Post Up: Cold As Ice

This Heat team isn’t a one year experiment, this isn’t the 2004 Lakers. I’m sure they’ll want to be contending for a title in years 2-5, too. Maybe breaking up the team after not meeting ridiculous expectations in the experiment’s infancy isn’t very logical. This doesn’t mean that they aren’t underperforming or they need to change things up, but the Heat haven’t ‘failed’ yet. By all means, enjoy the team of assh*les losing, but let’s not lose all perspective because of fandom.

That’s right Bryan, you did call them a failed experiement from Day One.
And I told you that stance was premature then, and it’s premature now.
What you’re effectively saying is that there is no way a core of Bosh, Wade and Bron wins multiple championships regardless of coach or role players.
That’s asinine.
One, you’re predicting the future. Two, you’re underselling the talents of those three players. Three, you are being just as implacable as the folks who guarantee multiple championships.
Quite simple: NOBODY KNOWS WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE NOBODY HERE IS GOD.
So, statements of future fact based present guesses, are not reliable. You may be proven to be right, but in fact taking that hard of stance, along with your other comments about LeBron in general, was clearly hating. The idea that the way the team was constructed was a precusor to the “inmates running the asylum” (which you in fact said) was blatant hating. There was a LOT of blatant hating in your stance.
Like I said earlier, just as it will be telling to see how the Heat deal with failure, it will be interesting to see how other folks react if the team proves to be successful.
Two sides to the same coin.

I trust my intuition above all else.

@Teddy, NOT AT ALL, I’m a die-hard Laker fan, I don’t hate LeBron

Why is everyone so quick to predict how teams will do in the playoffs? I’m betting that no one on here predicted that the celtics would make it all the way to a GM7 in the finals after seeing how the underperformed down the stretch in the RS.
I’m also betting that no one predicted that the celtics would lose that GM7 after being up by double digits heading into the fourth qtr. Also if I could go back in time, I’m also betting that no one predicted that the 04DET would win one game let alone the entire series vs the 04LAL.
So all this BS about how MIA or any other team will perform in the playoffs is nothing but useless blabbering.

I think this very much IS a short term experiment. Everyone’s forgetting that changes are coming to the CBA. The possibility of a hard cap, or at the very least, doing away with mid level exceptions, most likely means that this team isn’t going to be able to keep plugging in role players wherever they’re needed. And as players like UD and Miller, who’ve they’ve signed to long term contracts, get older – they’ll get progressively worse. Big Z and Dampier are most likely retiring after this year. Who’s playing your center position for the next 4 years if they take away the mid level exception? What tradable assets do the Heat have outside of the Big 3? You think the supporting cast is junk now, just wait a couple years till everyone’s older and the Heat don’t have the means to add other players.

BC and Diesel – let me ask you a Bulls-related question, since contracts and stuff are definitely not my area of expertise –
With Derrick Rose due to make some big bucks in 2013, and Loul Deng being owed $14 million that year, Carlos Boozer $15 million and Joakim Noah $12 million, do you think the Bulls will look to trade one of those guys to clear cap space to resign Rose, or do they go over the luxury tax since it’s Deng’s last year of his contract?
Assuming the CBA is like it is now. Which is won’t be…

The liklihood of Chicago trading Joakim is nil, I would say.
Booz will still have 2yrs left on his deal and he’ll also be 31yrs old. That’ll make him really hard to move.
Deng will still have another year left on his deal after 2013, but if it comes down to having to trade someone in order to resign Rose, it’ll be Luol, I think.

Actually it doesnt effect the bulls the same way if they take away the mid level exception…..we dont need to sign anymore players. The heat do

Word, Diesel…
Dude stays losing.

Chicago/Charlotte games are fun.
They have no fear of the Bulls whatsoever.

LOL @ nbk. Though I won’t forgive you anytime soon for inadvertently getting “Good Vibrations” stuck in my head….
Also, 0 points, 0 rebounds, 1 assist in 19 minutes.
Loul Deng is getting his Chris Bosh on tonight.
Well, no, nevermind, he’s only 0-2 from the field.

BC: Now you,’re hating. Miami’s total salary figures are actually very low for a contender. Lakers, for one, are paying guys 20+ millions. Their cap figure is through the roof.

creativity maybe?

GO LAKERS!!!!!