Dwyane Wade near triple double vs Atlanta Hawks game 3 2009 NBA Playoffs
MIAMI(AP) Dwyane Wade swished a 3-pointer, then turned and shook his hand like it was burning. Yep, Wade and the Miami Heat are that hot right now. Wade finished with 29 points and eight assists, Jermaine O’Neal added 22 points and 10 rebounds, and the Heat extended Atlanta’s decade-plus road playoff drought, beating the Hawks 107-78 Saturday night in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round matchup. It was over early: Atlanta missed 17 of its first 19 shots, and a 25-6 Heat run to end the first half pushed the lead to 50-29. “We knew there would be a lot of energy in the building, so we played off that early,” Wade said. “And defensively we came out very tough.” Josh Smith, Al Horford and Mike Bibby scored 13 apiece for Atlanta, which is 0-12 in road playoff games since May 8, 1997, losing all but one by at least 10 points. The Heat lead the series 2-1 and host Game 4 Monday night. “No more excuses,” Horford said. “We’re going to have to bring it fuego on Monday.” When teams split the first two games of an NBA series, the Game 3 winner advances 76 percent of the time. And in recent years, the edge has been even more pronounced – of the last 27 series that were tied at 1-1, the Game 3 winner ultimately prevailed on 22 occasions. That’s a bad sign for the Hawks. “By any means, we’re not out of it,” Hawks coach Mike Woodson said. “But we can’t come out and give effort like we did tonight. I just thought the Heat did everything that they were supposed to do and we …