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the guys around Lebron and Wade are crap. No mention of it though
BW makes specific mention of how Miami crippled their ability to get role players because of the 3 superstar contracts.
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This team isn't that good, and it's crazy how they looked unbeatable during the regular season but when the opposition starts taking every possession seriously, and the transition points become a premium, they're just not that great.
I want to agree, I wish I could agree. But, Miami really is a team that can put the absolute clamps down on defense, keep a game close and has the scorers to put it away late, or blow a game open (if you don't watch your transition defense). I thought they'd have major troubles against SA or OKC, but with Bosh the Pacers wouldn't win this series.
Without Bosh though, the Indiana frontcourt players not only get to camp in the lane, which stops LeBron/Wade from getting easy shots, but they also get to 'rest' on defense.
I'm still expecting game4 (or 5) to have LeBron and/or Wade have one of those "can't miss mid-range shot" games and blow the doors off, but Indiana definitely has a chance this series now.
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this has become old hat for me. I have no real affinity towards them, but I cheered for them against the Bulls and Knicks in the 90s. Just insert Heat and hopefully the Celtics or 76ers and I'll roll with it.
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I do like the way they built their team... Reggie use to annoy me when I was growing up (looking back on him I really love watching him play) so I never really cared for them...
to be honest I like the Cavs and that's about it when it comes to basketball. I've probably watched a total of 10 min of the playoffs... I may watch more in the next couple rounds... or if there is an elimination game for the Heat.
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I'm hoping the thunder just finish LA off.
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the guys around Lebron and Wade are crap. No mention of it though
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This team isn't that good, and it's crazy how they looked unbeatable during the regular season but when the opposition starts taking every possession seriously, and the transition points become a premium, they're just not that great.
I want to agree, I wish I could agree. But, Miami really is a team that can put the absolute clamps down on defense, keep a game close and has the scorers to put it away late, or blow a game open (if you don't watch your transition defense). I thought they'd have major troubles against SA or OKC, but with Bosh the Pacers wouldn't win this series.
Without Bosh though, the Indiana frontcourt players not only get to camp in the lane, which stops LeBron/Wade from getting easy shots, but they also get to 'rest' on defense.
I'm still expecting game4 (or 5) to have LeBron and/or Wade have one of those "can't miss mid-range shot" games and blow the doors off, but Indiana definitely has a chance this series now.
Well, obviously outside of BW, he's always on top of things and he usually tells it like it is.
I dunno, I just watch what OKC and the Spurs and I think any team that gets out of the East is going to be in deep trouble.
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Unfortunately we're not out of the woods yet. Lebron and Wades greatness can turn this into a 2-2 series. Indiana needs to treat game 4 like it's a game 7.
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This might be the most important game 4 of a 2nd round series ever. Haters are ready to pounce in a fashion that has yet to be experienced by anyone. This might be the 2012 people warned us about. 
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This might be the most important game 4 of a 2nd round series ever. Haters are ready to pounce in a fashion that has yet to be experienced by anyone. This might be the 2012 people warned us about.
unless Wade is really injured, he is due for a big game. just law of averages. Paul George is a good defender, but Wade has missed alot of open shots. he starts hitting those and it frees up more room for LeBron, and all of a sudden the Heat can score.
now, that doesn't mean they will win the series, but I think either in game4 or game5 they manage to win pretty easily.
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I agree unfortunately. Wade is too damn good to struggle again. Remember Cavs fans coming soon... 
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not sure what is funnier.
A. Kyrie's commercial
B. Bill Simmon's mocking the "super team" formation of Miami and pointing to the Celtics as a shining beacon
C. the 76ers having a 50% chance of being in this year's ECF
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D. Metta World Artest dropping a knee on Russell Westbrook
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To be fair the Celtics have built their team through their own assets, while the Heat were assembled because two guys wanted to play in a certain city.
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Yeah. Dubious as the Celtics big 3's convergence may be, that was done by team execs on both sides of the equation.
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E. Pacers and 76ers in the ECF.
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yes, exec's that happened to play together and done for the benefit of the team they won championships with and caused the GM to be removed from his post shortly after said trade.
and yes, that above paragraph could be said similarly for the Lakers as well.
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Like I said, it was dubious. It wasn't, however, player-initiated. At least not as far as I'm aware.
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yeah, I guess I just view them as the same because either way they rigged the system.
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You can't help but get the feeling that the Lakers escaped with one tonight. OKC either took a dumb shot or just missed a wide open shot in the last 4 minutes or so. They gave the game away. They don't seem like they respect the Lakers much. Bryant has to work so hard to get his shot.
This is the token Laker win for the series. Hopefully it's the last one.
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not sure what is funnier.
A. Kyrie's commercial
B. Bill Simmon's mocking the "super team" formation of Miami and pointing to the Celtics as a shining beacon
C. the 76ers having a 50% chance of being in this year's ECF
The worst part about B is that it worked out, and now we have to hear from obnoxious Celtics fans about how Paul Pierce is this great hall of famer and blah blah blah.
Paul Pierce is really good but he was a guy on a bad team racking up a ton of points and not doing anything in the playoffs. If he wasn't on the Celtics with their history and with the Boston media, he probably wouldn't be considered for a hall of fame spot, at least not an immediate shoe-in. (You can probably say the same for a ton of Chicago Bears, the Chicago media thinks everyone who was half good that played for the Bears should be a first ballot HOF)
There was just as much shadiness with Garnett getting to Boston.
Could you imagine had Ray Allen stuck not gone to BOS? No championship in 2008, and I believe OKC traded him for the pick that netted Jeff Green.
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webbagio NBA Rob Oller commentary: Fans can’t get enough of James’ misfortune LeBron James and the short-handed Heat are in danger of more playoff disappointment. LeBron James and the short-handed Heat are in danger of more playoff disappointment. Saturday May 19, 2012 5:39 AM The Downtown parking-lot attendant came running up, arms waving and tongue wagging, heading straight for a Dispatch employee who thought he had done something wrong. The only one at fault, it turns out, was a certain Miami Heat basketball player. “LeBron, LeBron,” the attendant yelled, unable to contain his glee that LeBron James was on the losing end of another NBA playoff game. Warms the heart, doesn’t it? Even in our now-it’s-here, now-it’s-gone news cycle, James remains on the front page of our minds for the way — by misguided public pronouncement — he took his talents to South Beach. And also for his continuing failure to take his talents to the fourth quarter of playoff games. Nothing quite unites an angry crowd like watching a dethroned ruler paraded through the streets in the back of a straw cart. James was royalty in Cleveland, a king with his court. Now, with the Heat trailing the Indiana Pacers 2-1 in an Eastern Conference semifinal series, even parking-lot attendants toss rotten eggs and cabbage. Delicious, isn’t it? In classic guilt by association, the disdain for James extends to the Heat, which two years ago — pre-LeBron — was just another nondescript team. Miami housed Dwyane Wade, a likable star lauded for giving maximum effort on a minimally talented team. Otherwise, the team was transparent. Then James arrived, joined by arthropodal Chris Bosh, and Wade went from popular to punk. LeBron’s mere presence poisoned the aquamarine waters off Miami Beach. It was Wade the whiner who showed up Thursday in Indianapolis, where the Pacers put a hurting on the Heat 94-75, displaying a power game that Miami does not possess, especially with Bosh on the bench because of an abdominal strain. Wade winced when calls went against him and scrunched his face into other adolescent expressions as the Heat went tepidly into the night. How much of Wade’s waah-waah-ing is tied to the James influence is hard to say, but there is a connection. James is not a bad guy, but he makes poor judgments. As much as the Decision rubbed to a blister, the choice to check out mentally in Game 5 of the 2010 Eastern Conference semifinals against Boston was more disappointing. That inexcusable action can be linked to a soft, nonkiller attitude that is systemic in James, which means Wade likely has picked up on it and might be practicing it. More certain, Wade’s game has lost some of its class and glamour, not to mention its urgency, thanks to his higher-profile teammate. The ball in James’ hands means it is not in Wade’s, a problem for a player who is most effective when creating off the dribble.Barring a trade, the problem might be unsolvable. Anti-Heat fans can only hope it to be so. Wade and James do not work perfectly well together, particularly without Bosh to open the lane. Miami might well rally to win this series, and it is not beyond belief that a championship still can be had. But without Bosh, and lacking a Steve Nash-type point guard who can distribute the wealth evenly, it is going to take the Heat’s making shots to counterpunch its way past the Pacers, who have the audacity to believe that it takes five players, not three, to win. Outside shooting is an issue with the Heat. Neither James nor Wade is an excellent shooter, and Miami is 5 of 42 from three-point range in the series. And always hanging over the Heat’s head is how James closes down when games get close at the end. But enough of the why and how of Miami’s troubles. All that concerns the jilted fans who cry betrayal at the mention of James’ name is that the Heat goes down — the harder, the better. For these NBA playoffs, the interest is not so much in who might win it all, but in who should lose it all: James and the Heat. Rob Oller is a sports reporter for The Dispatch. Bahahahaaa!!!!
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Could you imagine had Ray Allen stuck not gone to BOS? No championship in 2008, and I believe OKC traded him for the pick that netted Jeff Green.
you are correct, but at least Ainge felt bad about that one and gifted them back Perkins for Green.
wait, Ainge actually thought Green would be better for his youth rebuild efforts? really?
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I don't care how talented Westbrook is. I would take Kyrie over him in a heart beat. At least Kyrie isn't a selfish ball hog.
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I don't care how talented Westbrook is. I would take Kyrie over him in a heart beat. At least Kyrie isn't a selfish ball hog.
There's a short list of guys playing right now that I'd take over Kyrie, he's definitely not one of them, and the more I think about it, Lebron isn't either.
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Come on Pacers, GO FOR THE KILL! 
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LBJ and Wade are single handily beating these guys
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Refs might as well just call a foul on a random Pacer player as soon as they get across the time line.
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Too bad for Indiana, but when you're playing 5 on 8, there's not much you can do.
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I have heard of touch fouls ....... but there were "breath" fouls in that game. 
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I don't care how talented Westbrook is. I would take Kyrie over him in a heart beat. At least Kyrie isn't a selfish ball hog.
there is not a player in the league i would take over Kyrie, even if Kyrie is not as good as them. the thing is, he will be as great as any of them, and he already loves Cleveland
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there is not a player in the league i would take over Kyrie, even if Kyrie is not as good as them. the thing is, he will be as great as any of them, and he already loves Cleveland
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All the big goofy white guys from UNC blow it in the nba.
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Things I've learned from Charles Barkley about San Antonio:
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•"Victoria is NOT a secret in San Antonio. They wear bloomers not Victoria Secret. That place is a gold mine for weight watchers"
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