Final: Miami Heat 113 - Toronto Raptors 120

[Dr. James Naismith]

Miami Heat @ Toronto Raptors

7-4, 3rd Southeast, (Road: 2-1) -- 5-7, 3rd Atlantic, (Home: 3-1)

WHEN: Fri., Nov. 20, 2009 at 7:00 pm ET
WHERE: Air Canada Centre
TV/Radio: TSN2, TSN2 HD, FAN590 Radio


TORONTO RAPTORS
(click on logo for team stats)

Starters

(L to R): Calderon, DeRozan, Turkoglu, Bosh, Bargnani

Bench

(L to R): Belinelli, Weems, Jack, Johnson, Nestrovic, Mensah-Bonsu, O'Bryant

Team Injuries/Inactive List

(L to R): Banks, Evans, Wright

MIAMI HEAT
(click on logo for team stats)

Starters

(L to R): Chalmers, Wade, Richardson, Beasley, O'Neal

Bench

(L to R): Arroyo, Jones, Randolph, Anthony, Cook, Magloire, Wright

Team Injuries/Inactive List

(L to R): Quinn, Diawara, Haslem

Who's Hot

TORONTO RAPTORS


Belinelli: 15.3 ppg in last 3 gp / Bosh: 27.4 ppg in last 11 gp

MIAMI HEAT


Wade: 28.3 ppg in last 7 gp / O'Neal: 15.3 ppg in last 3 gp

Key Match-ups


Dwyane Wade vs. DeMar DeRozan


Jermaine O'Neal vs. Andrea Bargnani

Fox Sports World's Head to Head Match-ups
(click either player photo to see numbers against one another)

PG vs. PG

SG vs. SG

SF vs. SF

PF vs. PF

C vs. C

GAME PREVIEWS


(click on image for preview *NOTE: only available on "Game Day")


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Prediction

- 98
- 112

I don't think the bleeding is about to stop just yet.

What do you guys think? I can't see either DeMar or Marco containing Wade from going off tomorrow night.

[Arsenalist]

We'll win this one, rather easily I might add.

[Dr. James Naismith]

Haslem might be a go after all and Hedo might be out.

[Dr. James Naismith]

Arsenalist's and ESPN's Previews are now available.

Link: Raptors Republic Preview

Link: ESPN Game Preview

[Dr. James Naismith]

According to ESPN there was no mention of Hedo missing tonight's affair, so lets keep our fingers crossed.

As mentioned last night, Haslem might be a go but the Heat might be without Q-Rich this evening. No big loss for the Heat of you ask me. I recall Cook ate us alive last season anyways.

Miami hopes to have forward Udonis Haslem back Friday after he sat out against Atlanta due to an ailing left shoulder. He began feeling pain last week in the weight room and aggravated the injury against the Thunder when he fell on the shoulder.

The Heat decided to be cautious, keeping Haslem out against the Hawks even though he wanted to play. Haslem is averaging 11.7 points and a team-high 9.6 rebounds off the bench.

"He's a tough guy," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "He'd like to play through it."

Miami's depth suffered another blow when Quentin Richardson sustained a lower back strain early in the third quarter against the Hawks. Richardson, averaging 7.6 points and 4.7 rebounds in 11 starts, didn't return and his status is uncertain.

[Dr. James Naismith]

Interesting stat courtesy of Paul Jones' Twitter account:

From John Rusin "the stat man" Raps are 6-15(.285)all-time in the 1st gm at home after a west coast trip of 4+ gms

[Dr. James Naismith]

From Matt Devlin:

Hedo is a go tonight...Wright will miss his 2nd straight game.

Source - Click here

[insight_tor]

Heat lost 4 in row, they may be looking to stop the bleed. The Raptors is back from West Coast trip. Both teams are eager to get a win, I just hope Raptors will prevail.

Raptors 110 - Heat 102

Let's go Raptors.

[insight_tor]

DeRozan with an excellent alley hoop, driving ACC audience nuts . I really like DeRozan game, he still makes rookie mistakes but he works hard and his athleticism is unbelievable.

[Carbon]

Is there something wrong with the chat room? This is the first time that I haven't been able to join it... is it maxed out in terms of participants?

Anyone else having trouble joining the chat room?

It just says "A connection to the server could not be established. Let's try connecting to http://raptorsrepublic.com/liveblog/chat.php again.... " and it counts down from 10 over and over.

Help?

I opened up the "Activity Window" and it keeps saying that http://raptorsrepublic.com/crossdomain.xml is not found... if that helps...

[TorontoForever]

Carbon, I have a problem with the chat room aswell. It just shows me a blank grey screen when I open it.

[Darien]

Good ol Raptors, shitting away their massive lead.

edit - god Jack.. finally earning that money..

[Carbon]

is this the same set of teams playing??? yeesh

[TorontoForever]

Damn, 20 to 4 We need to stay concentrated, bring the same intensity we had, can't get lazy in the most important minutes of the game

[Carbon]

Bring us home Hedo...

[Dr. James Naismith]

Damn .... looks like I missed a good game.

Did I miss anything particularly exciting guys?

[tmk]

Damn .... looks like I missed a good game.

Did I miss anything particularly exciting guys?

We built a 20-point lead at halftime, lost it by the 4th, but Jack hit some big threes and also Bargs hit a big one to save us.

Highlights wise DD had a sick and-1 alleyoop, Amir got dunked on pretty badly by Joel Anthony, Bargs had a pretty nice and-1 dunk, Amir hit a circus shot (after a nice pass by marco)..and that's about all I remember.

[Dr. James Naismith]

We built a 20-point lead at halftime, lost it by the 4th, but Jack hit some big threes and also Bargs hit a big one to save us.

Highlights wise DD had a sick and-1 alleyoop, Amir got dunked on pretty badly by Joel Anthony, Bargs had a pretty nice and-1 dunk, Amir hit a circus shot (after a nice pass by marco)..and that's about all I remember.

Thanks tmk. I'm hoping to catch the "Game in an Hour" edition of last night's game today. Oh, and welcome to the RR forums.

[tmk]

Thanks tmk. I'm hoping to catch the "Game in an Hour" edition of last night's game today. Oh, and welcome to the RR forums.

Just saw your reply. Thanks ..but also, whats up with the post count? It says I have 5 posts when I only have 2.. :S