Monday, April 27, 2009

Hawks even series (2-2)

It was a rough night for the Miami Heat tonight as they lost on their home floor (81-71) in a game in which they never led. Atlanta gets their first playoff road win since May 1997 and evens the series at 2-2. It was a huge victory for the Hawks. Next stop Atlanta.

A bizarre side note to this game was an 11 second stretch in the second quarter during which the same player (James Jones of the Heat) had 2 back to back 4 point plays. He was fouled shooting two separate 3 three pointers which both went in and hit both of the subsequent foul shots for a total of 8 points, all in a span of the aforementioned 11 seconds. After the first one the Hawks were hit with an offensive foul on Mike Bibby inbounding the ball and that is how Miami and Jones got it back so quickly for him to hit the next 4 point play. It didn't help the Heat since they still lost, but I have never seen anything like that in all my years of watching professional basketball.

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