It took a heroic preformance from Dywane Wade last night for the Heat to win their first game of the NBA finals. Shaq looked good early on, but started to fizzle towards the second half. While he didn’t have the monster night that many were expecting, he did manage to nail two key free throws near the end of regulation. Shaq and Wade weren’t the only contributors however. Gary Payton hit a clutch 2 to put the Heat up by 2 with 9.3 seconds remaining in the game.
It was nice to see the Heat finally come alive in the playoffs. In the begining of the 4th quarter you could just sense that the game was slipping away, and that the Heat were going to go down 3-0. The Heat players must have sensed it too however, because they responded.
The next game is Thursday night.