<div align="center"> <font color=""Red"">Miami Heat </font> @ <font color=""DarkRed"">Chicago Bulls </font> Time: Tuesday, 7:30pm vs. Heat TV:NBALP, CSN <font color="DarkRed">Chicago Bulls</font> <font size=""1""><font color=""DarkRed"">PG</font>- Chris Duhon <font color=""DarkRed"">SG</font>- Kirk Hinrich <font color=""DarkRed"">SF</font>- Luol Deng <font color=""DarkRed"">PF</font>- Andres Nocioni <font color=""DarkRed"">C</font>- Michael Sweetney</font> <font size=""1"">Coach: Scott Skiles</font> ____________________________ <font color=""Red"">Miami Heat</font> <font size=""1""><font color=""Red"">PG</font>- Jason Williams <font color=""Red"">SG</font>- Dwayne Wade <font color=""Red"">SF</font>- James Posey <font color=""Red"">PF</font>- Udonis Haslem <font color=""Red"">C</font>- Shaquille O?Neal</font> <font size=""1"">Coach: Pat Riley</font> </div> <ul><font color="DarkRed">Defensive pressure</font> this Heat team coming in will feature several former all stars though only two are at all star level at this point in their careers all are still capable of hurting you. The Heat are a team with incredible offensive talent that has just gotten a hall of fame coach (oh no) they have been through a emotional week with their coach ?resigning? and Shaquille just coming back from injury so how they will respond tonight is yet to be seen. Be that as it may defensive pressure will be an essential key to success for the Bulls tonight. The Bulls will need to find a way to double team the Diesel Shaquille O?Neal while at the same time containing Dwayne Wade a difficult task? Duh. However, it is not impossible one of the weaker points for this Heat team as currently assembled it outside shooting so if the Bulls can double team while still keeping the Heat players who get open around the arc they have a good chance to win. Good Luck....[/list] <ul><font color="DarkRed">Consistency</font> the Bulls are a team who that you don?t know what they will give you ,week to week, day to day, quarter to quarter, or even minute to minute. They will need to come together tonight, and play a full 48 minutes of mistake free basketball to have an opportunity at a w at the end of the night. They have played relatively well recently, and are getting production out of several players who have had a lack luster start to the season as a Bulls fan I hope that continues tonight.[/list] <ul><font color="DarkRed">Limit turnovers</font> I will go out on a limb and say that we will be out rebounded tonight. We are horribly undersized, if we base it on size it looks like middle school players going against high school ones. Anyway, we will have to find a way to compensate for that area, and we can do that by controlling our turnovers will give us more shot attempts, which should result in more points if we are shooting well.[/list] <div align="center"></div> <ul><font color="Red">Ball movement</font> with Shaquille finally back in the lineup and a new coach the egos on their roster might come out full throttle tonight. The Heat have to discipline themselves when on the court, and get the ball to the player with the best opportunity to score they can not worry about getting their own shot. Just go with the flow of the game, and get a w.[/list] <ul><font color="Red">Perimeter shooting</font> with the Bulls lack of size, complied with the simple fact that O?Neal is the most dominant force currently in the NBA leads me to think that open shots will be available for the Heat tonight. At the same time those shots mean nothing if you miss. So obviously my second key is good perimeter shooting.[/list] <div align="center"></div> I?m going to come right out and say it things don?t look good for us tonight. The Heat have Shaq back though rusty Shaquille O?Neal matched up with a player suffering from a hernia, and a player five inches shorter then him it?s hard for me to see him not dominating tonight. The Bulls will need to come out with more heart than they have played with all season to come out with a win tonight. I am a Bulls fan, and with all the drama going on in Miami right now I can?t say the Heat have this game in the bag, but the Bulls will have their work cut out for them tonight.
it doesnt look like it, but we have closed in to be down by 4 at the end of the 3rd. Songaila had 8 points (4 of 4) and 2 boards in the first quarter and didnt even get on until the 3rd, I dont get that.
i dont get why gordon only had 7 shot attempts and why hinrich is the only one that gets a lot of shots
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting I-Miss-MJ:</div><div class="quote_post">Lost by 3, what happened in the end? I am guessing we missed a 3 point shot, who took the shot?</div> from the play by play, luol deng took the 3 at the end... but my question is did the heat lock ben gordon tight at the end and he had no chance of getting the ball? too bad i can never catch a bulls game cuz i live in new york the stupid people that makes up the schedule always air bullls games on nba tv not tnt or espn
Tough loss, but the Heat played better. What happened was Luol couldnt find an open player to inbound to, so he had to give it to Chandler, who didn't know what to do so he gave it to Deng. Deng dribbled up the court, shot the three and came up a little short.
