Jimmy Butler and Goran Dragic drop season best scores as Miami Heat beat NBA-Best Utah Jazz
Jimmy Butler and Goran Dragic
To get the better off the NBA-Best Utah Jazz, Miami Heat knew they needed their big guns to step up and that is exactly what transpired. Jimmy Butler and Goran Dragic dropped their season high scores of 33 and 26 points respectively. This was just the 3rd loss Utah Jazz has faced in 25 games. Bam Adebayo had a double-double with 19 points and 11 rebounds as the Heat held Jazz to only 29% shooting in the last quarter.
Donovan Mitchell scored 30 for the Jazz, yet missed eight of his final nine shots. Utah got 17 from Bojan Bogdanovic, 15 from Rudy Gobert and 14 from Mike Conley. There were 14 lead changes and 10 ties, the last of those coming when Clarkson made a 3-pointer with 8:20 left to knot the game at 103-103.
Jimmy Butler and Goran Dragic inspire Heat to get the better of Jazz
“I don’t want to say that we’re good yet,” Jimmy Butler said as per ESPN. “I think we’ve got so much more to figure out. We’ve got so much more that we can be better at. Myself, anybody, I don’t want us to get complacent and think that we’re cool, we’re good. Nah, that’s not the case. We’ve got a long way to go.”
Bogdanovic’s 3-pointer with 3:39 left started the last Jazz gasp, Conley got a layup on the next Utah possession and Gobert made two free throws on the next. Just like that, the Jazz were within 116-115.
But they got no closer, with Dragic taking a charge to erase what would have been a basket by Conley with 1:58 left. The Jazz wound up missing their last seven shots and were 3-for-16 from the floor in the final eight minutes.
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