Who is the main Culprit in Miami?

[marinmarin]

So who would you blame as a person who is guilty for failure of Heat?

My chice is LeBron James.He is not guilty himself.I just think that Heat will be better without him.Because Wade will be a superstar,Bosh perfect second star and money that they spend on Lebron they could spent to make more balanced team..

[jonthefon]

That dude selling peanuts in the stands is a replacement-level vendor. You just can't get away with having marginal talent at that position.

[marinmarin]

That dude selling peanuts in the stands is a replacement-level vendor. You just can't get away with having marginal talent at that position.

So you choose other?

[Fresh8]

No one is a culprit. It's just not working out for them right now but it's still early in the season.

However, if we really got to pick someone, let's go with either: Mike Miller or karma.

[Martti.]

Spoelstra.

[Bruce]

I was first thinking that heat management was to blame for not getting a better coach rather than the sophomore Spoelstra and they didn't get grittier players than arroyo, house and howard to help on defense. But finally I came to the conclusion that yes indeed LeBron was to blame, for making the Heat fans and management believe that he could really carry the franchise.

[Cleveland wins]

I think its a combination of things, the coach, not everybody can coach three superstars like Doc Rivers can, Lebron takes too many shots once again, Mike Miller has been out, miami has no bench especially since James Jones struggles too much and they have absolutely no big men.


Although the Eric Dampier signing was good, they don't have big men like the celtics or the magic have. The heat also don't have a point gaurd, like other good teams have. Biggest problem i think is the fact that the heat have no good big men though, only one shot blocker in Chris Bosh? They need more rebounding as well.

[koberulz]

James Jones struggles too much

How is Jones struggling? He's a shooter. His eFG% is a career high (and leads the entire team). His turnovers are a career low (also leading the entire team with the exception of Magloire and Dampier, who haven't played enough to count). His ORtg is second only to Magloire, who, again, hasn't really played enough to count. I'd love to be struggling as much as he is.

[Axel The Great]

Joel Anthony. He's not bringing out the greatness within.

On a serious note, the Heat lack interior defense, which has been said many times. Anthony can't do it himself, Z sucks, and Bosh isn't a good interior defender. I think Dampier was a great addition, maybe he can at least bring some interior defense for the Heat.

[Houndy]

Chris Bust has been struggling

[Andrew]

I'll say injuries. They've got two key bench players out with injury, one of whom has yet to play in the regular season; Wade's also nursing an injury to his left wrist.

[Lamrock]

So far, it's been LeBron. His play hasn't been bad, and I expect he will make the team pretty near unstoppable once things click, but as it is, he and Wade are awful fits with each other, not playing off one another. Granted, Spo's turrible offense may also be partially to blame.

Joel Anthony has always been a scrub, and the team's other Centers can't help but be corpses. Bosh has actually been fairly solid. Wade has been injured, and had to adjust to going from the team's only good player to playing next to the best player in the world.

[[Q]]

mike miller

[kevin02]

Lequit James. Everything that goes wrong is his fault.

[Andrew]

Wojnarowski's latest column suggests that LeBron's attitude has a lot to answer for and alleges that he's clumsily trying to shift the blame.

Even within a month of the season’s sideways 9-8 start, the NBA witnessed a predictable play out of the James-Maverick Carter playbook on Monday morning. They planted a story and exposed themselves again as jokers of the highest order. They care so little about anyone but themselves. Still, no one’s surprised that they’d stoop so low, so fast into this supposed historic 73-victory season and NBA Finals sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers. They want Spoelstra – and Pat Riley – to bend to them, to bow to the King the way everyone has before them.

Nevertheless, here’s what was surprising – even troubling – when the Heat talked on Monday before a victory over the Washington Wizards: In the blink of an eye, Dwyane Wade signed up with Team LeBron to scapegoat and sell out Spoelstra.

“I’m not going to say he’s ‘my guy,’ but he’s my coach,” Wade said.

Wade’s always been loyal, and that’s why it was so surprising to witness him bail this fast on Spoelstra, whom Wade knows too well. Spoelstra is a good NBA coach. Everyone knows that Wade isn’t a star who plays hard all the time, knows that he takes plays off on defense. They know that Spoelstra did a terrific job coaching 90 victories out of that flawed Miami roster the previous two seasons.

The fundamental problem for Spoelstra isn’t that James doesn’t respect coaches – he doesn’t respect people. Give LeBron this, though: He’s learned to live one way with the television light on, and another with it off. He treats everyone like a servant, because that’s what the system taught him as a teenage prodigy. To James, the coach isn’t there to mold him into the team dynamic. He’s there to serve him.

Wade was one of the Team USA players who’d watch incredulously as James would throw a bowl of fries back at a renowned chef and bark, “They’re cold!” Or throw his sweaty practice jersey across the court and command a team administrator to go pick it up. Everyone wants James to grow out of it, but he’s never showed much of an inclination for self-examination and improvement. And he’s never surrounded himself with people who’d push him to do so.

What’s more, the timing of this leak was no accident, because James and his business manager had to like the idea of someone else going on trial this week. When the public wanted to talk about James’ return to Cleveland, about the callous way with which he left, about the disjointed start in Miami, they thrust everything onto Spoelstra.

[Alpha_]

Spoelstra.

Agree!

[dare]

Nice article, so far for me it's a little bit of Lebron and Spoelstra. Lebron should be a leader, the team USA work because they have Kidd and Bryant to lead them. Now Lebron and Wade should grow up and be a leader. As for Spoelstra his should adjust his style I read in some article that he is being very strict to his players.

[[Q]]

in hindsight, they should have kept beasley and saved 10 million from signing bosh and then sign a center or other people with that 10 million.

[Martti.]

My favorite scenario - sign Bosh, re-sign Wade, don't sign LeBron, sign Korver, Dorell Wright, Haywood, Steve Blake.

Haywood/Anthony
Bosh/Haslem
Wright/Korver
Wade/Jones
Blake/Chalmers

I think it's well balanced. With this, the Heat wouldn't suck and they won't be under the constant public eye, criticized for every move they make etc..

[Jackal]

But Miami has King James, he's the motherfucking King!

[Murat]

I voted for other. The culprit is Riley as well. He could sign only one superstar. If I'd be Riley, I would sign 1 superstar, and that would be LeBron. Other signing? No. I'd let Beasley staying at there. Even he looks like Delonte West. I could sign him too.

[Cleveland wins]

My favorite scenario - sign Bosh, re-sign Wade, don't sign LeBron, sign Korver, Dorell Wright, Haywood, Steve Blake.

Haywood/Anthony
Bosh/Haslem
Wright/Korver
Wade/Jones
Blake/Chalmers

I think it's well balanced. With this, the Heat wouldn't suck and they won't be under the constant public eye, criticized for every move they make etc..

That's what i've been talking about, the heat should have signed Korver, Wright would have been nice as well.

[Modifly]

I think it has something to do with the talent in the team being overloaded and the coach cant really handle it.

[Valor]

My favorite scenario - sign Bosh, re-sign Wade, don't sign LeBron, sign Korver, Dorell Wright, Haywood, Steve Blake.

Go to hell, Korver's ours, Steve Blake belongs to LA and Haywood is a decent fit in Dallas

You can keep your queen james

[Jackal]

It's hilarious watching/reading/talking to Heat fans as of late.