NBA Finals Game 2

The Big 3 of Miami put the Spurs and the NBA world on notice in Game 2. Do not wake a sleeping giant. LeBron James and the Heat were dormant throughout the first half or so of the game only to erupt midway through the third quarter. The Heat exploded and went on a 30 to 5 run to knock off San Antonio 103 - 84. The highlight of the game had to be the monster block that LeBron James had on the 7 footer, Tiago Splitter. Splitter sprung to the rim only to be met at the summit of his dunk attempt by a frying pan sized hand extending from James' forearm. LeBron palmed the ball and threw it back the other direction. Moments later LeBron threw down a rim shaking jam that almost caused the roof to blow off of the American Airlines Arena. Momentum had firmly swung in the Heat's favor and they finished off the Spurs with a flourish.


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Curiously enough with around 9 minutes to play in the fourth and down roughly 15, Popovich essentially elected to throw in the towel as he replaced his own big three and two other starters with bench players. I don't know what Pop was thinking unless he really did just feel it best to give up on game two and give his older big 3 some rest before heading back to San Antonio. Whatever his goal was, he certainly didn't do much to try to stop the Heat from stealing momentum in this series. I'm not sure if Popovich had the best idea in mind essentially conceding game two to the Heat with lots of game left to be played. If anyone recalls the Finals last year, the Thunder stole game one and momentum, only to lose the next four games in a row and drop the NBA Finals to LeBron and the Heat. Granted the Spurs ARE capable of beating the Heat but they are not at all capable of dominating them. At the other end of the spectrum the Heat are easily capable of blowing out San Antonio on any given night, if their play-makers are on their game as they were in the second half tonight. For that reason alone Spurs fans should be very concerned about the direction of this series and very wary of the fact that history very well may repeat itself. Ultimately I still think Heat in 6.