NBA basketball picks and previews 5/1/09

There’s only one game being played tonight and it’s Game 6 of the series between Atlanta and Miami in Miami. The Hawks are leading 3-2 going into this game and so can obviously wrap this series up and book their place in the Semi-Finals where they would play either Boston or Chicago. If Chicago did manage to upset Boston and win their Game 7 the Hawks would have home court advantage so they’ll want to ensure they do their bit by winning tonight. To do this they’ll need their defense to hold tight again tonight like it has done all series, in Game 1 they held Miami to their lowest points total of the season (64) and have only given up more than 100 points (in Game 3, a game they lost 107-78). Apart from that they’ve been excellent and as a result their offense hasn’t really been pushed, despite this Josh Smith is still averaging 17 points a game while Joe Johnson and Mike Bibby are averaging 16 and 14 respectively. On the other side only Dwayne Wade is posting up any kind of numbers with 26 points a game, down on his average of 29 points in the regular season. Tip off is at 8pm ET and the game’s on ESPN.

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NBA Games Recap 5/1/09

There was only one game played in the NBA play-offs last night and that was between the Atlanta Hawks and the Miami Heat in Miami, Florida. This game was Game 6 of the series, a series that’s been noted for it’s lack of relative competitiveness in each game, the closest margin of victory has been 10 points in Game 4, despite this however the teams are now tied at 3-3 after a Miami victory last night. Knowing that if they lost the series and their hopes of play-off glory were over the Heat came out all guns blazing and lead by 14 points after the 1st quarter and 9 points at half time. Where as in previous games the Heat defense couldn’t cope with the hot Atlanta offense Miami shut down Mike Bibby and his colleagues throughout the whole game with their highest points total in each of the 4 quarters of play being 24, the only time they managed to get more than 20 in a quarter.

This wasn’t helped by Bibby himself who, despite top scoring with 20 for the Hawks, gave up 4 turnovers as part of the Hawks’ 14 turnovers on the night. He didn’t get much help with the points scoring either, only two other players scored into double figures (Joe Johnson and Ronald Murray (who came off the bench) both had 13). Al Horford didn’t play while Josh Smith could only manage 7 points on 3 of 13 shooting.

On the other side only 3 players really turned up for the Heat, luckily for them though they turned up in significant numbers. James Jones scored 11 as a small forward while Michael Beasley dropped 22 points and grabbed 15 rebounds to get a double double. The last of the trio had the best game though, Dwayne Wade, Miami’s talisman, scored 41 points on 11 of 23 shooting including 3 of 7 from behind the arc and 8 assists. D. Wade looks like he’s very much back in the groove and Miami will certainly need that when they go back to Atlanta for the all important Game 7 in a few days. This one ended in an easy Miami victory, 98-72.

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