Preview: Bobcats vs Miami Heat, Game 12

Who: Miami Heat vs Charlotte Bobcats
What: NBA Basketball – Heat Home Game
When: 11/19/2010 at 7:30pm eastern
Where: Live at AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, or on tv, SportSouth, and radio, WBCN-AM 1660

The Matchup:

	Record	Offensive Efficiency	Defensive Efficiency	Pace
Miami	7-4	110.8 (2)	99.3 (3)	93.4 (18)
Charlotte	4-7	102.7 (24)	105.6 (15)	91.1 (28)

Previous Meetings:
NONE

Injuries:
Miami: None
Charlotte: Dominic McGuire – Out (but practicing now)

Starting Lineups

	Heat	Bobcats
PG	Carlos Arroyo	D.J. Augustin
SG	Dwyane Wade	Stephen Jackson
SF	LeBron James	Gerald Wallace
PF	Chris Bosh	Boris Diaw
C	Zydrunas Ilgauskas	Nazr Mohammed

From the other side:
The Heat Index of the TrueHoop Network: The Heat: Breakneck or Break-you-down – not a preview piece, but an interesting discussion on the best way to utilize the skills of Dwyane Wade and LeBron James. I’m in the push-it camp, for two reasons: Watching LeBron run the fast break is very impressive. And watching Dwyane Wade drive into the lane looking for contact over and over in the half-court is not.

Quick thoughts:
Good news: The Bobcats already have 3 road wins this year, after finishing last year with only 13. Last year’s Cats took until January 3rd to reach that many road wins (winning both games of a road back to back, in Miami and then Cleveland, to get there). Two positives to take out of that: This year’s Cats are doing better on the road – and they were able to beat LeBron James on the road last year.

And then, go watch this video from Skeets and Melas at the Basketball Jones all afternoon: Like a Bosh