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Hornets one game away from end of season.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Israel Gutierrez
MIAMI _ So let's get this straight: The Heat and Hornets combined for six technical fouls Friday night in Game 5, Jamaal Magloire threw Dwyane Wade to the floor, Eddie Jones got stepped on as Rafer Alston, George Lynch and Rasual Butler cursed in each other's faces, Alston was ejected for hitting David Wesley in the groin area ... and that was all just a hint of what's to come in today's Game 6?
"It's going to be worse," Miami's Lamar Odom said of today's matchup at New Orleans. "We might have people out there spitting. Who knows? You never know what to expect."
That's what happens when a team is on the verge of elimination and desperation sets in. The Heat has a 3-2 lead in the best-of-7 series, and Heat players know the hardest part is yet to come.
"Close-out games like this one are hard because you're going into somebody's home court, and the way they look at it, they don't have anything to lose," Miami's Brian Grant said. "They're going to lay it all on the line.
"If it's me, I'm going to give up all six of my fouls. If I'm going to go down, then it's going to be very hard for you to score."
Both teams have found it difficult to score in the series, with neither team averaging more than 83.4 points. While the Hornets continue to talk about how they expect games to become increasingly physical, Heat coach Stan Van Gundy doesn't consider this series a rough-and-tumble one _ even after Friday's emotionally charged contest.
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