Friday, March 21, 2025

10L FT Les Miserables (18-24 4Q) 98 Houston 102

Wig-o finished with 30, but made his only basket of the 4Q at 1:55. He's not clutch, he's not go-to, he wilts in crunch time.  He's Mister Second Quarter. Fleet Van Fred on the other hand is all of the things Andrew is not. 37 points, 13 in the decisive 4th.  After Andrew's bucket at 1:55 Fred answered at 1:34 pushing the lead back to 10, 92-102, at which point we were 12-24 in the 4th. 

Anti-Herro: 8 pts on 3/11 (0/1) six turnovers and +6 (That metric is so worthless, but everybody uses it.). Tyler is not clutch, is not go-to.

Les Mis shot 52.1%. Kel'el Ware had 14 boards. How does this Miami lose when shooting that well and Kel'el kel'eaning the glass like that? Answer is! Positionless basketball. Cows still hugely won the battle of the boards, 46-34, Bam only had 6 rebs, so Cows took 11 more shots. As proof of concept Spo had Bam and Kel'el take 6 treys. They made four of them, but he has them playing out beyond the arc. Evidently not playing D out there, however: Cows shot 50% from range. With this team, with its talent deficit almost every night, when you plug one hole, as we did on O tonight, another leak springs, tonight on D, and hanging onto the ball. We had 21 turnovers, obviously way too many, but only four more than H-Town. BUT: Our 21 t.o.'s led to 24 Cow points. Their 17 gave us 15 points, 9 fewer. We are 4-17 since the trade.

Heat Forever!