Heat @ Hornets Preview! The Heat.com preview: New Orleans swept the regular season series with the HEAT last season as former HEAT forward Jamal Mashburn averaged 22.3 points per game in the four games including a 35-point effort in the first meeting. The Hornets lead the all-time series 29-26 despite the HEAT taking both meetings this season. The first meeting was on Nov. 25, 2003 at the AmericanAirlines Arena when the HEAT recorded a 91-87 victory as Eddie Jones dropped a team-high 25 points. In the second match-up, Miami grabbed a 94-70 victory in New Orleans. Jones was the HEAT?s high scorer again netting 24 points. New Orleans had won the last seven meetings with Miami and nine of the last 11 prior to this season. This is going to be a tough game. Although the Hornets are in somewhat of a slouch, they are still a team to be dealt with and very deadly. In order to win this game we are going to have to play our best, like we played against Sac-town... Threats are: Baron Davis Jamal Mashburn Jamaal Magloire Marquee Matchups: I'd have to say Mash and Butler. Nothing else really, Buter really has to contain this guy.
Mash won't playing in that game.He is out for atleast 6 months.Baron should have a great game.But with Mash out the Heat might have a slight avantage over the Hornets.Eddie and Odom will help the Heat win in this one.But still have a feeling that the Hornets win by 7.
You seem really non-optimistic about the Heat huh? saying they'd lose to the Magic too lol. Anyways, with Mash out, I feel the Heat can take this, especially with the return of their go-to guy Dwyane Wade... Aw Yeah! Wade's back, and ready for action vs the Hornets.
Wade has returned and with the problems in Hornets land and Baron being the only star the Heat can take this game. But David Wesley is also back, and him and Baron we're handling things before Mash returned. This will be a really close game, and I say the Heat take this by 3 points. It goes down to the Wire.
Damn, we lost 95-84... that's the Heat again for ya. We had a lead in the half time break, but we lost it and the game jsut slippied away in the end...
This on made me cry, they just had to play hard in the 2nd half, but it didn't happen. Baron really had a great game for NOH scoring 33 points and making 14-14 from the line. Everyone on the Heat but Haslem (double double 15 points on 6-10 and 13 rebounds) shot bad, and the whole team shot 37.5% and we were outrebounded 58-38.
The refs called this game one way, it was just absurd how this game was officiated, Lamar or someone else would get hammered and there would be a no call, then on the other end nothing would even happen and the refs would call a BS foul on the Heat. If this happened once, twice, or a couple of times, that's cool I can live with that, but it happened almost every trip up the floor. We shot 13-16 at the charity stripe as opposed to their 42-46 at the line. Getting to the line more often has always been a key for the Heat, but it's kind of hard when the refs don't give you any respect. Free throws and rebounding were the difference in this game, and it shows. They out rebounded us by 20 boards, we had 38 boards as opposed to their 58. In the post game press conference, Stan Van Gundy said "When you get outrebounded by 20 and the other team shoots 30 more free throws, you are probably not going to win the game, we couldn't keep them off the glass and they were at the free-throw line the entire second half."
