<div align="center"> <font size="5">@</font> </div> Game: <font color="orange"><u>Miami Heat (10-6)</u></font> @ <font color="red"><u>Chicago Bulls (2-10)</u></font> Date: Friday 12/03/04 Time: 7:30pm EST Channel: NBALP, Sunshine Network (Florida), WGN (Chicago) Live Boxscore: http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/boxscore?gid=2004120304 <div align="center"><font color="orange"><u>Miami Heat Starting Lineup</u></font><font size="1"> (Head Coach - Stan Van Gundy) (PG-Dwyane Wade SG-Eddie Jones SF-Wesley Person PF-Udonis Haslem C-Shaquille O'Neal) (6th Man - Damon Jones)</font> <font color="red"><u>Chicago Bulls Starting Lineup</u></font><font size="1"> (Head Coach - Scott Skiles) (PG-Kirk Hinrich SG-Chris Duhon SF-Luol Deng PF-Antonio Davis C-Eddy Curry) (6th Man - Tyson Chandler or Ben Gordon) </font></div> *Note: Due to all the changes the Bulls lineup has seen, this may not be the lineup they will use tonight. Thanks to og15 for providing me with the most recent lineup. <u><div align="center">Final Score</div></u> <div align="center"> </div>
This is going to be a great game, too bad it's not on National TV... Anyway, I'm interested to see how well Chicago will do. They've had 3 wins in their last 4 games, including a huge victory against the Lakers. The Bulls dominated the Lakers, outrebounding them 51-37. They were also 16-6 against the Lakers on the offensive glass and avg. 13 off. rebounds per game, so expect the Bulls to try to accomplish the same tonight. Miami should try to be quicker than the Bulls and grab those rebounds! As for Miami, well, even though they lost to the Raptors last game, Shaq still had a season high 34 pts, and 17 rebounds. I hope he can keep that steam rolling, we'll need that for the W in tonight's game. Dwayne Wade, too. All in all, I hope Miami will have the upper hand in this matchup and win by... oh 5 points.
Good stuff there, I agree with all of your keys to the game and analysts. I was reading the RealGM forums and someone mentioned that they spoke with SVG and he said the Heat have all been landing their shots in practice. Here's what he said: <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Tonight was a great night. I just went to miami for the annual season ticket meet the heat. It was at a bowling alley. All the guys came around to each lane and bowled and talked to us. I enjoyed talking to guys like Rasual and Udonis. But surprisingly Jerome Beasely was the coolest. He sat and talked to me for a half hour about the team and him growing up. One of the nicest nba players ive ever met. Of course Shaq was impossible to get to, but I managed to bowl a frame with him and get a picture and an autograph. Great night. talked to SVG and we discussed the (Raptors) game last night. He said they practiced today and all those guys were makin the jumper from the top of the key. He believes if they shoot like that were commin home from that road trip 4-0.</div> Hopefully the other 6 players on the team don't shoot 8-33 like in the Raptors game.
Miami should be able to take this one as long as someone other than Shaq and Wade produce something offensively, Eddie Jones really needs to get it together for the team. Miami 97 Chicago 91 Dwyane Wade - 24 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists Shaquille O'neal - 19 points, 14 rebounds, 3 blocks Eddie Jones - 18 points, 4 rebounds, 1 steal Kirk Hinrich - 17 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists Tyson Chandler - 7 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks Luol Deng - 22 points, 7 rebounds, 3 assists
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting og15:</div><div class="quote_post">Miami should be able to take this one as long as someone other than Shaq and Wade produce something offensively, Eddie Jones really needs to get it together for the team.</div> Ain't dat da truuf I hope your EJ stats are right on target. I think after the last game he's bound to have a good one tonight. I mean, anything's better than the Raptors game
Miami's up 53-50 at the end of the half. We had a 10pt lead but gave up some turnovers and they started shooting lights out. The Heat are shooting 50%-FG and 45%-3PT. The bench has given us 20pts already. That's more like the Heat.
Wow Eddie Jones is playing well. He has 16 points which is tied for a team high. The score right now is 78-68 at the end of the 3rd quarter.
Is this correct, Christian Laetner scored 23 Points and a team high victory over the bulls? Wow if so, just wow. Eddie Jones gotta prop too. Finally stepping it up. The Team won and neither Shaq or Wade had to have a huge night, good job Heat even if it was just the Bulls. A wins a win :mrgreen: Good job Miami bench! :thumbsup:
Nice win, not to mention Wade almost close to a Triple Double, props to EJ, CL, and WP for steppin up
The Bulls just lost it in the fourth quarter. They had no answer for Laettner and Jones in this game. I bet Eddie feels great after this performance. Alot of fans were yelling "trade" since his shots haven't been falling, but this game shows that he's still got it...as well as Laettner, who was making up for the turnovers and bad free throw shooting in this game. Nice win. :thumbsup:
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting heatfan:</div><div class="quote_post">Why didn't Rasual play??? Is he injured or was it a true CD(Coaches' Decision???</div> Coaches Decision. We didn't really have to dig too deep in our bench because Laettner Damon Jones EJ and Person were all doing great. Plus you have the consistancy of Wade Shaq and Haslem. It was really a 7 man rotation game for the Heat.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting realdealbneal:</div><div class="quote_post">The Bulls just lost it in the fourth quarter. They had no answer for Laettner and Jones in this game. I bet Eddie feels great after this performance. Alot of fans were yelling "trade" since his shots haven't been falling, but this game shows that he's still got it...as well as Laettner, who was making up for the turnovers and bad free throw shooting in this game. Nice win. :thumbsup:</div> I don't think anyone really thought he'd get traded though, what team would trade for him with how much he makes I predicted the good game for EJ, my predictions were decently close on the Heat side, but Deng failed me
