Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET the Miami Heat will look to rebound from a brutal home loss against the San Antonio Spurs and even the NBA Finals at two games apiece in Game 4. Watch the game on ESPN or live stream it free by clicking this link. Heat fans can hear the radio broadcast on 790 The Ticket while Spurs fans may do the same on 1200 WOAI.
The Heat were eviscerated by a focused Spurs offense in the first half of Game 3 and never recovered, eventually losing 111-92. The Spurs set an NBA record for Finals field goal percentage in a half, knocking down 75.8 percent from the field. During their run as NBA elites since LeBron James joined the team, the Heat have been known as a defensively excellent team. That certainly wasn't the case in Game 3, but don't expect LeBron to panic.
"You're always on edge in the postseason, but I don't want to be concerned at this point," James said. "For us, we have to make the adjustments."
While suffering a beating like that in a Finals game is never good, history could be on Miami's side. They sustained a similar drubbing in Game 3 of last year's Finals and went on to beat the Spurs. Like James and the Tuesday night loss though, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich isn't fazed or thinking about the past.
"I don't think about last year at all at this point," Popovich said. "I don't think about last year Game 3, Game 4, at all. This is a different animal and I'm just concerned about the game tomorrow night."
Spurs forward Tim Duncan said Game 3 marked the first time in the series his team lived up to its promise in this series. "We finally put a game together for not the full 48, but for as long as we could, where we did exactly what we planned to do and executed in that respect," Duncan said, "and that's what we're going to need again."
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