⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Heat got 12 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there. A much higher scoring game than we expected.
Where it moved
▲ MIA better than we expected
▼ NY better than we expected
The second quarter was where it moved most, 16 points worse than our numbers for the Heat.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Knicks did not.
From the game
Made fifteen threes to their eight- Shot well above their usual, fifteen of 31 from three
- Won the glass, 47 rebounds to 35
- Kept giving it away, twelve turnovers to their six, and were outscored 16-7 off them
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
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run took them from 2 down to 7 up
Q1 9:06 · MIA 14-7 NY
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Knicks
Good plays
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run cut a 11-point deficit to 3
Q2 11:45 · MIA 37-34 NY
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| MIA | NY | |
|---|---|---|
| 56% | Shooting from the field | 44% |
| 15 | Threes made | 8 |
| 48% | Three-point accuracy | 29% |
| 17 | Free throws made | 19 |
| 52 | Rebounds | 42 |
| 8 | Offensive rebounds | 12 |
| 19 | Assists | 19 |
| 36 | Points in the paint | 44 |
| 15 | Fast break points | 8 |
| 7 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 6 |
| 4 | Steals | 7 |
| 9 | Blocks | 2 |
