Blown out in Game 1, the Heat caught fire Wednesday night by hitting a playoff franchise-record 23 3-pointers to beat the Celtics 111-101, evening the series at 1-1.
After being deluged by Boston's 3-point shooting in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference first-round series, Spoelstra said his team needed to do a better job of letting it fly in order to keep pace.
Instead, the Heat became the first playoff team in the past 30 years to win by double digits despite being an underdog of 14 points or more. "I think it was realizing that being passive hurts us. We'd just be playing into their gameplan," said Martin, who got booed relentlessly whenever he touched the ball after his late-game midair collision with Celtics starTyler Herro's Game 2 turnaround was the biggest. After scoring just 11 points on 13 shots in the opener, he had 24 points on 13 shots, including six 3-pointers, and added 14 assists, the second-most in a game in Heat playoff history.
The Miami victory moved Spoelstra to 10-3 in his career in Game 2s after dropping the first game of a series. Of coaches who've had 10 such games, only Frank Vogel, who is 8-2 after a Game 1 loss, has a better winning percentage in NBA history.
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