The Mind of Mullin: POSTGAME: HEAT

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

POSTGAME: HEAT - 12/01/08

Crawford turns in a memorable 40 point home debut

MVW: Jamal Crawford

The Good
Jamal Crawford: 50 min, 11-22 fg, 4-8 3pt, 14-16 ft, 7 ast, 1 to, 40 pts
Corey Maggette: 46 min, 17-18 ft, 5 reb, 29 pts
Andris Biedrins: 35 min, 7-10 fg, 15 reb, 2 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk, 17 pts
Brandan Wright: 31 min, 7-13 fg, 2 bs, 15 pts
Ronny Turiaf: 18 min, 5 bs
C.J. Watson: 27 min, 4-4 ft, 4 reb, 3 ast, 4 stl
Stephen Jackson: 49 min, 11 ast

The Bad
Brandan Wright: 31 min, 4 reb
Ronny Turiaf: 18 min, 3 reb

The Ugly
Stephen Jackson: 49 min, 2-11 fg, 0-3 3pt, 1 reb, 4 to, 8 pts

Best and Worst +/-
Ronny Turiaf: +9
Andris Biedrins: -6

Team Statistics
Warriors : Heat
pts - 129 : 130
fg - 39-84 (.464) : 47-99 (.475)
ft - 47-52 (.904) : 28-31 (.903)
3p - 4-14 (.286) : 8-25 (.320)
reb - 36 : 51
oreb - 11 : 21
ast - 24 : 30
to - 9 : 14
stl - 9 : 7
bs - 8 : 9
fastbreaks - 14 : 15
points in the paint - 54 : 46

Boxscore
Highlights
Popcorn Machine's GameFlow

Nelson went with Maggette at PF down the stretch
and lost the defensive rebounding battle

Postgame Quotes

Don Nelson
On Tonight's Game:

“Couple of breakdowns at the wrong time. I thought we had the game won. Really was a good game, I told the team I thought they deserved to win it, but we didn’t so we’ll move on.”

On The Warriors' Final Turnover:

“We needed a timeout…I don’t like to call timeouts, but we had a play call that I wanted with the score tied. I wanted Goose (Andris Biedrins) to take the ball out so they couldn’t foul him. Anyway it’s a loss I thought we played extremely well and hard and no problems, but it will be a hard loss to get over.”

Jamal Crawford
On Tonight's Game:

“It was a tough game. Both teams fought hard and tonight we came out on the short end of the stick. We fought really, really hard. There was maybe a couple of different things we could’ve done as players on the court but it was tough loss, a very tough loss”
“We felt like in overtime we came out we played catch-up for the first minute or two and then we kind of took control of the game and we fought, and we fought so hard. We could’ve came out with a win, we deserved to win, but we just came out on the short end of the stick.”

Stephen Jackson
On The Loss:

“It’s no different than the other ones. We just have to find a way to get the win. At the end of the day it’s still a loss. There are things we could’ve done better but we didn’t. Now we got to get ready for the next one.”