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Atlanta Hawks at Miami Heat - game 3
Grant Long, Keith Askins, and Doug Edwards missed tonights game
due to league suspension.

1st Quarter:
Rice nails the baseliner.  Atl turnover.  Rice nails the long
jumper.  Koncak gets the 15-footer.  Salley drains the jumper. 
Manning nails the 15-footer.  Koncak blocks, Augmon gets the lay
up on the break.  Smith steps out of bounds.  Manning is fouled
driving.  Makes both.  8-6 Atl 9:23.  Smith tips in his missed
lay up.  Lob to Augmon who hops for the drop in.  Mia misses. 
Blaylock misses the lay up.  Smith misses inside.  Manning bounce
passes to Augmon inside for the lay up.  Salley misses.  Willis
misses badly.  Shaw nails the short turn around jumper.  12-10
Atl 7:13.  Manning misses.  Seikaly drives across the paint and
gets the running hook.  Augmon misses badly.  Shaw bricks. 
Augmon misses the 3.  Rice drives and gets the acrobatic lay up. 
Koncak misses.  Shaw misses the 3.  Rice misses.  Koncak misses. 
Nice move by Smith driving by Koncak for the reverse lay up.  16-
12 Mia 4:35.  24 second violation on Atl.  Wow, Smith gets the
one-hand throw in from the free throw line.  Willis 2 of 2. 
Seikaly misses inside.  3 second violation on Manning.  Augmon
steals.  Koncak misses.  Salley misses.  Offensive foul on
Willis.  Salley misses, Smith steals and slams it.  20-14 Mia
2:03.  Atl turnover.  Mia misses the 3.  Koncak rattles in the
jumper.  Seikaly tips in Smiths shot as it rolls out.  Ehlo
misses.  Salley dishes to the cutting Coles for the lay up. 
Koncak get the 18-footer.  Coles misses, Seikaly rebounds and
gets the short jumper at the buzzer.  26-18 Mia.

2nd Quarter:
Manning misses.  Geez, Salley gets the tough lay up to bounce in. 
Ehlo drains the long jumper.  Miner misses.  Ehlo 2 of 2.  Burton
nails the long 2.  Lang gets the offensive foul.  Coles turns it
over, ahead to Ehlo for the jam.  Miner misses, Atl runs and Ehlo
gets the lay up.  30-26 Mia 9:10.  Seikaly turns it over.  Willis
misses.  Mia turnover.  Ehlo steps in and nails the baseliner. 
Salley misses.  Ehlo misses the 3.  Whatley strips.  Lang misses. 
Salley drives the baseline for the jam.  Manning dishes to Lang
for the lay in.  32-30 Mia 6:31.  Goaltending by Lang.  Ehlo
misses, Willis misses inside, Mia runs and -watch out- Miner
takes it in full force for the one-hand slam.  Manning gets 2 in
the paint.  Coles picks up the loose ball, drives, gets the lay
up, and is fouled.  Makes the extra.  Lang to Manning for the lay
up.  Lang swats, Atl runs.  Whatley gets 2.  39-31 Mia 4:45.  Mia
misses.  Ehlo throws it away.  Lang blocks, Mia ball out of
bounds.  Smith misses inside.  Goaltending on Salley.  Smith
bricks the 3.  Ferrell nails the baseliner.  40-39 Atl 2:40. 
Salley gets the jam.  Manning gets the nice short turn around and
is fouled.  Misses the extra.  Smith plays with the ball and
takes it in for the slam.  Ferrell 2 of 2.  Smith gets the
rebound and the put back.  Lang misses inside.  Smith rebounds
his own miss and lays it in.  Manning gets the short jump hook. 
Coles misses.  47-46 Mia.

3rd Quarter:
Manning misses.  Salley nails the 15-footer.  Augmon is fouled
and the ref gives him the continuation.  Misses the extra. 
Blaylock steals.  Blaylock misses the lay up.  Atl steals,
Blaylock misses the lay up, Mia misses the 3.  Manning gets the
lean in 8-footer.  Seikaly bricks.  Seikaly blocks on the Atl
break, Mia ball out of bounds.  Rice drains the jumper.  51-50
Mia 9:09.  Manning nails the jumper.  Salley 2 of 2.  Manning
misses.  Rice misses.  Blaylock misses the wild lay up.  Smith
buries the 3.  Blaylock misses.  Rice drives for the lay up.  Mia
steals, Smith misses.  Ehlo misses the 3 after several Atl
attempts.  Seikaly 1 of 2.  Ferrell 2 of 2.  59-54 Mia 5:10. 
Seikaly is fouled in the paint.  Makes the freebies.  Ehlo drives
and gets the one-hander.  Ehlo steals.  Oh, Salley with the major
block, Atl ball out of bounds.  Ehlo misses badly, Mia turnover. 
Whatley drives, rebounds, and gets the lay up in the land of
giants.  Salley misses.  Salley blocks, Rice buries the 3.  64-58
Mia 2:24.  Ehlo drives for the lay up.  Shaw misses the 3.  Rice
intercepts, Mia runs, Coles to Rice for the flying jam and he is
fouled.  Misses the extra.  Willis misses.  Willis intercepts,
Rice intercepts.  Smith misses.  Whatley misses, Ferrell misses
inside, Smith travels and Ehlo went down hard.  Whatley 2 of 2. 
Coles misses.  66-62 Mia.

4th Quarter:
Coles steps out of bounds.  Manning misses badly.  Wow, Rice is
fouled and nails the fall away jumper.  Makes the extra.  Augmon
misses.  Seikaly travels.  Offensive foul on Koncak.  Seikaly to
Coles who takes the short jumper, is fouled, and his shot bounces
and bounces and bounces and finally rolls in.  Makes the extra. 
72-62 Mia 9:50.  Manning throws it away.  Salley bricks, Ehlo
gets the lay up via the high kiss off the glass.  Rice misses the
3.  Manning misses.  Seikaly is fouled in the paint.  1 of 2. 
Ehlo nails the 15-footer after 3 Atl attempts.  Rice bricks. 
Augmon swishes the jump hook.  Shaw misses.  Atl misses on 3
attempts.  73-68 Mia 6:40.  Coles drives and gets the pretty
running one-hand scoop.  Augmon misses inside.  Smith 2 of 2. 
Nice pass from Manning to Lang for the dunk.  24 second violation
on Mia.  Ehlo feeds Lang for the lay up and the foul.  Makes the
extra.  Smith gets the friendly bounce off the 15-footer.  79-73
Mia 4:35.  Manning misses.  Rice is fouled driving.  1 of 2. 
Ehlo misses.  Oh my - Smith nails the long 3.  83-73 Mia 3:10. 
Ferrell's lay up rolls in.  Smith over shoots.  Ehlo gets the
rebounds and the lay up.  24 second violation on Mia.  Ehlo
misses.  Rice misses.  Ferrell misses.  Coles is fouled on the
break.  2 of 2.  85-77 Mia 1:21.  Blaylock drains the 3.  Smith
misses the 3, Seikaly catches the rebound and in one motion nails
the short jumper.  Blaylock buries the 3.  Willis fouls Seikaly
as the shot clock runs down.  Misses both.  Timeout Atl - their
last.  87-83 Mia 23.6 seconds.  Blaylock nails the 3!  Mia can't
inbounds the ball cleanly so they call timeout.  87-86 Mia 19.4
seconds.  Smith is immediately fouled.  Makes both.  Blaylock
misses the 3.  Mia ball out of bounds and Smith is immediately
fouled.  1 of 2.  5.9 seconds.  Ferrell can't get a shot off. 
Game over.



Final:  Miami Heat 90, Atlanta Hawks 86 
Players of the game:  Steve Smith with 25 points and Rony Seikaly
with 12 points including 4-7 FG and 20 rebounds.
Miami leads the series 2-1.


patricia