Miami Heat at Detroit Pistons – March 28, 2014

• “U-donis, U-did-it…. U-donis, U-did-it-again!”
• “LeBron bounce pass for a James Jones three… Kaboom!”
• “Udonis Haslem putting on a show. He’s 6 for 6.”
• “Cole sets up Birdman for the slam dunk – that was pretty.”
• “Birdman on a lob from Cole! A gorgeous dunk!”
• “Bosh… a Ka-Bosh! We’ve been waiting for that…”
• “Some ragged play over the last minute and it continues…”
• “James Jones shoots the tre… Kaboom!”
• “This is just what Miami needed: a 21 point lead.”
• “James Jones for three… Kaboom! You can wake him up out of a deep sleep and he can make a three.”
• “The Heat are united and plugged into this game from the start… they have blitzed the Pistons right out of their own Palace.”
• “Coach, a Palace uprising here by the Heat.”
• “Beautiful tear-drop by Norris Cole.”
• “So through three quarters here at the Palace its the Heat playing like royalty – Miami leads by 32, and yes LeBron you can smile…”
• “Here’s Toney Douglas. He only knows one speed: ‘full.’”

Portland Blazers at Miami Heat – March 24, 2014 (Bosh GW Block on 30th Bday)

• “Chalmers– the durable 6 year point guard.”
• “Here’s Oden… Oh My! Greg Oden, a two-handed crusher…We all hope that Oden’s unfinished business [with Portland] gets finished here in Miami.”
• “Not bad for a point guard there. He got a couple frequent flyers with that.”
• “Off the leg of Lillard…James without the headband!”
• “Reverse Jam for LeBron on the Cole lob. Tony, LeBron has 5 field goals, and 4 of them slam-dunks… Crazy how easy LeBron James makes that look, and, we know it’s anything but easy to be that athletic, and that acrobatic.”
• “Chalmers quick outlet for Douglas, he’s got James… And James got everything!

       o   Tony Fio: “We got a dunk party tonight, featuring LeBron.”

       o   Eric Reid: “James revving up the Heat’s house.”

• “Here comes Toney Douglas. The pitbull out of Florida State.”
• “Tony, interesting approach by Bosh tonight. You know the 3 has become an important part of his repertoire, but its gone south on him lately…Bosh, why not? Ka-Bosh!”

       o   Tony Fio: “Looked like a hot potato for about 3 or 4 passes,        and Bosh just said, ‘I’ll shoot it.’”

• “LeBron’s the kind of guy that knows the temperature – knows what the team needs.”
• “LeBron bumped by Lopez… And a ball that simply would not cooperate.”
• Tony Fio: “If it affects the shot, then it’s a foul.”
• “Ray Allen, gave it a good ride, from Key Biscayne.”
• “Chalmers corkscrewing it in.”
• “Lillard now 3 for 11, and 1 or 6 from downtown. Tony, ever since his 10 point first quarter, the Heat has hit his ‘mute button.’”
• “Bird is the word here in Miami.”
• “Well, Heatnation was clamoring for better defense – they just got a dose of playoff caliber Miami Heat defense… And they ice the game with a score by LeBron, and defensive swat by Mr. Bosh. That’s a Ka-Bosh, with a fork in it!”

 

LBJ GW + CB Block

Miami at New Orleans – March 22, 2014

• “Bosh pinned it to the glass on a Tyreke Evans layup opportunity… the Miami “SWAT” team.”
• “Rio from the corner, Kaboom!”
• “LeBron with a crusher from Norris Cole… they felt that all the way to the bottom of the mighty Mississippi river.”
• “Bird with the steal, and the foul from behind by Davis… that was a quite the big-man foot-race.”
• “Nice runner from Beasley… Such a soft, smooth touch. That’s 4 points in a row for the ‘Beazer.’”
• “Beasley with a right handed crusher, and He just pancaked Anthony Morrow.”
• “LeBron. A ferocious slam, elbows above the rim off the dish from Toney Douglas.”
  • Tony Fio: “Man, it looked like he went off a pogo stick there.”
  • Eric Reid: “Maybe he borrowed Mark Strickland’s pogo-stick, remember the pogo-man back in the 90s? … Let’s watch a pogo-man-flashback, ‘Turbo-Style.’ I love the elbow-above-the-rim salute for the game’s greatest player now, LeBron James.”
• “Beasley doubles-pumps under the rim… Buckets, binging.”
• “LeBron beats the clock, and the Pelican defense.”
• “Allen from the corner – a line-drive Kaboom!”
• “To Allen… He’s open… Unloads… And hits! What a play by Miami! … Well they got Babbitt, we got Ray Allen who runs the court like a rabbit.”
• “Chris Anderson with a crafty score inside.”

• “… This is slow torture for Heatnation.”

Magic at Heat – March 1, 2014 (Kid’s Day at AA Arena)

• “We are underway! Off we go on another Miami Heat adventure!”
• “Tony, this should be a business-as-usual outing for Miami.”
• “Here comes the ‘masked man’”
• “Allen getting a lot of mileage on the dribble for Miami … how much of an indictment on the Magic is a move like that?”
• “Chalmers from downtown… Kaboom! Chalmers’ 60^th triple on the season.”
• “Bosh pulls up for three… Ka-Bosh! Well, back to back Ka-booms for Chalmers and Bosh.”
• “Chalmers poking it away from behind – LeBron against O’Quinn. No contest.”
• “…The relentless attack on the rim continues.”
• “Miami’s offense really percolating at a steady pace.”
• “…and LeBron stamping down the rebound.”
• “Look at the set up – Cole for the Big Fellow. Greg Oden, down it goes. Miami by 8.”
• “D wade with a burst and a bucket.”
• “Here comes Dwyane, … look out!”
• “Yes [Dwyane Wade and LeBron James] love [the alley-oop] from Kendall to Boca.”
• “Battier goes old school – Birdman there to tap it in.”
• “Wade rattles down another.”

Heat at Mavericks – February 18, 2014

• “Greetings to the Heat Nation. Hope you all enjoyed the All Star break in New Orleans. And now get ready for the final 31 games of the season… Off we go on another Miami Heat NBA adventure.”
• “Look out! … Bosh! … On a nice dish, able to smash it through.”
• “Birdman went from Mohawk to No-hawk.”
• “The versatile repertoire of Chris Bosh…”
• “Nowitzki fires… You can hear the string music from here.”
• “The corner 3, a main staple of Miami’s offense.”
• “Here comes LeBron. Nobody faster than that man. Look at that. The freight train rolls through Dallas.”
• “Another terrific pass from topside to Greg Oden.”
• “LeBron James having a first half buffet. All he can score…”
• “Let’s take the Heat’s temperature…”
• “LeBron James ripping the nets.”
• “Another alert-distribution by Chalmers.”
• “LeBron. Look out! A blow-by, and then a crusher.”
• “Bosh! Ka-Bosh!”
• “The Heat surgically picking apart the Dallas double-team.”
• “LeBron for three. Kaboom! LeBron goes Le-Boom.”
• “Cole with a cat-quick steal.”
• “Wade doesn’t have numbers, but he has that finger roll.”
• “LeBron again for 3. Kaboom! Back to Back triples for LeBron James… He shot that one from Austin.”
• “…With 5:55 left the in fray, LeBron trying to take over.”
• “Time to play road-warrior defense.”
• “Swinging… Swinging and slamming off the LeBron assist, the Heat now on a 18 to 4 run. A punishing run against the Mavericks here in the 4^th quarter.”
• “Corner 3. Yes! A king-size Ka-Bosh for Mr. Bosh.”
• “Oh, yes sir! Above the nest, the Birdman flourishing. Another great dish from LeBron James… The Heat have their biggest lead in the Big D. And that is a big dunk.”
• “Birdman triples… Mark Cuban: you need to grin and bear this, my man.”