Miami Heat React To Julius Randle's Clinching Shot, Big Night

Randle finished with 43 points and the winning basket with 0.7 seconds left

The Miami Heat thought everything was going their way. 

Tyler Herro had just made a steal and layup to put them ahead late in the fourth quarter Friday against the New York Knicks. Seconds later, Jimmy Butler twice stole the ball from Julius Randle on the Knicks' possession. 

Then things went sour. 

Randle twice gathered the ball and hit a step-back 3-pointer with 0.7 to win it for the Knicks. 

An eighth straight win for the Knicks. Another close loss for the Heat. 

"You're thinking once we got the steal and Tyler got the layup and now just have to rely on our halfcourt defense, which is one of the best halfcourt defenses in the league," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "If you did that play 100 times and Jimmy pokes away the ball twice on the play, 99 times out of that it's going to end up in our favor."

The shot left the Heat shaking their heads once again. They have now six of seven. 

"You gotta live with those," Heat center Bam Adebayo said. "You can't control it. It was nothing I would've changed or did differently. He made a tough shot."

It was one of many baskets for Randle. He finished with 43 points, including 8 3-pointers. Most of them came while Adebayo was defending.

"Guys make shots in the in this league," Adebayo said. "They're in the NBA for a reason. 

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