MIAMI (AP) Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat purchased their necessary purchase of the season and took down the crew with the NBA’s easiest sage in the course of.
Butler scored a season-high 33 facets, reserve Goran Dragic tied his season-easiest with 26 and the Heat held on to beat Utah 124-116 on Friday night time – handing the Jazz (26-7) ideally suited their third loss of their final 25 video games.
Bam Adebayo scored 19 facets and grabbed 11 rebounds for Miami, which has won a season-easiest five straight video games. Duncan Robinson scored 15 and Kendrick Nunn added 12 for the Heat.
Donovan Mitchell scored 30 for the Jazz, who purchased 17 from Bojan Bogdanovic and 15 from Rudy Gobert. Mike Conley scored 14 for Utah, which purchased 13 apiece from Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles.
Miami outrebounded Utah 49-36 and held the Jazz to 15-for-46 taking pictures from 3-level fluctuate.
The Heat needed to dig deep repeatedly yet again in the fourth to drag out the purchase.
Dragic stumbled on Andre Iguodala for an delivery 3-pointer, then made one other himself on the next Heat possession for a 114-107 lead.
Bogdanovic’s 3-pointer with 3: 39 left started the final Jazz flurry, Conley purchased a layup on the next Utah possession and Gobert made two free throws on the next. Correct like that, the Jazz were inside of 116-115.
But they purchased no nearer, with Dragic taking a fee to erase what would were a basket by Conley with 1: 58 left. The Jazz injure up lacking their final six shots.
The Jazz are taking pictures 41.2% on 3-pointers in the first halves of video games this season in opposition to each person diversified than Miami, and easiest 22.2% in the outlet half of of their two video games in opposition to the Heat. They were 7 for 24 ahead of the rupture on Friday, fragment of the motive Miami went into intermission up 57-53.
There were six ties, six lead adjustments, and neither crew led by extra than six in that first half of. And Miami held on for a 96-94 lead after three quarters – the prerequisite for beating the Jazz this season. Utah came into Friday 24-0 when main after three quarters, 2-6 when trailing.
They’re 2-7 now.
TIP-INS
Jazz: Derrick Favors performed in his 607th career routine-season game with Utah, breaking a tie with Rickey Green for ninth on the crew’s all-time list. Next up: Bryon Russell, 628. … Gobert had a free throw 1: 53 into the game for his 6,000th career level.
Heat: Adebayo used to be listed as questionable coming into the game due to a knee field. … Tyler Herro (bruised hip) overlooked his third straight game with that be concerned and 11th overlooked game this season total. … It used to be the sixth game in Heat history whereby both groups had no longer no longer as much as 94 facets thru three quarters. Three of those have advance since Feb. 26, 2020.
FUNDAMENTALS
The groups were a combined 14 for 14 from the putrid line in the first half of. It used to be the second time the Jazz had been fragment of a game whereby both groups shot 100% from the line in the outlet 24 minutes this season, and the first such game for the Heat since a ”house” game in the bubble final season in opposition to Toronto.
RAINING 3’S
Utah has extra 3-pointers thru 33 video games, 559, than any diversified NBA crew has ever made thru no longer ideally suited 33 video games – but even 35 video games. Houston had 554 3’s made thru the first 35 video games of the 2017-18 season. The previous 33-game phrase used to be 522, by those 2017-18 Rockets.
UP NEXT
Jazz: Talk over with Orlando on Saturday.
Heat: Host Atlanta on Sunday.
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