How the Heat Lost the NBA Finals
by HorsePig55 on Jun 12, 2011 11:28 PM EDT
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PrintLook, this is not the seventy game winning super team that we envisioned- at this time. Major holes exist on the Miami Heat. The Dallas Mavericks exposed them. Am I saying that this team can't win 60 games next year? No, they have a great shot at getting back to the finals. But first, how the Heat lost the overall series- and game 6 (omit #1).
- Game 2- I think it all comes back to the fifteen point choke in game 2 of the Finals. If we win, then we go up 2-0 and possibly (in this scenario we would have) 3-0. Dallas isn't digging out of that. Heat have all of the momentum. Game over right there.
- Anti-clutchness- In game 6 there were an absurd amount of extra passes. On one play, we passed up FIVE, count 'em, FIVE open shots and turned it over. There was no poise! No one seemed to want to be that guy.
- Rebounding- Dallas got whatever they wanted on the boards. Tyson Chandler was beating us up on the glass. Tyson. Chandler. Not Dirk. Chandler. We need a center, bad. The Mavs consistently had 2+ shots per possesion.
- The Big 3 definitely tended to disappear at moments in the game, not the reason we lost though.
- Free throws. My God the free throws. If the heat shoot 73%(imo a decent percentage) then the game goes down to the wire.
So, all we can hope for in the offseason is to get a good center, does not have to be a scorer, who can rebound the ball, and for LeBron to get his head on straight.
Disappointing showing by the Heat here tonight, and all we can do is wait until next season, and hope for a championship. Can't wait for next year, and Go Heat.
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Agree.
In Game 6, Mavs (despite Terry) didn’t have a MONSTER shooting night really (not with Dirk going stale in the first half), so Game 6’s Story definitely boils down to the block-quoted text below, as listed elsewhere on the blog:
The Heat turned the ball over 17 times which led to 28 Dallas points.It was almost as if the refs were trying to help the Heat in this series, for a change.
Miami also had a very poor night at the charity stripe, making just 60.6% of their free throws (20-of-33).
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Free throws. My God the free throws. If the heat shoot 73%(imo a decent percentage) then the game goes down to the wire.
Coaches obviously make a big deal out of FT% because FTs are completely unguarded freebie-points with a known distance and executed from static position.
Any backyard-level player, with good work-ethic, SHOULD get 3/4 of his/her FTAs home. It’s almost inexcusable for NBA-caliber players not to be averaging 80%+, no matter their position.
They can thank Dirk and Marion for getting them to ~80% in several games, kudos to them.
Despite eeeeeeeeeeeeeverything else that happened……
……………..I do believe that if we had hit roughly 80% FT in Games 2,4,6, instead of LOLWUT 66%,70%,60% (??), the end-game dynamics in these games would have probably changed just enough to nab at least one (maybe two) additional wins.
…… “Make or Miss”, that’s BBall for ya.
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Heat lost because they couldn't close or hit free throws.
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