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.”

Grizzlies at Heat – March 21, 2014 (Mike Miller Ring Night)

• “Wade under duress, but right on the money.”
• “Greg Oden comes out … and the baton gets passed to Chris Anderson.”
• Tony Fio: “It’s a battle of the bigs tonight, there’s gonna be a lot of banging.”
• “LeBron goes bottom up on the wing jumper over Gasol.”
• “…And LeBron throws it out of bounds – Cole had vacated the area.”
• “Bosh for 3… Ka-Bosh!”
• “Allen… nifty score from Ray Allen … he has 14 ageless minutes of the bench.”
• “When it comes to Greg Oden, size matters.”
• “The decibel level, matching the energy level by the heat… keep on rising.”
• “LeBron climbed the ladder and scored.”
• “You said the Heat would be in the driver’s seat if they made the next basket… happy motoring ahead, we hope…”
• “LeBron with some string music.”

Thank You, Mike Miller:

Heat at Celtics – March 19, 2014

 

• “Haslem gets the block and there was no doubt about that one.”
• “U-donis, U-did-it!”
• “The equal opportunity offense for Spoelstra’s Heat…”
• “Rio Kabooms!”
• “Udonis streaking through… And he is binging here in the first quarter.”
• “Nice pass through the middle. Heat getting lots of mileage of penetration and passing.”
• “Bosh off the pump-fake, delivers again.”
• “Birdman with the flip and the foul!”
• “Bosh leading with the rebound hat and gloves on tonight.”
• “Chris Anderson with the offensive rebound. “Bird” is the word. You love it when the Birdman is flapping his wings under the backboard.”
• “Birdman, flying into the hoop.”
• “I think [Boston] recognizes that shot by Ray Allen. I don’t know why the hold it against Ray Allen for leaving. Boston was in a rebuilding year.”
• “U-donis, U-did-it-again. UD, 7 of 8 shooting.”
• “Well he landed elbow first… that looked like the WWF for Humphries.”
• “Cole from the corner… Kaboom!”
• “Bosh with a rainbow jumper.”
• “Chris Bosh, playing with the eye of the tiger tonight on defense.”
• “TD Garden, AKA a House of Horror for Miami.”