⏱️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
▲ ORL better than we expected
▼ MIA better than we expected
The first quarter was where it moved most, 5 points worse than our numbers for the Magic.
⚖️What decided it
Why the Heat won, and why the Magic did not.
From the game
Made nineteen threes to their eleven- Shot well above their usual, nineteen of 35 from three
- Won the glass, 46 rebounds to 36
- A 15-0 run took them from 10 down to 5 up in the first quarter
- Kept giving it away, seventeen turnovers to their eleven
Key battles
🏀Good plays, bad plays
The plays that went each side's way, and the ones each side did to itself.
Magic
Good plays
No play that swung it their way.
Bad plays
- Missed FT
Gary Harris misses technical free throw
Q4 5:29 · ORL 94-107 MIA
Heat
Good plays
- 15-0 run
A 15-0 run took them from 10 down to 5 up
Q1 5:26 · ORL 18-23 MIA
- 8-0 run
A 8-0 run stretched a 4-point lead to 12
Q1 0:22 · ORL 22-34 MIA
- 9-0 run
A 9-0 run stretched a 8-point lead to 17
Q4 10:40 · ORL 85-102 MIA
Bad plays
Nothing costly of their own making.
📊The numbers
| ORL | MIA | |
|---|---|---|
| 48% | Shooting from the field | 50% |
| 11 | Threes made | 19 |
| 34% | Three-point accuracy | 54% |
| 8 | Free throws made | 14 |
| 36 | Rebounds | 46 |
| 9 | Offensive rebounds | 14 |
| 23 | Assists | 25 |
| 48 | Points in the paint | 40 |
| 12 | Fast break points | 12 |
| 10 | Points off turnovers | 16 |
| 11 | Turnovers | 17 |
| 10 | Steals | 5 |
| 5 | Blocks | 5 |
