1. For a time this had all the trappings of the second night of a back-to-back, with the HEAT’s offense giving us a look at what it looks like when the threes (7-of-27 through three quarters) aren’t falling. Toronto has historically schemed Miami’s shooters as well as anyone, after all. But with Jimmy Butler (37 points on 26 shots) keeping the team in the conversation, all it took was one burst – Max Strus hitting three threes in the matter of a few minutes to bridge the third and fourth quarters – to even the game in the final period, and then a pair of threes down the stretch from Tyler Herro and P.
Coup’s Takeaways: Butler Shines, HEAT Fall Short In Triple OT Thriller
