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Get'em Cugel!

 
illmatic99 said:
i mean, ya once ant was late, he shoulda obviously not fouled.

but i kinda feel like we weren't gonna do it period.
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Hindsight now, but I was considering the prudence of putting in Nas for Ant on that final Heat possession.
 
wizenheimer said:
wow....couldn't disagree more, at least about the team. I'm all for seeing Sharpe play

but this is the most entertaining Blazer team since 2013-14. The 7 years of reboots of Olshey's love affair with CJ started out boring and became more boring each & every year. This team is an incredible change of pace from the Stolshey era

love watching them
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Totally agree with ya Wizen.
 
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PCmor7 said:
Although they tightened up and played not to lose, the Heat were better than us for most of the 48 minutes by a considerable margin playing without Herro and Oladipo while we shot ourselves in the foot. That kind of defensive effort or laziness with the ball will lose us a lot of games if it becomes a habit.

We found a way to win, but let's not pretend we played particularly well or that winning excuses sketchy play.
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But that’s basketball. When you played the juggernaut Warriors, you could outplay them or play them even for 42 minutes. But they would just come out for the first 6 minutes of 3rd quarters and blitz you and pretty much put the game away.

You got to play the full 48.
 
Idog1976 said:
Man Utah is kind of terrifying in the medium term. How are they 8-3? They have Conley, Sexton, Vanderbilt and Markannen (recently going off is he for real?!) and what about 923802384 draft picks? They are going to be nutso if they are able to parley those draft picks into either a star player or just draft well.
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Jordan Clarkson too
 
BankTeller said:
I’d just rather not trade for OG at this point. Sharpe and Nas are both guys that need more minutes. A big man though—definitely. Big with range would be even better, but a more athletic/mobile big would be nice.
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John Butler is big with range
 
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PCmor7 said:
Although they tightened up and played not to lose, the Heat were better than us for most of the 48 minutes by a considerable margin playing without Herro and Oladipo while we shot ourselves in the foot. That kind of defensive effort or laziness with the ball will lose us a lot of games if it becomes a habit.

We found a way to win, but let's not pretend we played particularly well or that winning excuses sketchy play.
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We only lost 2 of the quarters and one of them was by only 1 point.
 
KSF-ERIC said:
We only lost 2 of the quarters and one of them was by only 1 point.
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If you think turning the ball over as many times as we did through lazy passes and giving up open 3s because we don't know how to close out is acceptable, then that's you. It's not a way to win games regularly, even though we found a way to offset it at the end tonight.
 
OneSport3 said:
But that’s basketball. When you played the juggernaut Warriors, you could outplay them or play them even for 42 minutes. But they would just come out for the first 6 minutes of 3rd quarters and blitz you and pretty much put the game away.

You got to play the full 48.
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Oh, please, stop it with the condescension.

First, the Warriors wouldn't play nearly as bad on the defensive end and commit as many turnovers or commit the kinds of turnovers we did tonight to put themselves in a hole. Second, when they did get hot, they'd blow you out, not win by 1.

Second, we're not talking about playing a style that was necessarily built on runs. Getting down like we did wasn't a result of missing good shots and the Heat just making a lot of shots that were well-defended. It was actually the opposite.

Like I told Eric, the way we played through three quarters wasn't acceptable to me. That was Terry Stotts Ball. If we played with any kind of energy and intelligence from the middle of the first quarter through the end of the third, we wouldn't have needed the big run at the end and the 3 from Hart at the buzzer to win. That kind of winning isn't sustainable and that kind of effort isn't to be shrugged off because we managed to overcome it last night. It's a bad habit that'll kill you over the long haul.

I said when the game ended that it was a good win because we played poorly but we managed to find a way to pull out a game on the road against a good team. That's enough. I'm not going to say "That's basketball," because it's not. Watching our all-star point guard try multiple times to force action and dribble through two or three guys like a young player that can't recognize defenses is not basketball. Watching our shooting guard telegraph pass after pass so that we don't even get off a shot and even give up dunks at the other end is not good basketball. Watching us chuck up shots with no rebounders within 25 feet of the boards over and over and over is not good basketball. Being out of control on closeouts on players who only are shooters and then not even trying to recover is not good basketball.

The win should be enough for some of you guys. The fact that you want to make this out as we have to pretend we played well rah rah rah we had them all along we knew what we were doing and quoting me so I am compelled to respond is just going to frustrate you, because it wasn't winning basketball, it was lucky basketball, and winning a couple of games like that and accepting it will lose you five down the road. Take your W and stop trying to convince people who actually know what basketball is that "that's basketball." OK?
 
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