ORLANDO, Fla. — Tyler Herro had 28 factors, eight rebounds and 7 assists, serving to the Miami Heat beat the Orlando Magic 115-106 on Wednesday evening.
Bam Adebayo had 18 factors and 7 rebounds for Miami, which scored 32 factors in a 6 1/2-minute stretch of the second quarter and gained for the fourth time in six video games.
Playing in his tenth sport of the season, Herro was 10 for 17 from the sector. He went 4 for five from 3-point vary.
“I feel like the more games I play, the more comfortable I’m going to be,” Herro stated. “I’m not in midseason form yet. I would like to say there’s another level I can take it to.”
Haywood Highsmith, one in every of 4 Miami reserves who scored in double figures, made 4 of the Heat‘s 15 3-pointers and completed with a season-high 15 factors.
“Our bench really drove us to this win,” coach Erik Spoelstra stated. “They finished the second quarter and they finished the game, for the most part.”
PHOTOS: Tyler Herro scores 28 factors because the Miami Heat beat the Orlando Magic 115-106
Miami performed with out Jimmy Butler, who has a strained left calf, and Kevin Love, who’s out with an sickness.
Cole Anthony led the Magic with 20 factors. Franz Wagner added 15 factors, and Paolo Banchero had 10 factors on 2-of-12 taking pictures to go together with eight rebounds and eight assists.
Orlando middle Wendell Carter Jr. returned to the lineup after lacking 20 video games with a fractured left hand. He received damage within the last seconds of the Magic’s fifth sport of the season on Nov. 2.
Carter performed 23 minutes, ending with eight factors and 6 rebounds.
The Heat made their last 12 pictures of the primary half, together with a few 3-pointers by Highsmith and one every by Herro, Duncan Robinson and Josh Richardson. Highsmith’s back-to-back 3s got here throughout a 17-0 run that lifted Miami to a 58-40 lead.
That stretch doomed the Magic, based on Anthony.
“We didn’t get back on defense. We were in a constant scrambling mode and they made us pay,” he stated. “We’ve got to grow up as a unit. We had a good run for a while and we’ve hit a rough patch. We can’t handicap ourselves like that and then expect to dig ourselves out. That’s called beating ourselves.”
Miami hit 8 of 12 3-point pictures within the large second interval and had solely three turnovers within the first half.
“We’re disappointed. We should be disappointed,” Magic coach Jamahl Mosley stated after his workforce misplaced a 3rd straight sport for the primary time this season. “Give Miami credit for what they did, but our guys know what we can do and we have to hold ourselves accountable for that.”
UP NEXT
Heat: Host Atlanta on Friday.
Magic: Visit Milwaukee on Thursday.
