It’s midway through the third quarter and the Portland Trail Blazers are making their move.
Having enjoyed another one of their what-is-this-miss-shots-thing-you-speak-of halves, hitting 12-of-22 from deep, the Miami HEAT had taken a double-digit lead into halftime against a Portland team missing Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum. But with Kyle Lowry ejected just before the break and the pair of Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo already out of the lineup, Miami’s short-on-ballhandling offense was sputtering and the Blazers had it within nine following consecutive threes from Anfernee Simons.
After Omer Yurtseven follows up a Tyler Herro miss with a putback dunk, he runs down to the opposite side of the floor and waits for Jusuf Nurkic in the paint.