Built to sink or swim from deep, the Heat are 6-18 this season when they shoot below 35 percent on threes; and yet, last Monday, they thumped Indiana by double-digits and led by as many as 23 points despite shooting 13-of-40 (32.5 percent) from long distance. With Miami stymieing the previously outlandish scoring exploits of T.J. Warren with league-average defense, disruptive switches, and occasional traps at one end of the floor while also grabbing every offensive rebound in sight at the other, Indiana’s icier overall field-goal percentage (39.3 percent) by comparison made keeping pace with a colder-than-usual Heat team all the more challenging when also coughing up 17 turnovers.
The Pacers need to take advantage of the Heat’s lack of duality
