“I feel like this game was on me and I lost it for us.”-Bam Adebayo

The fulcrum of the game was at 7:06 of the 4Q. C-Mart made a 3 to put 🔥 up 6. 🍎 called time. Thibodeau drew up a play where Isaiah Hartenstein acted as a stationary blocker to keep any 🔥 player from getting near Jalen Brunson behind the three-point arc. Bam, whose job, as is all 🔥 players’ job, is to defend all positions all over the court, rushed out to get to Brunson, ran into Hartenstein and knocked him down. Foul. Brunson made his trey and Hartenstein made his FT for an unorthodox and game-changing 4-point play.

“I took off too fast and I should have just let [Brunson] shoot it instead of trying to run through [Hartenstein], get around him,”

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“Coach has been telling us night in, night out to watch the back screens on the back side, and I got caught with one tonight.”

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“When you’re up six in that timeout, you get a stop, have an opportunity to score on the other end,” Spoelstra said of that painful sequence for the Heat. “But all of a sudden, by the time you’re going to the other end, it’s a two-point game. So that was probably the biggest swing moment.”

Bam is right, this one was on him.