Friday, March 21, 2014

Miami Heat Vs. Memphis Grizzles



Miami Heat (46-20) Vs. Memphis Grizzles (40-27)
7:30 PM
Miami, FL
American Airlines Arena 
Coverage on Sun Sports and SPSO


Miami Heat Starting Lineup:
PG:Mario Chalmers
SG:Dwyane Wade
SF:LeBron James
PF:Chris Bosh
C:Greg Oden

Heat Inactive List:
James Jones and Justin Hamilton

Memphis Grizzles Starting Lineup:
PG:Mike Conley
SG:Courtney Lee
SF:Tayshaun Prince
PF:Zach Randolph
C:Marc Gasol

Grizzles Inactive List:Quincy Pondexter (foot)


The Miami Heat lost another game on Wednesday against the Boston Celtics at the TD Garden by a score of 101-96. Since posting a record of 8-0 from Feb 11th to March 3rd, the Heat have won 3 out of their last 9 games, as they have put up a record of 3-6 in the span of time.(Chart below depicts this info).
Feb. 11 - Mar. 3Since
W-L8-03-6
PPG108.998.7
FG pct53.4%47.6%

This winning slump for Miami began the game after LeBron James scored his career high in points (61) , as he broke the Miami Heat record for most points scored by a single player in a game. During this span of bad play from the Heat their offense has average 10 points less per game, since the period of time between February 11th and March 3rd. Even though the Heat have endured some issues in the current month of March, there is a silver lining to their bad play recently; as Mike Miller a current member of the Grizzles will receive his championship  ring, due to his contributions to the Heat's journey to win back to back championships last June.

Miami is competing against a talented and rolling team who has clicked since Marc Gasol came back from injury. In the  span of time Gasol came back, the Memphis Grizzles have became the number one defense in the association. The Miami Heat look to improve their record to 47-20, thus improving their home record to 27-6 this season. Memphis is looking to improve their current record  to 41-27, in the process improving their road record to 20-13.

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