Dwyane Wade 31 points – 2006 Playoffs ECF Game 4 – Detroit Pistons at Miami Heat
Well we’re seeing a lot of missing here Mike a lot of missing but no second shot attempts at either end Islam puts it in I like Pat Riley’s game plan in game three we gotta pick up the pace look for the break look for the long passes put
The pressure on the transition defense Prince only had three points in game three hit a three-pointer for Detroit’s first points of the game did not score again O’Neill inside Ben Wallace Felton was pushed yeah he was he was pushed out of there anytime that that player has
The forearm on you it’s easy to move him especially with the strength of Shaq with the fifth pick in the 2003 NBA Draft the Miami Heat select Dwyane Wade from Marquette University and with that announcement The Fortunes of the Miami heat turned around of course the next year Shaquille O’Neal
Joined Wade in Miami waiters become a star in more ways than one and the two have bonded they have become terrific teammates O’Neill nicknamed him flash when he first arrived O’Neill now deferring and not only are they certainly winning a lot more but they’re selling out the place this city really
Has heat fever and the money’s going up yubi yeah I like that bottom line the most okay the quick jumper and wave the rebound thinking about weight he’s your leading assist man he rebounds he defends and he certainly can shoot Mike he’s always had that 17 18 foot game down
Not many second shot opportunities uh and we’re not seeing it either end that the teams are doing an excellent job taking care of the defensive rebound way beautiful move from Dwyane Wade well what are the main stats that is not being put out there a lot is the fact
That in this series the Detroit Pistons only have two shot blocks against the Zone The Zone did its job but then Shaq negated it with that bike low percentage shot and so with the Lakers a couple of years ago and they’re lost to these pistons and also with Seattle back in 96
Shot clock down to three way boy that’s a tough shot and he bangs it in in this series Mikey has proven that he can get at that tough angle and Elevate on a spin back 60 for Miami foreign again now Mike listen Lindsay Hunter’s in there for defense Lindsay Hunter cannot
Play him any better than he did on the last two possessions the story once again is to Dwyane Wade me has been brilliant to start four of five from the field already with 12 points this team is up by eight I’ll tell you that was very impressive come on while it’s inside blocked from behind by Wade last Touch by Wallace No Bob Delaney saying wrong call change it the other way now this has been the part in his first half Miami’s defense all Five Guys rotating any time that a guy
Has been beaten off the dribble and you’re seeing here comes the coverage and I’m gonna run you down I am not going to give up after you blow by me I am going to run you down and help out from the rear on the shot to see if I get a piece
Can’t get it to fall and a foul is going to be called and Wade will shoot and as Antonio mcdyson how they call it on Hunter that’s his third now that’s a set play they do that occasionally uh during the game it’s eye contact now just watch
See once he catches you on the top side Lindsey Hunter played Wade on the top side with his back to the ball so it’s easy to throw the lob because you know that Wade can now jump Lindsay hunter in that situation and Riley can still out jump a few people as well
All right Hunter remains on way s on the drive oh he goes down hard and the foul yeah but he went for the block here you talk Dale Davis is a shot blocker and he went up for that and he went for that block now just because the
Player ended up in a bad a bad ending going down strong on the floor Mike you know it looked worse than the foul one I mean it certainly was a foul you see right there he went right up as long he went up for the ball he didn’t go for
His head he didn’t go for his body he went right up there for a shot block and the officials are not going to call a flagrant foul difference between the regular and flagrant if you call a flagrant foul it’s one shot and the ball two shots in the ball excuse me
I iterated 2-3 zone now I see that’s smart you go up high all right you go up high you immediately have an open area waves finding an open area inside drives hard draws the foul oh way wow wow what a great shot and you could see the defender step right underneath
Right underneath him so it is a terrific move Now watch how he splits the seam in the zone all right and then he comes right up they’re saying moving underneath on the shot and then the Finish how about the finish a flip back with the English on the on the spin of
The ball that’s the second time he’s gone down hard on his back the ability to get off just a quality shot let alone put it in and a chance for a three-point play that’s his first field goal of the second half well if we remember with less than six
Minutes to go in the game the other anything with the score Miami only up one uh after a missed dunk at one end he did almost exactly the same pin at the other end and made a three-point play but still plenty of time remaining Wallace tips it away from Wade Haslam
Peyton on the drive deflected by Hamilton Wayne puts it up play does it again that is only his third shot in the second half Lord Wade with another spectacular shot now the Pistons played this really well how about that deflection the catchy you saw he looked
Right down at the clock just a fantastic move and then when you realize he has had very few how about that and uh it should have been in once and he saw his shooting percentage in the series almost 70 percent this is a playoff series against the Pistons O’Neill and a foul
As O’Neal took a shot couldn’t complete it that’s a smart foul from Evans now throughout the first three games in the series Miami has only gotten to the line for an average of 23 times a game now when Shaq shoots these two foul shots it will be foul shots 40 and 41
And we still have a shade under nine minutes to go in this game that Riley calls out a Play Wade looking at the bench yeah they’re going to go over and see what happens here look at Jack and then make you move way beautiful shot from Dwyane Wade Pistons must be careful now
I just keep it I see this is where he’s he’s really good he’ll run that reverse move on you if you’re with you and then then as he steps back he throws the fade or he’ll come into the middle of the floor stop on the dime off that lead leg
Step back and he creates distance on his release time for our city storyline and with the heat up by 10 once again it’s the Magnificent Dwyane Wade well we say that he loves the fourth quarter he’s been able to step up into three previous games give you 10 plus
Points there and a quarter he will always attack the rims sacrifice his body to say that he’s one of the best that we have in the league he’ll always be in the top four or five guys getting to the foul line whether it’s the regular season or playoff time and then
With the with the clock down he’s one of the best at making Sensational shots and again the efficiency UV the series an incredible number shooting the ball at 70 percent tonight Pat Riley was telling us the other day that he says Wade is getting more and more vote motivated
That he can be the first of the new wave young stars to get a first title and that’s all Wade talks about he doesn’t talk about his scoring numbers he talks about winning a championship Kristen still have one timeout remaining neither team of the foul again Prince
Puts it up trying to bank it in tips it out the Hamilton Walker comes away and throws it ahead to waves here goes Wayne oh boy and that may be the final dagger yeah that was an explosion Mike Wayne after a subpar third quarter everything changed in the fourth what happened uh
Well we came out very flat in the third uh everybody and um they came out very aggressive I took the lead but we fall back in the third to take a two-point lead and then we took it from there that second half they were running the same
Play over and over Pat called it Seattle what made that play so difficult to defend uh I don’t know you know we got to go back and look at the film on there now but um you know they did they ran the same play they got real coming off
And they got um says coming off and they just gave us problems so hopefully next game will be prepared for it not a single field goal attempt for you in the third when did you decide to turn it on um well my teammates needed me you know
In the third you know they were doing a good job of forcing me off the ball so I kept passed in the past in the fourth quarter you know I said I’m gonna take over a little bit 3-1 lead you can never count the Pistons out what do you got to
Do now just go play the game the way we have been uh come out with energy it’s gonna be a tough game over Detroit but you know this team is made for it and uh we’ll see what happens
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East Finals 2006 Game 4
