This past Monday in American Airlines Arena, Miami, FL the Miami Heat battled against the Detroit Pistons. Leading the charge for the Heat was Dwayne Wade who played a phenomenal game. He looked energetic and at some points explosive, coming up with 30 points, 10 rebounds and five assists.In this game Wade put on one of his vintage performance as he was on the attack from early on. He was slashing to the basket and getting to the rim easily against a soft Detroit defense.Wade, who sat out four consecutive games last month to rest his
troublesome knees, looked rejuvenated. He shot 13 for 19 and played 37
minutes, this was his fifth-highest total this season it also was a season high in points for the all-star guard.. Lebron James also had a phenomenal night as he nearly ended the night with what would have been his first tipple -double of the year. Lebron finished the night with 24 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds, this was just 2 rebounds short for the Heat's first triple-double of the season. Lebron couldn't pick some rebounds up late in the game. Dwayne Wade snagged one from Lebron with 4 minutes left in the game Lebron had this to say on it "D-Wade knew what he had going on, too," James said. "He was like, 'I
need this double-double.' He had a heck of a game. He was spectacular." Chris Bosh also quietly had 17 points which helped the Miami Heat to win their 4th game out of the past 5. Leading in scoring for the Pistons was Brandon Jennings who ended the night with 27 points and also had 7 assists. The Pistons were behind for almost the entire game and did not take it very well. They four technical fouls on the night and were playing very chippy basketball.
Last night in a out of conference battle the Chicago Bulls traveled to US Airways Center, Phoenix, AZ to take on the Phoenix Suns. The Suns have been playing great basketball as of lately in the tough western conference and the Bulls have been playing poor basketball in a poor eastern conference. This seems like it would be an easy win for Phoenix but it was just the opposite. Chicago came to play and possibly got back on track with a huge win.Carlos Boozer finished the night with 19 points and 12 rebounds as the Bulls snapped Phoenix's 5 game win streak. The key to success for Chicago was that they shared the ball, they had 5 players over double figures which is just great basketball. They also got good shots as their shooting percentage was 47% which was tremendously better than the 28% they shot in their last game against Sacramento. Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau had this to say on the win "You could have used an excuse if you chose to do so, but that's what I
love about the team," "They come out and
they're going to fight. They picked themselves up and did it together,
and you could tell in the first quarter the commitment to get back, the
commitment to get to put their bodies in front of people and take
charges, make hustle plays, make effort plays." The Bulls shut down Phoenix's offense with some hard-nose defense. Leading in scoring for Phenix was Goran Dragic who ended the night with 24 points. The reigning Western Conference player of the week couldn't do just enough to get his team the victory. For the Sun's it is a minor speed bump on a tremendous season for the Bulls they hope it is the game that will give them some sort of spark to get their season back on track.
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