After losing in Game 3, the Heat discussed 3-point shooting once more, saying, “Guys just have to shoot the ball.”
The Miami Heat’s lone victory in the first three games of their first-round playoff series against the Boston Celtics was mostly due to three-point shooting. However, the Heat’s inability to shoot well from three has also been a major discussion point following each of its series losses. With the top-seeded Celtics leading the best-of-7 series 2-1, the eighth-seeded Heat will need to shoot well from beyond the three-point arc. Monday, April 4th, at 7:30 p.m. on Bally Sports Sun and TNT, at Kaseya Center. “I think a lot of our guys missed easy three-pointers that they ought to have made,”
Following their 20-point home defeat in Game 3 on Saturday night, Heat center Bam Adebayo stated. In Game 2, we weren’t acting in that way. We were forced to live with the outcome as everyone was letting it fly. I believe that you can’t stop shooting the ball if you’re down six or seven.
The Heat finished Saturday’s Game 3 loss just 9 of 28 (32.1 percent) from three-point range after shocking the Celtics in Boston behind a historic three-point shooting display in Game 2. The Heat hit 23 threes to set a new franchise record for three-pointers made in a playoff game to win Game 2. But the Heat’s three-point makes and attempts were way down on Saturday (14 fewer makes and 15 fewer attempts in Game 3 than in Game 2), as the Celtics tweaked its defensive strategy to contest more three-point looks and take away some of the clean opportunities from behind the arc. Still, Heat players walked away from Game 3 feeling like there was room to put up more threes just like they did after the first game of the series. Miami shot 12 of 37 (32.4 percent) from three-point range in Game
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