Nba playoffs 2011 miami heat vs chicago bulls game 1

James , L. James , C. Paul , J. Curry , K. Team Schedules and League Schedules. Today's Standings and Standings for any date in history. Players , Teams , Seasons , Leaders , Awards Glossary , Contact and Media Information , We're Social DBPM: DBPM: 4. DBPM: 2. DBPM: 0. Whether it was the starters or the bench the Bulls were just absolutely unrelenting on defense. The player of the game for the Chicago Bulls is Tom Thibodeua because it was his defense that ruled the day.

The Heat are a good rebounding team. The Bulls are a great rebounding team. When the Heat lose the rebounding battle, they are when they lose the rebounding battle and when they win it. The Bulls lead the NBA in rebound differential.

While the game was close, the rebound battle was close, but the energy of the Bulls was relentless. When the bench players started coming in the Bulls started to take over the rebound battle, particularly on the offensive glass, with the Bulls grabbing 19 offensive rebounds to the Heat's six.

Overall the rebound battle was won by Chicago When they failed to do so they went When held to 45 or fewer combined they were just In fact, Deng outscored James on the night, and if they can get more out of Deng than the Heat get out of James, the Bulls are going to win the game almost every time.

Dwyane Wade only scored The combined total of 33 was the second lowest the two have combined for all season. When they get scoring from the shooting guard position without having to worry about Kyle Korver's defense, it forces teams to defend the shooting guard, which opens space for Derrick Rose.

Bogans was from the three, but his first three was when the game started to open the game for the Bulls. Overall the Bulls were in a different stratosphere from behind the arc, hitting of to Miami's 3-of The Bulls were able to punish Miami for stacking the lane to try and keep Derrick Rose out.

While they might not be guarding one another for much of the night whichever of these two plays better could be the determining factor in the game. For both teams, it is critical for production from their power forward. The bright side for the Miami Heat is that Chris Bosh had a spectacular game.

He was certainly the only one of the Big Three that played big. He was for from the field and racked up 30 points. He also led the Heat in rebounds. He was clearly the leader in the "vs. Playoffs Unfiltered ». Playoffs MVP Picks. Miller left Tuesday's game against the Mavericks with his arm in a sling, but participated in shootaround Thursday and should be Haslem foot was held out of Thursday morning's shootaround as a precautionary measure, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports.

I have to give it up to Lebron. Even though it wasn't the Finals he just took that game over in the final 40 seconds for the Heat. Antetokounmpo , C. Paul , J. Curry , K. Team Schedules and League Schedules. Today's Standings and Standings for any date in history. Players , Teams , Seasons , Leaders , Awards Glossary , Contact and Media Information , We're Social F inal. Derrick Rose. Luol Deng. Joakim Noah. Kyle Korver. Carlos Boozer.

Keith Bogans. Taj Gibson. Kurt Thomas. Ronnie Brewer. Rasual Butler.