All Tied Up
Posted on June 16th, 2006 by
The Heat completely dominated the Mavs to tie things up, I mean 7-points in a quarter for one of the league’s highest scoring teams? Wow, that’s pretty damn impressive.
The Heat had D. Wade, and the Heat played D. Fense. It was hard to say which one was more important, but those two factors put together allowed Miami to tie up the NBA Finals with relative ease Thursday night.
Getting 36 points from their banged-up superstar and forcing Dirk Nowitzki to pick himself up off the floor more times than he had in the entire series, the Heat dominated Game 4 of the NBA Finals on Thursday night and defeated the Dallas Mavericks 98-74, ensuring his series will be going at least six games.
“It was our best game, there’s no doubt, of this series,” said Miami coach Pat Riley, whose team held Dallas to an NBA Finals record-low seven points in the fourth quarter — the fewest points in any quarter in championship series history. “Our defense was very active tonight. We did not want to give them free throws and did not want to give them layups and jumpers.” #
