I didn't get to watch the game real time as it conflicted with other long standing prior commitments. I did avoid the score until I got to watch it much later that night.
My first impression was that Mike Miller got too many minutes. He is good for 12 minutes or so a night, 20 is too much for him. The Spurs beat him a few times on his slow rotations for a handful of threes. Look back at some of those big threes for the Spurs and it was Miller late on the closeout. He needs more spot duty unless he is absolutely on fire.
Leonard drew Lebron and didn't get too many looks from his spot:
http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/64659/courtvision-how-the-heat-and-spurs-score
Green played weakside, didn't draw Lebron, and was able to get quite a few of his favorite shots.
Bosh and Wade played ok, took quite a few shots, and weren't extraordinarily efficient at it. They posed a threat and kept the Spurs defense from collapsing too much on Lebron. That will pay dividends throughout the series. At some point the Heat will get out of their missing wide open threes funk right? FTs were a huge factor again as they shot poorly (was it game 2 or 4 in the ECF they did the same thing?).
Reviewing the shot chart for the game, you can see the Heat got into the paint in fourth and weren't able to finish. They also missed ALL (all!) of their outside jumpers that quarter.
Cole is able to harass Parker more than Chalmers. I'd keep upping his minutes until he proves that to be a mistake.
Duncan missed a ton of open jumpers, especially early. Both teams shot uncharacteristically poorly. It wasn't so much the defense as wide open shots were clanked. A tight game throughout, but not the sharpest for either side. I'm looking forward to game two and hopefully some better play from both sides.
A big thank you goes out to the refs who let them play for the most part and kept fouls and FTs to a minimum. Good job also on keeping consistent with the Duncan blocking call and the Battier blocking call. Both could have gone either way and both were called the same way. What a refreshing change of pace from the last series.
Lastly, I find it odd that Duncan can't the the same calls/respect from the refs as Hibbert. WTF? The whole verticality thing is absurd, mostly in that nobody else in the league gets the benefit of that call besides Hibbert. Duncan was as "set" as Hibbert ever was on that blocking call.