But Wade and others were still able to close to the game.
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The Mavericks have been outscored by an average of 34 points in the two losses after Kevin Durant bounced back from the worst shooting game of his playoff career.
So it’s no real surprise the Heat claimed a 115-103 victory, is it?
Wade sizzled from midrange on the way to 28 points. They team added Luol Deng and Hassan Whiteside at the start of the year, and came up with semi-blockbuster trade for Goran Dragic during the midseason trade deadline. Al Jefferson had 25 on 12-for-17 shooting off the bench, Courtney Lee added 12 and Jeremy Lin had 11 for Charlotte – which has dropped 12 straight postseason contests.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) Charlotte Hornets forward Nicolas Batum has been ruled out for Saturday night’s Game 3 of their first-round series against the Miami Heat with a sprained left foot.
The Charlotte Hornets and the Miami Heat will return on Friday at Time Warner Cable Arena, where they will play Game 3 on Saturday at 5:30 p.m. Game 4 happens on Monday in the Hornets’ home court at 7 p.m. They trailed by 10 early in the game and still trailed midway through the third before a Kevin Love 3-pointer gave them the lead for good at 63-62.
“They try to get me in foul trouble”.
The Heat haven’t pulled away from the Hornets by any calculation. Miami closed the first half shooting 74.4% from the field and finished the game at 57.9%.
“Now that we’re going to Charlotte, it’s going to be a different story”, said Dragic, who hit all three of his first-half 3-point attempts. Richardson scored 15 points while Winslow had nine.
All three teams went up 2-0 in their first-round playoff series, meaning they are halfway to the second round and, potentially, sweeps.
Sounds simple right? Well, if Clifford is convinced that effort and just having a bad night of shooting made his team look so bad in their 123-91 loss to the Heat, it’s not going to be pretty in game 2.
The Heat matched their Game 1 turnover total of six in the first quarter alone but shot 65 per cent from the field in the quarter as the teams were tied at 29 through one.
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Walker, who struggled through the early stages of Game 1, this time scored 11 in the opening period. Take the scoring by quarters: 29-29, 43-31, 19-18, 24-25. The Hornets showed against the ball handler (meaning they would play up on the ball handler before darting back to the roll man aka Whiteside/Stoudemire) but that just left open running lanes for Miami’s centers.
