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The Miami HEAT's offense runs like a well-oiled machine when it is generating three-pointers, but not just any threes. It needs to create open, efficient, assisted threes, and knowing this, the Indiana Pacers have schemed to take those away, a scheme that starts with how they defend LeBron James and Dwyane Wade's pick-and-rolls.
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Pacers vs HEAT Video Game 2
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Your Miami HEAT are heading back home to battle the Indiana Pacers in Game 5 next Tuesday, May 22nd at AmericanAirlines Arena. The playoffs are getting heated and you don’t want to miss a single second of the action! Individual game tickets for Game 5 are on sale to the general public now. There is an eight ticket maximum per order.
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The Miami HEAT outscored the Indiana Pacers by 15 points with LeBron James playing power forward in Game 1, but the decision as to whether or not to start him at that position in the absence of Chris Bosh is hardly as simple as going by the numbers. We ask the why, and why not, of the potential move.
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In Game 1 against the Indiana Pacers, the man who can play any position in the game played almost half his minutes at power forward, and Miami's lineups featuring LeBron James at the four were easily the HEAT's most efficient. With help from Ronny Turiaf and Joel Anthony filling in for Chris Bosh, here's how it worked.
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LeBron James is the 2011-12 NBA Most Valuable Player not just because he had the most statistically dominant season of any player in the league, but because it was impossible to watch him play and not think he is the best player, capable of doing the most thing, in the game. Sometimes, even that isn't enough, but the narrative was behind James, too.
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