Heat Overcome Celtics Without Butler: Game Highlights
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00:03 Start with that heat win over the Celtics that we mentioned earlier, 111-101.
00:07 I said to you yesterday, Scotty, I just wasn't sure where the heat were gonna find some offense, right?
00:13 I mean, no Butler, no Terry Rozier.
00:15 Well, if you were gonna tell me that you were gonna get 20 plus from Hero, Adebayo, and Caleb Martin,
00:22 I probably would have said, "Okay, that's a pretty good start."
00:24 Caleb Martin was hitting from everywhere last night, Scotty, on TNT.
00:28 Three minutes left in the game.
00:31 Caleb for three.
00:32 Yes!
00:33 Caleb Martin!
00:35 Huge!
00:36 21 points for Martin, his fifth three in six attempts.
00:41 I mean, he was incredible.
00:43 Hero's sandwich was incredible.
00:45 He had six of them and 24 overall.
00:49 Bam and Martin, 21 apiece.
00:51 Hacquez, 14.
00:53 Jovich, 11.
00:55 I thought Highsmith played well.
00:56 He hit three threes.
00:58 Robinson, Dunkin Donuts hit a couple.
01:01 DeLon Wright hit one.
01:02 Everybody hit one.
01:03 23 threes.
01:04 We said, "If you watch the clip on SportsGrid, which ran on X after the show, you can see it for yourself."
01:11 We retweeted it, reposted it.
01:14 It was literally you and I having a conversation, and the essence of that was, "It's just too many points.
01:21 The spread is too high."
01:23 And I said to you yesterday unequivocally, "You wanna win the game,
01:27 they gotta get Hero open.
01:28 They gotta get him looks.
01:29 They gotta get him shots.
01:31 It can't just bam underneath the free throw line, popping J's all the time and nobody else scores."
01:36 They had to get everybody else involved except Love.
01:40 Love did nothing, so that 11 and a half went out the toilet with the rest of the water, but everybody else produced.
01:48 Love did nothing in the game.
01:50 I think he had four rebounds.
01:51 It doesn't matter.
01:52 They hit 23 threes.
01:53 They won the game outright.
01:54 That was a facial game last night at the Garden.
01:58 They never lose at home.
02:00 They're favored by 14, 14 and a hook in every game.
02:04 They essentially, the odds makers are saying no one has a prayer against this team.
02:09 And then to see them get soccer punched right in the throat was the best thing.
02:16 I mean, between that and the Kovatar goal, I mean, it was just the best night of sports
02:21 viewing for me in a while.
02:22 I love watching the Celtics lose.
02:24 Screw everyone in Boston.
02:27 Let's go to Bam out of bio next, Scotty.
02:29 Of course, the Heat, they were the Eight last year as well.
02:32 Everybody says no chance.
02:33 They're not going to do anything.
02:34 They're going to be out of here quick.
02:35 We love listening to all the doubters.
02:37 Here he is.
02:38 For us, we've been doubted a lot through our playoff runs.
02:43 As people say, we couldn't do a lot of stuff that we did.
02:48 So for me and my team, it's like, why lose?
02:51 Belief now.
02:53 Backs against the wall.
02:55 Everybody always against us.
02:57 Use it as fuel.
03:00 A lot of people seem to think we're going to buy into what they say of we can't get it done
03:07 and make it seep into our locker room.
03:09 And it's different.
03:11 Our guys believe that we can win.
03:13 We get in between those lines.
03:14 We make it about basketball.
03:15 We don't make it about schemes.
03:17 We don't make it about this guy and that guy.
03:18 We make it about mano y mano, getting that cage fight.
03:21 Let's hope.
03:23 Let's hope.
03:24 I got to tell you, this guy's supposed to have six finals.
03:28 I mean, this guy goes to the finals more than fans do.
03:32 All I know is they played their asses off last night.
03:36 Not only that, they deserve that game.
03:38 And I wanted to say, the one thing about Boston that I noticed last night was how pathetic Porzingis was.
03:46 I mean, what a mess he was.
03:48 So it's weird.
03:49 That guy will have 30-point games when it doesn't matter.
03:53 And when does he do it when it matters besides never?
03:58 He was one for nine from the floor.
04:00 And not only that, he got pushed around, Scotty, by Bam all night.
04:04 Bam was just pushing Porzingis around.
04:06 And that's what they need.
04:08 They need to do stuff like that, get Porzingis out of his game, and they'll be in good shape.
04:12 One more for this.
04:13 Let's hear from Tatum.
04:14 He says, oh, you know, this wasn't going to be easy.
04:16 We're going to win every single game.
04:18 That's not how it always goes.
04:19 We knew it wasn't going to be easy.
04:21 There's a lot of history between these two franchises, especially recently.
04:28 Oh, hot for that sweater, huh?
04:30 Regardless of seating or anything.
04:32 It's hot.
04:33 It's springtime.
04:34 It's the playoffs.
04:35 It's the playoffs, man.
04:37 It's never going to go how people expect it to go.
04:42 That's the beauty of being in the playoffs and playing at the highest level.
04:47 It's part of it.
04:49 We lost the game.
04:51 We got a chance to play again on Saturday.
04:54 So it should be another fun one.
04:57 Listen, I think that they remind me of the Bruins in that you beat them like Toronto did in Boston,
05:05 even the series, like Miami did to the Celtics.
05:09 And then the Bruins went to Toronto and beat the Leafs ass.
05:13 That's what they did last night.
05:14 They beat their ass.
05:15 So I am very leery of Miami in game three at home after what they exhausted to get there.
05:22 I mean, all out.
05:24 They played all out to win game two.
05:27 What will they do in game three?
05:28 Even though I think it looks like, you know, glory on paper.
05:31 Oh, they're home, home court.
05:33 They got all the advantage.
05:34 They took the momentum.
05:35 They won this.
05:36 I will not be surprised in the least if the Celtics go to Miami on Saturday, is it?
05:44 And wins that game out right.
05:47 Yes, Saturday will be game three in Miami between the two.
05:50 Despite the loss last night, the Celtics are still a very heavy favorite for the series, minus 2,000.
05:56 The series is 1-1.
05:57 They can still get the heat at 10-1 here as they would have to win, of course, three of the next five away from the Celtics.
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