Miami Heat vs Indiana Pacers Game Breakdown #32

Welcome to Simply Ballin’s Miami Heat game breakdown. Here you will find a recap of all the threads and tweets.

There are two main threads: offensive film and defensive film thread. In each of those threads, there is a collection of the main offensive and defensive breakdowns.

And this article is it’s more of an ICYMI with some added context, plus my quick thoughts on the game.

Quick Thoughts

I got to be honest, I wasn’t expecting this kinda win. This same team lost to the Detroit Pistons.

And the Indiana Pacers are much, much more talented than whatever team Erik Spoelstra lines up right now.

They really had Max Strus in the starting lineup replacing PJ Tucker — you can’t replace Tucker, though.

The Heat continued what they have been doing all month long and that is jack up a lot of 3s. Now, this was one of those days where everything was dropping.

Per Cleaning the Glass, their offensive rating was 135 (98th percentile) and almost 60% effective field goal.

We also finally got to see Tyler Herro coming back and he picked up where he left off.

But what was also as equally as important was the defense. They seemed to play much more zone and made sure nothing was made inside — the Pacers’ effective field goal was 42%.

And as always against the Pacers, Duncan Robinson was going off.

Offensive Breakdown

The plan was simple. Take 3s and make them — and it has worked this month well.

The Heat ended up going 22–49, which half of the 3s made came from two players. Once you get that level of efficiency on that high volume, you will most likely win — The Heat are undefeated when shooting above 40% from deep.

One of those players that ended up leading the team was Robinson.

We know that he is capable of getting this type of hot, but he was looking like a complete player — pulling up for mid-range, drive and kicks, and finishing at the rim.

His partner, Herro, did his thing after the first quarter — he ended up scoring 24 points in 15 minutes:

And if you want to see more of some key plays on offense, be sure to check out the first thread.

The scheme on defense was don’t allow points inside and it worked. The zone defense and swarming the paint prevented the Pacers from finishing at the rim — they got there a lot and had a high free throw late, but they weren’t able to put the ball in the basket.

Speaking of zone:

There were times when they let someone get in that middle zone and if the player is a playmaker like Domantas Sabonis, then it can cause defensive breakdowns — check the first Chicago Bulls game.

And if you want to see some of the keys plays on defense that were bad or good, check out the first thread.‍

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