Game Recap
San Antonio 111, Miami 118
Individual performances lifts Heat
Point guard Jason Williams scored 20 pts and shot winning threes in the Fourth quarter as well as in the crucial Third quarter. At the middle of the Fourth he was in trouble because of his 5th foul.
Jason Williams was a Grizzly before being traded along with James Posey for Eddie Jones.
San Antonio led the whole game until the middle of the Third quarter when everything slipped away. They did a good start at the First quarter, with an alley-oop Parker to Duncan, and right after that the French boy scored a bucket with a free throw. The lead started to get smaller and smaller before a three made by... Jason Williams. San Antonio scored right after but an alley-oop significated the end. They knew they wouldn't come back.
The score was high in this game, with a five points lead for the Spurs, 34 to 29. Then the score was 65 to 60, still for San Antonio, here, nothing really special, still the same point advantage. After that, a little boy named Jason Kapono will decide the winner. He started shooting long 2 and made them, at the end of the 3rd Miami led by two and Kapono was the current best scorer for the franchise of Florida.
Coming from the bench, experimented Gary Payton scored 14 pts and delivered 11 assists, Jason Kapono scored 15 pts. The Heat had difficulties stopping Spurs' superstar Tim Duncan, particularly Udonis Haslem, but the 3rd year man had a good game, combining 10 points with 8 rebounds. Rookie Wayne Simien didn't play.
Tim Duncan led the Spurs in points with 24 scored, he also grabbed 9 rebounds. Tony Parker had a good performance, scoring 20 points. Only 15 pts for Argentinian Manu Ginobili whereas Bruce Bowen scored 11 pts which is rather good for him. Sophomore Beno Udrih was the only Spur who didn't score. Rookie Fabricio Oberto scored 4 pts. Big Shot Rob scored a good three in the game before the end of the Second quarter.
The poor shooting percentage was terrible for San Antonio, especially for the threes. Compare San Antonio's to Miami's.
Some pics of the game :
Alley-oop Parker to Duncan
Bowen with the two-handed dunk
Duncan's favourite one-handed shot
Horry with the spectacular block on the small forward Jason Kapono, coming from the Cavs
Ex-Grizzly James Posey got it right from the 3pt line
Shaq with the monstruous dunk
Parker avoids the Daddy's arm
Wade with the jumper from the free throw line
Zo's move, the block shot
Stats :
Miami Heat :
Shaquille O'Neal : 14pts, 6reb, 4ast, 3blk, 1stl
Udonis Haslem : 10pts, 8reb, 1stl
James Posey : 14pts, 3reb, 4ast, 1stl
Dwyane Wade : 15pts, 2reb, 1ast, 1stl
Jason Williams : 20pts, 2reb, 3ast, 1stl
Gary Payton : 14pts, 2reb, 1ast, 1stl
Antoine Walker : 7pts, 2reb, 1stl
Jason Kapono : 15pts, 1reb, 2ast
Alonzo Mourning : 7pts, 5reb, 2blk, 1stl
Shandon Anderson : 1ast
Michael Doleac : 2pts
Wayne Simien : DNP
31 rebounds, 26 assists, 8 steals, 5 blocks, 17 fouls, 21 turnovers
43/67 FG 64.2%, 6/10 3pt FG 60%, 26/34 FT 76.5%
Italic text : Player of the game
San Antonio Spurs :
Nazr Mohammed : 2pts, 3reb, 3ast
Tim Duncan : 24pts, 9reb, 3ast, 3blk, 3stl
Bruce Bowen : 11pts, 2reb, 2stl
Manu Ginobili : 15pts, 4ast
Tony Parker : 20pts, 1reb, 5ast, 2stl
Brent Barry : 7pts, 1reb, 2ast, 1stl
Michael Finley : 6pts, 1ast
Robert Horry : 7pts, 6reb, 1ast, 1blk
Nick Van Exel : 9pts, 4ast, 1stl
Beno Udrih : 2ast
Rasho Nesterovic : 6pts, 5reb, 1ast
Fabricio Oberto : 4pts, 1stl
27 rebounds, 26 assists, 10 steals, 4 blocks, 21 fouls, 17 turnovers
48/87 FG 55.2%, 3/16 3pt FG 18.8%, 12/20 FT 60%