NBA Games Recap 4/14/09
Only 3 games were played in the NBA on Wednesday in preparation for tonight’s end of season extravaganza.
In a match-up that’s likely to be repeated in 4 days time the Atlanta Hawks showed the Miami Heat some of what they can expect if they hold onto 5th place in the Eastern Conference. At the Philips Arena the Hawks won this one 81-79 in a game where the benches of each team got a lot of time on court, every player that was in uniform played some part in the game for both teams and due to this big numbers couldn’t really be put up by any individual player. Despite this Michael Beasley scored 23 points and 13 rebounds for Miami and Ronald Murray came off the Hawks’ bench to score 17 despite only shooting 5 of 20 from the field.
In Philadelphia the Boston Celtics powered past the 76ers with a 100-98 victory in another game that’s likely to be replicated in 4 days time. The men in green won this one due to Paul Pierce’s 31 points that led the Celtics while Tony Allen scored 18. This was likely to be Pierce’s last game before the play-offs (he’ll probably be rested for the home game against Washington tonight) so he made sure he had some form going into the post-season shooting 12 of 16 from the field including 7 of 9 from behind the arc.
Finally in L.A the Lakers warned the Jazz of what was likely to happen to them in under a week after beating them 125-112, and thus confining them to the 8th seed and a re-match in the Conference Quarter Finals. Andrew Bynum dropped a team high 22 points in half an hour on the court while Pau Gasol just missed out on a double double with 20 points and 9 rebounds. This was the Lakers’ last game and despite wanting to give their main players some time to find their rhythm before the play-offs started they gave all their players suited up some time on court at the Staples Center and will be confident of sweeping the Jazz in their upcoming series.
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April 17th, 2009 at 5:55 am
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