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Wade and Heat catch fire late, top Raptors
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With Chris Bosh back home on dad duty, the Miami Heat had to make do with the “Big Two.”
But despite a good start for Toronto, it was business as usual for the Heat.
LeBron James poured in a season-high 35 points, while Dwyane Wade added 20 to propel the Heat to a 104-95 win over the Raptors on Tuesday in Toronto.
It marked Miami’s 12th consecutive victory over the Raptors, Canada’s only NBA team.
DeMar DeRozan had 21 points to top the Raptors (2-2), who fell apart in the fourth quarter against the two-time defending NBA champions.
“We’re still a good team, we lost to a good team, we lost to the defending champs. Two-time defending champs,” said Rudy Gay, who had 13 points and 10 boards.
“But we still can grow, we played them pretty solid for three quarters, we’ve just got to learn how to finish games out,” he added.
Jonas Valanciunas finished with 18 points and nine rebounds. Kyle Lowry had 13 points and five assists while Terrence Ross added 11.
Bosh — the third piece of Miami’s “Big Three” — didn’t make the trip for the game that came a day after his wife Adrienne gave birth to their daughter Dylan Skye.
The former Raptors all-star, who spent seven seasons in Toronto, is averaging 19.8 points and 6.8 rebounds a night. But his absence was barely noticeable as James and Wade more than carried the load.
When they weren’t scoring, they were helping each other score.
“To see it now and to where it was before, you don’t see all the hours of commitment on their part to develop different parts of their game, and that specifically is: what are they doing without the basketball?” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said on the chemistry between his two stars.
“Early on, when we put this team together, it was a challenge, they were used to having the ball so often in their hands, particularly in pivotal moments during the game, and they had to learn how to adjust, play off the ball... and they’ve both done a tremendous job, for marquee players to make that adjustment is much easier said than done.”
Elsewhere, it was: Pacers 99, Pistons 91; Rockets 116, Trail Blazers 101; Spurs 102, Nuggets 94; Mavericks 123, Lakers 104; Nets 104, Jazz 88; Bobcats 102, Knicks 97; Hawks 105, Kings 100; and Suns 104, Pelicans 98.
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