Post Up: Cold As Ice

Well SG, if there’s one team that SHOULD be motivated to play their as*es off, I think you’re looking at the wrong side of the ball. BTW, I heard the same sh*t the week before Christmas about how the Heat were going to be manhandled by Bynum/Gasol and we all saw how that worked out. I’m pretty confident the team will be ready to compete at a high level with the Lakers. I’m pretty sure that Mr. Bryant is going to try and do too much to try and “make a statement” about his teams loss back in December…it a process.

Kobe’s actually come out and said he can’t use that Christmas loss as motivation because things are so different now.

Bynum playing like Bill Russell?
Red Auerbach is rolling in his grave.

The only win in the streak I was impressed with was their win over SA. Then I thought about it and realized that two nights before the Spurs hammered the Heat and were flat from that game. I realize they’re a different team, but I could give a f*ck about Bynum’s “dominance”. Sporadically, he has a dominant month once a season. He’s due another injury soon…so there’s that too.

Myles must not like riding the Teacups at the carnival.

LOl…you guys know what I mean. Teams are struggling to score inside when he is on the floor lately.

NBK, I think you’re missing the point. I’m not hating on what Reinsdorf said because I actually like when people are confident in their team’s ability to win but I do have a problem with you acting like there’s a difference between what both LeBron and him said based on bron saying it on a stage filled with smoke and before Mia had assembled a complete lineup. What’s the difference between saying it before the season started and saying it during the RS before the team has even played a single playoff game?

What excuses? I’ve made none for the Heat except that the players they have are being mishandled for a coach that didn’t have the pedigree to handle a set of players like he was dealt. Part of the blame falls on Riley too. Trust me…NO ONE can tell me sh*t about the Heat’s struggles more than I can myself. I’m their worst critic at all times.

@Eboy…ok calm down. I will admit as a Lakers fan, Miami is the one team I hope LA does not face in the finals.

And if Riley can’t bring himself to cut the reigns on the dude….then his job may need to be questioned too. That’s real talk. I know he pulled the power play of getting the guys here (unprecedented)….but if it’s failing (like it is now)you have to correct it from the top…then work your way down. Should he wait and see them falter in the playoffs and THEN decide that “this first year was just the Beta test”. I mean, smart people knew that from the jump, but you also aren’t maximizing the teams potential leaving a less than potent head coach in charge of the experiment….he could have pulled the plug on Spo a month ago and had his (or someone else’s fingerprints and style on the team now…with another months worth of time put into it too heading into the playoffs.

Seeing that your team is playing well and has shown the ability to compete, and having transformed themselves into one of the elite teams in the NBA this season and then making a comment on the ability of said team to win multiple championships based on that information is in NO WAY similar to throwing a premature party and announcing how many championships you’re going to win before even having a fully assembled roster. Duh…

Lakers need no motivation. Would not surprise me at all to see them take the game as it is, another regular season game. Heat probably come out fired up and take the game form LA. That being said, it doesn’t much matter and statement games happen after the NCAA tourney, not before.

Me being a Lakers fan have the Lakers beating the Heat tommorow night, anybody think different?(other than Eboy and JTaylor and Philo)

@Slam, maybe a password for posters could prevent people from taking other people’s ID and doing all that? Password could also let users delete their own comments, so typos, poor reactions people regret making, things like that go away…

@Enigmatic…Yea, so they could cry again.

LMAO @ nbk

Enough with all the “they did it before the season and had a concert” crap. They both said the same ish, all that other BS is irrelevant.

Simpleton…

No it isn’t, lets make it simple again, say I ask you right now if you had a shooting contest with everyone in the world how would you do? And you answered I would beat everyone or atleast finish in the top 4 for the next 5 years. Means little just you responding to a question. Now lets say you throw yourself a huge party announcing that your joining the same tournament and will win it, every year for the next 8 years, even though you have no idea if you’ll need teammates, who they will be, or what your gameplan for the contest even is, doesn’t it seem like your second reaction is quite a bit more ridiculous?

also LaMarcus Aldridge= Badass
scratch that- LaMarcus Aldridge >>> BADASS

People also want accountability, but are OK with making excuses.

This is off topic but the refs just gave St. John’s the win over Rutgers. Wow!

What is accountability in this situation?
Miami is getting creamed on the court for failing to correct its issues.
It’s getting creamed by the public for failing to live up to its bragging.
How are they not being held accountable? I mean, what else can happen to them besides a career changing injury to one of the big three?
To me, everybody is either rushing to lambast the Heat as a failed experiment or finding way to avoid discussing the totality of their problems.
There is no what anyone with sense can honestly look at the Heat’s roster and say it’s fundamentally flawed and irredeemable without massive changes. I question the basketball IQ of anyone who believes that, and that’s my word.
On the other hand, anybody who believes this is “no big deal” is also lying to themselves. The problem isn’t personnel and it’s only partially coaching. The problem involves the mindset of everyone involved with that team, and their mental fortitude. Are they willing to truly sacrifice, are they willing to truly work? Are they willing trust?
Either way, it’s way, WAY to early to make sweeping statements on either side of the debate. You can’t call the experiment a complete failure and you can’t label it a budding success. Right now it’s just a mess. A salvageable mess, but a mess still the same.
In my opinion, that’s the reality. Everything else is just posturing.

They should hire Panagiotis Giannakis. Get It done Pat Riley!

Calling them a failed experiment before the experiment even had an opportunity to fail is as stupid as claiming that they’ll win 5, 6, 7 ‘ships.