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Miami brings Heat to the Wasatch Front

Posted on November 13, 2010 at 06:30 AM.

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The win in Miami was one of the early highlights of this year's Jazz season (the one in my Association, not the Paul Millsap explosion we saw in real life). Now eager to test my team and see whether I could repeat against the 16-6 Eastern Conference leading team, I was looking forward to the rematch.

As against Dallas it turned out to be a very close match all-around. Instead of falling behind I managed to carve out little spurts and get ahead by up to 10 points in the first half.

You know what: Miami has superstars. And this time they found ways to score, especially in tough stretches for them.

The true MVP in this game for Miami was to be Zydrunas Ilgauskas, though. His offensive boards were key in getting a 24 : 4 advantage in second chance points. In the end this proved to be decisive.

My runs had been egalized at the 53 : 53 score. Then the Heat started to pull away slowly, leading by 11 in the third quarter. Patient play and finally some shots hit by Okur as well as the trusted Pick & Roll working, got that Jazz back in the game for a 82 : 81 Heat lead over the Utah team.

The 4th quarter was held open until about the 5 minutes mark, when Wade's three pointer, LeBron's dunks and Bosh's midrange game would give them a spurt while untimely turnovers on the other end (what use is an offensive rebound if you next try to get away from the endline results in a out of bounds call...) undid the Jazz for a tough 115 : 105 loss at home.

James 31, 6 reb, 7 ast, 2 stl, 2 bk on 14-27
Wade 25, 4 reb
Ilgauskas, 18 pts, 13 rebs (5 off), 2 ast, 3 blk, on 8-14 shooting
Bosh 14, 10 reb, 2 ast, 2 blk
Hill 10, 3 reb, 2 ast, 3 stl

Williams 28 pts, 17 ast, 7 to
Jefferson 26, 8 reb, 2 ast, 2 stl, 3 blk
Okur, 11 pts, 7 reb
Miles, Hayward 7
Kirilenko 6, 2 reb, season high 7 ast and 7 stl, 3 blk

13-10