Miami is the best team in the NBA, but even though they have the best chance to win the title, the odds are greater that they will not. An injury or a bad couple of games in the playoffs or one superstar playing out of his mind will PROBABLY knock them out of the playoffs before they win a ring. I don't think people are discounting the Heat too much, but the reality is that NO team in the NBA nowadays can be considered likely to win the title. Ed O.
That's the problem when you make general statements. General statements are always wrong. I pretty much read the writing on the wall when all 3 went to Miami, and pretty much assume they will win the finals. The only way that won't happen, is if their supporting cast fucks up or the injury bug hits the team.
Miami or Orlando will probably win the East - Boston sucks. Why the doubters? Because so many of us are Team USA fans. We have fielded a team with superior talent since the original dream team, but we've lost plenty. Miami's saving grace over those Team USA teams will be that they have a whole season to gel. Of course, they are also much more sensitive to injury problems than other teams.
So the entire Heat team is going to do the powder nonsense before games for the smoking thing. Isn't smoking bad for you? How can they smoke and stay healthy at the same time? So many question, so little time.
"Address the post, and not the poster, please" barfo Minstrel, please delete your own post, for the advancement of the high-brow debate found here on a daily basis.
As long as they aren't x rated. Oh wait that was earlier this year. (Ok, Gregs pictures probably weren't X rated..)
I guess I'm one that's underrating them a bit. Partially because, if you listen to ESPN (standing for Egotistical Southbeach Players' Network) they're going to destroy the 96 Bulls mark of 72 wins and go fo' fo' fo' fo' to win the rings, and I don't think they'll come close to that. But as it's been said in here, their big play is a problem. My random bold prediction is that I think LBJ is going to be playing a lot more C and PF than PG or SF for MIA this year, and I wonder what it's going to do for his health and ease of play. Wade's a great player, LBJ is a great player, Bosh is a very good player, but I think they'll be exposed a bit by teams with good bigs and one perimeter stopper like ORL, BOS, LAL, HOU and us.
Why is everyone underrating them? Let's see: http://scores.espn.go.com/nba/boxscore?gameId=301021001 Their best player has 38 pts and is one of the top 10% overall best games in his career. Bosh has 14 pts and 14 boards. But Wade is injured as usual and their only other really threat Mike Miller is out for most of the season. So how did the rest of the team do with no interior defender in a D-leaguer named Joel Anthony and no PG to distribute the ball around in another borderline D-leaguer named Carl Arroyo. That leaves them getting it handed to them in the final minutes to lose by nearly double digits. Not quite the sign of a team about to win 60 games.
A shallow team that could really be, uh, hurt by injuries. They are still gonna be effing good, but Miller being out is inauspicious. Ed O.
