Which team wins the all-important possession battle?
Part of what buoyed the Heat in the first three games of the series was their ability to create more scoring opportunities than Boston. Miami turned the ball over three, five and six fewer times than the Celtics in Games 1, 2 and 3, respectively. And even in Game 3, where Boston got up 17 more shot attempts, the Heat made it count by sinking 19 triples to the Celtics’ 11. (The story was similar in Saturday’s Game 6: Miami had 14 threes, whereas Boston had just seven.)
At this point in the series, the team with more shot attempts has won four of the six games. Yesterday very nearly made it five of six, until the extra shot that Derrick White created with a tenth of a second left.
