1. This didn’t feel like a Game 5. It didn’t feel like a Game 6 or a Game 7. This felt like a Game 11. Everyone looked tired. Everyone looked hurt. Nobody could shoot. Any points, in any fashion, felt absolutely massive. There was beauty in what was happening, if you looked closely enough, but it was covered in about ten tons of mud and much and slime.
Normally, that’s where the HEAT are more than happy to live. They want to turn it into a defensive battle. They want to make you uncomfortable. They want to make you earn any inch.