⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Heat got 10 points ahead of the pace we expected in the third quarter and stayed there.
Where it moved
▲ LAC better than we expected
▼ MIA better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 8 points worse than our numbers for the Clippers.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Clippers did not.
From the game
Looked after the ball, five turnovers to their thirteen, and outscored them 14-6 off them- Won the second chances, eighteen offensive rebounds to ten
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Clippers
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Heat
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Flagrant
Rafer Alston Flagrant Foul Type 1
Q3 3:13 · LAC 52-60 MIA
- Missed FT
Lamar Odom missed Free Throw 2 of 2.
Q4 3:29 · LAC 81-84 MIA
📊The numbers
| LAC | MIA | |
|---|---|---|
| 43% | Shooting from the field | 37% |
| 2 | Threes made | 5 |
| 67% | Three-point accuracy | 25% |
| 21 | Free throws made | 18 |
| 56 | Rebounds | 51 |
| 10 | Offensive rebounds | 18 |
| 27 | Assists | 19 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 1 | Fast break points | 2 |
| 6 | Points off turnovers | 14 |
| 13 | Turnovers | 5 |
| 1 | Steals | 7 |
| 8 | Blocks | 6 |
