⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Heat got 13 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there. A much tighter, lower scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ MIA better than we expected
▼ CHI better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 18 points better than our numbers for the Heat.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Bulls did not.
From the game
Looked after the ball, twelve turnovers to their twenty, and outscored them 26-13 off them- A 15-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 19 in the first quarter
- Gave up second chances, sixteen offensive rebounds to their six
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Heat
Good plays
- 15-0 run
A 15-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 19
Q1 4:47 · MIA 28-9 CHI
- 11-0 run
A 11-0 run stretched a 3-point lead to 14
Q3 5:11 · MIA 67-53 CHI
- 12-0 run
A 12-0 run stretched a 20-point lead to 32
Q4 5:43 · MIA 94-62 CHI
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Bulls
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| MIA | CHI | |
|---|---|---|
| 55% | Shooting from the field | 35% |
| 10 | Threes made | 5 |
| 43% | Three-point accuracy | 38% |
| 7 | Free throws made | 13 |
| 45 | Rebounds | 49 |
| 6 | Offensive rebounds | 16 |
| 29 | Assists | 10 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 10 | Fast break points | 11 |
| 26 | Points off turnovers | 13 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 10 | Steals | 10 |
| 10 | Blocks | 2 |
