After being put in a deep, dark hole, how will humbled Heat respond in Boston?
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The Heat had three starters with six points or less in Game 2. That can’t happen again. One of them was Bam Adebayo, whose regular-season averages of 19.1 points and 10.1 rebounds have tumbled to 13.6 and 7.5 in these three playoff series. That’s got to change.
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Adebayo? That’s more of a mystery, going this deep into a playoffs with such a severe drop-off in production. Yes, he’s a versatile defender, the rare kind that can set a defense. His offense always has been part of his game, too.
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The Heat were blown out of their own building in a manner that made the fourth quarter look like some summer league game.
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Panic isn’t a plan. The Heat won’t panic. The question becomes how they respond.
“It can’t get much worse,” Jimmy Butler said. “They whipped us on our home court.”
We’ll see about that, just as we will see who the Heat really are in Game 3 and what answers they have.