I think the score stood at 61 - 47 Miami, about 4 minutes into the third quarter....that's when Miami started to think about winning this game and that's when they lost it.
Suddenly there was a confusion. Dwyane Wade who'd started like a whirlwind, swooping and slashing to the rim started shooting threes and all his team mates just stood and watched....hoping that something would fall. The Boston defense sensing the cautiousness, regrouped and clawed its way back into a game that was sneaking away from them.
This game was a microcosm of the regular season for Miami....red hot and ice cold at the same time.......22 turn-overs.......from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Wade summed it up perfectly..."They bullied us," he said afterwards.
However, thankfully, there are two guys on this Miami team who will not be bullied and who just may have altered the course of his series.
Quentin Richardson and Udonis Haslem.
The fourth quarter flare up could be the catalyst that the Miami Heat require to get themselves back into this tie. As I've told you, dear reader ( I think I have one that drops in from time to time ), on many occasions, I dislike Paul Pierce. To my mind this guy is undoubtedly a faker, which, in my book makes him a cheat. He was up to his usual histrionics last night, falling into the crowd clutching his right shoulder as though he'd been taken out by a sniper's bullet.....
When Q-Rich strolled over to tell "The Truth" the truth, Kevin Garnett (who had been niggling the Heat players all night) decided to take matters into his own hands and popped an elbow directly into Richardson's chops.....for a split second you could see the notion of retaliation flash across Q's eyes but he maintained his cool, reaching forward trying to drag the idiotic Pierce back to the vertical.....first on the scene was Udonis Haslem who (agree with you Dos) was just looking for a reason to lay waste to Garnett. Jamaal Magloire did Garnett a favour by picking him up and throwing out of the scrum.....It all got a bit heated........."handbags at dawn."
The upshot of everything was an ejection for Garnett and "Ts" all round....in Garnett's case deservedly so.....I would have ejected Pierce too, for cheating, if it were possible.....he continually does this and Q-Rich was right to call him out in the post-game press conference.
If we can take anything positive from this game it is that we need not fear this Boston team.....we can beat them....we have shown them that, after this evening, bullying will no longer be an option.
All we need are contributors....the time is now.
2 comments:
Good post. Heat will win game 2.
Good post. Heat will win game 2.
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