The Heat beat The Lakers 80-96 in the Staples Center
The Lakers were defeated (80-96) at Miami Heat at Staples Center in Los Angeles, featured in the biggest game of the NBA’s Christmas Day in the Western Conference, where the team of Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant was neutralized by the Miami defense, and executed by the trio of stars from the Heat led by LeBron James with 27 points. The event, eagerly awaited by the number of stars who gathered in the remodeled Heat and the NBA champions, started missing expectations. Both teams missed most of their chances early, with a clear lack of effectiveness in key players.
Catalan Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant found their site and did not add a single point in the first quarter. Lakers ‘alive’ through the points of Bynum and Fisher, also squandered the lack of success of Miami, who led by a great Chris Bosh (12 points) rebounded in the score (14-20) at the end of the act.
Gasol did not leave early in the second quarter and when he did the match had been uphill (18-30). If Pau (6 points) and Bryant (8 points) began to write and come into play, Wade (10 points) made it from Miami, who also guided by the wisdom of Bosh (18 points), again brilliant, and by Lebron James (11 points) maintained the favorable marker for visitors to the rest of the match (38-47). In the second part, the MVP of the last NBA finals, Bryant tried to get into the game to the Lakers, helping the good connection with Pau Gasol, but the effect lasted only a few minutes, and the effectiveness of other local did not improve.
While in Miami Lebron James team responded to the expected duel with Kobe to a big third quarter to score 21 points so far. In this way, the party reached the last leg with the score even against the champions of the NBA (64-75), and a contender like Miami I stepped on the accelerator and dominated the game. And it threw up no surprises in the final game. The great Miami defense made it 17 points to Gasol and Bryant, local scorers, which ended late in the game watching from the bench when, with four minutes, the score was fatal (70-91) for Phil Jackson.
For its part Lebron James became the man of the match with 27 points, 10 assists and 11 rebounds, and added to the good performance of Wade (18 points) and Bosh (24 points), the Heat’s victory statement with comfort final ( 80-96) at the home of the Lakers.