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Chicago 95, Miami 91
Preview - Box Score - Recap
By ADRIAN ROMATO, AP Sports Writer
October 31, 2006
MIAMI (AP) -- They got their championship rings, saw the postseason highlights played on giant video screens and watched a new banner swing from the arena's rafters.
And then the game began.
Ben Gordon scored 24 points, Kirk Hinrich added 18 as the Chicago Bulls stampeded home in the final quarter to spoil Miami's celebratory mood, beating the defending NBA champion Heat 95-91 in Tuesday night's season opener.
"We just ran out of steam in the end," Heat coach Pat Riley said. "My players just sat back and were content with the lead that they had, but you can't do that with this team because as you saw, they'll take advantage."
Miami started out strong going on a 15-4 run during the first quarter, Chicago fought back strong with back to back three balls from Hinrich and Gordon and found themselves down by one after the first. The second quarter started off like the first with Miami going on a run, Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O'Neal scored 14 of Miami's 18 points for the term and held Chicago to a mere 15 to take a 46-42 lead at the half.
Chicago were again outscored in the third quarter, but put on a dazzling display of shooting and passing, Hinrich alone had 10 of his game high 17 assists in the final quarter taking the lead with a Ben Wallace put-back dunk, Chicago outscoring Miami 33-23 and completing the comeback with a victory
Dwyane Wade had 24 points playing all but one minute for the game, also finishing with a team high 8 assists, Shaquille O'Neal also finished the game with 24 points and a team high 10 rebounds. Chicago were out rebounded on the offensive boards 16-6.
The highlight of the night, as mentioned before was Kirk Hinirch's 17 assists for the game including 10 in the fourth. "The difference between the fourth quarter and the first three was that we were hitting our shots," said Hinrich who nearly had a hand in every basket in the last quarter drew praise from coach Scott Skiles who holds the single game assist record. "Kirk had a cool head tonight, he saw he wasnt shooting that well, so he put it on himself to help the team out in a different way and he did so, and we won, that's the mark of a great player."
Notes
Kirk Hinrich's 17 assists for the game was one assist more than Miami's total for the game. Bulls rookie Tyrus Thomas had nine points in 19 minutes in his first game for Chicago. All of Chicago's starters played over 40 minutes and scored in double figures. Both teams shot below average from behind the three point line, Miami shot just 25% to Chicago's 35%




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