Miami Heat’s ‘Average’ Game 5 Shows Just How Bad Games 3 and 4 Were

Miami Heat: ‘Average’ Game 5 Shows Just How Bad Games 3 and 4 Were

That, then, brings us to the ultimate point. An average Game 5 showing, for these Miami Heat, shows you just how poor or extraordinarily bad they were in the previous two games.

In Game 3 and Game 4 of this series, the Miami Heat shot 14-65 from long-ranged territory. They shot 23 and 20 percent from deep, respectively, across the two games.

In Game 5 of the series, they shot nearly 40 percent at 13-33 or 39.4 percent to be specific, close to their season average of 37.9 percent per game. Now, in shooting that near 38 percent from deep per game, it would propel them to scoring about 110 points per contest on the season.

In Games 3 and 4 of this series, they scored below their season average, far below in Game 3 (79) and though just below in Game 4 (108), still below.

In looking even closer, that breaks down to about 27.5 or a raw 28 points scored per period on the season.

They only allowed 105 points per game during the year, which breaks down to about 26.25 points per period or 26 per period for a whole raw rounded number. In Game 5, they scored, at least, 25 points per period, with the first and the third periods being over 30 at 31 and 39 points.

In Games 3 and 4, they would, either, not hit their average scoring by a long mark (Game 3 saw them fail to reach 18 points in a period three times) or allow the opposition to go over the average amount of points they had allowed per period throughout the year (allowed Philly to score 28 or more in three of the four periods).

To be clear, this all could just come off as a bunch of numbers, which would be fair. That would be totally fair.