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2012 NBA Playoffs |OT2| OKC VS LA: Black on Black Crime

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Basileus777

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The Heat have terrible spacing with no one who can hit an outside shot. I don't know how you fix this shit offense unless players start making shots.
 
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GaimeGuy

Volunteer Deputy Campaign Director, Obama for America '16
Mxrz said:
I've always been of this mind. But you have to admit when Wade isn't sucking ass, the Heat can be pretty damn fun to watch with both of them. LeBron & Dwight would've been the league killing combo. But I'm biased, etc. But a dominate center with LeBron could've been a Magic - Kareem thing.
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well no shit, you put a bunch of scorers on a team, if they're all hot, the team's going to be fun to watch.

The problem is when most of the team goes cold, the other team can focus their efforts on the one guy who isn't cold, and that's the end of it.

If they're all cold, they're kind of fucked.

If you can put your team's best defenders on lebron and wade to keep them from slashing inside, or clog the paint with good 4 and 5 defenders (like boston), and turn the heat into a long range jump shooting team, you've pretty much won.

The heat are too one-dimensional. Even if you fill your roster up with wings like Mike Miller and Ray Allen, teams are going to defend you so that you're forced to be a 3 point jump shooting team, so you'll be playing right into your opponents' hands by embracing the 3 point shot instead of plugging up your holes and making your team more versatile.

You need a passer to find wade and bron while they're slashing, not for wade and brno to get the ball and slash. You need options to push the ball inside so your 1 2 and 3 spots aren't so tightly guarded.

You need to have a well-rounded team that feeds off of each other and and lift each other up, not leave each player up to his own devices to get himself out of a cold slump.

There's a reason the wolves fell apart this year without ricky rubio. It's basically the opposite situation of the heat. Without rubio, the open man doesn't get found, and the ball never finds its way to love, pekovic, williams, or any of the other 3-5s un-defended. You have to crash the paint and exhaust your players if you want to have a fighting chance. But it's too taxing on the bigs to effectively work the whole game.
 
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MiamiWesker

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Everything you guys have ever argued about this team... All the insults, all the "it will never work", all that hate... it has all come out in THIS GAME.

This is not like the Finals last year, we got beat by a team that played harder, that was just better on that series. This is a complete utter meltdown of this "team" or whatever that thing we have out there is. Luckily this is all fixable, we still have the skill to win, but it will take some character, some leadership, some of that stuff we are clearly horribly lacking to save us.
 
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DY_nasty

NeoGAF's official "was this shooting justified" consultant
BobLoblaw said:
How much of this ass kicking is due to Boshraptor being out? This is a serious question. I never thought they'd miss him this much. Damn.
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They routinely ignore Bosh throughout the season. He's not the reason their offense is slow.

Bosh isn't that good of a defender. Hibbert would still be going off.

He's not physical - Miami would still have it rough on the boards.

His absence is nothing more than an excuse. This Indy team could barely handle Orlando.
 
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ratcliffja

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Is this real? In the last 2 days, 3/4 Eastern Conference teams have passed 90 points... and the only one that hasn't is Miami. Strange days...
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
Larry Bird's Executive of the Year and Lebron's MVP announcement couldn't have come at a better time.
 
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PBY

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DY_nasty said:
They routinely ignore Bosh throughout the season. He's not the reason their offense is slow.

Bosh isn't that good of a defender. Hibbert would still be going off.

He's not physical - Miami would still have it rough on the boards.

His absence is nothing more than an excuse. This Indy team could barely handle Orlando.
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You can't be serious man.
 
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Basileus777

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GaimeGuy said:
If you can put your team's best defenders on lebron and wade to keep them from slashing inside, or clog the paint with good 4 and 5 defenders (like boston), and turn the heat into a long range jump shooting team, you've pretty much won.

The heat are too one-dimensional. Even if you fill your roster up with wings like Mike Miller and Ray Allen, teams are going to defend you so that you're forced to be a 3 point jump shooting team, so you'll be playing right into your opponents' hands by embracing the 3 point shot instead of plugging up your holes and making your team more versatile.
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Even that would be a significant improvement over what Miami has now. LeBron's Cavs had a noticeably better offense than Miami does.
 
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K.Jack

Knowledge is power, guard it well
reilo said:
Cavs fans, help me out here.

Which stage of grief are Heat fans going through right now?
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This part of the cycle goes "next game, LeBron is going to come out and beast these motherfuckers, next game..... next game"
 
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T Dollarz

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Heat will still win this series. This is the Pacers absolute peak, and they will not play nearly this well again. Heat, however, can not play much worse than they did tonight. I expect Miami to win the next three games.
 
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Omega

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So, will Bosh finally get the respect he deserves?

Not only from basketball fans, but from his own fucking coach?

Like I said when Bosh got injured. This team was going to lose even if Indy was struggling like they did in the first two games.
 
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CoffeeJanitor

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DY_nasty said:
They routinely ignore Bosh throughout the season. He's not the reason their offense is slow.

Bosh isn't that good of a defender. Hibbert would still be going off.

He's not physical - Miami would still have it rough on the boards.

His absence is nothing more than an excuse. This Indy team could barely handle Orlando.
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I disagree
 
The Chosen One

The Chosen One

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giri

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DY_nasty said:
They routinely ignore Bosh throughout the season. He's not the reason their offense is slow.

Bosh isn't that good of a defender. Hibbert would still be going off.

He's not physical - Miami would still have it rough on the boards.

His absence is nothing more than an excuse. This Indy team could barely handle Orlando.
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Thats not true at all. Bosh is invaluable to this Heat team. He's their only legitimate Big.

But it looks like fuck ball just fucked the heat in the ass.
 
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EvilMario

Will QA for food.
DY_nasty said:
They routinely ignore Bosh throughout the season. He's not the reason their offense is slow.

Bosh isn't that good of a defender. Hibbert would still be going off.

He's not physical - Miami would still have it rough on the boards.

His absence is nothing more than an excuse. This Indy team could barely handle Orlando.
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Bosh's effect would be mostly on the offensive end. Might get Hibbert away from the rim a bit more, spacing, could get him in foul trouble. Not saying it makes this much of a difference in a 20 point game, but it does make some difference.

But yeah, Miami is fucking stupid. They go into long streaks of shooting and missing threes for games at a time, and totally ignore Bosh.
 
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reilo

learning some important life lessons from magical Negroes
MiamiWesker said:
Everything you guys have ever argued about this team... All the insults, all the "it will never work", all that hate... it has all come out in THIS GAME.

This is not like the Finals last year, we got beat by a team that played harder, that was just better on that series. This is a complete utter meltdown of this "team" or whatever that thing we have out there is. Luckily this is all fixable, we still have the skill to win, but it will take some character, some leadership, some of that stuff we are clearly horribly lacking to save us.
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Where's the leadership gonna come from? Not from anyone in this GIF below...

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And we all know about Lebron's "leadership", aka the Reggie "Not My Problem" Fils-Aime strategy.

peterb0y said:
and hey the pacers avatars start showing up lol
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He's been around a lot longer than you have.
 
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