(My Sportsbook) - A rare postseason road win on Monday got the Hawks back into their Eastern Conference quarterfinals series with Miami Heat. Now, the scene shifts back to Atlanta for a pivotal Game 5.

The Hawks evened the series at two games apiece when Zaza Pachulia led a powerful charge with 12 points and 18 rebounds, and Atlanta won its first road playoff game since 1997, beating Miami, 81-71.

Mike Bibby scored 15 and Joe Johnson tallied 14 points for the Hawks, who had lost their 12 previous postseason contests as the visitor. It was their first road victory in the playoffs since May 8, 1997 when the team beat Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinals.

"We switched the home-court advantage back to us. It's a three-game series now," said Bibby.

Josh Smith tallied 13 points, Flip Murray 11 and Maurice Evans 10 for Atlanta, which hasn't won a playoff series since 1999, against Detroit in the first round. Their last series triumph in a best-of-seven format came in 1970, in the West Division semifinals vs. Chicago.

Atlanta lost the previous two games of the series by a combined 44 points, but never trailed on Monday, even though the Hawks nearly let a 21-point lead get away in the first half. They hung on in the fourth quarter, to send the series back to Atlanta tied.

"Our energy was sky-high," said Hawks coach Mike Woodson. "I mean we played out of desperation, really. We didn't want to go back to Atlanta down 3-1."

Dwyane Wade battled back spasms and finished with 22 points and seven assists for the Heat, who also got 20 points from Jermaine O'Neal. James Jones notched 19 points, a playoff career-high, before fouling out in defeat.

"You could tell he wasn't himself tonight," Jones said of Wade. "I think any other player would have sat out, but it meant that much to him and us as well. When your captain is down, you have to try to step up and we just didn't do a good job of lifting him tonight."

Wade will be on the floor for Game 5 but the same can't be said for small forward Jamario Moon. The Heat announced that Moon will undergo surgery to repair a sports hernia on April 30 and will miss the rest of the postseason.

Moon, who was acquired by the Heat in the February trade that also brought them O'Neal from Toronto, is a crafty defender that could have helped against the high-scoring Johnson.

The Hawks, who finished the regular season at 47-35, their best mark since recording 50 victories in the 1997-98 season, are in the postseason for the second consecutive year. Atlanta put quite a scare into the eventual NBA champion Boston Celtics last season before faltering in the seventh game during the first round.

The Heat, meanwhile, haven't done much postseason-wise since winning their first NBA title in 2006. They were swept in four games in the first round the following year by the Chicago Bulls, then missed out last season after a lowly 15-67 campaign which was marred by injuries to Wade, who led the NBA in scoring this past season with 30.2 points per game.

These two teams have met in the postseason one time previously and the Hawks won that set, 3-2, in 1994.

Game 6 in the series is set for Friday back in Miami.