Trae Young scored 25 factors, Clint Capela grabbed 21 rebounds and the Atlanta Hawks grabbed the No. 7 in the Japanese Conference playoffs by beating the Miami Heat 116-105 in a participate in-in tournament activity Tuesday night.
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Dejounte Murray included 18 details for the Hawks, who avenged a five-game Round 1 decline to Miami previous season and attained an East first-spherical matchup with Boston that will start off Saturday.
Kyle Lowry scored 33 details — his optimum-scoring game in his two Miami seasons — for the Warmth, who will host either Toronto or Chicago on Friday to come to a decision the No. 8 seed and a location in opposition to prime all round seed Milwaukee in Spherical 1. The Raptors and Bulls participate in Wednesday the winner of Friday’s game opens the series from the Bucks on Sunday.
Tyler Herro scored 26 for Miami, and Jimmy Butler concluded with 21.
For the Hawks, four reserves — Saddiq Bey, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Onyeka Okongwu and Jalen Johnson — combined for 53 factors.
The Hawks enhanced to 3- all-time in engage in-in event games that is the very best mark in the league, a single that New Orleans can match when it performs host to Oklahoma Metropolis on Wednesday evening.
And they attained this a person on the boards. Atlanta outrebounded Miami 63-39, which includes 22-6 on the offensive glass that keyed a 26-6 edge in next-chance factors.
The Hawks took two timeouts in the initially 3:53 of the 3rd quarter, as most of what was a 24-position direct with 2:37 still left in the initially fifty percent — 63-39 Atlanta was the margin — acquired whittled away, and speedy.
Miami slash the margin to 15 by halftime, then opened the 3rd quarter on a 16-6 operate. Incorporate it all up, and it was a 27-8 operate in about 7 minutes of play to get the Heat within 71-66.
But the Hawks experienced an respond to then, and each and every other time the Heat designed a run. The Atlanta guide was 13 once more likely into the fourth, and when Miami was inside 6 midway via the ultimate quarter, the Hawks scored 5 straight to restore a double-digit edge.
Tip-INS
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Hawks: It was the second time this year that Atlanta took a enormous initially-50 % guide and almost wasted it all. The Hawks were being up 26 about Miami on Jan. 16, allow the Heat get inside four in the remaining times and held on to gain 121-113. … Capela had 1 20-rebound video game in the frequent season.
Warmth: Lowry came off the bench in a postseason sport for the to start with time due to the fact 2009. His past 94 appearances soon after the typical year had been all starts off. … The Warmth went 1-6 this period from Friday’s doable gain-or-go-household opponents — -3 towards Chicago and 1-3 against Toronto.
On the lookout Forward
Boston went 3- against Atlanta this year, and virtually all the rotation players from both of those groups missed at minimum a single of those people contests. Younger averaged 31 points and 11 assists in two games towards the Celtics Jayson Tatum averaged 26.5 details, 11 rebounds and seven helps in two games in opposition to the Hawks.
It’s going to be the 13th collection amongst the Celtics and Hawks franchises, the 1st due to the fact Atlanta’s six-video game Spherical 1 win in 2016.
Play-IN Heritage
Miami grew to become the 16th franchise to take part in the play-in match. Chicago, Toronto and Oklahoma City will stretch that checklist out to 19 teams on Wednesday. That leaves only Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Milwaukee, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Sacramento and Utah as golf equipment who have however to be section of the perform-in occasion.
UP Next
Hawks: Go to Boston for Match 1 of an East 1st-spherical collection Saturday.
Warmth: Host possibly Toronto or Chicago in an elimination video game Friday.
