{"id":15463,"date":"2011-05-18T12:20:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15463"},"modified":"2011-05-18T12:20:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T17:20:16","slug":"game-2-betting-miami-heat-at-chicago-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/game-2-betting-miami-heat-at-chicago-bulls-15463\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 2 Betting: Miami Heat at Chicago Bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat AT Chicago Bulls<\/strong>
\nMay 18, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 CHI -2<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 CHI -3<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 182<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 181.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chicago Leads Series 1-0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bulls
For some ungodly reason, Noah took 14 shots in game one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Heat may have dropped game one by 21 points, but LeBron James isn’t going to let it discourage he and his Heat teammates.\u00a0 He realizes that most of the time the Heat bounce back after bad games to perform significantly better, after making adjustments:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been able to bounce back this year no matter if it\u2019s been the regular season or the postseason,\u201d James said. \u201cLearn from mistakes in the previous game and then move on. We\u2019ve done that. We\u2019re looking forward to the challenge, we\u2019re excited about tomorrow\u2019s opportunity to be here and try to steal homecourt.\u201d<\/p>\n

In game one, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade combined to go 12 of 32 from the field (37.5%) and Wade’s +\/- was at -22, worse than any other Heat player.\u00a0 In addition to the abysmal shooting, Wade and James each turned it over 4 times as well, leading to 16 total Miami turnovers.<\/p>\n

Chris Bosh did come out effective and get the best of Boozer (and to a lesser extent Taj Gibson, who came off the Bulls bench to score 9 points, 7 rebounds, and 2 blocks, while also posting the second highest +\/- on the Bulls at +17; Deng was +18), scoring 30 points on 12 of 18 shooting and 6 of 6 from the line.<\/p>\n

In addition to Gibson’s stellar play, Deng out played LeBron James, something few could have predicted.\u00a0 In the series preview I said it would be very difficult for Deng to hold LeBron under 25 given the nature of the series, but it turns out I was wrong.\u00a0 I also predicted Miami in 5 or 6, something that almost certainly looks wrong after the way things went down in game one.<\/p>\n

Despite his strong performance, Deng thinks he and the Bulls can do better still:\u00a0 \u201cI think we\u2019ve got to play better,\u201d said Deng, who scored 21 points. \u201cI really do. We played really well. If you look at the final score, we won by a lot, but it really wasn\u2019t that kind of game. It really wasn\u2019t. It was tied at the half. They had the lead at some point in the third quarter. So there\u2019s a lot of things we\u2019ve got to get better at.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has been Bosh that had been deferring all season long to Wade and James, but in game one he took more shots than both his stud teammates.\u00a0 And in typical fashion, the Heat got no offense whatsoever out of Joel Anthony at center, though he did hold Noah to 4 of 14 shooting.\u00a0 As to why Noah shot 14 times given\u00a0 his lack of offensive prowess is anyone’s guess.<\/p>\n

The Bulls looked to be in control the entire game, after shaking off a rough first few minutes.\u00a0 Tom Thibodeau credited the Miami ball movement and isolation mix for the Heat’s success.\u00a0 \u201cMiami\u2019s been a good ball-movement team all year,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have players that when the ball comes back to them, they can go one-on-one. That\u2019s what makes them so dangerous and tough to guard. Sometimes, your best ball movement comes off isolation because you have to commit two defenders to the player, and once the ball moves, now you\u2019re getting wide open shots or easier shots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/p>\n

The total has gone OVER in 6 of Miami’s last 7 games and the Heat are 12-3 SU in their last 15 games.\u00a0 The Heat are 7-3 SU in their last 10 on the road and the total has gone UNDER in 10 of the Heat’s last 14 games against the Bulls.\u00a0 The Heat are 1-4 SU in their last 5 against Chicago and the Heat are 1-4 ATS in their last 5 against the Bulls.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER In 6 of Miami’s last 8 games on the road in Chicago and the Heat are 1-5 SU in their last 6 road games in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 18-3 SU in their last 21 games and the Bulls are 23-2 SU in their last 25 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 10 of Chicago’s last 14 games against the Heat and the Bulls are 4-1 SU in their last 5 games against the Miami Heat.\u00a0 The Total has gone UNDER in 6 of Chicago’s last 8 games when playing the Heat at home and the Bulls are 5-1 SU in their last 6 at home against the Heat.<\/p>\n

The Bulls took the driver’s seat in game 1 and appeared to have all the right answers for everyone except Bosh.\u00a0 Given Miami’s lack of depth and role players, it is going to require at least 2 of Miami’s big 3 to have big games for Miami to win.\u00a0 James and Wade are both up against tough defenders but they have to be the aggressor and take it to the hole or the Bulls will go up 2 games to 0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat AT Chicago Bulls May 18, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 CHI -2 Current Line:\u00a0 CHI -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 182 Current Total:\u00a0 181.5 Chicago Leads Series 1-0 The Heat may have dropped game one by 21 points, but LeBron James isn’t going to let it discourage he and his Heat teammates.\u00a0 He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":5553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[2067,174,692,521,2896,66,707,3921],"class_list":["post-15463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-carlos-boozer","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-chris-bosh","tag-derrick-rose","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat","tag-taj-gibson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15465,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15463\/revisions\/15465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}