⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Heat got 9 points ahead of the pace we expected in the third quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ MIA better than we expected
▼ ATL better than we expected
The third quarter was where it moved most, 12 points better than our numbers for the Heat.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Hawks did not.
From the game
Made fourteen threes to their three- Could not get to the line, fifteen free throws to their 29
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
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run took them from 5 down to 3 up
Q3 9:55 · MIA 66-63 ATL
- 10-0 run
A 10-0 run stretched a 6-point lead to 16
Q4 5:24 · MIA 110-94 ATL
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Hawks
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| MIA | ATL | |
|---|---|---|
| 48% | Shooting from the field | 47% |
| 14 | Threes made | 3 |
| 38% | Three-point accuracy | 27% |
| 11 | Free throws made | 22 |
| 59 | Rebounds | 60 |
| 12 | Offensive rebounds | 7 |
| 30 | Assists | 20 |
| -1 | Points in the paint | -1 |
| 14 | Fast break points | 21 |
| 12 | Points off turnovers | 13 |
| 8 | Turnovers | 13 |
| 8 | Steals | 7 |
| 5 | Blocks | 6 |
