Indiana Pacers 144-129 Miami Heat 129: Quick Takes from the Arena

hey it's Ethan skuller for five on the floor in the five reasons Sports YouTube channel I'm here with gab carda and we just witnessed history Gad this might have been the worst defensive performance in Miami Heat history they allow the Pacers to shoot 65.9% from the field 142 points is that what they ended up putting up something like that something like that too many points to count six guys for the Pacers with at least 16 Jimmy Butler scores 25 in the second half and the still get throttled and this happens with Tyrese halberton a top 10 MVP candidate right now not even playing bamat bio didn't play for the heat Heywood he Smith got hurt of course Tyler Hero's still out but there's no excuse for this Gad I mean as you said as we're walking over here they affected nothing yeah not nothing at all I mean the Pacers dictated the pace of the game the entire way through and you kind of expect that a little bit of hurns on the floor but it's TJ McConnell that was the one in charge of the entire game I think he had maybe five points in the first quarter maybe like six seven points in the first half finish with 22 and 11 20 and 11 uh completely took over the game they had no response they went Zone couldn't do anything they started kind of doubling him a little bit he was splitting them like the way I mean when TJ M was playing like that I I don't know what you're supposed to do he played a phenomenal game and they had no answers for him I mean we're laughing cuz it was just so ridiculous I mean I honestly I mean he missed one shot um and you mentioned they went Zone that didn't help Orlando Robinson scored on the off you know he did some things the offensive end but they went right at him on the defensive end and really I mean some guys who usually play good defense like I thought Josh Richardson was good offensively he was bad defensively tonight typically that's uh his better end of the floor uh Caleb Martin didn't affect anything defensively I thought that was actually haime hawkin's probably worst game overall if you combine the offense and the defense he had that one rough game uh as a starter where he shot a lot of Threes but I know he looked jittery tonight missed some free throws and Jimmy again settled the game down and and and started to do some things in the second half uh he was passive in the first half but by then they allowed the Pacers to get comfortable the heat were up 10 in the first half and then it just kind of got away I I think when when Eric sper looks at this this is going to be one of the games he's most disappointed by Pacers here for for three days typically the South Beach flu affects the other team not the heat um I don't think this is a game he's going to throw out I I think this is a game that he's going to use as a teaching tool for these guys and the other thing I thought was interesting that was he went away from a point guard late in the I mean Lowry came back in but didn't play a lot in the second half no Lowry no Richardson they still were able to score cuz the Pacers weren't affecting them on one end but again I've never seen anything like this the stat that really jumped out was 20 fast break points for the Pacers none for the heat the heat somehow put up more than 130 without a fast break point and they still lost the game well not 130 more than 120 and still lost the game going away it's it's just I don't know with no Tyrese How with no tyres how is this let's before we close here is this just all bam listen if you want to know Bam's Worth to the Heat's franchise look at the amount of points theyve given up the last two games I mean they give up damn near 90 points in the second half today we we kept looking at each other like they could just get two stops in a row and they couldn't the entire game that's really a testament to B like they they need him this this stresses the import of bam on both ends of the floor obviously offensively they have it going but without him on defense good luck well and that's the thing if you look at their their defensive bigs Beyond bam uh Orlando Robinson didn't show a lot on that end tonight we know Thomas Bryant doesn't he didn't even get off the bench he's not going to play yic that's obvious Kevin Love does his job positionally but that's a weakness to this team is their interior uh they're bigs on the defensive end and it's gotten exposed without bam and he's not going to play Wednesday night in Toronto either so uh we'll see how that affects it he's got to get that hip right so anyway forget Cara I am Ethan skullnick uh we just scored the two of us we went out we went right by the entire uh heat defense and uh and we we're both shooting 73% for the field have a good night everybody