Keeping It In The Road! Heat up 2-1

Bosh hitting the game winner!

The Miami Heat managed the keep the Bentley on the road last night and made it home safely. No falling asleep like they did in game 2 of the NBA Finals in South Beach to make this series more interesting than it needed to be. They should legitimately be up 3-0 at this point. Ready to close the Mavs out and planning a party on Star Island!
 Instead, Dwyane Wade  had to show up big on Sunday to help them get a crucial win in Big D. Chris Bosh and Udonis Haslem provided the final push to seal the key victory. Bosh made a 16-foot, go-ahead jumper from the baseline with 39.6 seconds left and Haslem pestered Dirk Nowitzki the rest of the way as the Heat held on for an 88-86 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night for a 2-1 lead in the NBA finals.

"This is a total win," said Wade, who led Miami with 29 points and 11 rebounds. "You want to win the game on the defensive end of the floor and we got a stop." Recent history says this is a huge win for the Heat. The Game 3 winner in a tied finals has won the championship all 11 times since the 2-3-2 format began in 1985.

We should all be thinking about the NBA draft coming up in the few weeks at this point because it should be a wrap. However, the Heat have managed to keep everyone interested in a series that should at best go 5 games. By falling asleep at the wheel the other night Miami has allowed Dallas to still have a chance make it interesting and win one or two of the next two at the crib.  They continue to allow teams to hang around that shouldn't even be on the floor with them.

They get up big and then go to sleep. What is the deal with that? My only issue with this team is the lack of killer instinct. Too many guys trying to be good teammates. Whoever is feeling it that night should just take over like D. Wade did last night. Although I can respect guys trying not to step on toes but it's put up or shut up time now. Yes, LeBron I'm talking to you bruh!



"Kept it on the road last night!"

 I'm in your corner but that's the one aspect of your game that you don't have yet that Jordan did have at 26, killer instinct.You have to be able to smell blood in the water and attack until there is no life left in your opponent. Jordan wasn't a very good teammate as a young man but he would put the game on his shoulders and ride. Maybe because he had to by being the only guy capable of closing games out on the Bulls in the late 1980's but either way you've got to upset some people, including D. Wade.

What a lot of people don't realize is that Jordan would constantly fight his teammates(Kerr) until Phil got there in '88 and showed him how to make them better instead of fighting them. Non the less learn how to close out games bruh! Keep the ride on the street late in the forth quarter and you and your teammates can shake off all of the haters.

I only want to see the Heat win it all because of the haters on the other side of the fence. I have no other motive here. I love to see the hated win and the haters(media, fans that burned LeBron's jersey, Dan Gilbert, guy that just bought into the media hype that he should hate LeBron but doesn't really know why) lose!  Go Heat!

Jay Graves
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Information from the Associated Press was used in this article.