The NBA Finals shifts to South Beach with the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs tied at 1-1.

The first two games were defined by LeBron James cramping on Thursday and then putting in the Konami code on Sunday. The Heat are +11 with James on the floor over the first two games and -24 on the bench as he continues to have arguably the best Playoffs of his career and most definitely his best Finals.

Unlike the stagnant offense James played in during his time with the Cleveland Cavaliers in which he was asked to create off the dribble while everyone else stood around, the Heat play to his strengths expertly with shooting, spacing and ball movement.

The Spurs run a beautiful motion-oriented defense that is so strong in its structure that it encourages jazz-like improvisation and adaptability depending on the personnel.

The Heat are scoring 114.7 points per 100 possessions across these playoffs, while the Spurs are scoring a nearly as impressive 112.9.

Erik Spoelstra and Gregg Popovich have the luxury of a roster filled with four and three definitive Hall of Famers respectively, but they have done far more than merely hang the art in the museum with how their systems have evolved considerably over time.

During their first playoffs together, the Heat scored just 106.4 points per 100 possessions despite getting all the way to Game 6 of the Finals. The Spurs were eliminated in the first round that season by the Memphis Grizzlies despite being a 61-win team and the No. 1 seed. Across those six games against the Grizzlies, San Antonio scored just 102.2 points per possession.

The Spurs jumped to 110.3 points per 100 possession in the 2012 Playoffs when they looked like the anointed champs until Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals in Oklahoma City. The Heat similarly jumped up to 109.6 in what became their first championship.

The two teams of course met in last season's Finals and Miami scored 110.2 points per 100 possessions compared to 108.7 for the Spurs.

During Game 1, the Spurs scored 119.5 points per 100 possessions with a 36-point fourth quarter in which they made 14 of 16 field goals, all six of their three-point attempts while limiting the Heat to just 17 points. The ball movement was superb and the Spurs wasted none of their clean looks.

In the fourth quarter of Game 2, the Heat switched James onto Tony Parker, which had the effect of slowing down the Spurs' ball movement dramatically and also taking away shot opportunities in the key. The Spurs scored just 90 points per 100 possession in the quarter, down from their 164 points per 100 possession unconscious surge in Game 1, which would have been somehow even higher if not for an uncharacteristic four turnovers.

Spoelstra and Popovich have made a series of adjustments over a period of several years to get to this point of sophistication in their offense and as this series advances into Game 3, their ability to find viable Plans B and C will be the difference with these two teams so evenly matched.

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