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Dallas takes Game2 95-93 on the road at Miami to tie the series at 1-1. Game3 is scheduled for Sunday night in Dallas. DALLAS Nowitzki - 24pts, 11rebs Marion - 20pts, 8rebs Terry - 16pts, 5asts Chandler - 13pts, 7rebs MIAMI LeBron - 20pts, 8rebs, 4stls Wade - 36pts, 6asts, 3stls Bosh - 12pts, 8rebs Bibby - 14pts, 4stls DALLAS - 48%FG, 6-17 3's, 41REBS MIAMI - 46.6%, 9-30 3's, 30REBS
Good stuff! Keep up the humor, we need it with all of this stuff going on around Buckeye Nation. It's nice to get a laugh in every now & then!:drool::cry::tongue::sleepy::smile:
Miami wins Game3 88-86 on the road over Dallas to take the series lead 2-1. Game4 is scheduled for Tuesday night in Dallas. MIAMI Wade - 29pts, 11rebs, 3asts LeBron - 17pts, 9asts Bosh - 18pts, 3rebs Chalmers - 12pts DALLAS Dirk - 34pts, 11rebs, 3blks Terry - 15pts Marion - 10pts Kidd - 9pts, 6rebs, 10asts MIAMI - 43.6%FG, 8-19 3's, 36REBS DALLAS - 40%FG, 8-21 3's, 42REBS Since the NBA went to the 2-3-2 format in the Finals, the winner of Game3 when the Series is tied at 1, has gone on to win the Series 11-11 times (100%).
Wow, to see Wade and Dirk go back-and-forth like that was something else. Chris Bosh has got to be getting better than 3 boards a game if Miami wants to win this.
Yea Hollis, this has been a great series so far. The athleticism of LeBron and D-Wade is unfair and un-matched. They are the best 2 players in the game right now and they're on the same team. Hard to stop! But yea, there's no excuse for Bosh being on the court for 37mins and only grabbing 3rebs. Hell, J Kidd had 6rebs and Chalmers had 4 in 29mins. The series definitely isn't over but Miami can see the ring on there finger, they just have to finish. It is unbelievable how Dirk and Wade have been going back and forth draining big shots and making big plays. Superstars.........
SERIES OVER? WADE MVP? By Marc Stein ESPN.com Archive DALLAS -- They leaned heavily, as ever, on Dwyane Wade's will and skill. They needed daggers both contentious and clutch from Mario Chalmers. And they still had to have a late jumper from the baseline finally go down for Chris Bosh, who has a freshly poked left eye to go with that unsightly shooting percentage. Make no mistake. The Miami Heat, on a so-so Sunday night for LeBron James, don't reclaim control of these NBA Finals without all of the above. But let's be even clearer here. Nothing -- nothing -- is hurting the Dallas Mavericks like Miami's withering D. The great fear Dallas had before this Finals reunion with the NBA franchise loathed more than any other in North Texas was not the havoc Wade can still wreak five years later. Or the fact that the Dallas-reared Bosh, for all the hell he's catching after hitting just 16 of 52 shots from the field against his hometown Mavs, is an undeniably handy third option for bailout purposes to pitch the ball to in crunch time when Wade and James can't spring free. The overriding worry for the team leading the league in offensive efficiency throughout the playoffs was that it wouldn't be able to score enough to beat the Heat four times. The Mavs' dread became reality again in Game 3, when Miami made Dirk Nowitzki work exhaustingly hard for every catch required to score 34 points ... while clamping down on everyone else around him to squeeze out an 88-86 triumph. "You have to give them credit," Nowitzki said, not even trying to mask his disappointment after the Heat needed just 48 minutes on the road to undo the damage of Game 2, shoving Dallas into a 2-1 series hole. "Their defense is pretty good." You'll recall that Nowitzki was more expansive on the subject after his Mavs stole Game 2 in Miami with their epic fourth-quarter comeback from 15 points down. In a post-game "SportsCenter" sitdown with Hannah Storm, Nowitzki described the Heat's team scheme as "probably the best we've seen in the playoffs," which would put the Miami defense ahead of San Antonio at its championship peak and anyone else you'd like to nominate. After this one, Nowitzki looked too weary to expound on the speed and length that enables the Heat to freely force turnovers, swarm the Mavs' lone All-Star and still scramble back out to the perimeter to hound open shooters after the double-teams. Dirk took down 11 rebounds, helped the hosts dig out of yet another double-digit deficit in the second half and scored Dallas' last 12 points ... but Miami couldn't have defended him better on the Mavs' final two possessions. And Nowitzki came up empty on both, bringing a jarring halt to this duel with D-Wade and preventing a repeat of how Dirk repeatedly shredded Miami in Thursday night's end game. The Heat double-teamed him into a wild pass after Bosh's go-ahead J with 39.6 seconds left. Then they survived Nowitzki's middle-of-the-floor fallaway at the buzzer when (A) Dirk had to go out farther than he wanted to catch the ball and (B) Udonis Haslem expertly contested the shot after forcing him so far out. Haslem badly wanted the opportunity to guard Nowitzki on the fatal final sequence in Game 2, only for Heat coach Erik Spoelstra to ignore Haslem's pleas and send the longer Bosh at him. From beyond the 3-point line -- and with the Mavs trailing instead of tied and thus a bit more frantic -- Nowitzki would have needed more than one good move to get to the rim. So he opted for a difficult shot he's been known to make that, on this occasion, bounced long. "I don't think this is anything that he doesn't expect," Mavs coach Rick Carlisle said of Nowitzki's load. "We would like to make it easier for him ... but tonight was tough. Tonight was not one of those nights. "I think tonight one of the things that hurt us was we were digging out of holes all night, with the exception of the very beginning of the game. ... It's very difficult playing from behind all the time." Said Mavs guard Jason Kidd: "They do a great job defensively of making you do something that you don't want to do." That becomes evident when you delve deeper into the math, after Dallas went home and still couldn't shoot better than 40 percent from the field. The Mavericks averaged a league-best 111.2 points per 100 possessions in the first three rounds of the playoffs with what is generally regarded as the best ball movement on the NBA map. In three games against the Heat's tremendous speed to the ball and precision rotations, Dallas is way down, generating just 100.7 points per 100 possessions. The solace for Dallas, of course, is that it almost dragged the Heat to overtime anyway. That's despite the fact Miami ushered Mavericks shooters not named Nowitzki to a 17-for-49 evening and likewise cashed in a disputed 36-footer from Chalmers at the first-quarter buzzer. The Mavs argued that the shot should have been waved off because of a backcourt violation that appeared to precede the first of Chalmers' four 3s. Wade sparkled with a fiery 29 points and 11 rebounds, showing LeBron how it's done by driving the Heat to their whopping 40-22 edge in points in the paint. But the Mavs' own defense and physicality, highlighted by Dirk's rare trio of highlight-reel rejections, caused Miami problems everywhere else. Bosh needed 18 shots to get his 18 points after Kidd inadvertently caught him in the left eye early on and looked tentative on countless face-ups. James, meanwhile, managed a mere 17 points and four free-throw attempts, unable to sustain his pregame vows to attack the rim ... apart from one memorable posterization of the Mavs' Ian Mahinmi. "He played spectacular basketball," Bosh said of Wade. "We rode the [Wade] wave for a little while." Said Wade: "We felt this was a must-win." Reason being: The Game 3 winner in a 1-all Finals has gone on to win the championship 11 times out of 11 since the NBA introduced its 2-3-2 format in 1985. The Mavs, meanwhile, would appear to be asking for more than ever from the face of the franchise to prevent Miami from making it 12 for 12. Against resistance like this, with Caron Butler's absence increasingly glaring, Dirk's margin for error is getting smaller by the game. No matter how well he's coping with that splint on his left middle finger or matching Wade shot for shot. "If we're going to keep shooting in the low 40s," Nowitzki said, "it's going to be tough to win." ESPN.com senior writer Marc Stein • On Twitter @STEIN_LINE_HQ | On TrueHoop | On ESPN.com | On email • Follow ESPN's NBA coverage on Twitter | On Facebook
Dallas takes Game4 86-83 at home to tie the series at 2-2. Game5 is scheduled for Thursday night at 9PM ET in Dallas. MIAMI Wade - 32pts, 6rebs, 2blks, 1stl LeBron - 8pts, 9rebs, 7asts, 2stls, 4TOs Bosh - 24pts, 6rebs, 4TOs Chalmers - 5pts, 6asts, 3stls DALLAS Nowitzki - 21pts, 11rebs, 9-10FT Marion - 16pts, 4rebs, 1blk Terry - 17pts, 3asts, 3stls Chandler - 13pts, 16rebs (9 offensive) MIAMI - 42.7%FG, 2-14 3's, 43REBS, 13TOs DALLAS - 40.3%FG, 4-18 3's, 41REBS, 10TOs Game5 winner has won the series 73% of the time when the NBA Finals are tied at 2-2.
How does LBJ play 46mins and only score 8pts? He finished the game with more turnovers (4) than shots made (3-11). If Miami wins this series, there's no doubt in my mind that Wade is the Finals MVP. I'm not saying he's the better player than LeBron, but he's sure outplayed LBJ this series. That's even considering LeBron's freakish defense, Wade plays great D too. Very good NBA Finals so far, only 2 or 3 games left in the NBA season and then we have nothing but Baseball untill CFB starts in Sept. Especially with Tiger not playing Golf right now. Let's get ready for some slow days on the board.....We'll find something to talk about I'm sure........
LeBron had a terrible game last night. The other games, he was effective without scoring. Last night, he was miserable. He didn't want to handle the ball, he didn't take shots, he didn't try to take Jason Kidd when guarded by him... It was bad. Tyson Chandler really affects him. Hopefully he gets it into gear for game 5. That said. Dallas won by only 3 with LeBron scoring only 8 points... It won't happen again.
Would anyone else agree that this has been a great series? This is how a championship is supposed to be determined!
Definitely a great Championship Series! Every game has been decided by single digits and the last 3 have came down to the last possession with the ball in Dirk's hands and he has converted 2 of 3. Dirk's making his name... 2010-2011 NBA FINALS SUMMARY - - - GAME1 - MIAMI - 92-84 GAME2 - DALLAS - 95-93 GAME3 - MIAMI - 88-86 GAME4 - DALLAS - 86-83 Every game so far has been played at the same pace, a defensive style that would appear to benefit Miami. The Heat have outplayed the Mavs in all 4 games so far and could have already swept the series if not for blowing a 15 point 4th qtr lead in Game2 and a 9 point 4th qtr lead in Game4. Credit Dallas and Dirk Nowitzki for being clutch in the 4th quarters. The Mavs have been outplayed, yet sit tied at 2-2. Great series that is going to atleast 6 games, maybe 7. Game5 is in Dallas, with Game6 and Game7 (if necessary) are in Miami. I picked Miami in 6 before the series, I'm not wavering on that. Still think Miami in 6......... What do you guys predict now that you have seen the matchups? SBF? Hollis? Arapahoe? Anybody?
I'm Miami in 7. As a LeBron fan I would love to see him have another quiet game in another loss at Dallas, let the media and fans pile on him again, and then tear the Mavs up in the last two games in Miami. Either way, awesome series. If Dallas wins I certainly won't lose sleep over it. LeBron will have another shot, and Jason Kidd has always been one of my favorite players. I wouldn't mind seeing him end it with a Finals win.