Tyler Herro had a gaming high 30 points, Davion Mitchell buried three 3 points in overtime and Miami Heat advanced in the NBA playoffs with a 123-114 road victory over Atlanta Hawks in the Easter Conference Play-in Final Friday evening.
No. 10 Heat, which began the Four-team playoffs the qualification tournament, which needed to win the following road games to proceed, successfully followed up a 109-90 novel at Chicago to earn a first round of matchup with the East’s top seed, Cleveland Cavaliers.
Eighth place Hawks failed to move on even though they had to win just one of two matches. They came from a 120-95 shellacking at Orlando.
After Trae Young met a float after a Herro 3 pointer to start the extra session, Mitchell took over, bombed in a couple of three to give Miami a lead that it would not refrain from.
Andrew Wiggins’ Båge gave Miami a nine -point cushion, after which the hawks did not come closer than three. Three-points by Herro and Mitchell in the last 1:41 victory and sent the heat to the playoffs for the sixth season in a row.
Down with as many as 17 points early and up by six during the fourth quarter, the hawks needed two arrangements from Young during the last 52.1 seconds of the regulation to force overtime.
His second basket, a driving arrangement with 1.3 seconds left, followed a missed free throw by Tyler Herro with 12.0 left when the heat had a chance to go up with three.
Wiggins failed from the left corner at the regulatory horn and extended the game extra five minutes.
Half of Herro’s 30 points came on 3-points. He met 5 out of 10 beyond the arch, while Mitchell went 4-for-9 as part of his 16-point effort from the bench.
Bam Adebayo chipped in with 17 points, a team high 11 returns and five blocks, while Wiggins amounted to 20 points to go with eight returns and a team -high eight assists. Kel’el Ware and Haywood Highsmith added 12 points per piece, with Highsmith who completed a double double with 10 returns.
Young had 29 points and a game high 11 assists for the hawks. Onyka Okongwu (28 points, game high 12 returns) and Dyson Daniels (11 points, 10 returns) also recorded double doubles, while George’s native went for 20 points from the bench and Caris Levert had 15.
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