Jimmy Butler scored 24 of his 36 details in the second fifty percent, and the Miami Heat overcame a profession-large 44 points from Indiana’s Tyrese Haliburton to beat the Pacers 142-132 on Thursday night.
Rookie Jaime Jaquez Jr. scored 24 for the Heat, who trailed by 13 early and didn’t consider the direct for the first time until finally early in the fourth. Butler extra 10 rebounds, Josh Richardson scored 19 details and Duncan Robinson added 16 for Miami, which snapped a three-game slide.
The Heat applied a 28-6 run in the fourth to take command in the opener of a two-activity sequence. They host the Pacers yet again Saturday.
Haliburton scored 28 details in the initially fifty percent for the Pacers, who had 73 points at intermission — then gave up 78 in the 2nd fifty percent. Haliburton also experienced 10 helps, the NBA’s initial sport of at least 44 details and that quite a few assists since Donovan Mitchell’s 71-position, 11-help night time for Cleveland on Jan. 2.
Obi Toppin scored 25 for the Pacers, who trailed by as numerous as 16 in the fourth right before earning a late operate. Bruce Brown scored 15 and Buddy Hield experienced 12, even though shot 2 for 11 from 3-point selection.
It was the 17th occasion all-time, which include playoffs, that a Miami group authorized at the very least 73 points by halftime. The Heat experienced been -16 in this sort of video games.
The Pacers are averaging 127. details, a little bit ahead of Denver’s NBA-record average of 126.5 set in 1981-82. But they authorized Miami to make a staggering 15 of its final 17 photographs.
The Heat misplaced All-Star centre Bam Adebayo in the second quarter just after a bruised left hip was aggravated Adebayo has been working with that trouble for a number of times and missed a video game final week due to the fact of that hip.
And but, with no a defensive participant of the calendar year prospect, Miami clamped down in the remaining two quarters.
The Pacers began even more quickly than regular they had a season-higher 13 factors immediately after a few minutes to set the tone. They led by as several as 13 in the opening quarter — Miami’s 3rd consecutive sport experiencing at least a 12-stage deficit in the initially quarter, the longest this sort of Heat streak given that February 2015.
Haliburton was rolling from the outset, scoring 13 in the to start with quarter and then 15 much more in the 2nd — those all coming in a span of 4:04. It sparked the Pacers to a 73-64 halftime direct, the fifth time this time Indiana experienced achieved the 70-place mark by the split. The Pacers had been 4- in these kinds of game titles this season.
Miami paid tribute to longtime Pacers media relations director David Benner, who died earlier this yr. A seat was left in Benner’s honor courtside, with a bouquet of yellow flowers — the Pacers’ main colour.
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