Miami, FL
Bizarro Heat: Bam Adebayo makes the 3-pointers and Duncan Robinson delivers the assists
PHILADELPHIA – After all the 3-pointers Sunday in Detroit, including the one that made Duncan Robinson the fastest NBA player to 1,000 career conversions, the moment coach Erik Spoelstra spotlighted afterward was the pass from Robinson for a key late dunk by Bam Adebayo.
That Duncan Robinson can shoot has become a given. That Robinson can pass has opened new vistas for both the Miami Heat and Robinson in his sixth season.
“Just trying to be more of a basketball player,” Robinson said, with the Heat turning their attention to Monday night’s game against the Philadelphia 76ers at Wells Fargo Center.
Sunday, in addition to his seven 3-pointers against the Pistons, there also were five assists from Robinson, including two in the decisive fourth quarter.
In some ways, it’s almost become Bizarro Heat – Adebayo making a winning 3-pointer, as he did at Sunday’s buzzer at Little Caesars Arena, Robinson making decisive assists.
Averaging three assists this season, Robinson had not averaged more than 1.8 in his previous five seasons.
But that mostly was when he was stationed – almost anchored – at the 3-point. As the two-point attempts have increased this season, to more than twice his previous average, so, too, have the assists grown.
“When you get in the paint, a lot of times the right read just presents itself, depending on the situation,” Robinson said, with Sunday’s assist to Adebayo a perfect example. “So I’m trusting my instincts to just be a complete basketball player.”
Robinson, who turns 30 next month, said there wasn’t a specific goal of upping the assists.
“It’s been more so organically, just trying to be more of a complete player,” he said. “That just kind of tends to happen when you get a little bit more aggressive putting the ball on the ground.”
The irony is that any time Robinson previously bypassed a 3-point attempt, the staff made clear why he was on the court.
Now, there is the view of more than a specialist.
“I think the staff’s done a great job in just trusting me and allowing me to be a complete player,” he said. “And that’s kind of empowered me to explore different vistas throughout the course of the game.
“I think they just trust me a little bit more. And I’m at the point in my career where they just trust my instincts and my ability to be a basketball player and what I feel and what I read out there.”
As the roster has evolved, so, Robinson said, has his menu.
“It’s a combination of things,” he said. “Part of it is just being a little bit of a playmaker, just in the actions that I’m involved in, and not just somebody that comes in and shoots. Part of it is just reading the game, recognizing situations.”
And part of it is paying it forward, appreciating how on-time, on-target passes have benefited him over these six seasons, with a goal of easing the scoring of teammates.
“I’ve been a beneficiary of a lot of unselfish play and good passes and stuff like that,” he said. “Bam and I have a connection that we’ve been working on for a while now.”
That payoff came with the assist for the Adebayo dunk that put the Heat ahead with 5:08 to play in Sunday’s victory in Detroit.
Essentially doing for others as others have done for him,
“I appreciate a good pass, a good on-time, on-target, seams-in-line, shooter’s-pocket pass. I appreciate that,” he said amid this Heat four-game trip that concludes Wednesday night against the Cleveland Cavaliers. “So, of course you try to reciprocate that.
“Just having another person out there who can playmake, it’s just going to be a different version of me. I think that’s good for the team.”
An investigation is underway at a northwest Miami-Dade apartment complex after the sheriff’s office said a man was shot by his girlfriend after a “heated dispute” early Wednesday morning.
Few details have been released, but the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said the incident took place at an apartment complex located off Northwest 7th Avenue.
The sheriff’s office said that a man became involved in a “heated dispute” with his girlfriend, and she shot him in the right arm.
He was rushed to a hospital by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue in critical condition.
The woman is in custody.
The identities of those who were involved have not yet been released.
No other information was available.
Game date, time and location: Tuesday, Mar. 3, 7:30 p.m. EST, Kaseya Center, Miami, Florida
TV: FanDuel Sports Network Sun, YES Network (Brooklyn)
Radio: 104.3 FM (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale), ESPN 106.3 FM, (West Palm Beach), FOX Sports Radio 105.9 FM (Ft. Myers/Naples), 1450 AM (Suart), 97.7 FM (Florida Keys), WAQI 710 AM (Spanish-language broadcast, South Florida), WFAN 101.9 FM/660 AM (Brooklyn)
VITALS: The Miami Heat (32-29) and Brooklyn Nets (15-45) meet for the second of three regular season matchups. Earlier this season, Miami recorded a, 106-95, win in Brooklyn on December 18 and has now won four of the last five overall against the Nets.
It also marks the first of consecutive games against Brooklyn with the teams facing each other again on Thursday. The Heat are 83-61 all-time versus the Nets during the regular season, including 44-26 in home games and 39-35 in road games.
PROJECTED STARTERS
HEAT
G Davion Mitchell
G Tyler Herro
C Bam Adebayo
F Pelle Larsson
F Andrew Wiggins
NETS
G Nolan Traore
G Terance Mann
C Nic Claxton
F Michael Porter Jr.
F Noah Clowney
INJURY REPORT
HEAT
Davion Mitchell: Questionable – Shoulder
Norman Powell: Out – Groin
Nikola Jovic: Out – Back
Trevor Keels: Available – G League
Jahmir Young: Available – G League
Vlad Goldin: Available – G League
Terry Rozier: Out – Not with team
NETS
Nic Claxton: Probable – Thumb
Egor Demin: Out – Foot
QUOTABLE
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra: “Regardless of the scheme is, I always go back to that, it’s just about committing to doing hard things. We were really moving in the zone, taking away airspace and scrambling to challenge shots at the rim. In a lot of these losses in the last month we’ve just been giving up shots at the rim and threes.”
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Alexander Toledo is a contributor to Miami Heat On SI and producer/co-host of the Five on the Floor podcast, covering the Heat and NBA. He can be reached at Twitter: @tropicalblanket
ORLANDO, Fla. — Lionel Messi scored twice in a four-goal second half, defender Telasco Segovia added a goal and two assists and defending champion Inter Miami CF rallied to beat Orlando City SC 4-2 on Sunday night, winning for the first time at Inter&Co Stadium.
Messi took a pass from Segovia and scored in the 57th minute to tie it 2-2, and Segovia scored unassisted in the 85th for the lead. Messi put the finishing touch on the victory when he scored off a free kick in the 90th.
“The victory belongs exclusively to the players,” Miami coach Javier Mascherano said after the game. “In the second half, they were a championship team. There were no tactics, nothing like that. There was heart, courage, possession, resilience, commitment. I think the team came out because they were champions last year.
“In the end, the players showed it. This victory is theirs.”
Messi’s first two goals of the season give him 52 in his first 55 regular-season MLS matches — 51 of them in his past 49 appearances. It also brought the reigning MLS MVP to 898 career goals scored, including 672 for Barcelona and 115 for Argentina.
“He’s the best player to ever play this sport. He’s a leader, and as a leader, he inspires others, but he also often needs to be inspired himself,” Mascherano said of Messi. “When he was driving forward, he had more attacking options, and with so many opportunities, he clearly has the ability to create chances like no one else, and that’s what allowed us to turn the game around.”
Marco Pašalić took a pass from Iván Angulo and scored in the 18th minute to give Orlando City a 1-0 lead. Pašalić has scored in four straight matches against Inter Miami.
Defender Griffin Dorsey set up Martín Ojeda for a goal six minutes later for a 2-0 advantage that stood through halftime.
Inter Miami cut it to 2-1 four minutes into the second half on Mateo Silvetti’s first career goal. Defenders Segovia and Facundo Mura had assists as the 20-year-old forward found the net in his fifth career appearance.
Segovia had eight goals and six assists as a rookie last season, while Mura collected his first assist in his first season.
Dayne St. Clair, the reigning goalkeeper of the year, turned away three shots — all in the second half of his second start with Inter Miami, but let in a soft goal for Orlando’s first.
Maxime Crépeau had four saves in his second start for Orlando City.
Teenager Colin Guske, 19, will miss Orlando City’s next match after the rookie picked up two yellow cards in his first start — the second one led to his exit in the 88th minute.
Inter Miami, which had never won in its previous nine trips to Orlando, was coming off a 3-0 road loss to LAFC.
Orlando City swept Inter Miami during the regular season last year and leads the all-time series 8-7-4.
Inter Miami plays D.C. United on Saturday at Audi Field. Orlando City is also on the road with a match against New York City FC.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this recap.
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