The Cavaliers lost a crazy one to the Heat, but the big story is Darius Garland re-injuring his toe
Andrew Wiggins made an alley-oop dunk at the buzzer in overtime, and the Miami Heat beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 140-138 in a wild back-and-forth game Monday night.
Norman Powell scored 33 points, Jaime Jaquez Jr. had 22 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists off the bench for the Heat. Wiggins scored 23 for Miami, which got a 14-point, 20-rebound game from Kel’el Ware.
Donovan Mitchell had 28 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists for Cleveland, including a 3-pointer to tie the game with 0.4 seconds left in overtime — before Wiggins caught a pass from Nikola Jovic for the game-winner.
Cleveland got 23 from De’Andre Hunter and a 21-point, 10-rebound effort from Evan Mobley.
The Heat are 5-0 at home for the third time in franchise history, joining 2012-13 (when Miami won the NBA title) and 2019-20 (when Miami lost in the NBA Finals).
It was the first meeting between the teams since Game 4 of their Eastern Conference first-round series last season — when Cleveland won 138-83 to finish off a four-game sweep with a total victory margin of 122 points. It was the most lopsided postseason series, in terms of margin, in NBA history.
“It was very humbling,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “It was embarrassing.” | https://www.espn.com/nba/recap/_/gameId/401810056
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39 Comments
And this is my problem with Garland. He always injured can't depend on him. What I dont like is the lack of defense we are playing
The way this game went you can be pretty sure there was a ton of money bet on the Cavs moneyline. Usually when that is the case you get these outlier games that nobody can make sense of, and it gets chalked up to poor effort or silly mistakes. When in reality it's just fixed plain and simple.
Evan should have stayed under the basket since Jarret wasn't in. Also Hunter not Mitchell should have guarded the outbound pass. Darius is ALWAYS HURT every year. The Heat was waiting for this game after they got sweeps in the playoffs.
I knew garland should have been traded
Garland wasn’t rushed back. He’s just an injury prone player. It is what it is and I’m not sure what the Cavs do with him
Should’ve traded garland for kd man I don’t understand the obsession with garland in Cleveland
And 4yrs later not 1 LB of muscle gained by Garland Allen Mobley
wow, lasted what two weeks without getting hurt
"coach of the year"
The best ability is availability…DG doesn't fit….you must acquit!
Small guards don't age well in the NBA! Both DG and DM never seem to be healthy when it counts..only healthy when they go to the 2nd APRON BANK$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Terrible 3 point shooting on a night that we should have punished the Heat at the rim with no BAM!!!!
That's why J.Bryant isn't a head coach!! You always put size on the inbound…NO JA out there was a joke!
Wade's job was to deny NORMAN the ball..Dustin!
Guys if u ever played ball at any level this isn't a difficult play ti defend with .4 on the clock just put one of your big men under the rim to prevent a tip in or dunk, my goodness, this team needs a dog, to shake things up & its apparent that Allen needs to be moved, I would go after Dillon Brooks & combo PG SG guard Simons on Boston he's very underrated, finally Garland got to go too fragile enough excuses, he'll never get away from gm2
No one should guard/harass the in-bounder and focus to 4 players on the court, EV4 should stay in the paint and donovan should guard JJ Jr.
with 0.04 time left you should know they go to Lob-play because it is the HPS, we can live in the result if they take a CnS contested shot. BAD defensive play and awareness.
Miami Heat culture wins 😅
He's injury prone, cut your losses during the NBA trade next year.
I am so confused on the approach the Cavs took this season. You had Ty Jerome who expressed disappointment in the Cavs for not offering him anything for the organization to then come out and respond with a post reply saying "thank Ty Jerome" on social media. I truly believe Jerome would've come back for less (he does not deserve less) but instead they settled for Craig Porter Jr. To be our backup.
We need a ball handler.
Lonzo is not it.
CPJ is not it.
And we need a strong veteran presence, someone who's been to the finals and has actually contributed.
Larry Nance Jr. Is not it.
This team mid we still don’t have enough frfr dean wade still on this team is crazy to me LOL
Haha pathetic!!!
Cavs looked so stupid last night. And, please, get rid of Garland.
Wade guarding all the way to half court is borderline criminal
Dg career may be over,little men with foot problems
Stubbed the toe 2 years in a row to the miami heat haha. Lets gooooo heat nation
Hopefully this spells the beginning of the end for this group, I’ve seen enough anyway, tired of waiting or hoping Evan becomes elite, tired of hoping Jarret Allen tuffens up, tire of hoping Garland stays healthy, tired of hoping they are healthy at the end of the year, tired of hoping they play hard in the playoffs, tired of wondering if Donovan can lead a team to a championship. 4 years of this let down, trade these losers and start over.
Mitchel stepped out
DG, I love yoh my guy, but ya time is up in Cleveland ✌🏾
I really like garland and think that he can help us get over the hump but if he can’t stay healthy then we have to move him and would move allen too can’t waste donovan prime
The Cavaliers missed half their free throws at the end of the game. They sucked last year at it and still suck thisvyear
Shoutout G my scorpio bro!
It's. 3 seconds for a catch and shoot.
Heat fan. That was a good watch
Idk why but if yall had somebody in the paint it goes to double OT
Trade him like last year already
Lonzo ball is unplayable
All idiot analyst on the game winner.. smdh
It was a great play call because Merrill , Hunter and Wade all looked for Norman Powell, who just ran to midcourt.
I don't care what no bady say miami give cleveland that game