Butler, Adebayo assist Warmth maintain off Magic, 110-105, to shut out 3-0 homestand

MIAMI — In the long run maybe it makes excellent sense for the Miami Warmth. Late-arriving crowds; video games determined within the closing ticks.

And so it was once more on Friday night time at Miami-Dade Area, in a tougher-than-expected 110-105 victory over the Orlando Magic.

Unable to regain their 3-point taking pictures till the second half and unable to solidify their footing till the fourth quarter, the Warmth nonetheless moved a season-best six video games over .500 at 28-22, closing out a 3-0 homestand.

Jimmy Butler led the Warmth with 29 factors, six assists and 6 rebounds, with Bam Adebayo including 20 factors, seven assists and 6 rebounds.

These performances had been supported by wanted complementary efforts from Max Strus, Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent.

Strus closed 5 of seven on 3-pointers for 17 factors, with Martin scoring 13 and Vincent 11.

5 Levels of Warmth from Friday’s sport:

— 1. Closing time: The Warmth trailed 31-26 on the finish of the opening interval, 59-50 at halftime and 79-73 going into the fourth, after briefly retaking the lead within the third solely to see Orlando shut the interval on a 10-0 run.

A Vincent 3-pointer then capped an 11-2 run to provide the Warmth an 84-83 lead with 9:21 to play, with the Warmth extending that run to 13-2.

However after going up six with 4:19 to play, the Warmth noticed that lead trimmed to 97-93 with 2:41 left after Adebayo was known as for his fifth foul, with the lead additional trimmed to 99-98 with 1:46 left on a Wendell Carter Jr. 3-pointer.

However Butler responded with a 3-point play with 1:29 to go for a 102-98 lead.

A Gary Harris 3-pointer later drew the Magic inside 104-101, earlier than Butler attacked the paint for a driving floater and a 106-101 Warmth lead with 34.8 seconds left, the Warmth holding on from there.

— 2. Butler again: After lacking Tuesday’s sport with what the Warmth listed as a again situation, Butler was as much as 18 factors on the intermission, providing a wanted dose of bully ball on an evening the surface photographs weren’t falling.

He closed 10 of 17 from the sphere, 9 of 12 from the road.

— 3. And Bam can: Adebayo was on a triple-double tempo halfway by means of the second quarter till his third foul received in the way in which.

Adebayo’s fifth basket moved him previous Eddie Jones for tenth on the Warmth all-time checklist.

He completed 7 of 14 from the sphere, 6 of seven from the road.

— 4. Tough begin: The Warmth struggled early from the arc, lacking their first 5 makes an attempt and later falling to 1 of 10.

At halftime, Strus was 2 of two on 3-pointers, with the remainder of the Warmth 1 of 16. That had Orlando’s Cole Anthony with yet one more 3-pointer over the opening two intervals than the Warmth’s three.

The Warmth then fell to three of 19 earlier than a Kyle Lowry conversion early within the third interval.

Strus later moved to three of three on 3s to begin righting the Warmth’s wayward taking pictures.

The Warmth entered final within the NBA in 3-point share.

— 5. Highsmith time: With Martin in early foul bother, Warmth coach Erik Spoelstra went 10 deep, with Haywood Highsmith becoming a member of Victor Oladipo, Vincent, Orlando Robinson and Strus off the Warmth bench.

“Once more, these are the kinds of challenges that you really want, the place extra guys are taking part in properly and forcing myself and the teaching workers to make difficult selections, and Haywood has began to place collectively extra impactful, constant minutes,” Spoelstra stated. “And that stays in your thoughts. And you retain on doing that with the alternatives that you just’re given, finally you power me to begin to discover some minutes for him. That’s the place I’m with it proper now.

“I’m simply getting extra confidence in him. If there’s a second, we’ll go to that 10-man rotation and we’ll see what occurs from there.”