Chicago @ Miami

[alcstarheel]

Chicago @ Miami
Time: 6:00 PM ET
TV: --

[Poe]

I think the Heat can ride their momentum over the Bulls.

 

I'd like to see Beasley and Cook bounce back from their poor performances against the Pacers.

 

Hopefully O'Neal will keep up his level of play of 22 points and 12 boards from his first two games this season.

 

Chalmers hasn't had any significantly great performances yet. Rose isn't known for his defense, so I wonder if Rio will show any offensive spark tonight.

 

Q-Rich hasn't shown much of anything for the majority of his 45 total minutes from the past two games. Only getting 7 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists, and no steals or blocks total so far. He's played some pretty good help defense, but that's ALL I've seen from him.

Edited November 1, 2009 by Poe

[OldChili]

I'm looking forward to seeing how Jermaine plays today.

 

So far I've been very impressed.

[Poe]

JO needs to get some more touches. Only 3 shot attempts so far.

 

UD has done a great job picking up the slack. He looked very aggressive from the moment he stepped on the floor. 11 points 7 boards so far. Beasley has done a good job on the boards as well.

[SRV]

Nice win for us...if we keep it up, Wade won't ditch us during FA

[Poe]

Nice win for us...if we keep it up, Wade won't ditch us during FA

I don't think he planned to in the first place. I knew the Heat would have a great season.

 

 

Not too much to say about this game. It was a good defensive game with lots of lead changes until one team came ontop at the end. Hinrich played some great D on Wade, especially in the 4th quarter. Good thing Haslem was able to make his open Js, and Q-Rich hit that one 3 that pretty much gave Miami the edge on this game.

 

The Bulls clearly have a very solid defensive squad that can make them stick with any team in the league. As a team they did a good job keeping the ball away from key players, holding Jermaine to only 6 shots attempted (8 points), Beasley to 10 points (3-12 shooting), and Wade to 8-19 shooting, 4 TOs, only 1 rebound, and only 3 assists. Role players stepped up their offensive production, with Haslem having 19 points and 11 boards, Chalmers with 11 points, 4 assists, and 4 steals, and Arroyo with 12 points off the bench. Wright and Anthony played a good defensive game combining for 5 blocks.

 

 

Anyway, does anyone know what happened to Daequan?

[SRV]

Cook has some kind of shoulder injury,

[Flash]

Got to go to my first game of the season so here are some observtions:

 

Chalmers and Beasley look a lot better..especially Mike. He's way more active and his rebounding is finally catching up to his scoring. Chalmers is still making those great steals and came up with a huge 3 today late.

 

JO needed more touches. He had a big advantage over his men today and we didn't feed him the ball.

 

Q Rich needs to come off the bench. Not re-signing Moon was a big mistake IMO. Q's defense today was BAD and I thought Dorrell had a better game.

 

Which brings me to Mr. Wright. Dude needs more minutes. He's our most athletic guy and can be a real stud on defense when he's got his head in the game.

 

Tremendous job by Mario and Arroyo for shutting down D.Rose tonight. That was huge for us.

 

If we have Daequan I think we win this one by more. We really lacked good perimeter shooting tonight. Where is James Jones? Spo needs to distribute the minutes better.