What do I know? Hawks 75 Heat 92

I think I need to be more pessimistic in the future, reverse psychology/jinxing seems to work. The Heat murdered the Hawks in the first quarter last night and then held onto their lead for the rest of the game to record a very good and very large victory.

Michael Beasley shredded Josh Smith and the Hawks in the first half and his colleagues made sure of the victory in the second. Beasley's first half display will probably capture the headlines but his poor second half performance sums up Beasley at the present time in his career. Magnificence for short bursts without the consistency. Still he's not 21 until later this week, so we can accept that.

The Heat's superstar let the hot hand work the first half and steadily accumulated his usual team/game topping score. wade finished with 28 on 11 of 20 shooting including all 6FTs (thankfully he missed his 1st 3 pointer last night). He attacked the rim better than of late and also got 8 rebounds, 4 assists and a block and crucially only 1 TO (and that was a pass to starting center Joel Anthony who looked away at the wrong time). It was nice to see Wade hitting 55%FG and 100%FT again. Haslem also refound his steady shot with 6 of 10. Dorrell Wright got 18mins for 6 and 6 and the Magloirinator got 10 rebounds and 5 points in 21 minutes as a result of JO sitting about a little banged up. Arroyo (in possibly his last game for the Heat) played 19 minutes for just 2 points and no assists whilst Mario came off the bench for 28 minutes, 7 points and 6 assists. The other good news was cook only played 1 minute.

I don't know if it was all good defense or some bad Atlanta shooting but even at game end they had only shot 32% and more incredibly Miami had out-rebounded them 52 to 30. I like what JO gives us but he lets us down on rebounds, it'd be nice to have a rebounding Center on the Heat. No surprise in who was the top Atlanta scorer - off the bench Jamal Crawford more than doubled the second best scorer Joe Johnson who was the only other Atlanta player to score double figures (11).

One other note to make - can someone please shop (or shoot) the miami whistler. He is driving me crazy with his continual whistling.