Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011 at 9:25 am  |  153 responses

Dwyane Wade: Miami Heat Endured Unfair Stuff Last Year


It’s quite unlikely that DWade and his Miami Heat teammates will gain any sympathy from the outside world, but he admits that his squad had a tough time dealing with all the scrutiny last season. From SRI: “On the comments he made following the Finals loss about everybody being happy the Miami Heat lost: ‘At that point it was me. Obviously we went through a lot last year. It was unfair some of the stuff that we had to endure but we grew from it. That’s over with. We move on to whenever we play basketball again and we will be a different team.’ How tough the season was: ‘It was tough. I’ve went through tougher things because at the end of the day it’s the game of basketball. You find the joy in it and at the end of the day we had a good team. We played in hostile environments which we love as competitors. We love to hush everybody up and we were able to accomplish that all the way to the end of the year when we didn’t win. Then they became right again. At the end of the day that’s not what you play the game for. You play the game because you love it and enjoy doing it.’”

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  • Heals

    The Miami Heat – certifiably lock-out proof…

  • http://Slamonline nbk

    Odom CAN do everything. But the difference between Odom and every other top tier PF in NBA history is consistency. Last season was Odom’s first season where he was consistent, And he averaged 14 and 8 in 32 minutes, or 16 and 10 per 36, playing with a top 5 center basically at all times (Gasol or Bynum, both are/would be top 5 centers) Bosh was at 18-8 per 36, always being guarded by the best big on the floor, and being the 3rd option. I realize Odom is a 3rd-4th option, but it would be that way for him on every playoff team in the NBA – Bosh is a 3rd option on only 1-team in the NBA. (Defensively Bosh is better then Odom at everything but rebounding – but that could be a function of personnel as much as skill). Regardless consistency wins out every single time.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    What Lamar Odom “can” do and what Lamar Odom “does” every night have been vastly different since he was getting high with the Clippers.
    Bosh has blocked some shots, but help defense isn’t about blocking shots. Kenderick Perkins doesn’t block a huge amount of shots, but prior to his injury he was one of the best help defenders in the league. Help defense is about cutting off lanes and forcing extra passes, and while Bosh doesn’t block shots, he does take charges and he cuts off easy buckets.

  • http://Nba.com GP23

    Funny how we go from hatin’ Wade, to government issues, and then comparing Odom and Bosh……….. Hilarious, (you gotta love this site).

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    Regardless of who’s better, at this point in their careers I’d take Bosh anyways over Odom simply because Bosh is about 4-5 years younger.

  • http://slamonline.com Allenp

    and better

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    That too

  • SikhWitIt

    I’m not sure I really see Bosh doing those things you mentioned so much as Haslem and Anthony. Nevertheless, here are the raw numbers from last season:

    http://www.basketball-reference.com/play-index/pcm_finder.cgi?request=1&sum=0&p2=odomla01&y2=2011&p3=boshch01&y3=2011

    The difference is not as stark as you all make it out to be. Comparing them last year also accounts for them BOTH being the third option. Finally, bear in mind that Lamar is a good 5-6 years older than Bosh.

  • http://www.ballislife.com/profiles/blogs/kobetop10moments nbk

    Kobe’s 33rd Birthday so in celebration his top 10 career memories. BallisLife. Click the name

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Good points NBK, Consistency is where Odom falls back. I love his game and skills so I am over rating him a little bit. As far as skills go he has always been a top 3 PF. But there is a reason why is not a top 5 or maybe in even 10 to some people. Alas Odoms Kryptonite, bringing it every night. Thanks for the above post too, i only get on Slam for basketball these days so I woulda missed that.

  • http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Don-t-tell-Kobe-Bryant-what-he-can-t-do?urn=nba-233572 nbk

    I know where your coming from. With this overrat(ion) you have earned full fledged Laker Fan status IMO. lol – but yeah thought y’all Laker lovers (also pure basketball fans as well) would enjoy that.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/officerbarbrady what

    Nothing is “unfair” about what the Heat “went through” last year. They brought it upon themselves with all the self promotion. When you ask for attention you are going to get it, and you can’t necessarily control what kind of attention you get.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    LOL. Those videos are some of the reasons why i’m still a PRO basketball fan today. I didn’t have allot of love for the game once the Sonics left, but I kept watching my favorite player and he kept me coming back for more. Those daggers in the last game of the season against Portland were two of the most crazy game winning(OT extending) shots ever! With the Mavs one I can’t help but wonder if Kobe woulda scored more than his High of 81 if he played the 4th vs the Mavs…

  • http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Don-t-tell-Kobe-Bryant-what-he-can-t-do?urn=nba-233572 nbk

    Yeah that Mavs game, IMO is more impressive then the 81. Especially because it was against the Mavs, and not the Raptors. — and that streak of 65 50 60 50 was one of if not the best string of games i’ve ever seen.

  • http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Don-t-tell-Kobe-Bryant-what-he-can-t-do?urn=nba-233572 nbk

    that and Iverson’s week of 40 games as a rookie are my favorite regular season stretches by an individual players of my lifetime.

  • http://www.kb24.com The Seed

    Cosign nbk Posted: Aug.23 at 5:45 pm Post, some of the sickest Kobe videos ever. Click his name and see why Kobe is a top 5 ALL TIME GREAT!! BOOK THAT!!!

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Ugghhh, hey seed.

  • http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-Don-t-tell-Kobe-Bryant-what-he-can-t-do?urn=nba-233572 nbk

    whoa whoa don’t be making it sound like I said that. Kobe ain’t no top 5′er, he’s just had a great career.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    So what are you, Spanny, UNFROZEN CAVEMAN LAWYER, the nerve, and bull22 up to tonight Seed?

  • http://www.slamonline.com Nick Tha Quick

    ^^^ “The Fab 5″

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    The SEED will mostly likely be bellying up to the bar and telling all who will listen all about his shattered dreams of one day becoming a booking agent, all the while everyone will slowly step away from his vicinity in a matter reminiscent of the Kool-Aid Man in the first ever episode of Family Guy, due to their mistaken belief that he may suffer from Tourrette’s as a result of his intermittent shouts of “BOOK IT!!!!”
    Sorry, y’all. I’m mad bored. I got 15 minutes left of work and I’m Audi 500!

  • T-Money

    lol people REALLY don’t like bosh. odom has NEVER made an all-star team, i repeat NEVER. an we’re seen what he could do as a 1st option: 18-19 ppg on a terrible team. i like odom because he’s smooth but come on. i would take dirk (no explanation needed) and gasol (more natural at the 5) over bosh at the 4-spot. i should have also included blake griffin. i don’t think stoudemire, love, z-bo are better than bosh when accounting for all aspects of the game. but yeah he’s charmin soft.

  • MLK4Life

    D-Wade can blame his younger friend from Akron, Ohio for the “unfair treatment”. No one really dished anything D-Wade’s way if I remember correctly. It was all towards LeBron and Bosh. The only heat, no pun intended, that D-Wade took was in Chicago. The only boos I heard for him were in Chicago. This is a man who basically won a championship singlehandedly when he was just 24 years old. No pressure is really on him. The bulk of the pressure is on No. 6. D-Wade has shown he can get it done. Your turn Mr. James.

  • MLK4Life

    And let’s get this out of the way. If anyone should be completely left alone here, it’s Bosh. He plays a different kind of game. Much like Pau Gasol. Comments about his sexuality are out of bounds. He’s a basketball player. Talk about how he plays basketball, which he happens to play very well. What happened to respect? He’s the only one who has stood up like a man and admitted that last summers festivities were stupid, which they were to anyone who doesn’t live in Miami or anyone who didn’t jump on the Heat bandwagon as soon as LeBron’s TV show went off.

  • http://slamonline.com LakeShow

    Enig that shi+ was mad funny. I had it all pictured perfectly in my mind lol. T-Money just so you know I think Bosh is a better player I just would rather have Odom on my team. The things he can do are endless. I think he’s a better team/glue guy than Bosh. I feel like Bosh has a 1st option mentallity with 3rd option skills. Personally.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    Hi. Eboys back.

    ; )

  • http://dskjfl.com Jukai

    Lakeshow: Actually, I agree with you on one point. For a first option, I’d take Bosh. For a second option, its close but I’d probably take Bosh. For a third option, I’d probably take Odom. Bosh really was not comfortable in the third man role.
    Still, it was only year one with a coach who ran zero offensive sets. May change my mind in the future.

  • http://www.fiba.com Darksaber

    Oh the Heat threads, always bringung out the usual suspects.
    Lakeshow’s remark about the ‘fab 5′ hanging out made me chortle.
    Funny ish.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    “Did you hear that their celebrating National LeBron James Observance Day in Cleveland? Everyone gets to leave 12 minutes early.”

    “Lebron is thinking of starting his own cell phone company. Rumor has it the roaming charges will be liberal but the phones will have no rings.”

    “Why didn’t LeBron James go to college? He didn’t want to show up for finals.”

    “Did you hear Lebron is changing his nickname from ‘The King’ to ‘The LeBron Stopper’?”

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    I’m going to start the 2011-12 season as a ‘LeBron hater’…. See if those shoes feel comfy.

  • http://dskjfl.com Jukai

    As long as you disappear once Lebron starts doing well and the Lebron slurpers declare him the next Jordan, you’ll be fine.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre
  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    hahaaa @ Juks.
    —-
    I linked to an article regarding LeBron – It’s interesting but makes for only a passing read – it’s in moderation at present.
    —-
    I want to see how LeBron rebounds from this past finals run. He could become the greatest ’2nd best player on any team’ akin to Scottie Pippen?!
    —-
    The thing is the Suns’ Steve Nash is next to get his championship ring now so LeBron has to wait a little longer again….
    —-
    To think if Dirk and the mavs didn’t have that bad ref call in the first meeting against the heat in the finals Dirk would have TWO rings and TWO MVP trophies….

  • http://www.kb24.com The Seed

    Enigmatic, I am a booking agent that speaks the truth.
    Lakeshow, do not every put me in that fab 5.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    He’s a question: what was UNFAIR about the scrutiny the Heat experienced last season?
    —–
    Eboy…your thoughts?

  • http://dskjfl.com Jukai

    Dacre, you can’t seriously think Wade is better than Lebron, right?

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    fab 5…. as in fabricated 5….

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    hahahaha…
    —-
    Well seriously…. let me try and word this. And I’ll just try and make it simple. More for myself otherwise I get real confused with what I’m thinking and what i type: like the johnson comparison mistake…

    BRB

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    Whatever you say, Seed. LOL.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    Okay – Wade has accomplished more and with his NBA finals win and championship I feel he is better than LeBron. Seriously. I could cut and paste stats highlighting their differences/similarities in PPG/APG/RPG combine that with their positions on the floor… I feel LeBron SHOULD have more of an IMPACT (theres my word again) on the outcome of games but Wade has lived up to and exceeded that potential. Thus to me; he has been the better player.

  • http://cnbc.com JTaylor21

    Jukai,”declare him the next Jordan”, word? When have you ever seen me refer to Bron as the next MJ? As much as I admire Bron, dude will never be as great as MJ was, matter of fact, no perimeter player in history comes close to matching MJ’s skills and accomplishments.
    You’re barking up the wrong tree though. Go talk to your neighborhood DRose fan, those guys are more than willing to proclaim him the next MJ.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    I feel that LeBron followed Wade… and LeBron would feel that Wade is better than him also…?

  • http://www.bulls.com Enigmatic

    LMAO!
    JTaylor – the LAST people who would EVER try to anoint Derrick Rose “The Next Michael Jordan” are the same people who watched Michael Jordan’s every game from 1984 (or whenever they started watching NBA) through 1998, i.e. Bulls fans.

  • http://www.triplejunearthed.com/dacre Dacre

    Taylor…. whoa.
    —-
    Thurl Bailey.

  • http://dskjfl.com Jukai

    @Dacre: Well, Wade has had a better career, for sure. If both died in a car explosion tomorrow (your favorite comparison), history would remember Wade more favorably. For all intents and purposes, Wade is a top-5 shooting guard and Lebron really can’t crack the top-5 SF list yet (one could argue that there are more great SFs than SGs, but I would tell them to shove it). But accomplishments in the pasts only matter when comparing careers: Lebron right now is better than Wade. I mean, Kobe is a top-10 talent and Lebron needs to do a WHOLE lot to be regarded as a better overall player… but he’s a better player right NOW.
    I also don’t exactly agree that Wade always comes through and Lebron doesn’t. Lebron’s clutchness is really bizarre, it’s not like guys like Garnett and Hayes who regularly shrunk— he’s much more like Chamberlain, with bouts of extreme dominance and also unexplained disappearence when it mattered most. It’s hard to categorize Lebron, I think it’s more of a comfort thing that an actual pressure thing. When Lebron is comfortable with his game, no matter what the pressure, he wont phase. When he’s pushed out of his comfort zone, he takes HUGE steps back… this isn’t exactly what you want from the best player in the NBA, but it’s better than “oh god, it’s the fourth quarter, everyone is watching me…!”
    And I do find this interesting: Wade disappeared against Chicago but Lebron carried them through the series. Lebron disappeared against Dallas and Wade couldn’t carry them. Any comment on that statement?

  • http://dskjfl.com Jukai

    And Lebron followed Wade because Miami could aquire Bosh WITH Lebron, while the Cavaliers could not sign both Wade and Bosh. It is also Cleveland vs Miami. One can be angry at Lebron for abandoning Cleveland and teaming up with other superstars, but I always found it kinda weird that Lebron going to Miami gave people the perception that Wade was better.
    Also, JTaylor, I never name dropped you, man. A lot of people were logically debating “Well… LEbron is a better passer and rebounder, Jordan was a better scorer and defender so it kinda rounds out!” in SLAM after Lebron singlehandedly reemed Chicago. I just think it’s CRAZY how when Lebron succeeds, he’s Larry Bird on steroids, and when he fails, you might as well trade him for JJ Reddick.

  • Justin

    Why is it that people think just because a guy makes a lot of money, he’s not entitled to be emotional about losing? Does a surgeon lose the right to be upset if one of his patients dies on his table? No, of course not. When you’re out there playing, you’re not thinking of the money or the fame. At least not the great ones. Their concern is winning and nothing else. And when are a lot of you going to realize that these guys aren’t just saying things for the sake of saying them. So many people with the “Why do these players keep talking like we care what they have to say?” They are answering questions! When being interviewed, it’s kind of what you’re supposed to do when asked something

  • http://philosopher.view@blogspot.com The Philosopher

    LONG… LIVE… THE KING.

  • Harlem_World

    Bosh is tissue soft. He has skills but is soft. He’s a 3 quarter guy. Use him for 3qts to put up numbers, but when it gets down to it and it’s time to man up – he’s not that guy. Unless he’s playing off someone else, which is why he’s a good fit for MIA. Much as the Heat got blasted by everyone last year, anyone who thinks they are not the team to beat over the next 3-5 years is crazy. They are only going to get better and add more relevant pieces. They are too talented.

  • http://slamonline.com Tae

    Tha closest thing to Jordan is Kobe. Stop with tha Lebron talk. Even Phil Jackson said it. And if anybody can tell u that, its Phil. He said they’re pretty much equal except for Jordan’s hands

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