Game 3 might have been a horrendous half of basketball, but if the second half comeback taught us anything, it’s that the Miami Heat are susceptible to being exposed on switches. For all the talk of Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Victor Oladipo, and P.J. Tucker as defensive menaces, the Heat have multiple weak links in their rotation.
That’s why it came as no surprise when the Boston Celtics began hunting out weaker defenders every time Miami’s defense got set in the half court. Suddenly, Boston’s offense looked unstoppable. We’ve seen this type of relentlessness from the Celtics before when Ime Udoka implemented a similar strategy in Game 6 against the Milwaukee Bucks.