Miami Heat 90, Orlando Magic 78
by Mike from Illinois on Feb 19, 2012 7:37 PM EST
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Miami, winners of five games in a row coming into Sunday's game against the Magic, had not lost since a game since losing big to the Magic by 16 points on February 8th. The Heat no doubt were looking to avenge that loss with the Magic coming to Miami Sunday. Miami did just that, with a dominant 90-78 win over the Magic, as Dwyane Wade (27 points on 13 of 23 shooting) and LeBron James (25 points, 11 rebounds, 8 assists) scored 52 of Miami's 90 points. The game was nowhere near as close as the final score indicated, with the Heat leading by 20 points late in the game. Miami outscored the Magic 70-32 on two-point field goals.
J.J. Redick, starting in place of Jason Richardson who was having chest pains before the game, led the Magic with 17 points, including 5 of 7 on three pointers. The five three pointers tied for the second-most three pointers Redick has made in a game. Dwight Howard struggled on offense, scoring just 12 points on 5 of 10 shooting, and 2 of 10 on free throws. He added 15 rebounds. The other three Magic starters, Jameer Nelson, Hedo Turkoglu, and Ryan Anderson, combined for just 17 points on 5 of 23 shooting.
Miami started quickly, jumping out to a 22-11 lead, which included two highlight-reel passes from James to Wade for slams. The Magic scored the last eight points of the quarter as the Heat led 22-19 after one. Redick scored 11 of the Magic's first 14 points, and shot 4 of 6 for the quarter. Wade led the Heat with 12 first-quarter points on 6 of 8 shooting.
The Magic held the Heat scoreless for nearly six minutes of play from late in the first to early in the second quarter, and led 27-24 after a Ryan Anderson three pointer with 8:56 remaining in the half. The Heat then turned up their defense, holding the Magic to a mere four points the rest of the quarter, as the Magic shot an anemic 2 of 17 in the final nine minutes of the half. Orlando scored 12 points overalll in the second, shot 5 of 23, including 2 of 11 on three pointers. Miami didn't exactly tear it up offensively, scoring 21 points in the quarter on 8 of 23 shooting for a 43-31 halftime lead.
Miami shot 42.5% for the first half, while the Magic were an ice-cold 28.6% from the floor. Wade led Miami with 19 first-half points on 9 of 13 shooting, with James adding 9 points, 6 boards, and 4 assists. Redick had 11 to lead the Magic, with Howard scoring just 6 points. The other three Magic starters combined for just 10 points on 4 of 19 shooting.
The Heat continued to maintain a double-digit lead through most of the third quarter, but the Magic closed to within nine points with 1:44 remaining in the quarter after a Glen Davis steal and layup. That was as close as the Magic would get the rest of the game, as Miami scored the last seven points of the third to lead 70-54, and led 74-54 with just over 11 minutes remaining in the game. The Magic never made a run after that, with the Heat lead varying between 14 and 20 points the rest of the way before Orlando scored the final seven points of the game to conclude the 90-78 Heat victory. James scored 16 of his 25 points in the second half.
For the game, Miami outshot the Magic from the field 47.5% to 36.5%, the free throw line 78.6% to 52%, outrebounded the Magic 48-40, and had a much better assist/turnover ratio of 20/10 to 15/15 for the Magic. Give credit to Miami's defense, as their pick-and-roll defense made all the right reads and were able to close out quickly on many of the Magic's three pointers.
Other game notes:
- -Glen Davis led the Magic reserves with 12 points on 3 of 10 shooting, along with 3 rebounds, a steal, and a block. Quentin Richardson added 10 points and 9 rebounds off the bench, and Von Wafer finally saw action with Jason Richardson being out, scoring 9 points on 4 of 9 shooting.
- -Turkoglu was particularly ineffective, with one of the worst games of his career, scoring 1 point along with 3 assists and 3 turnovers on 0 for 4 shooting in 25 minutes.
- -The Magic's point guards, Nelson and Chris Duhon, were ineffective also, combining to score 8 points on 2 of 14 shooting with 6 assists and 4 turnovers
- -Anderson had a rare game of scoring in single digits, with 9 points on 3 of 8 shooting in 31 minutes.
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-Udonis Haslem was the only other Heat player to score in double figures with 10 points off the bench along with 5 rebounds.
- Here is the game box score.
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Chest pain?
As in sore muscles or as in heart attack risk?
by dukenilnil on Feb 19, 2012 7:45 PM EST via Android app reply actions
As far as I know, it was nothing serious
It was a last minute thing; I guess they just wanted to sit him out as a precautionary measure.
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by Mike from Illinois on Feb 19, 2012 7:49 PM EST up reply actions
Ummm
Question – did Turkulou suit up for this game? did Nelson play also?
Don’t remember seeing them much – all I remember is Howard grinning like a Cheshire cat in the 4th quarter when we were 18 points behind!
Why does Big Baby takes as many shots as Howard??
We wont win that way. Dwight took 10 shots, Big Baby 10, Nelson 11, Von Wafer 9, Q Rich 9. Yeah, Dwight was fouled 5 times, but still, he should take at least the double of shots of Q Rich or Davis.
The problem is the magic are
Really bad at finding the hot hand. This game it was jj who was shooting well. But they wouldn’t pass him the ball when he was open for the next 2 quarters. Done games it s jrich who starts hot and then didn’t get the ball, etc. not sure if it is selfishness or just poor bball IQ. Jj should have been feed the ball until his arms feel off, but didn’t happen. Other games we miss the hot hand. Even when Anderson is going well, there will beer long stretches where he won’t get the ball in position to shoot
by dukenilnil on Feb 19, 2012 9:11 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Miami came prepared.
I’ve never seen a team do such a good job blocking the pick and roll and keeping in front of their man. Even Wafer, with his considerable first step, simply couldn’t get a clear lane to the basket.
The only thing that beats that level of defense is ball movement and if players are knocking down shots. If anyone not named Redick had drilled a few more shots in the first half, the MIA help defense might have backed off a bit and ball handlers could have gotten some breathing room. As it was, no one could make the pass…and when they did the open man just missed shots.
Other than that, missing their starting SG and historically bad nights for multiple players…it could have been worse. Holding the Heat to 90 points has to seem like a bright spot, since normally when things are going THAT bad on offense, you tend to give up on defense as well. If they shoot their norms, this game gets competitive real fast.
Ok Magic. Suck it up. Move on and keep getting wins. Take a hold of that #3 spot in the East and don’t let go.
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by The BBQ Chicken Madness on Feb 19, 2012 9:30 PM EST reply actions
They really did an amazing job on our PnRs
The intensity has to go up, up! Not down...UP! -Stan Van Gundy
This was a fairly predicable loss
Wish we would have made a better showing, but it’s only one game. We just need to get back on track tomorrow and not look back.
Where petulance happens
weak!
Nothing worse than seeing Lebron schooling our guys. I wish they would trade Dwight for Amare and Chandler. Where was Dwight today? 2 of 10 on free throws? Superstars don’t get shut down like that. I like him and all but I don’t think he’s quite good enough to be donned a “superstar.” Games like today kind of show that. If we had a superstar we’d be lethal.
by Hjlite on Feb 19, 2012 10:11 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Haha
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by eltharion_doa on Feb 19, 2012 10:34 PM EST via Android app up reply actions 2 recs
Sarcasm from others aside
I tend to agree that Dwight is bit a superstar. Superuser talent? Without question. Top 5 talent, almost certainly. But talent alone does not maker you a superstar. it must be combined with mental toughness, bball IQ, and will to win. Jordan doesn’t let himself get beat. Kobe doesn’t. Wilt didn’t. A superstar player makes everyone around him better. Orlando though, seems to be where players come to die the last few years. Superstars always bring their A game. They don’t get held under 10 points multiple games a year. Dwight has the talent to be one of the top players of all time. he just doesn’t put it all together all the time.
by dukenilnil on Feb 19, 2012 11:28 PM EST via Android app up reply actions 3 recs
Queston.. Would you rather have Dirk and Chandler or Dwight and Anderson?
I think id take Dirk and Chandler because Dirk makes everyone else better. In an age of teaming up, win a championship as only all star
Its a good question to ask because it puts one superstar against another purported superstar and a sidekick and its an equal position exchange
by dukenilnil on Feb 19, 2012 11:33 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
Mature
I love how, Evan, when you don’t have any logical argument, you go for the the 12 year old responses of “no” or “whatever”
by dukenilnil on Feb 20, 2012 10:25 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Dwight Howard's stat line from last season
He averaged 22.9 PPG on 59.3% FG shooting, while averaging 14.1 rebounds and 2.4 blocks per game.
No other player in NBA history has averaged 22+ points per game, 14+ rebounds per game, 2+ blocks per game while shooting 55%+ for the season.
This season, he is averaging 20.1 PPG on 55.2% FG shooting, 15.3 rebounds, and 2.2 blocks per game.
Even though his scoring is down from last season, if he maintains these numbers the rest of the way, no other player in NBA history will have averaged 20+ points per game, 15+ rebounds per game, 2+ blocks per game while shooting 55%+ for the season.
What I’m trying to say is that Dwight Howard should be considered a superstar.
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by Mike from Illinois on Feb 20, 2012 7:32 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If blocks were a statistic that was counted when Wilt and Russell played, how many people in history would have already accompished that feat...?
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by aTasteLikeBurning on Feb 20, 2012 7:35 PM EST up reply actions
Granted, you are correct
Blocks didn’t become an official stat until the 1973 season I believe.
Still, lots of great centers since then never accomplished the numbers Howard has… Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Shaquille O’Neal, Hakeem Olajuwan, David Robinson just to name a few.
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by Mike from Illinois on Feb 20, 2012 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
Russell may never have scored enough, actually. I'd bet anything Wilt got those numbers more than once.
Still.. Pretty good company.
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by aTasteLikeBurning on Feb 20, 2012 7:41 PM EST up reply actions
Wilt was awesome
He once averaged 50.4 points per game and 25.7 rebounds per game, in the 1961-62 season. He shot 50.6% from the field that season.
In 1966-67, he averaged 24.1 points, 24.2 rebounds, while shooting 68.3% from the field.
He had four seasons where he averaged 20+ points, 18+ rebounds, while shooting over 55% from the field.
Bill Russell was probably the best rebounding center of all time, but he never averaged more than 18.9 PPG in a season or shot better than 45.7% in a season.
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by Mike from Illinois on Feb 20, 2012 7:54 PM EST up reply actions
*Olajuwon... my bad
Also, Howard is not perfect and has his flaws as we all know, but I think he still should be considered a superstar. His season last year was one for the ages, and he should have gotten the MVP over Derrick Rose (I’m saying that even though I’m a huge Rose fan).
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by Mike from Illinois on Feb 20, 2012 7:46 PM EST up reply actions
Agreed.
Of course if that was the case he would’ve Nowitzki’d it. Won MVP and then immediately gotten knocked out in the first round.
The sports media would have loved publicly eviscerating him for that. lol
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by aTasteLikeBurning on Feb 20, 2012 7:53 PM EST up reply actions
Very true
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by Mike from Illinois on Feb 20, 2012 7:55 PM EST up reply actions
Nah, with Dwight doing his thing, the story would've been about how he has to leave the Magic.
He performed much better than Dirk did against Golden State. Same team result though.
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Jordan and Kobe and Wilt also didn't get hit 20+ times a night.
They also didn’t have players flopping so that they would get fouls on them fast. A lot of things are different between the players you mentioned and Dwight and none of those are Dwight’s problems but it does make it harder to take over a game. And if you seriously don’t think Dwight makes everyone around him better and isn’t, at the very least, a top five player in the league, which is where the “superstars” are, then I’m not sure you watch basketball enough.
"If Dwight spent more time practicing and less time b!tching, then maybe he’d be playing a little better." -My Mom
Cool your jets, young man.
If you think Jordan didn’t get hit playing during the height of the handcheck and against the Detroit Pistons during the ‘Jordan Rules’ years… crazy.
Same with Wilt. Shaq got hit just as much as Dwight and he played in recent memory. Dwight doesn’t play under some sort of extenuating circumstances that allows for excuses to be made. If he is playing well enough, fine. If he isn’t playing well enough, then he should be held accountable. If you have to rationalize away why simple direct comparisons to other great players are unfair, guess which it probably is.
And, I would just like to remind people that the title “superstar” is a completely made up and meaningless designation that has no relevance to anything and contributes 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 assists, and 0 wins to the team. What happens if everyone on every blog and every pundit decided Dwight Howard wasn’t a superstar? Do his baskets stop counting? Would he be less dominant because we refer to him by different words?
blah blah blah blah Whaaat?? You question that Dwight Howard is a mega-ultra-sing-star!! You idiot. Of course he is a super-duper-wicked-witch-illuminati-star (everyone knows that once a player reaches 20 points and 10 rebounds, makes 5+ all-star games, and 2+ all-nba first teams that he gets to be called a Duke-of-Pennyworth-James Bond-alligator-star and can no longer be criticized)! Prepare to duel to the death, as I cannot let this insult to the honor of my precious-quantum-snugglebunny-supernova-star stand!
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by aTasteLikeBurning on Feb 20, 2012 7:33 PM EST up reply actions
Jordan got bumped and checked, but he didn't get slapped in the face and hit as hard as Dwight does.
Wilt played in a game where he could’ve gotten mugged by three different players and still could’ve dunked the ball on them. Shaq was a force. No one could battle with him down in the paint: if he wanted to go somewhere, you were going that way. Now I’m not making excuses for Dwight in the slightest. He doesn’t play up to the standards he should at times, but you can’t unfairly compare him to other players that aren’t in his level. Comparing him to Jordan is completely off the table since he is the best ever. You can’t compare him to Kobe because Kobe doesn’t play down low. You can’t compare him to Wilt because no one was there to challenge him except for Russell and even then it wasn’t fair. So if you’re going to compare Dwight to someone, compare him to a Shaq or a David Robinson who played against competition their type nightly. Also, I don’t care about the title “superstar” cause you can call them anything you want, but I can’t understand how someone doesn’t think Dwight is a top-tier player in the NBA. That’s what I was arguing about, not if he was a “superstar” or even a “precious-quantum-snugglebunny-supernova-star”. And lastly, I have no problem if you want to talk about me being young, but please don’t talk down to me. Thank you
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You stole my comment.
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when hedo plays like this
it makes me wanna trade him for captain jack ASAP…jackson may not have turks playmaking abilities, but at least he gives 100% every night (when he’s given proper mins and doesn’t clash with his coach like in Mil)
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by supermantotherescue on Feb 20, 2012 2:58 AM EST reply actions
i think Turk is a slightly better passer
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by supermantotherescue on Feb 20, 2012 6:10 PM EST up reply actions
Also, I think it's time to press the panic button, shooting is horrible.
Jameer+Duhon+Davis+Turkoglu= 5/27 FG. That’s plain awful, and it’s not an exception, this far on the season we must admit this is not a trend or a bad strech, but this is who they are. We have many players that can have good days, but that at least 1 out of 3 games will struggle to score over 30%. You can’t win a playoff series with so many players taking so many shots and missing them.
I thought SVG put it best.
He basically said when we shot the ball well we didn’t defend and when we defended we didn’t shoot well. Pretty much summed it up. There were bright spots at times on both offense and defense but we didn’t really put together a complete game. With Miami smelling blood at home we were just going to get smacked.
That’s not an excuse, but the Magic and Heat are an interesting matchup because they both have play styles designed to beat each other. This time, the Heat were able to execute theirs and we didn’t execute ours. Last time, the opposite happened.
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What is disturbing about this game is that we looked an inferior team, throughout, even at the end of the 1st quarter and early in the 2nd quarter when we took the lead. It is also more disturbing that we are not that bad.
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We'll win some, lose some vs the Heat in the regular season
but I don’t see us taking them in a 7 game series with their full roster. I’m passed the game already and I hope that the team has the same mentality. The J-Rich injury is bad enough, I hope they wont lose the next three games trying to forget this one.
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Just venting here...
This J-Rich issue is disturbing… puts even nixes a a future trade.
Second, WHY did we contract I-Smith if we’re not going to play him? How’s he going to train to lead the Magic through the playoffs as PG, if he never plays. Everyone KNOWS, he’s way better than Duhon, and a real threat inside. Every time I watch Duhon sub for Nelson, who also must have “chest pains” because he only plays 12-min per half; every time I see this, I get sick to my stomach.
Third, WHY is there no public indignation over the J.R. Smith debacle? Yes… I will continue to pour this on; as this was not just “another Otis blunder”, but to me, it was the drop that filled the Cup! And if there’s something I missed… well, CORRECT ME!
This guy WANTED to play here; instead, Otis says the Magic are NOT interested in him and he signed with NY for TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, half of what we pay the inept Duhon, and the declining J-Rich. JR-Smith was the slasher the Magic need… and with a nice 3-point shot too! Did anyone watched how he and Lin demolished the Defending Champions yesterday?
All we had to do was sign him… then TRADE our ballast, Nelson, Duhon AND J-Rich. Our starting back-court would then be the two Smiths, with Van Waffer and Redick backing up. Or, any combination of these four…
I can’t understand this silence; the team is supposed to be TRYING to reassure Howard AND US! … that the Team is STILL trying to improve; to contend for a Title…
Ish Smith is still learning the system. We signed him because Nelson was injured and I would like to see him play, but at the same time Duhon has been playing pretty well this year when it comes to back-ups.
Nelson coming out after 6-8 minutes isn’t by his choice but by SVG’s. He has told SVG that he wants to stay out there more so he’s been staying in longer during the first and third quarters usually. I don’t think we needed J.R. Smith and I really didn’t want him on the team. Yea he’s a great player, but we already have six players on the wings to get minutes for almost every game and I don’t think we needed another one. Also, where would we trade the players if we did sign Smith? Not alot of people are looking to trade players right now. And finally, we are contending for a title. We’re doing great and are looking to get up into the top three teams in the near future and working to being one of the top two teams soon after.
"If Dwight spent more time practicing and less time b!tching, then maybe he’d be playing a little better." -My Mom
Fair enough.
Thanks for your reply. Your point on I-Smith is good, he does need to learn our system.
I disagree on the JR-Smith question. If I read you right, you’re saying that if Howard stays (I think he will!), then Otis will just sit tight and do NOTHING trade-wise… just to avoid further blunders…
Sound eerily similar to what Cleveland did, just prior to James departure… As construed, this Orlando Team can/is winning games in this crazy season, but I can assure you, the Magic will NOT beat teams, in a SERIES, like Chicago, Miami, Boston, or even surging New York, as their revamped back-court of JR-Smith and J-Lin will run all over OUR Nelson-J.-Rich duo. My point is, this could have/should have been avoided… at all cost!
This management sucks; can’t figure why Mr Amway, an astute, shrewd business person, he still keeps Otis Smith as GM with all the money he has thrown away these past 4 years…
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