To say that the Miami Heat got going on Tuesday night against the Milwaukee Bucks would be a massive understatement. The Heat were supposed to struggle in this road game with Jimmy Butler, Terry Rozier, and Josh Richardson all sidelined, but somehow, Miami flipped the switch on the mighty Bucks.
The fact that they shot 47.5 percent from beyond the arc and 51.7 percent overall probably had a lot to do with how they completely blew out Milwaukee at the Fiserv Forum, 123-97
damian lillard struggled in this one too, going just 5-of-14 from the field for 16 points. It was the complete opposite for the Heat, though, who pretty much got whatever they wanted on the offensive end against a porous Bucks defense.
“It was a lot of off the ball movement,” Lillard said of the Heat’s offensive success, via Jim Owczarski of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “They had a lot of actions where they had as smaller guy in the dunker and they were rolling them down the middle ‘cause they were kind of positioning our smaller guy to be the guy to lift up against him and you know, we just keeping coming in because we knew that we were outmatched with the size and they were just spraying the ball around.
“I think it was just the movement. Duncan Robinson, Herro, they were just kind of running around a lot of the ball. See a couple go in, and our offense didn’t really help our defense. We was in a lot of scramble situations where we were behind the play and they shot the ball well.
“Sometimes it’s like that, but I thought it was some things we could’ve done better to maybe disrupt they offense a little bit. But they got going.”
After this win, the Heat finally got their first victory over Milwaukee this season. The Bucks still hold a 2-1 advantage, though, with these two teams no longer scheduled to play against each other for the remainder of the campaign. Unless, of course, they meet up again in the playoffs
