Miami Heat Thread

[SoF'nAwesome]

I'm happy it was the Pistons and not the Bulls.

Nobody to blame, our shots didn't fall & theirs did, insanely...

[NovU]

I blame the Heat for being midgets. The Pistons just sized them up and took it.

[shadowgrin]

Wade didn't play, he's afraid of Drummond pwning him again. Again. And again.

[NovU]

*shudders

Why no hack-a-drum more? He only shot 6 making only 2. And is shooting 32% for the season. Sombody man up and HACCCK A DRRRUM PLZZ

[shadowgrin]

Because teams don't want Drummond to improve his FT shooting if he gets hacked enough. Especially with COACH SHEED training him in practice. You hack him in important games like playoffs.

[SoF'nAwesome]

Hmm...so REASONS: Battier playing, Wade & Andersen not playing. LeBron having an off game.

Let's leave it at that and completely IGNORE the fact that The Miami Heat are 1-6 at the United Center in the regular season since the 2010-11 season.

I don't get why Wade didn't play though.

[Andrew]

Even so, given the Bulls' struggles and injury woes, I was expecting the Heat to come roaring back in the second half. As is so often the case with great teams, 12-15 point deficits usually seem meaningless to them, even when they're not at 100%. Instead, I'll suggest that two straight losses to unexpected opponents will now be followed by another double digit winning streak, after all the analysts get through their obligatory "Are the Heat in trouble?" discussions, of course.

[_Steve_]

I think this is pretty much what Jalen Rose and Bill Simmons were talking about in their regular season preview: the road to three-peat is an exhausting one. Just look how many games e.g. LBJ hast played since 2010 (including the olympic summer games). It seems as if the Heat just want to get into the post season without any major casualties. Plus they don't have a ultra-competitive player who just refuses to lose likeMJ or Kobe.

[NovU]

It seems as if the Heat just want to get into the post season without any major casualties. Plus they don't have a ultra-competitive player who just refuses to lose likeMJ or Kobe.

Hope that's what it is. 3peating Jordan's Bulls' team also won less each season, 72 to 69 to 62. The more recent Shaq's Lakers follows not entirely same narrative but... 67 to 57 to 58.

Anything over 55 wins, I will take it w/o complaints.

[SoF'nAwesome]

Seriously homie? Over 55? Come on. At least it should be 62+

[Jackal]

Yeah homie, it's LBJ & WADE CITY UP IN HURRR! Anything under 62 is just a throw away season.

[NovU]

I love you guys.

[SoF'nAwesome]

I was actually missing the presence of my dearest friend IN HEAT in this thread. PLZ visit more man. Your post rate has decreased in the past couple of weeks

[_Steve_]

It seems as if the Heat just want to get into the post season without any major casualties. Plus they don't have a ultra-competitive player who just refuses to lose like MJ or Kobe.

Hope that's what it is. 3peating Jordan's Bulls' team also won less each season, 72 to 69 to 62. The more recent Shaq's Lakers follows not entirely same narrative but... 67 to 57 to 58.

Anything over 55 wins, I will take it w/o complaints.

Yeah, I actually thought about the '98 Bulls when I wrote that. If they don't have that kind of run like they had last season (and if they can avoid injuries to key players), 55-60 wins should be realistic.

[SoF'nAwesome]

Pacers coming up. Wade will probably play.

"I'm encouraged by how he looks physically," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "That's the most important thing. He's going to get better and quicker as the season goes on. We want to be very diligent and judicious early on to make sure he's taking forward steps instead of backward steps."

BTW, guys Pacers coming off a defeat are still the favorites against Heat in the probable ECF matchup? I mean Heat is at its worst time of the season so far...and LeBron is saying it's just another regular season matchup:

"Obviously, everybody is going to make it as a marquee game on Tuesday but I don't really get too much involved in regular season matchups, especially early in December. They're a great team right now, the way they're playing basketball. We're trying to get healthy, trying to get to our full potential. We'll see what we can do. We look forward to the opportunity to go in and play them on Tuesday but it's not like it's a statement game for us."

[Andrew]

I doubt they'll approach the game that way behind closed doors. I'd say it's a fair comment for him to make publicly.

[SoF'nAwesome]

It seems we lost a Heat fan to Wiggins.

On a serious note, Pacers weren't even <i>that</i> good today. Yet Heat lost. LeBron held below 20 after 11 games. Sigh.

[NovU]

The Pacers were horrid. The Heat were even more horrid.

- The Pacers were turning over ball like they were tanking for Wiggins too but what looked like an easy transition basket(Heat's strength) opportunity, the Heat made nothing out of them.
- Board Board Board! Couple that with no interior defense. It's always the same against these size-u-up gorilla teams like the Pacers. Heat are banking on Oden to be the difference here. And I tell you that is SAD.

My fantasy league team has better chance at 3peat than these goons.

[benji]

MIAMI—Saying that the organization must make some serious changes in order to do justice to its impassioned fan base, supporters of the Miami Heat told reporters Friday that they are becoming increasingly frustrated with the team’s failure to win a single championship since June.

“For this team to have gone a full six months without a victory in the NBA Finals is simply unacceptable,” said self-proclaimed Heat diehard Liam Sikes, noting that the team has played close to a dozen games this season without having won it all even once. “What’s it going to take for these guys to wake up and return the hardware to Miami where it belongs? A title drought like this one is just plain embarrassing.”

“We deserve better,” Sikes added.

The team’s attentive, devoted, and well-informed fans, who characterized the Heat’s recent failures as the most shameful in the franchise’s illustrious 70-year history, complained that the organization had lost the winning spirit that made its memorable 2010 championship run possible. Many of these same fans ascribed the team’s decline to a lack of motivation, noting that it took the Heat until October to even play their first game this season.

Others reportedly condemned the leadership shortcomings of head coach Derek Spoelstra.

However, a faction of Heat supporters placed the blame on the team’s current roster, suggesting that perhaps a personnel upgrade is needed to give the team a chance at winning a third title.

“We need to sign LeBron,” said Miami resident Omar Santos, noting that current starters Shaquille O’Neal, Antoine Walker, and Pat Riley “aren’t getting the job done.” “Or if we can’t get LeBron, we should at least try to land a solid power center that can play a full 60 minutes every night. These nobodies they’ve got right now just aren’t cutting it.”

“Everyone’s going to have to bear down and make some serious baskets if they want to win another cup,” Santos continued.

While some Heat fans suggested that the team could perhaps regain some of its former glory were it to build a new stadium, all were adamant that nothing short of a championship victory would suffice, indicating that the team would have to win at least one title within the next few weeks in order to keep their supporters interested.

“We cheer their names, buy their jerseys, and take photos of ourselves at the games, and for what?” said Heat season ticket holder Isaiah Stroud, noting that the two periods he watched of the team’s Tuesday non-title-winning matchup against the Atlanta Pacers were “disgraceful.” “If they want to keep us around, they’re going to have to show us another NDA Championship. It’s just that simple.”

“You know, if this keeps up, I’ll start following the Orlando Magic, just you watch,” Stroud continued. “Now there’s a team that cares about winning.”

[Andrew]

On the bright side, they play the reigning champion Utah Jazz in a couple of days. Unfortunately, the Jazz play the Spurs tomorrow.

[SoF'nAwesome]

Is that from The Onion?

[NovU]

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/20 ... -crawford/

Miami Heat Reportedly Interested in Jordan Crawford


With rumors surfacing around the Heat looking to acquire backcourt depth, “a few GMs” now believe that the Heat will target the Celtics’ Jordan Crawford, according to the New York Daily News‘ Mitch Lawrence:

Miami is looking to deal for a young wing player who can score and take some of the load off Dwyane Wade. A few GMs have identified Boston’s Jordan Crawford as a player the Heat will go after in the coming days/weeks.

LoL

Jordan Crawford is one of the finest Celtics that bleeds green, dies green. The (c)Heat can try but is not going to work. We are the Celtics.

[_Steve_]

It would be interesting to see which players the Heat would offer to aquire Jordan Crawford...

[NovU]

For JC caliber player, I'd say we can't settle anything less than Dwyane Wade or Chris Bosh. Maybe LeBrick but I don't think we the Celtics want that choker in green.

[Andrew]

The Heat are searching for backcourt depth? I'd have thought they'd be pretty comfortable with their rotation in that regard.