Sometime in the very near future (like mid-June) we might be talking about "remember when we all thought the Heat weren't going to be able to beat the Celtics?" or "remember when we all thought the Bulls would dominate the Heat like they did in the regular season?" and maybe most surprisingly "remember when everyone thought Chris Bosh was a big pussy who didn't belong on the same court as the other two guys, and will get eaten alive by Carlos Boozer and Joakim Noah?". Oh, how naive we all were. Chris Bosh (up there literally taking a back seat to LeBron) continued to be the best player on the court in this series (his one off game, the team won anyway), barely missing a shot after the first quarter and the Bulls continued to look awful offensively.
A lot of credit for Bosh's sudden manliness has gone to Boozer's pre-series dismissal of him, and you have to think there's some truth to that, since he's playing as aggressive as I've ever seen him play. Whatever the reason for his awakening, the Bulls better figure some way quick to stop him. Then again, once they figure Bosh out, there's those other 2 guys. If the Heat big 3 experiment has taught us anything this season, it's that you really can win with 3 guys. You don't need a superstar coach like Phil Jackson to manage the personalities, or a top-notch point guard to run the show, or even a Steve Kerr or Robert Horry clutch bomber. You get 2 of the greatest players of all time and a very good player and you might just win the whole damn thing. Take that, haters.
With every win, Miami is revolutionizing professional basketball. While that "We Did It" bullshit up there originally looked as appropriate as Bush's "Mission Accomplished" sign, it's beginning to look more and more like this team is going to win it all. Easily. Even if LeBron or Wade aren't Jordan (who's unparalleled greatness alongside Pippen gets most of the credit for those thinly talented Bulls team's success), and the supporting cast is still terrible, it doesn't mean a thing. If you stop LeBron, you have Wade, and if you stop him, you have Bosh. The odds of all 3 having off games is minuscule. All those experts who declared the Heat's struggles as justification for real team basketball are going to be proved wrong by the 3 player team that's too good for all of the old school "play the right way" teams or even any team that's ever picked up a basketball anywhere in the world. You're always taught that a team is only as good as the sum of it's parts, a team that plays together as a team with reasonable talent will beat the superstar laden team, etc, etc. The Heat are going to prove all of that mumbo jumbo to be loser talk; stuff coaches of weakling, ordinary teams tell their pedestrian, non-superstar players to get them to believe that the big bullies don't always win. After LeBron and Wade shove the Bulls' faces in the toilets, they'll move on to stuffing Nowitzki in a locker. Basketball will never be the same.
If its Dallas vs Miami in the Finals, I think Dallas has better shot then they did in 2006.
ReplyDeleteI don't know. Miami would have home court and this Heat team is actually better than that one, even with only 3 guys.
ReplyDeleteI agree the 2010 Heat team is better then the 2006 at those 3 positions but Dallas's bench this year is so much better. In 2006 they took When Dirk didn't have a good game there wasn't much to fall back on, now their bench is so much better.
ReplyDeleteInitially, I didn't really see a difference between what the Heat did and the Celtics, but after reading this again, I think I get it.
ReplyDeleteI think that you're suggesting the difference is that the Heat don't have supporting cast that the Celtics do. Curious to know if you have any more to add or if I completely misunderstood you.
The Heat don't have the supporting cast that the Celtics did when they won a title, or the great point guard that the Celts have in Rondo. It's really just 3 guys in Miami.
ReplyDelete@Blacky, the Celtics didn't combine 3 players considered to be one of the top ten players in the league, who after being assembled on one team claimed "it's going to be easy" and made a reference to winning multiple back to back titles.
ReplyDeleteMaking comments like that pisses in the face of the basketball Gods and makes most fans pissed off.
There are also the shitty fans. The ones who could care less about basketball and have all jumped on the band wagon. The same ones who will not pay to see a playoff game. Tonight's game is still not sold out and you can get a standing room ticket for just over 60 bucks. Really awesome fans huh?
In the end the spirit and the game is the real winner.
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