Hawks beat Heats in overtime and the game of tonight

Joe Johnson sealed the deal with 2 free throws to give the Hawks a 93-89 win in overtime as Chris Bosh did not play the game and the Hawks lead by 8 points after 1 quarter up 19-11 and then the Heats outscored 24-15 in the second quarter and the halftime score was 35-34 Heats which is one of the lowest scoring first half in history. The Heat were lead by LeBron James had 34 points (10 boards and 7 assists) and Dwyane Wade had 27 points (6 boards and 3 assists) while the rest of the team had 28 points which included two starters Joel Anthony (16 boards) and Carlos Arroyo both had zero points in the game. While Hawks were lead by Joe Johnson and Jamal Crawford both had 19 points and Josh Smith and Mike Bibby both had 15 points while the Hawks were lead by Josh Smith in boards (12) and Joe Johnson lead in assists (10). The big thing now is that the Hawks are 2 games behind the Heat in the only division in question in the eastern conference half was through the season and if the Heat continue to have injury problems they may have a hard time maintaining their top 3 status by the end of the season and the playoffs have a lot to do about home court advantage and there is at least an extra home court advantage with a second seed than a four seed. In the end the Heat maybe in tough in the playoffs as the mighty Celtics are the big dogs still and really everyone else have certain flaws in their game like Orlando's Howard can he make a free throw when the money is on the line or basically can he win the big one and the Heat besides the big 3 who else is going to step up in the playoffs or can the Hawks stay as contenders or will they be pretenders like last playoffs.

The game of the night will be the Lakers (31-12) Vs. the Mavs (26-14) as Kobe will be on like he usually is while his supporting cast will be ready to and the Mavs who have lost 6 in a row and 9 of their last 11 games but Big Dirk will be ready for the game and his supporting case will not want to be embarrassed at home and it will be a lot of scoring but the the winner will be the team who gets the big stops and who has the last run in the game.

Thanks

Tom Mehegan