Last Updated on February 18, 2022 10:41 am by Erwin Noguera
The Miami Heat took a difficult victory with a result of 107-111 against the Charlotte Hornets, in a game with double extension that was resolved thanks to the experience and the excellent quality of play shown by Kyle Lowry and Jimmy Butler. The victory serves Heat to equal the Chicago Bulls in first place in the Eastern Conference classification.
Those from Florida already have 6 wins in their last 7 games, and with a very good record of 38-21, they are at the top of the suffocating NBA Eastern Conference, a conference that is compressed in its classification to delirious terms.
Both teams began the game playing a kind of chess match, trying to carry out the different moves that both coaches proposed with great precision.
The first quarter was very close, ending with a victory for the Heat with a score of 37-30. For the Heat, Bam Adebayo stood out with 7 points and Omer Yurtseven with 8 points. While in the Hornets, Miles Bridges dropped with 13 points and LaMelo Ball with 7 points.
The emotions continued and the second quarter was exactly in the same vein as the first. Both teams tried to make as few mistakes as possible so as not to allow the rival gaps that would take them off the scoreboard.
The Hornets managed to put together an almost perfect game, when defending they managed to stop almost all of the Heat’s attacks, leaving them with only 10 points in the second quarter, while their offense was ruthless at the hands of Kelly Oubre Jr., who scored 14 points.
The Miami Heat began the third quarter with the conviction of getting back on the scoreboard and being on top of the Hornets again. Although in the first few minutes they managed to get within 5 points, the Hornets managed to close the quarter with a very good offense and the quarter ended with a tied score of 17-17, with a partial of 71-64.
The last quarter was full of many emotions, Jimmy Buttler and Duncan Robinson managed to carry the Heat on their shoulders and removed the 7-point deficit they had to send the game to overtime, with a result of 87-87.
The Hornets were dominated in this quarter and the only one who managed to score was Montrezl Harrell with 11 points.
The first overtime period was on fire and, with an immense Kyle Lowry, who scored 8 of his team’s 10 points, while LaMelo Ball scored 4 points for the Hornets, to once again end the fourth with a tie on the scoreboard.
Finally, with the late awakening of Jimmy Buttler and the help of Kyle Lowry, the Heat managed to dominate the last quarter by only 4 points to take a very good victory with a result of 111-107, against the Charlotte Hornets who put up a fight until final.
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