Celtic’s turn the Heat up on Miami
The Miami Heat have lost four games this season and two of those defeats have come against the same team.
Miami, for all their talent, are still finding their feet and rhythm and that showed on Thursday night as the Boston Celtics, again, handed them a 112-107 loss.
Ray Allen scored 35 points for the Celtics, making his first seven 3-point attempts, and Rajon Rondo continued his great start to the season by handing out 16 assists. Paul Pierce, too, chipped in with 25 points of his own.
"Everybody just stepped in and did their job, tonight was the first night I thought we had complete trust in the next pass, Ray was unbelievable on both ends," Celtics head coach Doc Rivers said.
The Heat did get to within three points at 110-107 – overcoming a deficit as big as 20 - with 13.3 seconds left in the game, but Allen put the game beyond Miami’s reach with two free throws.
It was the seventh time in his career that Allen has made at least seven three pointers.
Dwyane Wade again struggled against the Celtics, scoring just eight points on 2-12 shooting and LeBron James was one assist shy of recording a triple-double as he scored 35 points with 10 rebounds and nine assists.
Despite falling to 5-4, Wade was still in buoyant mood.
“We're the best 5-4 team in the league, how about that? But we've got a lot of work to do,” the shooting guard said.
It was Miami’s second consecutive home defeat after losing to the Utah Jazz on Tuesday night. Heat coach Eric Spoelstra said his team still needs time.
"No one's happy about it right now but it's only us that can make it get better, Nov. 11, right now, we're not there.”
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