Going into Friday night’s Game 6 in Boston, we had no reason to believe that the Miami Heat had a chance to extend the series to seven games. The Heat’s starting guards Kyle Lowry and Max Strus had combined for seven points in Games 4 and 5, both blow-out Boston wins.
Read that again. Lowry and Strus had not even averaged seven points per game each (which would have been terrible), let alone combined for seven points in each game (which would have been ghastly). No, in two full games, two starters on the Number 1 seeded team in the East had combined for a total of seven points (which is terribly ghastly).