Friday, May 25th, 2012
The scene moves to South Beach after a long layoff when the Chicago Bulls travel to play the Miami Heat in game 3 of their best of 7 Eastern conference finals series on Sunday night.
Start time from Miami is scheduled for 8:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by TNT.
The betting odds came in with the home club Miami Heat favored by –6 points with a total of 178 ½ points.
Money has shown early on the side of the Bulls as the Miami Heat is now favored by -5 points.
The over under has moved up to 179 points.
Miami Heat money line gamblers will lay –230 odds with the road underdog Chicago Bulls bringing back +210 odds to pull off the upset victory without the aid of points on their side.
The teams met just once in Miami during the regular season and it was the Chicago Bulls with the 87-86 road win at the Heat as a +5 ½ point underdog. The game landed under the total of 188 ½ points.
The Bulls played well defensively in the second half limiting the Heat to just 37 points.
Chicago connected on 45.9% of their shots in the win but just 3 of 14 from three. The Bulls made 16 of their 20 free throws.
They pulled down four more rebounds than Miami.
Derrick Rose led Chicago with 27 points and five assists on 12 of 23 shooting from the field.
Luol Deng contributed with 18 points on 7 of 15 shooting.
Carlos Boozer was effective with 12 points and 10 rebounds.
The Bulls got only 16 points off their bench.
Miami made 48.5% of theirs shots in the loss. They made just 3 of 9 from three and missed 6 out of 23 free throw attempts.
Lebron James led the club with 26 points on 10 of 18 shooting.
The Big 3 for Miami had 69 of the Heat’s 86 points.
The Miami Heat have knotted their Eastern conference finals series with the Bulls at a game apiece following their 85-75 road win at Chicago on Tuesday night as a +2 ½ point underdog. The game sailed well under the total of 181 points.
Miami brought a strong defensive effort in the second half by limiting Chicago to just 29 points and just 10 coming in the fourth quarter.
The Heat shot 47.1% in victory but just 3 of 13 from the three point line. The team got to the line 24 times and made 18 shots. They pulled down four more rebounds than the Bulls.
The club was extremely aggressive in their game 2 win as 50 points came from the paint.
Lebron James led the way with 29 points on 12 of 21 shooting and 10 rebounds.
Dwyane Wade had 24 points with nine rebounds and the veteran made 8 of his 16 shots from the floor.
Chris Bosh had just 10 points with 8 boards.
The Heat got a huge effort from Udonis Haslem off the bench as the veteran put in 13 points and grabbed 5 rebounds on 5 of 10 shooting from the field.
The Bulls shot awful in defeat making just 34.1% of their shots and a pitiful 3 of 20 from the three point line. The team missed 10 of 26 free throws.
Derrick Rose had 21 points on just 7 of 23 shooting.
Luol Deng was off his game making just 5 of his 15 attempted shots for 13 points.
No other Bulls player had more than 9 points in game 2.
Carlos Boozer played passively and made only 3 of his 10 shots for 7 points.
The Bulls got 20 points from their bench. Taj Gibson led the unit with 8 points.
Kyle Korver went bad from the floor going 1 of 7 for just 3 points.
Game 1 of this best of 7 series went to the Bulls as they earned the 103-82 blowout win as a -2 ½ point betting favorite. The total landed over 180 ½ points.
It was a good defensive second half adjustment for the Bulls as Miami could make only 34 second half points.
The Bulls shot 43.7% in the win. Derrick Rose led the way with 28 points and 6 assists. The Chicago bench came through with 28 points.
Chris Bosh led Miami with 30 points on 12 of 18 shooting. Dwyane Wade and Lebron James combined for 12 of 32 shooting in defeat.
Trend: Chicago Bulls are 12-4 ATS as underdogs this season.
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