As a Heat fan, today I’m disappointed in my team.
I’m listening to talk radio and what not and everybody is missing the point here about yesterdays game. Heat got OUT hustled, OUT toughed and OUT coached. A lot of people have been criticizing Bosh all season, but Bosh has balled out vs Boston. LBJ has balled out vs Boston and shut Pierce down. Only person who has yet to do anything vs Boston is D-Damn-Wade.
When LBJ went out in the 2nd qtr and the offense was run by Wade, dude had a ton of just really bad turnovers. Unforced, undisciplined, just really careless turnovers. He couldn’t even get the team into an offense. 6-17 from the field and all of those turnovers, those look like Mo Williams numbers vs the Celtics. I’m sure Lebron didn’t sign up to play with a $100 million version of Mo Williams. The Heat CANNOT beat Boston without the Big 3 all playing well.
Yeah the refs sucked but that’s how it goes in Boston. It’s always going to be a more physical style of ball in Boston. If the Heat can’t handle that then they’re soft and don’t deserve to win. But that’s why u play hard in the regular season so you can get homecourt advantage in the playoffs.
Now there were 2 non-calls on LBJ that were 2 of the worst I’ve ever seen. The KG one and then on an offensive rebound Pierce just straight up grabbed LBJ with two hands. Unreal how there wasn’t a foul called on either play but Big Baby was getting calls like he was Patrick Ewing in the post, get da f*ck outta here lol but this is the style you gotta play to beat them in Boston. LA has done it and the Heat need to figure out how to do it.
As for coaching, Boston starts pressuring LBJ with Rondo full court. If I’m coaching, I say to Doc Rivers: You put Rondo on LBJ, we make you pay. Why let them dictate the pace of the game by allowing rondo to pressure the ball? If u see him on LBJ let Mike Miller handle, Eddie House, anybody and you throw LBJ into the post and punish that little bastard.
Also, I know Miami fans love the Warden but his offensive game is in solitary confinement. He should not be on the floor in late game offensive situations. KG basically let that dude run free. If you don’t go with Big Z at center then go small and have Bosh at Center and LBJ at pf because Joel Anthony is no threat offensively. Wasn’t like he was stopping anybody anyway, Perkins had a great game and Big Baby came off the bench and punked the Heat too.
At the end of the day, James missed a ft, Miller missed a wide open 3, but I’m looking at D-Wade for this.
When is he going to step up and stop letting Boston punk him???
BTW shout out to Big Baby for giving me some type of comic relief during an otherwise crappy Heat performance
