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Eastern Conference Finals Game 5
(4) Miami at (3) Charlotte
Series tied 2-2
CHA:MIA
93:82 OVR
87:85 OFF
95:80 DEF
Back home to try to get ahead.
First Quarter
Dwayne Wade 21 (Miami 27)
Carlotte 23
Dear lord. Wade with the best quarter I've ever seen in an opponent. 9-12, 2-3 from 3, 2 boards and a steal, 21 points. Sloan 6. Padgett 7 points/3 boards, Mayo 5, Henderson 4. We had 4 charges in the quarter, Wallace 2 fouls early.
Second Quarter
Miami 54
Charlotte 52
Wade only has 4 more in that quarter, which means he's got 25 for the half. Sloan 10. Mayo leads us with 15, Sparks has a huge quarter and has 11 points/5 boards, Padgett 9. Sparks also has 3 blocks. Odd stat of the game... we haven't even attempted a 3. Mayo has a few dunks, Sparks/Padgett obviously all inside, we do have a few midrange jumpers but we have done a great job getting inside.
Third Quarter
Miami 74
Charlotte 70
Close the entire quarter, we tied it up at 66 but fall back behind by 4. Wade has slowed down a ton, but he's still at 29 points/5 boards/4 assists. Sloan has 16, Chalmers 8, Teague 7. Mayo has 21 for us, Sparks 13 points/10 boards, Padgett 11 points/7 boards, Felton 10 points/6 assists. Wallace now has 3 charges and 1 over the back foul, he picked up his 4th about 3 minutes into the 3rd and sat forever.
Fourth Quarter
We start with Swanson/Mayo/Wallace/Padgett/Chandler.
8:30 to go - Miami leads 82-78, all our starters are back in for now.
7:00 to go - 84-83 Miami, we've got it down to 1 after a Mayo 3 point play. Padgett gets a short rest, 4 starters + Fisher.
5:05 to go - Mayo has pretty much taken over the game. We're up 91-86 and Mayo now has 35 points, he's got 14 on the quarter already.
3:55 to go - Mayo is exhausted, We lead 92-86, Swanson/Henderson/Wallace/Padgett/Sparks are in right now.
2:30 to go - Miami cuts it to two before Henderson gets a 3 point play. Miami scores once more and its 95-92 Charlotte. All 5 starters are back in.
1:15 to go - Wade hits a jumper and we've missed a few shots in a row now... Its 95-94 and Miami has the ball.
1:06 to go - Miami takes the lead with a hook inside, 96-95 Heat.
0:57 to go - Chalmers fouls Felton, Felton hits two free throws, 97-96 Charlotte.
0:55 to go - heh... Miami calls a timeout, inbounds to wade, runner, good. 98-97 Miami.
0:44 to go - Felton goes around a screen and hits one from 10 feet. 99-98 Charlotte!
0:35 to go - Wade drives and Sparks fouls him. Star call imo! Wade looked out of control. Wade hits both free throws, 100-99 Miami.
0:13 to go - We go inside to Padgett and he misses a shot from about 6 feet out. Miami rebounds, they get it to Wade and we foul. He hits both, 102-99, we get a timeout.
0:09 to go - Maybe I should have gone for 3, but Mayo drives for a layin. 102-101.
0:08 to go - Mayo fouls Wade. Wade hits the first, misses the second! 103-101. We get a timeout.
Mayo takes the inbounds pass, spin move, he doesn't have an open lane here really, but I try the drive anyway. Mayo is stripped, the ball rolls to Padgett, but he doesn't get his shot to go. Miami rebounds, we foul. They hit 1 of 2, but there's only 0.3 left and we don't get a shot off.
Miami 104
Charlotte 101
Mayo: 38 points
Sparks: 16 points/12 boards
Felton: 16 points/8 assists
Padgett: 11 points/9 boards
Henderson: 11 points
Swanson: 5 points
Wallace: 4 points
I knew Wade was getting all the free throws at the end, but he snuck up on me in the 4th. He had a 20 point 4th quarter!! Wade goes for 49 points/6 boards/7 assists. That's an all time great playoff performance right there.
Miami takes a 3-2 lead. The road team has won every game this series. So we need to go win in Miami in game 6 and then figure out how to steal a home game in game 7 :P
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