Cavs hand Heat 'embarrassing' 37-point loss, Miami's worst-ever playoff defeat

Donovan Mitchell didn’t have a big day of shooting. Darius Garland was with street clothes, outside an injury.

And Cleveland rolled anyway, moving to the edge of round 2.

Jarrett Allen scored 22 points, De’Andre Hunter added 21 and the Miami of the Cavaliers throughout the day, with the heat, his worst defeat in the playoffs with a 124-87 victory on Saturday to take a 3-0 advantage in his first round series of the East Conference.

The control of the cavs with a 33-5 race early and surpassed by Miami 46-29 and exceeded the heat 60-30 in the paint.

“Our boys knew that this was the key, the rebounds and winning the battle of rebounds,” said the Cavaliers coach Kenny Atkinson. “We really executed the defensive.”

Evan Mobley scored 19 and Max Strus added 18 for Cleveland. Ty Jerome had 13 points and 11 assists in 22 minutes: it was more-33 in those minutes, and Mitchell scored 13 in 4 of 14 shots.

They didn’t need more of him and they didn’t need anything from Garland, his All-Star guard who was out with a sprain.

“Look, our boys really because this, and probably seems that our boys,” said Heat coach Erik Spoelstra. “But I know how our last six weeks have, just to fight, scratch and scribble to enter this.”

Bam Adebayo scored 22 and Davion Mitchell added 16 for Miami. The worst loss of Playoffs of Heat before Saturday was a 36 -point defeat in game 3 of the 2013 NBA finals in San Antonio.

That Heat team won an NBA title. This heat equipment is on the edge of being swept.

“It’s shameful,” said Adebayo.

“This is our reality at this time,” said the heat guard Tyler Herro. “I told the boys that it is not time to let the rope. We are going to play with the final bell, and if that is the next game, game 5, 6, 7, another series after this, you just have to continue playing. That is what they pay us. And that is who we are as an organization. We want to compensate. We are not dating 4-0.”

He meets Miami faces now probabilities too much. No team has recovered successful of a 3-0 deficit in a series of the NBA, just although the Heat almost blew such leadership two years ago in the finals against Boston-Having to win a game 7 on the road to avoid making the wrong type of NBA history.

It is the eleventh time that a team of the Cavaliers has tasks of a 3-0 advantage in the best seven series, the other 10 were in the ages of LeBron James in Cleveland, and all ended in 4-0 sweeps.

These cavs will try to finish a sweep in game 4 in Miami on Monday. It is the 159th time in the history of the NBA that a team has tasks of an advantage of the 3-0 series; The first 157 won the series, and Oklahoma City is 158 and could expel Memphis later on Saturday.

Everything was Miami for the first 5:30. After that, everything was Cleveland, the Cavaliers took total control of the game for the next 8 minutes with a 33-5 race.

Cleveland shot 13 of 17 turning the jet, scoring in his first eight possessions of the race. And it ended with five consecutive brands from the range of 3 points, which come within approximately 2 minutes.

Only, 15-6 Miami became 39-20 Cleveland.

“We took the first blow,” Mobley said. “And from there right in the game.”

It was 62-42 at the half time, and Cleveland lost its first eight shots of the second half. But Miami scored only four points, wasting an opportunity. Cleveland led 88-64 entering the room and that was all.

“Clearly, a very disappointing day,” said Spoelstra.

Associated Press reports.

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