Live Game Blog- Game 2

Ambitious, and I'm starting late, but this will keep me involved, and hopefully keep you entertained.

6:51- 1st quarter: Amazing ball movement from the Mavs a few possessions ago, Stevenson got his ankles broke by Wade and Mark Jackson praised his great defense for the 10 minutes per game he plays. Dirk's finger looks OK, both teams are hitting open three's, which is great. Also, what's up with praising Bibby for hitting "a ton" of clutch shots while with the Kings? Way out of line on that one, but he is shooting 25%, which is super clutch... I like Wade's more active role in the offense right now and the difference will come when the subs come in during the 2nd quarter, that will be big in this game. Dirk's sitting down, very interesting this early

5:42- Jason Kidd made his first turnover of the playoffs just now
Random thought- You think they miss Josh Howard and his awesome weed?

5:03- Stevenson airballs a bad 3 over Wade, LeBron gets called for a travel, I'm confused on how that can happen, Bosh gets an easy dunk over Peja and somehow Mark Jackson doesn't talk about his great defense, or all the clutch shots he hit for the Kings.

3:10- Spoelestra calls a timeout so he can draw smiley faces on a white board since nothing he says matters. I saw a timeout where he said "we need to play Heat basketball" and some other stupid pep talk bullshit that involved no real coaching because he has one of the most talented teams I can remember, if not the most talented team.

2:43- Chandler stopped a nice alley-oop with an athletic play, then put home a tough hoop. I have to think he's the reason for the Mavs defensive effort, he plays HARD on the defensive end.

2:00- Lebron throws in a monster put-back dunk that was just amazingly athletic.

Mike Miller wears enough random padding to survive a 28 story fall.

14.9= LeBron steps hits a 28 footer over Marion with time running down, WITNESS

Barea had a nice layup, he amazes me. Not so much how he's so short and playing well in the NBA, but the dude is dating Miss Universe. I wonder if Kidd has ever smacked her?

LeBron to open the 2nd fades away with over Marion while, once again the shot clock hits zero. He's astounding to watch. Barea gets another gimmee lay-up, which amazes me.

Mavs quietly have great offensive sets and quietly take a six point lead that you'd never notice if they didn't post the score constantly.

8:56- Wade puts on a disgusting move through 3 guys and finishes on the left side of the rim with his right hand quasi-reverse style to avoid Haywood. Simple brilliance.

7:22- Miller hits the deck, start crying when Barea climbs on him. Sad

6:49- Wade throws in a put-back well over the rim that was probably goaltending, but was awesome. He then throws down a transition dunk where Barea gave him the Dorn O'LE bullshit he should be ashamed of.

Wade is taking over this game and I'm enjoying it. Heat down 2

Stevenson hits a three, the world stops rotating on its axis.

Dallas is up 7, LeBron hits a shot through Dirk running away from the hoop and hits a freakish and 1. Bricks the free throw, him and Wade have missed the last 3.

Kidd lays a great assist to Chandler while sealing Miller and knocking over Haslem, great veteran play.

LeBron picks up #3 going over the back of Chandler for a lay-up, bad choice.
Miller gets a steal and throws an amazing, yet ill-advised pass to Wade that he can't possibly finish, then Wade flips shit over it because Chandler must have breathed on him too hard or something. Unprofessional.

Marion quietly has ten points and is playing a great game besides having James hit unstoppable shots over him.

Chandler picks up a garbage touch foul. He gets called for the weakest bullshit I've ever seen. I was furious last series when Westbrook and Durant would run into him and he'd get called for fouls.

Mavs pick-up a 24 second violation on some great defense. The free throw woes continue as Chalmers misses two. Poor.

Barea jacks up an ill-advised jumper early in the shot-clock for no reason.

Haslem forces Dirk to knock the ball out of bounds, fresh 24 and another solid, hustle play from Haslem that won't be on the stat sheet. I mentioned his resurgence will give them another really good defender on Dirk, similar to when he basically shut him down six years ago.

Wade hits a big triple to tie the game. Dirk continues to miss everything, keeping the game close.
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I stopped doing this, it seemed stupid, but WHAT A GAME. Mavs come back from 17 down with 6 minutes left to win game 2 in Miami? The Heat take 3 VERY questionable 3's to close out their offensive sets with under 2 minutes left? Spolestra, or however it's spelled needs to get his ass fired. RUN A FUCKING PLAY, DO SOMETHING. It was just fucking terrible.
Props to the Mavericks for once again making the impossible look easy, but it's not excusable to not have plays set to get to the hoop when you have LeBron James and Dwayne Wade on your team. It's just fucking embarrassing. I'm pumped though, now we're in for a real series hopefully and not worrying about a Heat sweep.