{"id":881476,"date":"2026-11-11T07:15:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/881476\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T07:15:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T07:15:32","slug":"miami-heat-beat-utah-jazz-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/881476\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Heat beat Utah Jazz \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Utah Jazz outscored the Miami Heat 37-23 in the fourth quarter, but it wasn\u2019t enough to take them down as they fell 115-109 Tuesday night at the Delta Center.<\/p>\n

With the loss, the Jazz dropped to 1-10 on the season. Here are three takeaways from the game.<\/p>\n

The future is now, despite the losses<\/p>\n

Calling the Jazz\u2019s 1-10 start to the season disappointing is an understatement. The injury bug has ravaged Utah\u2019s lineup, and head coach Will Hardy has to keep being creative in his rotational adjustments. <\/p>\n

The newest member of the Jazz\u2019s lengthy injury list is point guard Keyonte George, who missed Tuesday\u2019s game after twisting his ankle in Sunday\u2019s 115-100 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves. <\/p>\n

Without George, it became Darryn Peterson\u2019s job to run the show against Miami, and it also placed Ace Bailey in a position wherein he needed to be more aggressive in his scoring. <\/p>\n

Peterson and Bailey impressed with 48 combined points. The two shot a combined 59% from the field and 50% from beyond the arc. <\/p>\n

One of the more encouraging things was Peterson\u2019s ability to get downhill and finish at the rim or kick the ball out for open shots.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re getting to see Darryn in a bunch of different spots here early in the year,\u201d Hardy said. \u201cI think he\u2019s handling ball pressure really well. That\u2019s the biggest thing that I\u2019m seeing is that in back-to-back games, when he\u2019s the primary handler \u2014 last game with Jayden McDaniels picking him up, and then a guy like Davion Mitchell who has a big-time reputation in our league for ball pressure \u2014 I think Darryn\u2019s handled himself pretty well. <\/p>\n

\u201c(He\u2019s) using his burst better, at setting up screens, being more patient… Being a primary decision maker is hard, but Darryn\u2019s studying it a lot. We\u2019ve been working on it a ton, and I think we\u2019re seeing a ton of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peterson didn\u2019t get to finish the night on a high note after fouling out in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n

Yes, when you are tied for the worst record in the NBA at 1-10, it\u2019s harder to see the silver lining. However, the development of Bailey and Peterson is arguably the most important thing the Jazz need to see this year. <\/p>\n

The young core is starting to deliver, and Utah fans can at least hang their hats on the fact that those two looked stunning Tuesday when they had to. <\/p>\n

The Jazz\u2019s injury issues won\u2019t be cleared up anytime soon, so Bailey and Peterson will at least have plenty of opportunities to continue their trajectory.<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Isaiah Collier (8) screams in celebration after making a 3-pointer during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Ace Bailey (19) sends Miami Heat forward Andrew Wiggins (22) flying with a fake shot during a game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Darryn Peterson (22) shoots a layup during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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The Utah Jazz play the Miami Heat at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Josh Okogie (21) shoots a layup during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (7) prays before a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Josh Okogie (21) shoots a layup during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Darryn Peterson (22) passes the ball during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Svi Mykhailiuk (10) shoots the ball during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz center Mo Bamba (44) shoots the ball during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Josh Green (5) shoots the ball during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz center Mo Bamba (44) and Miami Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (7) fight for a rebound during a game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat guard Klay Thompson (11) shoots a 3-pointer during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (7) drives to the hoop during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (7) wins a jump ball against Utah Jazz center Mo Bamba (44) at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (7) shoots a 3-pointer during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz head coach Will Hardy covers his eyes in frustration during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat forward Giannis Antetokounmpo (7) flexes his muscles after making a shot during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra holds up a two toward his players as they transition to defense during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat guard Klay Thompson (11) drives to the hoop during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz head coach Will Hardy argues with referee Scott Foster during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat center Bam Adebayo (13) dunks the ball during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat forward Andrew Wiggins (22) tries to block a shot attempted by Utah Jazz guard Isaiah Collier (8) during a game at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Isaiah Collier (8) argues with referee Sean Corbin during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz forward Kyle Filipowski (2) shoots the ball during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Utah Jazz guard Ace Bailey (19) shoots a mid-range jumper during a game against Miami at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News \"\"<\/p>\n

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Miami Heat guard Klay Thompson (11) shoots a 3-pointer during a game against Utah at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026. | Lukas Katilius, Deseret News Turnovers… turnovers… and more turnovers<\/p>\n

A season-long issue for Utah has been turnovers. That trend continued into Tuesday\u2019s loss. <\/p>\n

The Heat forced 19 turnovers and scored 25 points off of them. That is a brutal statistic when you consider the Jazz lost by only six points. <\/p>\n

Those turnovers don\u2019t exist in a vacuum. Of course, not having your lead ball handler in George contributes to that. Hardy also said not all turnovers are created equal. <\/p>\n

\u201cNot all turnovers are the same, and we have 19 of them and only eight are live ball,\u201d Hardy said. \u201cSo you\u2019re looking at things like moving screens or the ball going out of bounds, whether that\u2019s off the dribble, a pass… We always go back and watch and we have to evaluate, \u2018Is this a decision-making turnover? We made a bad choice or is it a physical error?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our quest to bring our turnovers down, we have to understand which ones need to go first because they aren\u2019t all the same.\u201d<\/p>\n

Isaiah Collier finally broke through<\/p>\n

Isaiah Collier has not had the start to the season he, nor Jazz fans, want. He came into Tuesday\u2019s game without a single made 3-pointer in the first 10 games. <\/p>\n

That changed in a big way against Miami as he hit four consecutive 3-pointers in the fourth quarter, which brought the Jazz right back into the game. <\/p>\n

He finished with 17 points on 5 of 10 shooting.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was the goal for me, to bring energy today,\u201d Collier said. \u201cWe have major guys down right now. We hope to get them back soon, but just trying to bring the juice for the team and trying to go out there and just compete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Utah Jazz outscored the Miami Heat 37-23 in the fourth quarter, but it wasn\u2019t enough to take…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":881477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,144,295,189,3881,6,66,427],"class_list":["post-881476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-heat","tag-basketball","tag-heat","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-miamiheat","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117596581979852110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881476","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=881476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}