Miami Heat Playing ‘5 On 8’ With Celtics And Officials

Miami Heat: You Have To Call The Calls When They Are That Egregious

Though there are a few more that can be called into question, here is the last instance and the one that really nails it all home. When you look at the free-throw totals for each team, it’s downright dastardly.

The Miami Heat shot less than half the free throws of Boston, 14 to 30. It only ballooned to 14 as the final moments turned it into an end-of-game type foul situation for the Celtics.

For much of the game, the Celtics had outpaced the Heat at the free-throw line by about four or five times. That’s no stretch, as at one point in the game, the disparity was 18-3.

The Miami Heat did the hard part already in taking the home-court advantage back. If they can get another, that would be marvelous but the Game 3 win was huge.

Even against eight men on the court for the opposing team, the Miami Heat were able to gut one out. You’d hope that the league office takes notice though of the atrocious officiating though.