⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Heat stayed within a few baskets of the pace we expected all game.
Where it moved
▲ CHA better than we expected
▼ MIA better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 9 points worse than our numbers for the Hornets.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Hornets did not.
From the game
Lived at the line, 27 free throws to their fifteen- Ran them off the floor, 18 fast break points to 6
- Kept giving it away, seventeen turnovers to their ten
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Hornets
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Heat
Good plays
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run took them from 6 down to 3 up
Q2 5:43 · CHA 34-37 MIA
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 2-point lead to 12
Q3 5:18 · CHA 53-65 MIA
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Dwyane Wade missed Free Throw 1 of 2.
Q4 1:52 · CHA 85-93 MIA
📊The numbers
| CHA | MIA | |
|---|---|---|
| 41% | Shooting from the field | 52% |
| 4 | Threes made | 9 |
| 31% | Three-point accuracy | 47% |
| 7 | Free throws made | 10 |
| 54 | Rebounds | 62 |
| 15 | Offensive rebounds | 13 |
| 22 | Assists | 27 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 6 | Fast break points | 18 |
| 12 | Points off turnovers | 10 |
| 10 | Turnovers | 17 |
| 6 | Steals | 5 |
| 6 | Blocks | 5 |
