{"id":7397,"date":"2011-06-06T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T20:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7397"},"modified":"2011-06-06T15:48:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T19:48:59","slug":"heat-beat-mavs-in-game-3-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=7397","title":{"rendered":"Heat Beat Mavs In Game 3 Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8212; The Mavericks will take this matchup every time. A one-eyed <strong>Chris Bosh<\/strong> gets a single shot to win Game 3, after which <strong>Dirk Nowitzki<\/strong> is given two chances to reply. That Miami won 88-86 to take a 2-1 lead in the Finals is why this series has a chance to become one of the best in modern times. Little is predictable, and nothing is without drama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bosh<\/strong> had made 15 of 52 field goals in these Finals, and all of them meant less than the 16-footer that came in the final minute Sunday. Never mind that the winner of Game 3 in these situations had gone on to win all 11 NBA Finals under the current 2-3-2 format. Neither <strong>Bosh<\/strong> nor <strong>LeBron James<\/strong> was thinking about any of the back-story numbers as the shot went up from the left elbow as if <strong>Bosh<\/strong> had made a career of enthusiastically mimicking <strong>Kobe Bryant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care if he missed 15 in a row, he was wide open and that&#8217;s his sweet spot,&#8221; <strong>James<\/strong> said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the trust we have in each other&#8217;s ability, no matter what point of the game is at.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS &#8212; The Mavericks will take this matchup every time. A one-eyed Chris Bosh gets a single shot to win Game 3, after which Dirk Nowitzki is given two chances to reply. That Miami won 88-86 to take a 2-1 lead in the Finals is why this series has a chance to become one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}