Dwade's Best season yet? (08-09)

[mynameisgerd]

Yeah! After those severe injuries, Wade's totally back and definitely hungry for another title, he's averaging 28.5 PPG and almost two blocks per game. And recently, he scored 40 pts, and the next game after that, he scored 38 pts, and a career high of 5 blocks, so you can really tell he's quite healthy this season. But as we can see, the Heat isn't doing well! Shawn Marion is there, Michael Beasley is there and of course, Dwade himself. What might be the cause of the Heat's disastrous start?

[Modifly]

Chemistry? Watching the way they play, they're definitely out of zinc. They got the talent in Marion, Wade and Beasley, but unless they start to play like Boston and share the job they'd never advance further.

[erik_twism]

Miami has a bad start because they are a bad team. Wade is definetly a superstar but that´s it. Marion (12;9;2)isn´t haveing a great season (he´s not a sun anymore).Beasley need´s time to become a star (he has the talent but isn´t a star yet)
It get´s worse if you look at the supporting cast.
-a 2nd round rookie at the pg (even though he is quite good, he definetly is not an elite guard)
-a small starting center in Haslem
-and a bench with players like Diawara, Blount and Banks...

The Heat are a Superstar + little else (at least for now)

[Andrew]

Agreed. Despite Wade's best efforts, the Heat are still largely as a unit and in terms of several of their players as individuals, so success is probably coming later rather than sooner. It's cice to see Wade healthy again and turning in some great performances though.

[diddy]

my man playing like a beast, thanks God! but we need Zo to comeback and James Jones too, and i thinks thinks will be fine, cuz B-easy develops so far and chalmers showed he has some moves. shawn marion must stay with the Heat and by the end of the season we will have nice chemistry, mark my words!

[erik_twism]

They have a long way to go to become a good team. Zo would help them a bit, but he is not the youngest and he won´t give you 30+ minutes. Let´s face it, with Wade you can win every game but with the the supporting cast it´s more likely that you loose more than you win.

[mynameisgerd]

We can never tell what's going to happen in the next few months of this season. They might have started the season badly, but who knows? they might improve their execution and make a hell of a team! But as of now, they need to improve not as an individual player, but as a whole team.

[erik_twism]

The Heat are currently the 8th seed, I guess they would be more than happy if that would be the case at the end of the season.
If you just look at the players and last years production you would see that Bos, Cle, Orl, Det are out of reach for the Heat.
Atl, Tor, Phi also have a star (or more) and better role players and a deeper bench. So I see Mia batteling for the 8th spot with Ind, Chi, Mil.

[Andrew]

my man playing like a beast, thanks God! but we need Zo to comeback and James Jones too, and i thinks thinks will be fine, cuz B-easy develops so far and chalmers showed he has some moves. shawn marion must stay with the Heat and by the end of the season we will have nice chemistry, mark my words!

I don't know if Zo could help them all that much right now. If he's fully recovered then he'd probably be capable of giving them some productive minutes but probably not enough to push them to great heights.

[bowdown]

They are too small and have bad players. Marion has missed several games.

[NovU]

Beasley needs to rebound better and be more consistent and the Heat is going to do ok this year. He needs to pick up from his average of 14+reb from college days. However right now, front court is too weak to compete against almost any teams in the nba. If they can improve via trades, I think they will make a playoff this year. It's good to see old Dwayne Wade back. It was about time he plays season healthy ffs.

[Andrew]

They are too small and have bad players. Marion has missed several games.

They have some really good players too. No team in the league is an All-Star roster top to bottom, after all.