Heat bring 2-0 lead over Celtics home to Miami as East finals resume on Sunday -
The wheels are fine right now. The Heat have won 10 out of 13 games to open the playoffs, after never winning 10 out of 13 during any stretch of the regular season. They toppled top-seeded Milwaukee in Round 1, ousted fifth-seeded New York in Round 2 and now have second-seeded Boston in serious trouble. And they’ve successfully rallied from more 12-point-or-more deficits in these playoffs - six, after doing it again on Friday night - than the rest of the NBA has combined entering Saturday.
They also developed something - maybe some of the grit Spoelstra speaks of - from going through last year’s East finals, when Boston won three times on Miami’s home floor, including a Game 7 triumph that sent the Celtics to the NBA Finals against Golden State. “This team, we have a real, real decision to make,” said Boston’s Grant Williams, the talk of Game 2 after he went forehead-to-forehead with Butler in the fourth quarter as Miami - perhaps not coincidentally - started a 24-9 run to end the game.
Boston has lost 15 of its last 16 series after falling behind 2-0. The exception came in the first round against Chicago in 2017, another matchup where the Celtics dropped Games 1 and 2 at home.Celtics starters Jaylen Brown and Al Horford are off to dismal shooting starts in this series. Brown is 2 for 13 on 3-pointers, Horford 1 for 8.
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