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I'll try to get a Jazzed up pic soon. And no penalties

nice team, especially the nash to bosh connection

i like your screens now that they arent that small

your records is crazy, finally a loss

check out my dynasty, their like exact opposites when it come to wins and losses

Bosh's Live Card updated! Again, complete 'Birdie Breakdown' coverage clickhere.

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great dynasty and recaps

January 4th, 2006





Halftime
Still without Luol Deng, Utah hoped they could learn from their mistakes and keep this one close. Miami helped them out early, showing zone mid-way through the first quarter. The trigger-happy Jazz immediately took advantage of the zone, getting two triples from Matt Bonner and another from Morris Peterson. That was enough for the Heat, who went back to a man-to-man defense, but it didn't phaze Utah at all as they chose instead to go inside to Chris Bosh, Mehmet Okur and Nick Collison, who banged around in the paint settling for either the basket or the foul. The Jazz finshed the quarter strong to take a 28-24 lead. Both teams ended the quarter with peculiar line-ups on the court as Utah played Tyson Chandler, Chris Mihm and Chris Bosh at the 5 through 3 spots and Miami played Rashard Lewis at the 1.
An early 11-0 run to start the quarter second propelled Miami to a 35-28 lead, and although the Heat again showed zone the Jazz were unable to convert their three-point attempts this time. With the threes not falling, the Jazz drove hard to the basket and made those shots but Miami matched them shot for shot to keep a 53-48 lead into halftime. Utah scored with a balanced atack and passed the ball equally well and were lucky to be only losing by five points as they shot a sorry 35% for the half.

Stat of the Half
UTAH - 11 assists on 14 made FG (out of 40 attempts)

Players at the Half
UTAH - Morris Peterson | 11 PTS | 1 REB | 2 AST | 0 BLK | 0 STL
MIA - Rashard Lewis | 14 PTS | 1 REB | 1 AST | 0 BLK | 0 STL

Halftime Highlights

1. Rasheed Wallace didn't bother Tyson Chandler as he adjusts his shot in mid-air; look for Utah to go to Chandler later on 2. Offensive rebounds like this are what kept the Heat in the game this half 3. Even Raymond Felton was getting in on the Heat's second quarter defensive stop

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Halftime Soliloquy
I shot pretty damn bad this half, but by driving to the basket I was able to attempt 16 free throws and hit 15 of them, which is probably what kept me in the game. Curiously, neither of my shots at the buzzer counted even though both went in, leading me to believe that it's completely random whether the shot is counted or not.

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Fulltime
The third quarter continued the action of the second as Miami matched Utah basket for basket up until the last four minutes of the quarter when Utah came within one and then pulled ahead to stay ahead on a basket by Peter Robertson, who had 11 points in the quarter. Behind a 71% shooting effot coming from only two-point field goals save one three pointer shot and made, the Jazz rallied to take an 80-78 lead into the final quarter.
The Heat came out strong in the fourth, making their first 5 field goals, but unfortunately allowed Utah to keep the lead as Miami committed three fouls in the first two minutes of the quarter, all of which were non-shooting fouls. Both teams traded baskets and fouls throughout the quarter with the strong play from Utah's Tyson Chandler (20-3-1-2-1) coming to an end with 3:48 to go as he fouled out on a dunk+1 by Antoine Wright. At the 2:00 mark the Jazz started to pull away on three-point shots by both Matt Bonner and Steve Nash, and although the Heat stayed with them, the closest they got was six points back as they were forced to foul Jazz and effectively gave the game away by doing so against a Jazz team who shot 88% from the line tonight.

Final score: UTAH - 121 | MIA - 112
Boxscore

Stat of the Game
UTAH - 27 assists from 9 different players

Players of the Game
UTAH - Chris Bosh | 22 PTS | 5 REB | 4 AST | 2 BLK | 1 STL
MIA - Rashard Lewis | 25 PTS | 1 REB | 1 AST | 0 BLK | 0 STL

Fulltime Highlights

1. Steve Nash with two of Utah's rare fast break points tonight 2. Rasheed Wallace dominated the paint at both ends for Miami 3. Tyson Chandler gave the Jazz the option to break Miami's zone from the inside as well on a great pass by Steve Nash

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Fulltime Soliloquy
Once I started hitting my shots in the second quarter it was an easy win because the Heat had to play catch-up with me. I finally was able to find Morris Peterson's stroke from 3 range, something I've been missing all year, which helped a lot. As you can see from the boxscore, this was an incredibly even game for me in all categories, although the CPU doesn't always make the smartest substitutions, at least it's pretty even all-around. Hopefully Deng is back for the next game, with it being a week away that's a good probability. I think I'll move Peterson back into the starting line-up and bump Bonner down to 6th man when Deng comes back, Bonner's been playing really well lately and now that I've found Mo Pete's stroke I should be able to use him to draw the defense out.

Song of the Game
City Song - Po' girl
Another CBC Radio 3 Podcast track (there's 37 Podcasts, I'm at number 17 ), this trio of girls have a bluesy sound to go with soulful lyrics and an old-time sound that that's deep in both their original songs and traditional adaptations. City Song is a slower song than I usually listen to, but it's one I won't soon forget. Listen here for a gritty sound that'll take you back to your roots.

Great recap But I cant find the boxscores? Where are they?

Thanks for the card HonorGlow, it looks awesome

I think I may jump up to Superstar next game and see if I can still keep close; if so I'll play at Superstar from now on. Btw, is the Song of the Game a good idea?

EDIT: Sorry Wankster, I didn't see your post. The Boxscore is under the Final Score, under the Fulltime recap. Is that a bad place for it?

Nice win Cable Nice sig too.

Thanks Thierry, I put a lot of work into it

This may slow down for a while as I've bought Battlefront II for my PC, but by no means will it die.

Battlefront 2 is AWESOME. Period.

I feel like updating for the time being ... I'm going to jump ahead to the playoffs though. Update tonight sometime ...

EDIT: ... or not. Stupid codebase errors. I guess that's what I get for not playing for a month.