Eddie H (Y) - Battle of the East's Best

Well once again I am back to compose another 600 word blog in order to achieve greatness in the Online Publishing class. I am currently all caught up after my vacation that i went on and I could not write any blogs so this will be the last blog of the week for me at least. I believe my co-writer Austin is actually writing a blog as I am composing mine. But we have a little switch up in today's blog that may excite you. As you know for the last couple posts on Take Charge i have been focusing on the NCAA men's basketball tournament. Now there has been a little pause in the action there because they gave the teams that have advanced to the sweet sixteen round a break. So today we will be focusing on the NBA and in particular the huge game we had last night between the Miami Heat and Indiana Pacers. Now this has large play off implications because Miami was only one game back in the loss column to the Pacers and were hoping to make up some ground for the number one seed in the eastern conference. If you follow basketball you know both of these teams have been struggling as of lately and you also know the importance of that number one overall seed. Many people think that it will be Miami and Indiana in the eastern conference finals and if it makes it to the 7th game in the series the home court advantage goes to the 1 seed who ever it is. Home court advantage is very important in basketball and especially in these teams series and they have faced twice and both times the home team has came out victorious. You also should know that these teams do not care for each other as Indiana hopes to finally beat their Eastern conference rival and play for NBA championship. So this game was highly anticipated and looked forward to, the home team in this game was Indiana. In a battle between the two best teams in the Eastern Conference, with both vying for the No. 1 seed, this game lived up to the hype. It was physical, and it went down to the wire. Coming out victorious once again was the team with home court advantage the Indiana Pacers. Indiana rallied from a seven-point deficit in the fourth quarter to beat the Heat 84-83, taking a three-game lead over Miami in the chase of the Eastern Conference's top seed. It was one of those rare grudge matches that actually lived up to the hype. The game was extremely physical as many players were nudging, trash talking and taunting all night. Lance Stephenson was ejected midway through the fourth quarter after picking up his second technical foul for celebrating a basket. The angry Stephenson waved his hand at the ref and after leaving the court, had a little temper tantrum. Lebron James once again was the best player on the court by ease. He put the drooping Heat on his back throughout the whole game and gave them a shot at winning. In the end of the game he finished with 38 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists but it just was not enough. Miami had a problem controlling the ball all game as Indiana's defense was forcing steals all over the court, Miami had well over 10 by the end of the game. Indiana played fantastic basketball and the game was very exciting, this will make for a very interesting match up if these two face in the play offs. Just something to think about the Miami Heat so far in March have an overall record of 7-8 could the back to back champions be running out of gas?