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Streaking Heat stops 76ers 108-100
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-03-08 14:34
Looking nothing like a team playing its fourth game in five nights, Miami got
32 points from Dwyane Wade and 25 more from Shaquille O'Neal to beat the
Philadelphia 76ers 108-100 on Monday night.
Miami Heat center
Shaquille O'Neal points to the fans prior to a game against the
Philadelphia Seventy Sixers in Miami, Florida, March 7, 2005.
[Reuters] | The Heat shot 54.9 percent from the
field, extended their winning streak to six games, won their 10th straight at
home — and moved a step closer to clinching the Southeast Division title. Miami
has an 11-game lead over Washington in the division race; the Heat have 20 games
remaining.
Wade made 18 free throws to set a franchise record; he got to the line 23
times. Shandon Anderson had 13 points, and Udonis Haslem had a 12-point,
10-rebound night for Miami (46-16), which has an eight-game lead over Detroit in
the Eastern Conference.
Allen Iverson, who missed the morning shootaround, scored 27 points on
8-for-19 shooting for Philadelphia, which saw its modest two-game winning streak
end. Samuel Dalembert scored 21 points for the 76ers, who got only 10 points in
26 minutes from Chris Webber.
Wade and O'Neal scored 26 of Miami's 28 third-quarter points, and helped the
Heat build a 22-point margin in the period. Willie Green had six late points to
draw Philadelphia (28-30) within eight, but the 76ers got no closer.
Miami shot 68.6 percent and had its highest-scoring first half of the season,
opening a 63-50 lead at intermission behind 17 points from Wade and 11 from
Anderson — who had 11 or more points in only four of his previous 42 games.
The Heat's early effort was largely without O'Neal, who missed much of the
half with foul trouble and went to the bench with 4:34 left. From there, Miami
put together a 14-8 run to end the half.
Iverson had 15 points in the half for Philadelphia, which managed to stay
within striking distance thanks in large part to Dalembert's 13 first-half
points — 12 in the first 9:55 of the game.
O'Neal made Miami's first four shot attempts of the second half, all from
close range to push Miami's margin to 73-55. The lead got up to 79-59 with 6:51
left, before Dalembert keyed a 7-0 run.
He scored to start the burst, then blocked an O'Neal shot — Shaq's first miss
in nine tries — setting up a 3-pointer from Kyle Korver. And when Korver scored
again on the next trip, Philadelphia was within 13 at 79-66.
But Miami put the game away with an 11-3 run over a 2 1/2-minute stretch,
taking a 90-69 lead. O'Neal scored the first five points, Wade followed with
consecutive baskets, and O'Neal finished the burst by catching a
three-quarter-court pass from Damon Jones and throwing down a monster dunk.
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