Heat stunned at buzzer and fall to Rockets, 123-122, despite Bam Adebayo's 32 points and 21 rebounds
March is not when an NBA team wants to get creative with its losses. And yet here stand the Miami Heat, staggered by a four-game losing streak that now includes Saturday night’s 123-122 loss to the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center. Last Saturday, an awful start led to a home loss to the Orlando Magic.
Tuesday night, blitzed in the fourth quarter by the Charlotte Hornets. Thursday night, done ...
March is not when an NBA team wants to get creative with its losses. And yet here stand the Miami Heat, staggered by a four-game losing streak that now includes Saturday night’s 123-122 loss to the Houston Rockets at Toyota Center. Last Saturday, an awful start led to a home loss to the Orlando Magic.
Tuesday night, blitzed in the fourth quarter by the Charlotte Hornets. Thursday night, done in by 60 points from the Los Angeles Lakers’ Luka Doncic. And this time within a tick of victory before Houston’s Amen Thompson, the Fort Lauderdale Pine Crest product, scored on a put-back winning basket with two-tenths of a second to play.
So no, not good, not good at all. Instead of pushing their way out of the play-in race, now in jeopardy of falling to the bottom of that second-tier race. This time, not even 32 points and a career-high 21 rebounds from center Bam Adebayo were enough, nor were 25 points from Tyler Herro, 19 from Pelle Larsson and 19 from Simone Fontecchio as the Heat played in the injury absences of Norman Powell, Andrew Wiggins and Jaime Jaquez Jr.
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