NEW YORK — Maybe Tom Thibodeau should've issued a spoiler alert.
No matter what Miami threw at Brunson — drop coverage, high hedges, blitzes, late switches, you name it — he handled it with patience, poise and a steady diet of buckets, pouring in 38 points on 12-for-22 shooting to go with 9 rebounds, 9 assists and only 9 turnover in 48 minutes.“What could you say about the guy?” Thibodeau said after the game. “He's just incredible. You know, all-around player. Great leader. Great toughness — mental toughness, physical toughness.
Not least of which because, as Randle told it, watching the second-quarter surge from the bench helped get him going. “I liked the way he attacked the basket,” Thibodeau said of Randle, who’d finish with 24 points on 7-for-13 shooting , 5 rebounds and 5 assists in 36 minutes. “I thought he had really good balance tonight, made good reads.”
Slowing down Butler and the Heat attack starts with New York’s own offense, which looked a bit more like itself in Game 5.
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