It's May 02, 2024, 02:13:20 PM
Total Members Voted: 11
yeah i don't understand.when we got swept by the mavs 2011 i didn't blame "tiredness" or "exhaustion"the team was complacent, they didn't fight hard enough, and they thought the finals was going to be given to them that year, rather than fighting hard. Gasol disappeared that round and shannon didn't help either shooting all those contested 3's like he did all regular season that year.not to mention steve blake was not a good fit on that team, i never wanted him. he's too much a of a traditional PG to play alongside kobe, and enough of a gunner to replace farmer as the PG to the bench mob. blake needed the ball in his hands to be truly effective, which SHOWED that season and the end of the the last season, he was never a PG to play within the triangle or play off ball.i really think that was a main factor as well, farmar was never afraid to shoot and hit those clutch and timely shots, and he can GET TO the basket, we lost that with blake. decent shooter that he is, he's not a gunner, and in those first 2 years with us, he literally passed up wide open 3 pt shots that we don't have the luxury of passing up.you can't pass up open 3pt looks like that if you're former champions trying to make a 3pt, you take what the defense gives you and blake passed on so many that first year he was with us and the next.i can break down why the heat (in terms of what i think) failed and their roster was never a good fit anyways and that the extreme amount of talent covered some faults in the coaching and roster.but i don't give two shits about the heat.but in no way was any laker fan saying "oh they were tired", no we made 3 peats before should of been a 4peat if malone was healthy, so no we don't use "exhaustion" as an excuse.the heat got out coached, and their roster was much more finely tuned and the players complimented each other.like the knicks, i never thought melo and stat was ever a good combo, where is the P&R PG? you bring 2 jumpshooting forwards together, on being an iso friendly player and one that live and thrived off a P&R (in which if it wasn't for nash he wouldn't of been even considered a star) whats going to happen? it just doesn't fit.the heat brought 3 face up stars, with their best back 2 the basket and jump shooter player in bosh (in terms of their natural game), and with both perimeter players being non jump shooters (yes lebron improved but in now way shape or form is that a go to move for him), their talents covered it up for them or a while. i almost thought even though my analysis was correct, they can't fail for the sheer talent they kept on piling up on each other.Spol from day one should of gone, this guys a tool. no more of a coach than Mike brown or scott brooks.
Quote from: M Dogg™ on July 23, 2010, 11:54:32 AMD-Wade is 28, meaning he has 4-5 prime years left, and that might be the window LeBron is working with, or only 3 years.
D-Wade is 28, meaning he has 4-5 prime years left, and that might be the window LeBron is working with,
pacers been weaksauce since tradin granger...he was the voice of that team.