⏱️How it unfolded
The score against the pace we expected, quarter by quarter.
The score, against the pace we expected
The Heat got 11 points ahead of the pace we expected in the first quarter and stayed there.
Where it moved
▲ DAL better than we expected
▼ MIA better than we expected
The fourth quarter was where it moved most, 15 points better than our numbers for the Mavericks.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Mavericks did not.
From the game
Made ten threes to their three- Won the glass, 47 rebounds to 36
- A 14-0 run from level to 14 points up in the first quarter
- Kept giving it away, twenty turnovers to their nine, and were outscored 21-11 off them
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Mavericks
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
Heat
Good plays
- 14-0 run
A 14-0 run from level to 14 points up
Q1 6:52 · DAL 13-27 MIA
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run stretched a 24-point lead to 33
Q3 7:26 · DAL 51-84 MIA
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| DAL | MIA | |
|---|---|---|
| 39% | Shooting from the field | 54% |
| 3 | Threes made | 10 |
| 14% | Three-point accuracy | 36% |
| 18 | Free throws made | 16 |
| 44 | Rebounds | 56 |
| 13 | Offensive rebounds | 8 |
| 23 | Assists | 25 |
| 56 | Points in the paint | 50 |
| 18 | Fast break points | 16 |
| 21 | Points off turnovers | 11 |
| 9 | Turnovers | 20 |
| 10 | Steals | 8 |
| 6 | Blocks | 4 |
