Bucky Irving dropped 35.5 and carried Andy to a 144.14–142.06 win that was never as comfortable as the final score suggests — Wade put up the 4th-best score of the week and still lost. The real crime is on Wade's bench: Kenny Gainwell (4.3) sat while David Montgomery (1.1) started, and that single swap wins it by over three points. Romeo Doubs (2.1) and Ravens D (0) were doing their best to make this competitive from both sides, but Irving didn't care. Wade leads this series 14–11 and is probably still doing the lineup math in his head right now — the kind of loss that doesn't sting less just because you scored 142.