Miami Heat @ Philadelphia 76ers (2/3) @ 7PM EST

[Chosen01]

Miami Heat








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Philly 76ers








Preview

Heat have won 12 of the last 13 matchups including the postseason against Philly.

The Heat, who knocked off the seventh-seeded 76ers in the first round of last year's playoffs en route to the NBA finals, had their five-game winning streak snapped with a 105-97 loss at Milwaukee on Wednesday.


The Heat didn't have much trouble building on a seven-point halftime lead in their 113-92 victory over the 76ers on Jan. 21 despite playing without an injured Wade.

Chris Bosh scored a game-high 30 points and James added 28 and nine rebounds for Miami, which prevented the 76ers from their first regular-season win over the Heat since an 85-77 victory March 15, 2009.

Philadelphia's only win during the Heat's stretch of dominance came April 24, when Louis Williams hit a 3-pointer with nine seconds remaining to help it to an 86-82 win in Game 4 of the teams' playoff series.

Williams scored a team-high 22 points off the bench in the most recent meeting, while Iguodala was held to four points on 2-for-6 shooting.

Wade is averaging 30.3 points in his last six regular-season games versus Philadelphia.

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Let's Not Suck

[Pimpwerx]

Your's was first, so I'll post here. Here's hoping for another strong performance like the last time we faced the Sixers. I was at that game and loved our performance. No Spencer Hawes tonight. I assume Harris and Gladness will be inactive again while Riley tried to secure Pryzbilla and K-Mart. Let's get that W. Let's go Heat! PEACE.

[Rodrizzle]

Win Win Win

[RELL_MARLEE]

This will be a good win. The Sixers played Chicago well, but their game style is just like ours-they just dont have the superstar talent that we do. That will play into the hands of our guys and I expect a close win. Philly is out to prove something though

[TRG]

This game should NOT be taken lightly by any circumstances. 76'ers are right on our tails for seeding contention.

Wade better show up tonight... I want to see him drop 30 on these guys.

[DefenseWins]

They HAVE to win this game for seeding purposes. ATL lost, Philly has about the same record. Get it done Heat.

[RELL_MARLEE]

This game should NOT be taken lightly by any circumstances. 76'ers are right on our tails for seeding contention.

Wade better show up tonight... I want to see him drop 30 on these guys.

I dont see Wade going off this game for some reason...However I do see Bosh redeeming himself and putting up 25+ and 9 rebounds tonight

[Kerosene]

I just wanna see a win, idc how glorious or sloppy it looks. IDC who goes off. Just get that W.

[Akshan]

TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT I see Dwyane Wade going off for at least 30 points while shooting the ball well and Kenyon Martin signed with the Clippers hopefully we can get Joel Pryzibilla.

[Jan_Sobieski]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQOkmHqBTGI[/youtube]
Miami Heat Song
Lets get our swag on.

[Chosen01]

Someone needs to tweet Wade he's on the decline, maybe that will wake him up again like the Knicks game where people were saying Heat were better without him.

[fl4shwad3]

We need to win this game..I hope D-Wade goes HAM. On a side note, wanna hear something fishy? Heat are only favoured to win by 2 today in philly.. What are your guys's thoughts on that?:S Good Bet?

[OtW]

I want a dominating performance... a blow out. Bosh/Wade/Bron to go HAM, so they can sit in the 4th, allowing big Pitt and Cury to get minutes.

[DWadeno3]

Someone needs to tweet Wade he's on the decline, maybe that will wake him up again like the Knicks game where people were saying Heat were better without him.

I've been killing him on Twitter, I doubt he gives a f*** or even bothers to read it but it's worth a try.

[arsenic]

Tonight will be a success.

[This IsMy House]

Please don't play this one on 5 basketball again. Lets get everyone involved and get Chris going early. Another key game, which they really tend to show up for. Wade should be able to get some good looks tonight if he finally stops just trying to get contact every single shot!

[RexBoyWonder]

Does anyone else feel that Wade should lose some weight? he really looks sluggish to me. i think it also has an impact on his cardio. i dont mind if he misses shots, but he just doesnt look good physically.
im not even gonna mention thetotal disappearance of a once great mid-range game.

[Pimpwerx]

Haberstroh thinks he's still hurt, and that he's a liability on defense now. There were some iffy closeouts the last couple games, and Tom's suggesting they might be due to Wade not rotating properly and throwing the rest of the chain off. He mentioned it on chat today. PEACE.

[Chosen01]

I wouldn't go as far as saying Wade is a liability on defense, but he and basically the rest of the team don't close out hard enough which results in 3s. I blame that more on the system than Wade.

[TheAnkh]

Does anyone else feel that Wade should lose some weight? he really looks sluggish to me. i think it also has an impact on his cardio. i dont mind if he misses shots, but he just doesnt look good physically.
im not even gonna mention thetotal disappearance of a once great mid-range game.

I have to disagree. I think Wade looks great physically, and he appears to have a lot more stamina than last year (his minutes have gone down I think because of Spo being cautious with the condensed schedule). I think you can tell he's physically fine by the way he plays defense. Thus far thats been the only part of his game that remained elite, as he's been our best defender this year. He just simply hasn't been playing well on offense and, like you mentioned, it largely has to do with his sudden inability to hit the mid range jump shot with any consistency. Its sad really. Maybe the coaching staff should have hammered him about his jump shot the way they hammered LeBron about his post game.