Victor Oladipo scored 23 aspects, Bam Adebayo added 20 aspects and 11 rebounds, and the Miami Heat moved into the Jap Conference semi-finals by beating the Atlanta Hawks 97-94 on Tuesday night time.
Tyler Herro scored 16, Max Strus scored 15 and Caleb Martin added 10 for the high-seeded Heat, who ousted the eighth-seeded Hawks in 5 video games. And Miami got the series-clincher without Jimmy Butler and Kyle Lowry, both of whom sat out Tuesday with accidents.
Trae Younger’s tough series for Atlanta remained that manner: He performed 2 for 12 from the floor, scoring moral 11 aspects. For the series, the Hawks’ guard shot 32% in opposition to Miami’s swarming protection.
De’Andre Hunter scored 35 for Atlanta, which got 12 apiece from Kevin Huerter and Danilo Gallinari.
Hunter fouled out with 41.6 seconds left, Miami clinging to a 3-point lead on the time. The Hawks got a quit, taking on with 29.2 seconds very finest, and retained possession after a overlooked shot from Gallinari went out of bounds off Miami.
The Hawks never got one other shot off, time expired and Miami moved on.
Onyeka Okongwu’s three-point play got Atlanta interior 79-76 early within the fourth, the Hawks clawing abet after being down by as many as 15.
Nonetheless Herro hit a excessive-arcing jumper from the lane, Miami got a quit, and Oladipo hit a left-soar three on the subsequent Heat possession to push the lead abet to eight with 7: 29 very finest.
That’s how the final minutes went: Atlanta made a cost, Miami would retain it off, all of the manner to the tip.
And now, the Heat receive almost every week off sooner than dealing with both Philadelphia or Toronto within the East semis. Sport 1 shall be Monday in Miami.
The Heat already knew they’d be without Lowry, who overlooked his 2d consecutive game with a strained left hamstring. The shock used to be Butler, who reported knee soreness to the team on Monday and didn’t stare ample enchancment to play on Tuesday.
It used to be the fourth time the Heat needed to play without both Butler and Lowry this season, after going 1-2 in that scenario for the length of the conventional season – a sort of losses being the finale in Orlando where Miami sat most of their rotation avid gamers.
And Butler and Lowry spent the final few minutes of the principle half of notably taking half in what used to be happening.
A 17-0 Miami journey – including 10 in a row from Strus in a span of 67 seconds – grew to alter into a 3-point deficit correct into a 54-40 lead slow within the 2d quarter. Miami pushed the lead out to 67-52 on a score by Adebayo with 2: 55 left within the third, and the lead used to be 75-64 going into the fourth.
Atlanta had one final cost to receive, getting interior two within the final moments – however no closer.