Herro again coming off the bench<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u2013 It was Jakucionis\u2019 ninth start.<\/p>\n
\u2013 The tanking Grizzlies opened with the eclectic first five of Ty Jerome, Taylor Hendricks, Jaylen Wells, Walter Clayton Jr. and Jahmai Mashack.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Kel\u2019el Ware and Jaime Jaquez Jr. were first together off the Heat bench.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Herro then followed.<\/p>\n
\u2013\u00a0 And then Dru Smith, who was back in the rotation after being held out Friday night in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
\u2013 With a jolt of Myron Gardner again in the second period.<\/p>\n
\u2013 So Simone Fontecchio again out of the rotation.<\/p>\n
\u2013 With Nikola Jovic sidelined by back problems.<\/p>\n
\u2013 With the Grizzlies clearly in tank mode following the Jaren Jackson Jr. trade, coach Tuomas Iisalo was left to have to answer pregame for his team\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n
\u2013 \u201cWell, we\u2019re trying to accomplish a lot,\u201d he said. \u201cThe expectations have not changed. It doesn\u2019t have anything to do with the roster we play. We still expect everybody to give max effort, max focus, play for the team and learn new things. And whether it\u2019s a practice or a game, those things apply.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 He added, \u201cAlso seeing the young guys in action and knowing what they can do. And they have a great opportunity, obviously, to play, but also for us to evaluate them going forward. And for us, the competitiveness is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2013 The game concluded the 14th of the Heat\u2019s NBA-high 17 back-to-back sets this season.<\/p>\n
\u2013 Herro extended his streak of games with at least 17 points to 23 games, dating to last season.<\/p>\n
\u2013 The only other players in franchise history with such a streak at least as long were Dwyane Wade and LeBron James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2013 Observations and other notes of interest from Saturday night\u2019s 136-120 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies: \u2013…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,165,293,177,4070,189,3880,6,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-616980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-memphis","12":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","13":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","14":"tag-miami-heat","15":"tag-miami-heat-blog","16":"tag-nba","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116112196264611797","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}