thriving against the heat

The Heat shot just 39 percent in Game 4 on Tuesday, including 14 for 48 from outside the paint. But they were 24 for 27 from the line and committed just six turnovers. They scored on just one of their final nine possessions, but had scored seven straight times before that and still scored more than a point per possession 22/21 in the fourth quarter.
Although the Pacers showed LeBron James more bodies on his post touches and the MVP seemed a little more passive (11 of his 18 shots came from outside the paint and he attempted just six free throws) in Game 4, defense was Miami’s bigger problem and has been throughout the series.
The Pacers aren’t a good shooting team and they’re turnover-prone. But they score with second-chance opportunities and trips to the free throw line, “smash-mouth basketball” as Frank Vogel calls it.
Indiana has smash-mouthed Miami in this series. In fact, the Pacers have more than twice as many offensive rebounds 61 and more than twice as many free throw attempts 141 in four conference finals games .
Game 4 was a little unique in that the Pacers outscored the Heat, 50-32, in the paint. Roy Hibbert scored 20 of those 50 points, as much a force on offense as he has been on defense throughout the season.
The Heat have been doing a good job of fronting the post, making it difficult for the Pacers to throw direct entry passes to Hibbert or David West. But Indiana has been able to get them the ball using other action to set up entry passes.

Michael Jordan Words

I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games.
26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed.


This means to never give up and try and try and you will succeed

Spurs & Grizzlies

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Six years ago those boring old San Antonio Spurs were winning another title and then Tony Parker was jetting to Paris to wed Eva Longoria and Tim Duncan, we think, was happily married and that barren pasture on top of Manu Ginobili‘s dome, well, the recessive gene hadn’t quite kicked in.

 

The point is a lot has changed over six years. And then something like Saturday night happens, a 103-94 Spurs overtime win that might as well have dialed back the calendar to 2007 or heck even ’05. Even as San Antonio has retooled, added snipers to transform the old plodders into a high-powered offensive juggernaut and significantly reduced the median age all around the Big Three, it was the Big Three on this night that carried them to the brink of a fourth Finals appearance together and the fifth in the Duncan-Gregg Popovich era that now bridges three consecutive decades. The start of Game 3 was painful for the Spurs, who couldn’t quite believe what was happening after all the talk of “Remember Last Year,” two wins away from their first Finals berth since ’07 and then wiped out four in a row by Oklahoma City.

Eight turnovers in the first quarter with four by Parker in the first two minutes as he called it maybe “the worst start of my career.” Down 18 points before the first 12 minutes were up. The Grindhouse in full throaty howl. With 4:53 left in the opening quarter and Memphis up 16-5, Popovich called a 20-second timeout and sat all five starters, pinning the first eight minutes as “one of the worst starts I have ever seen.”

INDIANAPOLIS

Before he knew it, the words had slipped out and Udonis Haslem wound up revealing the secret of the Miami Heat’s remarkable resiliency in responding to defeats.

Bad rest and bad nutrition and that matters right now because, unless the Indiana Pacers figure out a way over the next week to impose a losing streak on the Heat of at least that duration, the Pacers’ season will be over.
As Haslem tells it, the Heat players are so accustomed to winning that, when they don’t, it’s a complete shock to their systems.

Haslem said, with a laugh. “But yeah, it’s weird. We talk about it all the time Very rarely do we eat or sleep the way we’re supposed to after we lose a game. We wish we can not come off losses.

 

LeBron James said, at the risk of sounding a little greedy. We love the fact that, you know they took the home court away from us and now ‘Let’s see what we are made of. This is a great group of guys that’s always loved, I think, the pressure moments of being 1-1 a team taking our home court away and we have to go on the road to win.”

Considering that it can kill their appetites and steal their sleep, it’s more than just taking offense at another team’s success. The sense of something special is slipping away a shot at winning consecutive NBA championships in this case creating the worry that turns into motivation.

Spurs Grizzlies series

Zach Randolph carried the Memphis Grizzlies out of the second round for the first time in franchise history, averaging 18.4 ppg and 10.8 rpg. Two weeks prior he bludgeoned Blake Griffin and the Los Angeles Clippers with nearly 57-percent shooting to rally his team from an 0-2 hole.

Just as the bandwagon had swelled to capacity in honor of Randolph’s four-year reclamation in Memphis, this headbanded beast can’t even buy a free throw in this quickly-slipping-away Western Conference finals. The Spurs, with Tim Duncan, Tiago Splitter, Boris Diaw and Matt Bonner, have done what Griffin and Serge Ibaka could not. They have sedated the beast by suffocation. “I’m all about winning. If it opens up for me, fine. But if we can win and knock shots down I’ll be happy with that. I’ve just got to do the best I can in picking my spots because the attention is on me. I’ve got a guy in front of me, a guy behind me they're leaving the guys in the corner and we’ve got to knock down shots. So it’s just about winning with me.

Heat & Pacers

Pacers coach Frank Vogel was heavily criticized for taking Hibbert out of Game 1 before James' game-winning layup. Vogel said he made the move because he was worried Bosh would get open for an easy jumper. The Heat spent 48 minutes showing Pacers fans why Vogel's Game 1 decision might not have been such a bad idea. That's what Miami does they space you out he said. They make it difficult to have a rim protector in the game at all times. They challenge you to keep a guy at the rim and still make them close out to an 18-foot jump shooter. We have to account for that.

While Haslem and Bosh pulled Hibbert and power forward David West away from the basket, James took over as the Heat's post presence, overpowering and dominating All-Star forward Paul George.

"I made a conscious effort to get down in the post tonight to put pressure on their defense" James said. "The coaching staff wanted me to be down there tonight, and my teammates allowed me to do that."

James bouncing back after two late turnovers cost Miami in Game 2, had 22 points, four rebounds and three assists. Hours after Wade learned he would only be tagged with a flagrant foul from Game 2 and not a suspension, he finished with 18 points, eight assists and four rebounds. Bosh added 15 points and three rebounds, and all five Miami starters reached double figures.

Just Me

My name is Da'vell Mitchell my lab is vet assistant and I go to north college hill Jr Sr high school and Diamond. I enjoy playing sports and I’m very competitive and like to work out and play a lot of sports and love basketball. I train every day to get better in basketball to play basketball in college and get to the next level and after that hopeful play over sea’s if not the NBA that’s my goal. I’m going to go to college to be a veterinarian or physical therapist/trainer. My blog is going to be about things people or Espn is talking about in the NBA and other things my blog will be about is things I seen while watching a game that’s worth talking about and other could give their opinion or comment on. I would also be showing and talking about highlights. I would also be talking about the NBA draft and NBA combines athletic testing.

What really grinds my gears is when a person lie to me over and over another thing that grinds my gears is when someone is bullying someone just because they know they can. Another thing that grinds me gears is when I fail at something.