Can the Miami Heat Bounce Back?

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I actually think that the genesis was in Dallas way before GSW. I think the Finals appearance allowed him to shake some of that off initially since he went through Nash and Duncan to get there.
I think that in that Finals it felt like he got abandoned by his team and had a bad shooting series. I didn’t think he was soft until the GSW series when he let midgets guard him.
And I agree on the triple double. That wasn’t anywhere near his potential, but I think it was a byproduct of his poor shooting not a failure to play hard or be focused. That was more the case in Game Four to me.

Dang it I can’t see it! Copyright claim :/

I said on here several times that this Dallas team is different to years past, and that Tyson Chandler made them a championship level team. I just didn’t think they could stay that when Caron went down.

@BlackPhantom Try Yardbarker.com, it should be in their top stories.

Im a die hard Lakers fan and i respect Dallas for sweeping such a good team. But i wanna see Dirk and especially Kidd get their 1st rings. Its been a long time comin for Kidd. But i cant stand Lebron, Wade is aight. But boy i would love to see them go down. Cant wait to see what that Kobe hatin, Lebron and miami di*k rider Bruce Blitz will say when they go down. He sh*tted on my man Kobe and tha Lakers when they got swept

BYE BYE Heat.

Philosopher is a fraud. airs is my only real friend on here. Illuminati ish damn.

Hating is a big problem in sports but especially here at slam.
I read the posts after the 2006 Finals and Dirk got busted by nearly everyone. I can only remember 4 or 5 guys that defended him.
The list of guys who said that Dirk was the softest player of them all after getting his team to the finals ( a big accomplishment itself in my opinion ) included names like Khalid Salaam or WhithotEboy.
I don’t want to say that this justifies what is happening to LeBron right now because it doesn’t but it shows a general attitude of blasting guys that come short and it is a general problem in basketball and especially this site.
Maybe all of us should think a second before we post and then talk about basketball. These guys are all human and they have already accomplished so much by advancing to college, the league, the playoffs and finals and then all of a sudden when they have one, two, three bad games they are loosers?????????????????????????????????
I know that most guys here will not self reflect and go on with their usual posting and most of them will not even read this comment because I’m posting to late.
I just wanted to share this thought.
Nice team basketball by the mavs , by the way.

mike aka unf*ckwitable, and everyone else, how often do y’all even talk to Eboy in the first place to be talkin so much ish. His teams in the finals, your team is doing what your doing. save the crap for something that atleast has merit.

Did you half-wits really think I’d disapear to duck this loserish crowd? Man, GTFOH. Scare me when the Heat aint got any more games to play. And lets be clear….there’s some lying-a$s motherfuc&ers talking out of both sides of their
mouth today. Only person who should be gloating is Darksaber. Otherwise, tbe rest of you and your teams are as relevant as the last sh$t I took. See you pu$sies Monday as you quake with the prospect of the Mavs blowing your chances of doing what no other team could do. Cut the head off the Devil….cause right now….that shi&’s still on his shoulders.

That was a great back and forth game until the Mavs finally took control late. Still lots of basketball to be played.

I doubt LBJ’s legacy will be cemented by this series, unless he comes out and drops two consecutive 50pt games on the Mavs. No matter how these Finals turn out, LBJ will probably be back. They can talk about ‘legacy-defining games’ of his career when he’s 35, not 26.

Who, wait, “Mike aka unf*ckwitable”?
Was the mystery finally solved?
And good to see Eboy on here.
That’s my dude.

Yeha rigo he answered us that day and said he used to go by just “mike”

There goes Eboy!!!!

Co sign Speedy, LeBron is getting epic hate whenever his play is less than great, or poor. On this site and from a slew of talking heads thruought TV land, and its reached a boilling point for fans alike in these finals. Growing up an NBA fan in the 80′s like many, i was a captured by the Bird / Magic. Lakers / Celtics rivalry. Then came JORDAN.
Even though i was already obsessed with MJ in the late 80′s i still considered Magic to be a heavy in the convo of goat with Wilt/Russell/Bird/Kareem/Big-O. Then the Bulls beat the Lakers, and later Magic announced he had HIV…The dissrespect and lack of respect That Magic and his fans had to bear from that point on? it might not have been on message boards or sportscenter but it was prevelant. After the bulls 1st 3peat, if you even insinuated that Magic was in the convo of goat around MOST casual nba fans, you would have faced instant ridicule namecalling like “tragic” or worse this was common. Before that, for the most part the only big hate came from opposing fans. Bulls fans hated Pistons PLAYERS. Lakers fans Boston PLAYERS and so forth. Imo opinion one of the many ways MJ changed the game was how fans follow the game. Before him it was mostly by team. Sure you have favorite players, but you pick a team. Ater him everyone was looking for that next guy to follow, or hate. Now fans watch and root mostly for or against specific players. The first post MJ example we saw of this was Kobe. and we can see how that turned out. He was hated to a level never before seen for an NBA player of his stature. MJ fans, especially did so, next joined the talking heads and journalists to where it became clear that to be in professional sports coverage you no longer had to be unbiased. Even Slam was guilty of this. We see where its at today…and that is one of the ways Kobe changed the game, how fans and journalists follow and report on players. Hate em’ or love em’ based primarily on how you feel about the “guy”. Game and chips, have all become relative. To add to this with the expansion of TV coverage the media down to the internet in your pocket, social networks and gossip sites that track a players every word and action, people FEEL like they know the person. And most are manipulated by innacurate and biased reporting on the regular. LeBron fans who are NOW suprised at “the hate” are mostly unknowingly being naive. By now we have all become hypocrites and at one point or another bought into the new way of following the game.

Ah, I musta missed that.
Hmmm…feel like taking that name back….lol

Before Dwade came back in the third quarter we were starting to see the cavs Bron. He was dictating the entire offense and I thought it was working so well that I think they could have actually won the game if Dwade just rested up. Im not making excuses for Bron though or saying that Dwade shouldn’t have came back, cause he played a great game, I just feel like Bron was more confident when he was out there by himself.

I also rarely ever change my opinions. I still think Spoelstra is a TERRIBLE coach and everytime Carlisle makes a smart rotation, Spo just sits there and does nothing to counter it. A game of chess this is not.
And Joel Anthony is still outrageously awful and worse than Big Z/Dampier but because he gets ESPN highlight blocks and Van Gundy/Jon Barry likes him, everyone has forgotten about their hatred for him too.

I want the old Bron back… the one that used to joke around all the time, throw chaulk pregame, and acutally smile on the court.. also, does anyone thing it would be beneficial for Lebron to lose 10-15 pounds? it seems like the extra weight is slowing him down and stealing a bit of his vertical. He cant really post up so what is all that size really good for? He already gets lame foul calls because people just bounce off of him. I know one of the things that makes him Lebron James is his enourmous size but it seems like it was easier for him to score when he was a bit lighter and quicker.

how much do lebron and wade weight? yet they get as much as touched and they go flying. i dont like most of jeffvg opinions but he’s right they should fine players like wade and james for their actions. i wouldnt be able to stand myself if i won cheating. wheres the pride in that.

Eddie1:
What in the hell???

@i ball

D Wade- 210lbs
LeBron- 250 lbs

Damned it you do, damned if you don’t.

wade and his boyfriend should worry about forth qt. execution/scoring not if nowitski was/is really sick or not. their heads are not in the game theyre too far up their a$$es.

@Jukai, you’re right, its a bad sign. Personally i think its beyond a sign now, but the reality of how the common casual fan of of the L’ follows the game. finding someone with an unbiased view of LeBron good or bad is like finding someone with an unbiased view of Sarah Palin. Same goes for Kobe. though He famously accepted it a long time ago and used it to fuel his competetive drive. After his defiant return to Cleveland i thought LBJ had too? Im not so sure he is right now at this critical juncture. Howeva’, Its commical to me that anyone would suggest that a tripple double somehow could be translated into choking. Game 4? sure. But tripple dub? That kind of comment is exposing the real heads from the rookies on this site. For a guy that has been deemed a superior player and talent to DWade, for me, LeBrons deferance to Wade at this point only proves that he is committed to playing team ball to win. Its kinda hard to blame him, he’s never had teammates like Wade, or Bosh, or even guys like Haslem that have played their role on a championship team. With LeBron, fans have seen something new, a guy that can do everything, and has often completely dominated a game in away no player has before. A SF that has the game of a 2G THAT ISNT SOFT plays great D and is in the convo as the games best play maker and passer. Game 5 was actually an example of this. BUT, in the nba finals superstars have the burden of leading in the scoring dept and taking over in crunch time. LeBron needs the rock in his hands more often than any heat player including Wade. DWade can create his own shot and work in the post better than Bron. This needs to be initiated by Spo. If its not so what! Bron needs to be the same guy he was in Cleveland and assume the rsponsibilty of leading and closing out games. Unlike Bron wade has a dominant scorers mentality, hell be ready to score when its his time. Bron needs to be Paul Pierce to Wades Ray Allen. Then they will both get thiers, its clear after 5 games that thats what needs to change.