{"id":15811,"date":"2011-05-26T13:18:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2011-05-26T13:18:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T18:18:53","slug":"game-5-betting-miami-heat-travel-to-chicago-to-possibly-close-out-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/game-5-betting-miami-heat-travel-to-chicago-to-possibly-close-out-series-15811\/","title":{"rendered":"Game 5 Betting: Miami Heat Travel To Chicago to Possibly Close Out Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat AT Chicago Bulls<\/strong>
\nMay 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\nOpening Line:\u00a0 CHI -2.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Line:\u00a0 CHI -3<\/strong>
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 179.5<\/strong>
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 179.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Miami Leads Series 3-1<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Rose has struggled badly and isn't getting enough help from his teammates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In many respects, the Bulls have found they just don’t have what it takes to match up against a team with three top tier all stars.<\/p>\n

While Derrick Rose has been impressive all year, leading the Bulls to probably 10 more wins than people expected, he hasn’t been able to get off against the Heat and having 6’8″ LeBron James in his face in game 4 didn’t help.\u00a0 And it wasn’t just defense that James contributed.\u00a0 He also scored 35 points, though he did hit less than 50% of his shots from the field.\u00a0 He also played nearly 50 minutes.\u00a0 Also, despite being only a 75% free throw shooter, he went 13 of 13 from the line.<\/p>\n

While his teammate Dwyane Wade didn’t help out a lot offensively, he did play excellent defense, including coming up with three of his four blocked shots in overtime.\u00a0 The Heat recorded 10 blocks as a team, with the offensively challenged Joel Anthony accounting for 4, as well.<\/p>\n

Mike Miller was a pleasant surprise for the Heat.\u00a0 He nailed 2 threes and 5 shots of 8 overall, while recording a ridiculous team leading +36.\u00a0 He also tied Haslem for the team lead in rebounds with 9.\u00a0 It was sweet redemption for Miller who had only played more than 10 minutes in 2 other games in this year’s playoffs.\u00a0 He’s battled injuries but appears to have turned the corner now, and at no better time for the Heat.\u00a0 Their lineup in the fourth quarter included Miller and Haslem lining up with the “big 3.”<\/p>\n

Wade realizes that this game won’t be easy and that the Bulls aren’t going to simply throw in the towel after battling so hard all season.\u00a0 \u201cWe understand it\u2019s going to be a tough game,\u201d Wade said. \u201cBut we have the team and we have the guys that are capable of showing up and putting on a performance that we need to win the game. It\u2019s not going to be pretty, but that\u2019s not Miami Heat basketball anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

The three game skid against the Heat was the first three game losing streak of the entire season for the Bulls, but Luol Deng reiterated what Wade already knows:\u00a0 “There’s no quit in that locker room.\u00a0 It’s going to come down to the end of the game again.”\u00a0 Derrick Rose isn’t anywhere near ready to capitulate either, saying “We still have games to play.”\u00a0 The fact he said “games” instead of just “game” indicates his confidence that the series won’t end tonight.\u00a0 Even if his Bulls do win, however, they are going to have to steal another road game in Miami, where the Heat have not lost yet in this year’s postseason.<\/p>\n

As I mentioned in the last game preview, a team that takes a 3-1 lead goes on to win 96% of all series, with the comeback only having happened 8 times in 199 series.<\/p>\n

The Bulls have hit just 14 of 67 threes after hitting 10 of 21 in game 1.\u00a0 They also turned it obver 22 times in Tuesday’s loss including two on back to back possessions in the overtime, which pretty much locked it up for the Heat.\u00a0 Seven of the 22 turnovers were committed by Derrick Rose, while he had only 6 assists.\u00a0 It’s never a good sign when your best player has more turnovers than assists.\u00a0 He also had his shot blocked 4 times, which is essentially four more turnovers.\u00a0 All in all, Rose shot just 8 of 27 from the floor and hit only 1 of 9 threes.\u00a0 It’s hard to blame him though because he seems to have lost a lot of trust in his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it came down to hustle plays,\u201d Chalmers said. \u201cAt first they (Chicago Bulls) were beating us to all the 50\/50 balls. In the fourth quarter and the overtime, we were able to beat them to all the 50\/50 balls and that\u2019s what helped us win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some betting trends:<\/em><\/p>\n

Miami is 5-1 SU in their last 6 games and the total has gone OVER in 5 of their last 6 games.\u00a0 The Heat are 8-3 SU in their last 11 games on the road and the Heat are 3-10 SU in their last 13 games on the road against the Chicago Bulls.\u00a0 The Heat are 5-14 ATS in their last 19 road games against the Bulls and the total has gone UNDER in 7 of the Heat’s last 9 games on ther road in Chicago.<\/p>\n

The Bulls are 18-6 SU in their last 24 games and 22-3 SU in their last 25 at home.\u00a0 The total has gone UNDER in 7 of the Bulls’ last 9 games at home against the Heat and the Bulls are 10-3 SU in their last 13 home games against the Heat.<\/p>\n

With the Bulls’ season on the line, and being at home, you can expect them to come out in desperation mode and play hard early on.\u00a0 That may not be enough, though, if the Miami defense is as strong as it was on Tuesday night.\u00a0 The Bulls are going to need big games from Boozer and Deng again, who combined for 40 points in game 4.\u00a0 The Heat’s big 3 combined for 71 points, though, bringing the Heat’s record to 39-5 when the Big 3 scores 70+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miami Heat AT Chicago Bulls May 26, 2011 at 8:30 PM EST Opening Line:\u00a0 CHI -2.5 Current Line:\u00a0 CHI -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 179.5 Current Total:\u00a0 179.5 Miami Leads Series 3-1 In many respects, the Bulls have found they just don’t have what it takes to match up against a team with three top tier all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40250,"featured_media":15748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,133],"tags":[174,521,2896,66,707],"class_list":["post-15811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nba-handicapping","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-derrick-rose","tag-dwyane-wade","tag-lebron-james","tag-miami-heat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811","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=15811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15813,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions\/15813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}