Game Thread: Miami Heat @ Utah Jazz Game Thread

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UTAH JAZZ
TV: Sun Sports (Eric Reid, Tony Fiorentino, Jason Jackson) Radio: FM 104.3/AM 790 & The HEAT Radio Network (Mike Inglis) Spanish Radio: WAQI 710AM (José Pañeda)
Series Notes: The HEAT and Jazz meet for the second and final match-up this season. Earlier this season, the HEAT captured a, 117-94, victory in Miami and will look to sweep the season-series against the Jazz since the 2008-09 season. Last season, the two teams split the season-series, 1-1, with each team winning on their homecourt. The HEAT is 22-31 all-time versus the Jazz in the regular season, including 8-19 in games played in Utah and 14-12 in games played in Miami.

 

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Is Ray Allen settling back in as Miami Heat reserve? - Sun Sentinel

 

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Is Ray Allen settling back in as Miami Heat reserve? - Sun Sentinel

 

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Mario Chalmers hit with $5,000 fine for second flopping violation of season. Happened in third quarter vs. Clippers.

Per Ira Winderman

 

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Would LeBron James be more apt to recruit than relocate? - Sun Sentinel

 

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Is Greg Oden ready for crunch-time minutes for Miami Heat? - Sun Sentinel

 

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LeBron James could lure free agents to Miami Heat rather than leave - Sun Sentinel

 

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James Jones and Roger Mason Jr. inactive for tonight. Regular starters, still - sadly, including the useless bum Shane Battier.

 

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Oh, and the diva is playing tonight

 

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Another night where the scrub is useless on offense and getting raped on defense

 

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Scrub comes out of the game and the Heat start to play better on both ends… it always happens

 

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The scrub comes back in and kills all momentum for the Heat

 

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The diva being as big a liability on defense tonight as the scrub. On offense, he is struggling because, as usual - He is putting up weak shots every time begging for fouls

 

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There is no reason other than the fact that LBJ is settling for bad shots as the reason why he is struggling - No other reason exist

 

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Funny how the homer/heat big3 apologist always says that the heat defender was all over the opponent on a shot he makes when actually the heat player was giving him way too much space

 

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That heat homer/apologist, of course, Tony Fiorentino. Heat need a new color commentator. Long overdue.

 

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Bring on the heat apologist on this board that will say the Heat needed this loss. yeah right you idiots. Oh, and this loss is surely on LBJ and Wade for how shitty they played and the scrub of course always deserves some blame… but, they should come up with a new stat when keeping track of losses… It should say losses (Loss = Coaches decision ) Because Spo coached this game to lose… Too much Shane and not enough of other guys off the bench that would have helped.

 

[Andresrenee]

Bring on the heat apologist on this board that will say the Heat needed this loss. yeah right you idiots. Oh, and this loss is surely on LBJ and Wade for how shitty they played and the scrub of course always deserves some blame… but, they should come up with a new stat when keeping track of losses… It should say losses (Loss = Coaches decision ) Because Spo coached this game to lose… Too much Shane and not enough of other guys off the bench that would have helped.

No apologizing here. The offense was a problem tonight. Definitely not into it. Rough start killed them. Poor 3 point defense also hurt. I think they have essentially given up home court in the East with this lose in light of what it might mean for the rest of the trip. Also, the habits that they are developing will not be easy to get out of off but fortunately with 30 plus games still a chance.

 

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The bad habits are not developing… the bad habits have already been developed. The worst thing of all is, the bad habits are being developed by the two top players on the team. Again, Spo lost this game by playing the scrub too much and the rest of the guys not enough. He might want to go back to using more guys off the bench more often because ever since he shortend things - it has continued this sloppy play on both ends of the court. Not including the scrub, we have 14 quality players on this team - Spo has a chance to use many of those guys on a nightly basis… do it… our depth is our strength. Speaking of our strength, we need to go back to playing to it as opposed to any other way.