I noticed at HT that although we had a nine-point lead, possessions were within one as I recall and we were losing on the component stats, offense boards and turnovers. We had Simone Fontecchio alone to thank for our lead. Well, The Stat at FT tells the tale as well as the scoreboard does.
Shots: Miami 88 Orlando 104! +16 ✅"Magic". To let the full force of this stat hit you between the eyes, consider: Miami shooting, 50%; Orlando 50%. Miami shooting three 44%; Orlando 42%. We shot better than they did from range! We even had more FTs and more makes! 21/23 to 13/17. The difference: Orlando took sixteen more shots.
Offensive Rebounds: Mia 9 Orl 12 ✅"Magic.
Turnovers/points conceded off: Miami 18-24 (!), Orlando 7-11 ✅"Magic"
Ballgame.
Erik Spoelstra started the same lineup he has for...too long, four games maybe. And it went the same way. I don't know if Spo is punishing 3J for fucking his ex-wife or what, but Jako started and was completely ineffective, 20', tyoo points, as many points as turnoverS, -6. 3J played 28' off the bench: 13 pts, +2. But Andrew was the anchor man tonight (in +/-): 32', 16 pts, -15.
The "Heat" 3W streak ends. They fall to 25-23 -->43-39.
