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00:01We're about to back inside
00:05Atkinson Cavaliers fans it's
00:07time to let us know.
00:08Back inside Rocket Arena
00:10there is a look at Rafa
00:11Hernandez Brito the bilingual
00:13announcer for your Cleveland
00:15Cavaliers Rafa with the
00:17introductions tonight here on
00:18Hispanic Heritage Evening.
00:21Here's the Hall of Famer in
00:23Rafa it's going to be a fun
00:25night here inside Rocket Arena
00:27cabs and heat on tablets.
00:30Take a look at the heat
00:31starters here this evening the
00:34heater three and three with this
00:35bunch.
00:36They have not been healthy
00:37throughout most of this season.
00:39This is the healthiest that this
00:40club has been all season long.
00:42The headliners are Tyler Hero and
00:45Bam Adebayo 55 year old Eric
00:51Spolstra is in his 18th season as
00:54the head coach of the heat makes
00:55him the most tenured coach in the
00:57NBA like the magic that the
00:59Cavs saw just last night the heat
01:01have really been streaky in the
01:02month of March starting on the
01:04final day of February they strung
01:06together a seven game winning
01:07streak before falling to a magic
01:09team that had won six in a row
01:11since that game back on March
01:1312th thirteen days ago neither the
01:16magic nor the heat have won a
01:18single game I mean the heat
01:19interaction having dropped five
01:21straight and their record of 38
01:23and thirty four slots them in a
01:24three-way tie for eight with that
01:27let's introduce our third member
01:28it is Serena Wittred well John
01:31after the Cavs got the win last
01:33night tension quickly shifted to
01:35the defensive end Kenny Atkinson
01:37got their attention the message was
01:39simple if they don't play better
01:40defense they're not gonna make it
01:42very far in the playoffs it's a
01:44message the group understood
01:45everybody that I spoke with said
01:46they appreciated the honesty
01:48because at the end of the day they
01:49all share the same goal one player
01:51telling me the truth hurts
01:52sometimes but it is needed but
01:54here's the key Kenny made it clear
01:55this is not about personnel it is
01:57about mentality he believes they're
01:59capable which makes nights like
02:00last night even more frustrating
02:02so tonight becomes a test how do
02:05they respond because Miami brings
02:06one of the fastest paces in the
02:08league and the second highest score
02:10in offense so that defensive
02:11urgency Kenny's been preaching
02:12it's gonna be tested right away here
02:14tonight guys Dean Wade was a late
02:17scratch for the Cavs so Keyon
02:18Ellis will slot in he'll make his
02:20third start as a Cavalier this is the
02:22Cavs 35th different starting lineup
02:25here in game number 73 as the tip
02:28ends up out of bounds and will
02:30belong to the Heat John Michael
02:32Brad Doherty and Serena Winters
02:34thanks for joining us on this
02:36Wednesday night middle game of a
02:38three game and four day set all here
02:41at home the Cavs took care of
02:43business against the Magic last
02:45night 136-131 a high scoring
02:48affair Bam out of bio he'll fire a
02:51three that's way short and grab by
02:53the Cavaliers Donovan Mitchell
02:54coming off just a superb performance
02:56he got his pocket picked however by
02:58another 45 Mitchell it's Davion
03:00Mitchell who goes all the way and
03:02opens the scoring here tonight
03:04yeah I took a lot of energy last
03:05night out of Cavaliers to this
03:07dispatch of that feisty Orlando
03:09Magic team heck of a basketball game
03:12so let's see how smart the Cavs are
03:13tonight might not have the legs and
03:15the stamina so you got to play
03:17smart got to be calculated pick your
03:19spots execute talking talk
03:21communicate play together Ellis in the
03:24corner watched by Norman Powell and
03:26corks at three the big side rebounds
03:28tipped by mobile and out of bounds
03:29well after having had the scheduling
03:31advantage last night over the Magic it
03:33is the Cavs tonight which are playing
03:35the tail end of a back-to-back against
03:37an opponent idle the night before
03:39the past five-point winners last
03:42night the heat have been off since
03:43Monday when they fell at home to the
03:45Spurs 136-111 and a bio comes out of
03:49the corner working in toward
03:51Mobley and a bio spin floats it up
03:53Mobley stayed there step for step a
03:55defendant rebounded by the Cavaliers
03:57Donovan Mitchell really nice defense
03:59there by Evan Mobley didn't go for
04:01either fake such a good defender
04:05Ellis ends up on his wallet and we have
04:09a whistle
04:14I'll lose the violence and he uses
04:17he uses Ellis go steady himself just
04:19pulls him down we're pulling him I
04:21look when drag him on down I was
04:24coming he was a really nice free to see
04:26pick up count score to combine 60
04:28points in the first two games between
04:30these teams as vigil fights mobile
04:32inside who draws a crowd back to a wide
04:34open sand narrow that's rebounded by
04:37out of bio and out comes devion
04:39Mitchell
04:39Sam can get those legs under him just a
04:42little bit more you can see it just a
04:43little bit of fatigue in those legs
04:45right now by the Cavs
04:46Powell for free
04:48Powell lit us up
04:50last couple times we played him he is
04:51just absolutely been explosive man
04:54the 11 year veteran average a career high 22 points a game last season as a member of the Clippers
05:01he's up at 22 again
05:03only gets turned back he'll find Merrill Merrill try to penetrate Powell stripped him
05:10Mitchell
05:10Mitchell shovels off to Powell Powell thought about a three hero in the corner he'll spin baseline gonna dump off
05:16the Mitchell back to out of bio and a bio not bashful from three he took 22 triples a couple
05:23of weeks ago
05:23it is 83 point performance more on that as we roll along James Harden's three doesn't go
05:30it's knocked off the backboard by Mobley grabbed eventually by Andrew Wiggins
05:36Wiggins spins down the alley pushed it up defended by Merrill back comes Harden three on two for the Cavs
05:41Ellis runs the floor takes the feed and stripped by Mitchell
05:45Cavs ball
05:47good quick hands by Davion Mitchell
05:50played the best basketball of his career after being acquired at the trade deadline a season to go from Sacramento
05:58he's earned his money on the defensive end but he's started a point guard this year for this Miami club
06:03as
06:04Mitchell takes the inbounds feed the Cavs are still looking to get on the board as Mitchell was picked up
06:09by Hero for a moment on the switch
06:11now left alone for a three that's short Hero rebound yeah I really need to back pick that ball get
06:16inside Evan
06:17Mowgli I mean we've been dominant last couple of games in the interior points in the paint let both get
06:23basketball games but just Evan Mowgli's point blank comes so let's get back to that Hero could not
06:29penetrate but he finds Wiggins for a three in the heat of the first eight points two games we've had
06:3560
06:35points in the paint a piece so let's start that's our bread and butter that's an area where
06:41the heat have been vulnerable as Mitchell from 15 feet out gets the Cavaliers on the board
06:52and Abayo took a bump and got fouled by Evan Mowgli three and a half minutes in
06:57and then picks up the personal he's coming off a perfect evening from the field yesterday
07:03eight of eight from the floor 19 points nine rebounds six assists
07:10yeah he's been dominant and he's gotten in foul trouble a little bit I like that that means he's
07:14playing aggressive and doing the things he needs to do those fouls go away come playoff time so he's
07:20adjusting well out of bio fires a contested three the Cavaliers certainly can live with that out of
07:26bio shoots threes at 32 percent a steal however by out of bio looks to go all the way up
07:31here to push off
07:32banks it up and banks it in our officials tonight our referee Kevin Cutler in his 16th season our umpire
07:40Matt Calio is in his fourth and the group chief is 26 year veteran Courtney Kirkland
07:49Cavaliers has with three early giveaways till this ballgame tend to
07:55Mowgli it's a show from Wiggins
07:59then we have a foul called too much hands says referee Kevin Cutler Wiggins picks up the foul we can
08:05shove team Evan Mowgli in the midair about 15 feet
08:11push off okay we're pushing each other the feet may have gotten tackled as well look at that look at
08:17that
08:18all right all right
08:21we should let everybody else do it doesn't matter
08:25keon ellis squirms his way across the free throw line finds Mitchell Donovan gets two feet in the paint
08:30draws a double finds Merrill Merrill's three rebounded by out of bio
08:37so the heat were here in cleveland last night as heroes three is short and rebounded by mobley
08:45after falling two nights ago to the spurs the spurs are playing a strong brand of basketball we
08:52mentioned the heat of drop five in a row five good opponents his mental shot is no good mobley gets
08:57there and bats it right back to donovan and number 45 knows what to do nice job by having keeping
09:03that
09:03ball alive good little tip on that that's the offensive rebound as far as the the team is concerned nice
09:09job good aggressiveness pal for free oh boy well he can get going man we've seen it live knowing
09:15power lights you up you don't guard him we have a timeout on the floor as we are underway here
09:22in cleveland
09:27and we welcome you back inside rocket arena as we take a look at the live odds courtesy of fan
09:35do you can play the cabs on the money line at a plus 112 cabs plus under parlays at 271
09:42here tonight
09:44third of four meetings between these teams the first two came two days apart back in november as the
09:52teams earned a split here's the injury report it is brought to you by elk and elk five regulars for
09:59the calves tonight are out allen porter streus tyson and wade wade was a late scratch keyon ellis
10:07moved into that cavalier starting lineup the first meeting in miami back on november 10th was a wild
10:16140 138 miami overtime victory the cavaliers two nights later without the services of mitchell mobley
10:23or garland turned around and beat the heat by 14 and with that let's check in with serena well john
10:29kenny's message was look they've got their hands all over us right they're grabbing they're pushing so
10:34what do we have to do we have to do the same thing on the other end play with that
10:38physicality so we'll
10:39see how they come out of the huddle here guys james harden works on tyler hero hard draws a double
10:44finds
10:45merrill merrill for three sam merrill out of the timeout drains a triple yeah really well designed
10:50play magic he did a good job of walling up defensively on james harden took the magic for
10:57a second there still got them in my head nice shot my samples got got himself good spacing got his
11:02legs
11:02underneath automatic when he does that second of three straight against the florida team heroes finding
11:09out exactly why the cavalier fans love the addition of keon ellis ellis with the steel
11:14and there they go merrill trying to find mobley inside off his foot it goes and out of bounds
11:22good job here on james harden you see that good help right there from bam
11:27comes over stops that basketball that just makes the rotations impossible
11:32bam almost playing like a a point forward in that defense because he's so athletic but it takes him way
11:38away from the glass and uh somebody's gonna be exposed does not leave a lot of rebounders inside
11:43for this miami team no no not a big team anyway so they'll just try to out shoot you and
11:48uh
11:49trying to get get as many good quick shots up as they can make more threes than you do
11:52probably with quick hands hero a drifting three tough shot by tyler hero
11:59the cavaliers make one tomlin and dennis schroeder have checked in they join hard and ellis and mobley
12:05makeshift lineup tonight for the calves five regulars are out this evening that ball's lobbed into mobley
12:12mobley dumps it back out to tomlin way to eater converging quickly here in this first quarter hard
12:20draws a triple behind the back ellis knows he has to hurry as mitchell got caught reaching and that is
12:25one that davion mitchell would like to have back
12:31art gets triple teamed as you see there makes a heck of a pass
12:34this little pump fake there by three job a good little pump thing by ellis got the guy really
12:40off balance we wouldn't gonna make the shot get right into it how about hardens behind the back
12:45feed ray max spruce three unbelievable last night he likes throwing it behind the back doesn't he highlight
12:52real makes it look routine it does tried that one time and i threw it out and hit my big
12:57rear end
12:58and got stuck in my pocket it can happen that's all right ridiculous things happen hey let's pause
13:03for a word from spectrum spectrum it's internet mobile and streaming tv all from one place it's only
13:13everything well that was really entertaining watching ac try to uh work on his he's not very
13:19fluid i thought he would not come up with i thought he was great but i will give him an
13:24a for trying
13:26rafa needed to give him a little more guidance we're talking about the pregame show cavaliers live
13:30quick to him come on i mean give the guy a chance i thought ac was fantastic phenomenal highly
13:37entertaining he was better than his french a couple of seasons ago when we went to paris really bad
13:41yeah this was this was entertaining i thought he was at least got a couple of the ac well done
13:46right good job ac you know when we went to paris ac was the escargot expert we went out for
13:51escargot
13:51i mean he knew precisely what he was doing of course green and i was ac sophisticated absolutely debonair
13:59i mean jaquez is checked in jaquez this season leads all nba reserves in scoring as at a bio stepped
14:07on the sideline calves ball jaquez misses his first effort here tonight there's bam
14:16recently rewrote the record book 15 days ago poured in 83 points and went over the wizards the second
14:23most scored in a single game in nba history this is james hard picked up by hella large stepped back
14:31and carries a three what card has been just so good just joining this cavalier team in 18 games he
14:38is
14:38hitting threes at a sparkling 46 percent devion mitchell rebounded by schroeder
14:49chroeder carts it into the four court he's picked up by norman powell schroeder across the lane goes to
14:55the left hand oh tomlin was there he couldn't quite throw it down at a bio
15:01slow back it goes to jaquez now he turns to jaquez who makes a three tomlin guessed right but
15:08he gets called for the foul completing that thought on at a bio it was one of the most head
15:13-shaking
15:13performances we've seen in a long time if you would have asked at the beginning of the season
15:17what nba player this year would score more than kobe bryant's 81 points and out of the 450 standard
15:24contract players in the nba you've got to pick a hundred no knock on bam whatsoever because he does
15:29so many other things so well my guess is you would not have put them in those hundreds there's no
15:35way out
15:36of the 450 to go for 83 i still don't understand i just watching play every night he's such a
15:42solid
15:43piece of what this team is terrific in so many areas yeah but 83 i mean i don't see him
15:48scoring 33
15:49you know so it's shocking i just just one of those games he did shoot with 46 free throws yeah
15:56he went 20
15:5643 from the field as powell mispires seven of 22 from three 36 of 43 from the line both nba
16:05records all
16:06five hard and through hawkins draws the foul as the calves have steadied the ship they've restored order
16:13here in this first quarter after a quick miami start yeah much better taking her time in that half court
16:18can't run tonight as well as or as effectively as you would like to coming off of last night's battle
16:24against the magic so gotta be a little more calculated gotta be smart take care of that ball
16:29a little bit gotta think every time make a play or make a pass most nights you're just trying to
16:34react
16:34tonight you got to think about it a little bit because your reactions are a little slower
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16:51learn more at calves.com slash offers the cavaliers with number one in the lineup in wine and gold are
16:5914 and
17:00it four hawkins looks to drive he got cut off thomas bryant active he flows quickly with a double larson
17:09pushes off allow ware with a three he had a 20 rebound game against the calves earlier this season he
17:17has 33
17:18the two matchups between the clubs wearing his second season got worn out in the playoffs last year by both
17:26karen allen and evan mobley nice little play right there by the cavaliers i like that little pick and roll
17:34between schroeder and bryant ended up a really good shot
17:40fellow larson gets called for a travel
17:45larson the second year man out of arizona is
17:49the eighth season looks on number of youngsters dot eric's rotation yeah i got a young basketball
18:00team and eric's been really patient helping develop these young guys and just looking to continue to
18:06stack and build and want to get back to where they're formidable again
18:10i think about basketball coach boxes out how works on schroeder and draws the foul
18:21we have a timeout on the floor
18:24sam merrill has nailed another three here this evening and let me come back serena has more on
18:30sam's progression cleveland calves trailing by four will sam merrill attacking off the dribble has been the
18:38talk of the team this week donovan mitchell even joked last night he's driving it like the honest now
18:43yes he's already hit a career high in threes this season but what's really stood out is how much he's
18:48expanded his offensive game he told me before the season this was a focus developing the mid-range
18:54the floater and finding ways to get to the rim as we head over to our chipotle difference maker
18:59it is sam you are seeing it sam is on pace to double his two-point makes this year the
19:04floaters become
19:05a weapon the mid-range is there and he's consistently getting downhill now kenny atkinson says it's a real
19:10credit to the work he's put into understanding what that next level of his game looks like and that's the
19:16key
19:16right he's always been a catch and shoot threat but now when teams run him off the line and they
19:20certainly will come playoff time he's got the counters to make him pay well it's a natural progression
19:25as mitchell gets his hand in the passing lane as you continue to move up scouting reports teams
19:31will take more things away and you better develop you better evolve over your time here in the nba
19:37will be short exactly right and everyone knows sam merrill's a dead-eye shooter so they lean on that
19:42they're coming at him walling up trying to get the ball away from him not even let him catch it
19:45so he's
19:46now you know morphed into a guy that catches the ball if you run that too quickly he goes by
19:50you so
19:51just taking advantage of what's available and more available to him he is smart the basketball player
19:56to maximize it thomas bryant gets called for an offensive foul the heat entered action middle of
20:02the road in terms of threes taken 15 out of 30 teams however here in this first quarter they've taken
20:1017
20:11shots 13 of which have come from three point territory they put it up man and the calves have been
20:17able to
20:17slow down a little bit but they put it up just like that trying to outscore you zero hits his
20:24second
20:24triple so the thing to do the tendency is to try to match that that's where the calves will get
20:28in
20:28trouble that ball is kicked it will stay with the cab the rookie out of illinois casperis yakachonas
20:35has checked in for the heat cabs are the type of team that has to play from a to b
20:40to c to d
20:41to take advantage of their skill set they start freelancing and play too much transition basketball
20:47becomes very sloppy eventually so gotta be aware of that especially tonight where you don't have all your
20:53strength schroeder looks to slash puts it up that was blocked by larson yakachonas now with his head
21:01up the 19 year old slows and finds larson they're out here with hero way and and haquez
21:08haquez spots up another three they're just going up here in his first quarter and bryant peels the
21:15rebound away and gives the schroeder shooter works on hero he got cut off baseline back up top it goes
21:21to
21:22hard and cavalier's trail by seven hard is watched carefully by larson hard tried to set up the
21:30youngster drew a crowd and got fouled by a reaching yakachonas
21:36he found number 25 has a good looking yakachonas who was picked 20th overall back in the 2015 draft
21:47drafts he wore number 32 in illinois he asked if he could do that with the heat no can do
21:54some dude named
21:55shaq at his 20 30 on his back wearing it anymore so it's not wearing it anymore let the guy
22:01wear it
22:02run out of numbers after a while we got so many yakachonas was born in vilnius
22:08lithuania became the fourth active lithuanian player in the nba joining that is who zealous
22:13the mantis sabonis and yonas valentunas says where that name was from i didn't think he's from north
22:20olmstead i was looking around that makes a lot of sense not for better better i thought he might
22:24be a better guy okay all right now clear
22:32here's larson inside larson puts it up and in and has a chance
22:36a three-point play so you mean to tell me as a youngster comes in here and he wants to
22:42wear
22:4343 that's i mean it's negotiable we can figure it out nobody's wearing that anymore we can figure it
22:50out we can work it out i'd like to be a part of those negotiations on your side that is
22:58you know any good lawyers i do larson that's good larson completes the three-point play james harden
23:07by the way tonight is making career start one thousand he draws a double now that goes to it
23:14dennis treeter under a minute remains in this low scoring first quarter heart
23:19rebounded by where
23:22really want to sisk it two more things going to the basket john got to get that paint take advantage
23:27let's say 60 points apiece last couple of games inside points in the paint kind of settling
23:33i know it's difficult to kind of mire your way through the offense right now but you've got to
23:37push through get better shots relentless naquan tomlin pressure forces a tyler hero turnover
23:45paquez watches hard
23:49now mitchell
23:51mitchell starts one inside finds tomlin tomlin perfect take a bump from where he'll float it up
23:56and float it in love it perfect pass from donovan Mitchell great catch by naquan that's the type of
24:01stuff hard-hitting stuff that goes towards the rim maybe even get to the free throw line a little bit
24:09the shot clock is off
24:14hero steps into a three
24:18tyler hero a couple of weeks ago was named eastern conference player of the week
24:22one week before bam and abayo on the save honor as mitchell from midcourt
24:28and the first 12 minutes are complete the heat idol last night fire up a load of triples 16
24:37all told in the first quarter they hit seven as on to the second quarter we go
24:50cavalier is trailing by nine here with mr cavalier austin carr and ac we'll sit out to you about that
24:56first quarter well i think we need to move the ball more i mean it's sticking too much and it's
25:01giving their defense a chance to set so if we move the ball more get more guys involved i think
25:07we'll
25:07do better in the second quarter yeah forces on four made five main field goals in that first quarter
25:12ac though i thought you were going to speak in spanish to me with how well you uh spoke in
25:16spanish
25:16in the pregame show well it's a little too fast for me right now guys yeah that's an excellent point
25:24by ac there and he's exactly right that ball is sticky right now so is our feet so we got
25:29to just just
25:30really it's a mental aspect of the game tonight that's supposed to court it got to focus on it
25:35both ends of the floor you got to be accountable you got to keep you got it like coach atkinson
25:39says you got to guard your yard make it difficult san merrill with that half drive braddy pulled up
25:46mid-range his runner is true san merrill opens up the second quarter score nice play you get past the
25:51first line of defense for this miami heat team it's not very good secondary help is not there they have
25:58no
25:58shot blockers so just go at them whoa larson yeah he walked a little bit of an op on that
26:06same foot
26:07twice young man two-step on that same foot nice job sam merrill there's no one there so yeah
26:13be patient a couple passes get below the free throw line move that ball towards the basket
26:18so yeah brian schroeder mitchell tomlin merrill mitchell for three
26:26rebounded by kalal where mentioned where first two games between these teams grab 43 rebounds 11
26:34on the offensive glass here's the youngster yakitonis working on tomlin now it's hakez
26:42hot dance spins in toward merrill where for three but a cow's defense did everything right
26:49and corners as where it hits the three and play another triple by the heat they have nailed eight
26:55here in this first half yeah where it's kind of moved away from playing on the interior and stepped
27:00out and made himself a shooter so nice shot by where knocked that down just three point shot perhaps until
27:07the
27:07final closeout shooter floater is good the calves rotated beautifully they had a counter
27:13everything there was about everything miami had cooking zero oh boy he can score
27:19they're playing so fast john they're just really pushing the pace on that offensive end
27:24we're just not quite getting back getting our feet in front of us and it's just a colossal change
27:29in approach the pace this season is where last that he boots it into the backcourt
27:36here's this drive by schroeder brad yeah shooter does a good job coming over catching that ball
27:41nice little slip screen turns the corner no no resistance good shot not a drive but a catch
27:48twist and shoot the heat prior to this year played at one of the slowest paces in the nba
27:55over nearly the last two decades as here's tomlin inside this season they ranked number one in pace of
28:03play merrill's short floater is no good in the 17 seasons that eric spolstra has coached this team
28:11bryant knocks it off the back door that ball pinball's the ware who pushed it over to jacques
28:17that how the heat threw it up but they've taken this 36 23 lead the heat have finished in the
28:22top 20
28:23and paced only twice yeah eric spolstra never in the top half of the league their first this season
28:31yeah that's very very monumental difference oh no doubt about it they've always just been a very
28:35methodical basketball team and uh this is this is something interesting to watch with this team
28:41they've run and shoot at this at will and you talk to the heat folks they'll say that the sweep
28:48at the
28:49hands of the cavaliers last season really was a wake-up call in terms of sparking off-season talk
28:55about ways that eric spolstra's club could do things better and he said we just got run out of the
29:01building in four straight games we have to do something drastically different boy they have oh yeah
29:07and it's getting better and better for them i mean they've adapted to it extremely well
29:11and if you can't slow them down and make them play half-court basketball they're going to beat you
29:15that's why they had that big winning streak a couple of weeks ago it's just one of those things they
29:19they get hot you just can't match them shot for shot fast-paced attack and heat basketball were not
29:26exactly compatible over the last 17 seasons as tomlin and wax yakichonas
29:35yakichonas will shoot free throws less than three minutes in second quarter the heat lead is 38 25
29:46eight customers on the choice almost to be the cavaliers and i talk about it all the time but i
29:51you'd like to see if the calves run a little bit of zone just to take a little bit of
29:56the
29:58effort part out of the energy on the defensive end just a nice zone to make them he's going to
30:02shoot it anyway so you end up with the interior presence box out get the defensive rebound
30:07back at chonis gets set for his second as we pause for a word from jets pizza
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30:24that foul and naquan tomlin by the way was his fourth oh wow wasn't paying attention to that i
30:30think we had a couple tomlin heads off the cavalier bench the heat lead is the heat run i should
30:37say
30:37is 12-4 cavalier shot it exceptionally well last night larson banks and misses as larson gets fouled
30:47out of the way that denis schroeder is hot perhaps because of the timing of the whistle
30:53this angle it didn't look like he
31:05hit a lot of basketball it's hard to tell
31:08boy you can see why schroeder was so unhappy the whistle was a touch late as well
31:16which threw that reaction and that reaction continues 8 46 to go here at the second 41 calves 25 i
31:25started
31:25to say the calves shot the ball exceptionally well here last night north of 60 percent from the field
31:31on the evening here this first half they're at but 32 percent as we have a timeout on the floor
31:38dennis
31:39continues to talk it over with young umpire matt calio
31:43the heat have come out firing they've had 56 percent from the field nine of 18 from long range they've
31:54taken his 41 25 lead early in the second quarter where a number of the representatives from the 2017 draft
32:02class are in action here tonight donovan mitchell leads the way in terms of total points look at some
32:09of these high games wow however mitchell tatum fox and atabayo all have 60 point games in their career
32:16that is incredible my goodness that is absolutely a juggernaut of a draft player my goodness wow not
32:24see shabby this guy was picked 13th overall yeah they're happy to have this man in northeast ohio
32:33an all nba first teamer a season ago top 10 in scoring
32:38that's what's going on
32:40hella larson has one more free throw coming
32:44larson and company have uncorked 18 triples they've hit nine
32:52larson at 924 this is miami this 42 25 lead
33:00so here is dennis schroeder he's out here with mitchell bryant merrill and ellis
33:10for three yeah that's a nice play you get that little drive right there by schroeder
33:14ellis steps into the pocket gets a good looking shot good look at it well you can ask for
33:21same type of play on the other end for the heat they just made the shot
33:26andrew wiggins he's a perfect two for two from long range he'd go to a little zone here i think
33:32it's
33:33smart merrill mary spolstra has traditionally played a lot of zone smart
33:47nice job shooter gets in there he's such a good ball handler
33:51so it's a tough pass man just got right by the fingertips where there's a foul
33:56nice job
33:58that's a little shooting foul so sam merrill is on the floor yesterday at merrill
34:04hit a couple of triples setting a new single season mark
34:10145 threes now on the year
34:13a little lack states go on the backboard last night though a couple a couple nights ago you had
34:1710 rebounds yeah we called it moses merrill last night he slipped a little bit on the glass
34:2621 total rebounds over his last four games including that that's outstanding
34:3210 rebound beauty on the bayou nice job yeah he made sure we saw that oh he first thing he
34:40pointed at
34:40he came out to post-game conferences he put a little circle around it about 15 times
34:46i know sam you got 10 rebounds i don't know if he could believe it himself that's his career high
34:51knowledge and everything larson took a nudge from hard news back in the game wiggins digs it out
34:57sends it back to hero and a bio had a standstill three gives the wiggins who bobbled wiggins has to
35:03go
35:03baseline he scored hard and has re-entered so has evan mobley they joined ellis merrill and bryant
35:14hard snaps a pass to merrill
35:20perfect right in the middle there that's where you want to get the back of that zone somebody step
35:23right to that free throw line got a good look cats have gotten some good luck just not knocking
35:28anything down it's got to be a little bit stickier on the defensive end as opposed to having the ball
35:32stick
35:33their hands with the offensive end at a bio bothered by bryant gives the hero hero
35:39jumps towards the baseline got cut off takes a step back long two that's no good hard and
35:46captures it in the corner this is the heat's first look at james harden by the way neither as
35:53barrel fires a three neither at a bio nor hero played in the first two meetings between these
36:00teams it was two straight in miami what doesn't that feel like years ago i mean that was just a
36:06couple of months ago that's exactly right yakachonas's three is no good yakachonas is among the
36:12league leaders in terms of rookies in three-point accuracy merrill got dumped it's been a strange
36:22rhythmless first half if you will i just we're not getting the balls of all the posts at all i
36:26mean
36:26evan mobley has not taken a shot i don't think he's got to go inside he and thomas bryant got
36:33to
36:33start touching that basketball on the post and it's not just a big man thing it's a it's an all
36:38possession thing quality of shot controlling the tempo and we're not doing that mobley who was a
36:43perfect eight for eight from the field yesterday has yet to take a shot in nine minutes of play
36:59we approach the midway point of the second quarter larson slings one over to davion mitchell
37:07tyree's proctor has checked in that's a nice sign for cavalier fans proctor missed eight games with
37:14a quad strain he's played only three games after the all-star break so welcome back young man we have
37:20a timeout on the floor sure in the city of cleveland the cavaliers failed this ball game 47 29 looking
37:28to
37:28beautify things here inside the building yes gotta get some james hard and the cavaliers a spot of the
37:35heat this 18 40. gotta get some fire going here john we're just kind of flat right now and
37:40everything is just flat we're not getting after it just got to have a little bit of
37:45grit tonight play a little harder play smarter foul harder
37:50needed just coming out just out out like coach action said we got to have our track shoes on
37:55they're just running up and down the floor playing so free
38:00probably over the top of out of bio pokes that out of bounds we credited the magic last night the
38:07magic
38:08on the tail end of a back-to-back came in here to rocket arena and gave the cavaliers all
38:12that they
38:13could handle as eventually the calves disclosed with the magic 136 131 the scheduling advantage tonight
38:20goes to the heat this is a difficult team to play against considering that pace on the tail end of
38:26a
38:26back-to-back which is why the guys do need to dig deep here this evening and a bio fades
38:32away and misses
38:32hard and rebounds let's see if the calves can get jump started here long lead pass to ellis ellis tracks
38:38it down he directs traffic hard proctor ellis merrill and mobley make up the cavalier five
38:45the heat has been swarming hard and when he has touched the ball here in this first half
38:51watched by powell bonnie got fouled wiggins pick six
39:05hardin thought about a three around the horn it goes to merrill merrill shuffles left
39:11can't get the roll out of bio rebounds fans grab five here in this first half
39:17devion mitchell tries to penetrate swings it back to wiggins
39:22you have not been bashful for long range it's just flying and then uh on the offensive end the
39:28calves are just kind of settling just get some passes going let's get that ball below the free throw line
39:33before we get a shot a couple of times just like that nice nice play up strong mobley through
39:39norman powell and powell commits the personal the heat have taken
39:43two big triples they've hit 10. calves meanwhile are just two of 14 mobley
39:51makes his way to the free throw line
39:57mentioned last night mobley a perfect eight for eight from the field he was named an all nba second
40:05team or just a season ago he's the reigning nba defensive player of the year
40:10is that defensive end that getting atkinson said after yesterday's game the calves will
40:17need to refine need to crank up heading into the playoffs counting tonight only 10 games remain
40:23before the start of the postseason we've got a really quick quick end coming it's going to
40:28button up pretty quickly here and cavaliers aren't quite where they want to be so there's a little bit
40:33of panic it's set in because they're trying to get this defense shored up and
40:37get it make sure everybody's healthy and do all those things and
40:40other areas that free throw line we got to make free throws in the playoff john
40:46larson is watched by donovan mitchell he'll find davion mitchell davion
40:51and work inside on proctor and proctor reached in and poked it away welcome back young man the rookie
40:56out of duke selected by the calves in the second round of the most recent draft as donovan creeps inside
41:02davion donovan floats and scores this is a great opportunity for turris proctor to come
41:07out he's got fresh legs eager to play come out play hard be aggressive just on both ends of the
41:13floor so coach atkinson that he needs your energy on this floor great opportunity if he joined us
41:19late the calves are without five rotation players this evening as adabai just had a muscle inside
41:25that looked like a travel adabai shot it appears that he was the first man to touch it and official
41:31goes the other way the calves won't argue as they were on the floor off the turnover and donovan
41:37mitchell lays it in
41:40still trying to wrap my head around out of bios going 83 points
41:48powell
41:48powell does not need much room he can like i said it earlier he can he can light it up
41:54very underrated
41:57good acquisition for the final heat team really a great story a late bloomer if you will as ellis
42:03takes the feed from mobley goes right back to evan who puts it up and in gets fouled by anabayo
42:08and
42:09evan mobley has a chance for the three-point play not very complicated uh go in be aggressive go to
42:15the
42:15front of the goal you know just just try to make shots around the basket nice pass right there by
42:20ellis go
42:21up one of the things at that time evan did a fantastic job sometimes he'll take that ball and
42:26and bring it down trying to gather himself that time he just kept it up high and it's hard for
42:31the
42:31defenders to react when you keep the ball up high it looks odd it feels weird but defensively guys
42:35don't react well to that and gave himself a good chance to play here last season evan was named an
42:41all-star for the first time finished fifth in the nba in the plus minus department as last season with
42:47mobley on the floor scored 546 four points than their opponent that's incredible wild to think
42:54about it incredible yeah he's been remarkable and uh had a breakout year last season thinking that
43:00all nba team is a big big deal this year's been an experimental process for evan but he is starting
43:06to play evan mostly like basketball and tonight we got to take it better advantage of his skill set
43:11he's got it donovan mitchell floats mobley poked at it proctor steps back davion mitchell by the way
43:20last time down the floor became the sixth heat player to hit a three here in this first half wow
43:27the heat collectively hit a dozen mobley a long two with the shot clock winding down it's grabbed by the
43:33the heat and out they come with a 55 36 lead powell leads into a three foul is called it's
43:42on the calves
43:42as wiggins had terrific position proctor picks up the personal andrew wiggins was selected overall back
43:56number one overall i should say back in 2014 by yeah your cleveland cavaliers he was swapped out with
44:03anthony bennett in the heaven love trade before wiggins played a game in wine and gold powell down the
44:09alley he banks and scores as norman powell continues to make it look easy he has 11 first half points
44:20pitch off to mobley hopefully from the high post operates on at a bio he'll find ellis inside as ellis
44:26left wiggins standing behind ever gets a double team makes a really nice pass
44:31job for ellis to step into his vision give him give him a good outlet close to that basket
44:37goalie is an excellent passing big man davion mitchell works on james harden relays and finds wiggins who
44:46airmails a three that's grabbed by the calves donovan mitchell donovan slows he's picked up by powell
44:53muscles his way inside back to ellis ellis got knocked down by wiggins so ellis will shoot three
45:07ball kicks out wide open ellis wiggins gets him on the hand there nice ball movement by the cavaliers
45:15peon ellis tonight made his third start as a cavalier as dean wade was a late scratch
45:23eric spoelstra will use a coach's challenge he does not use a lot of challenges
45:29he's lower on that list but he will use one here with 134 to go
45:35in the first half for the defensive foul miami is challenging the ruling this play is now in review
45:44eric spoelstra uses that coach's challenge spoelstra was an assistant for a second division team in
45:53germany when the heat hired him as their video coordinator 31 years ago wow way back in 1995 at
46:01some point within the next 13 years pat riley decided that spoelstra would be his successor and the rest
46:08shall we say is history is eric spoelstra now is the most tenured head coach in the entire nba in
46:15season number eight what a remarkable story courtney kirkland ladies and gentlemen after review there is
46:22secondary action by the defensive player as he hits the hand of the shooter the ruling of floor stands as
46:27a defensive foul it is an unsuccessful challenge miami will be charged a timeout and they have
46:33no challenges remaining favor resume with three free throws so there you have it the call stands miami
46:42now is out of coaches challenges the rest of the evening and ellis will make his way to the line
46:48for
46:49three ellis in his 20 games as a cavalier has swiped 28 steals and blocked 22 shots he has an
47:00active
47:00sort out there on the perimeter yeah that's a great job he's always in the passing lanes he is uh
47:05his
47:06defensive principles and fundamentals are just outstanding and he is an absolute specialist on that
47:13defensive end you know why are you doing six five 175 and there's a lot of things hard yeah offensively
47:20does he not plays with speed and impact and gravity at his size he goes hard on every play 100
47:27percent
47:28he goes hard on all else's first three rattles in as we pause for a word from auto owners insurance
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47:40human sense john michael brad doherty serena winters the middle game of a three-game homestand
47:47these two teams will lock on once more on friday night that will be the fourth and final meeting
47:55between these clubs in the season series they split a pair in miami a couple of months ago
48:02the calves took out the magic last night by five in a high scoring affair
48:10all we can hope for is it's like 10 degrees tomorrow and snowing and cold
48:15and these guys can't get out and get around and stuck in the hotel all day stir crazy
48:21we were in miami those three days it was not it was very nice perfect weather
48:28davion mitchell got fouled by donovan mitchell
48:33davion turns that corner good job by donovan i got him on the arm there
48:38got his chest square back square with that shoulder almost got in front of him
48:42not a good foul Mitchell's strength is on ball defense that's davion we're talking about he has
48:47started all 61 games that he's played this season doesn't shoot at time but he's been efficient
48:52from the field it's also protected the ball well for somebody who wasn't exactly slated to be a
48:58prototypical point guard it's this man who leaves the entire nba and assist to turnover ratio i'll tell
49:05what he can do to defend he can absolutely defend he's got quick feet he's strong he's sturdy compact
49:13hard to get around 58 41 miami 75 seconds to go in the half shrewd or creek baseline five oh
49:22donovan
49:22Mitchell can't believe he missed that well designed play ended up with a layup opportunity that's all
49:28he can ask for davion mitchell from powell that is triple number 13 for the visitors here in this first
49:35half
49:3813 of 27. again this miami team takes only 35 a game they're middle of the pack
49:45in that department it's not like this is a celtic team or a warrior team yeah that's what they do
49:53that's the thing it concerns you though as you're going to the second half you're going to make
49:56adjustments but this is how they play so they're going to continue with the speed you're going to
50:02speak right right not necessarily the threes but there's a pace right and we're struggling keep it up
50:06with the pace right now and i don't know but to have to figure that out we have to come
50:11up with some
50:11really interesting defensive schemes to give us a chance to slow down the pace or at least be able to
50:18match some of the consistency on out there wow donovan it's a three he thought he got fouled by
50:26davion mitchell and that rip through move somehow he was able to steady himself and connect as donovan
50:32now has 13 first step point sound like mitchell hit the ball actually okay he slapped the basketball
50:37and he didn't even knock it out his hand had a bio twirls ellis double back it goes to powell
50:43who got
50:43the opponent found by ellis here is our jager meister shot of the first half there was a slap was
50:53it
50:54ball was it arm regardless i think right i think it was ball yet somehow which with a small hand
51:00yeah able to keep it in his possession and by the way hit a three yeah jager meister's an appetite
51:07is
51:08is that right is that right yeah maybe a digit digestive factory digestive power it's his first
51:19see how this one unfolds the samples is that how this works oh no when i was in college though
51:25it
51:25wasn't exactly a digestif it was they didn't get samples they don't know no different one have a
51:31sample art the next day he said with a bad headache not a year school not it no of course
51:40not north
51:41carolina yeah world-class athletes there's no way talking about those others who do everything
51:51the shot clock is off he'd have done the job idle last night they come in and do what they
51:58wanted to
51:58do in this first half in terms of put early pressure on the cavaliers as lowly finds ellis that's been
52:04a nice connection here in this first half good ball movement heaven's got a good job of being a good
52:10conduit you have to have more of that cab's got to really pick it up second half
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