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Heat Defeat Bucks; Put Space Between Themselves and Sixers

March 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

With the win tonight over the Milwaukee Bucks the Heat improve to 39-34 on the season. It is a critical win for the Heat as they also put some distance between themselves and the Philadelphia 76ers – expanding their lead for the 5th spot to 1.5 games.

This is also critical as the Heat are scrapping to win games with only 9 left in the season. The Bulls are hot, the Pistons are not, and the Sixers are hanging tough despite losing Elton Brand for the remainder of the season.

The Heat want to get at least a 5th spot so that they can avoid a possible first round matchup with the Orlando Magic or Boston Celtics – neither team would be a good matchup for the Heat out of the gate. Then again, a series against the Hawks could swing either way, too.

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Heat Fighting For Playoff Seed; Take On Bucks

March 28, 2009 By Leave a Comment

After their embarrassing loss to the Bulls, the Heat suffered more damage as they slipped to the 6th spot on the playoff totem poll. Tonight’s matchup with the Milwaukee Bucks serves as a chance for the Heat to get a win and climb back in front of the Sixers for the 5th seed.

The Heat have a tough matchup as the Bucks have been dramatically overhauled by new coach Scott Skiles with a more blue-collar, defensive mentality. The Bucks have been playing without Michael Redd and Andrew Bogut.

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Heat Take On Bucks; Wade Comes Home

January 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment

The Heat are in the midst of a long road trip, but tonight Dwyane Wade returns to a place he is familiar with. He started in Milwaukee as a student athlete at Marquette, where he helped lead his team into the NCAA tournament, a Final Four appearance in 2003 to be exact, and eventually into the NBA as the 5th pick.

Tonight, Wade will be leading his Heat and their 20-17 record up against a tough Milwaukee Bucks team. The new-look Bucks are focused on defense, and seem to mirror the Scott Skiles-lead Bulls teams of only a few seasons ago.  For the Heat, it all starts with Dwyane Wade and his 29.1 PPG. Appropriately, he comes back to Milwaukee to keep building the Heat’s resurgence but it is the first time he has played in Milwaukee in 2 season – last year Wade was unable to play due to his knee injury.

Yet, when Wade does take to the court, he is averaging 28.2 PPG at the Bradley Center. The Heat have won 5 of their last 8 games at the Bradley Center against the Bucks but the Bucks are 11-6 there this season.

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Heat Look to Bounce Back Against Bucks

December 15, 2008 By Leave a Comment

With its star guard shooting around 38% from the field the last two games, it seems the Heat are in a slump. Dwyane Wade is not slouching from the blame, either, instead taking the brunt of it.

The Heat will look to get things going tonight at home against the Milwaukee Bucks after coming off a blowout loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, who have started to play excellent basketball of late.

The defensive energy was cited by Erik Spoelstra as being the main problem in the loss, but the offensive woes continued from the loss to the Hawks. For the Heat to get back into winning games, they will have to build their attack from other places on the floor and not just settle for a clear out and iso play for Dwyane Wade.

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