From Texas to Miami

“Maverits” could not get a decisive advantage in the “hit” in the third match of the playoff final NBA “Miami” in a heartbreaking ending vomiting the victory from “Dallas” - 98:96 and reduced the lag in the series. The main star of the meeting was the defender of Miami Duin Wade, who scored 42 points. “Dallas”, who won both home meetings, did not intend to lose at all in the guest. The Texas immediately got down to business, but the basketball players of Miami were not going to give up at all without a fight. They led in the account and did not miss their advantages to a large break. Then it became more difficult ...

By the middle of the match, the Hit was led by eight points. But in the third quarter, they lost to Dallas with a score of 34:18! This jerk would be enough to break any team, but the “hit” did not break. They found a man who was able to lead partners, friends, the audience finally ... his name Duin Wade. In the last quarter, Wade scored 14 points.

Over the next two minutes, he scored seven points - everything that Miami was capable of. But the efforts of one person were quite enough for a good result.

In fairness, we note that they helped him: the same shakil O`nil took and abandoned a couple of penalties at the most decisive moment. But before that, in the two previous matches, he realized only two attempts out of sixteen!

And the victorious throw made the most "veterans" of the players "Miami" - Gary Payton. Three and a half seconds before the end, the leader of Dallas Dirk Novitsky scored only one of the two penalties, and then Wade came out again ...

NBA. Final. The third match

Miami - Dallas - 98:96 (29:21, 23:22, 16:34, 30:19)

Miami: Wade (42+13 rebounds), O´nil (16+11 rebounds+5 programs), A. Walker (12+7 rebounds)

Dallas: Novitski (30+7 rebounds), Howard (21+5 rebounds), Terry (16+5 programs), Dampier (14+9 rebounds)

06/14/2006 / Efim Korolev, the material was published in the "newspaper" No. 101 of 06/15/2006.