Vegas Favoring OKC Thunder Over Miami Heat in NBA Finals

It’s all about having 100 schemes, trying them all, and using the one that is most effective at that current time, and not banking on it working the next possession and so on. I’m also a fan of the “man to man zone”. Stay on your dude till he enters into the next players coverage area. Hard double for a second if it is Bron or Wade or even Bosh sometimes. Always have someone coming to help and have Serge always roaming back into the paint area with help on his man if he goes to deep for comfort.
Basically if they play perfect defense than that ‘might’ work… Sh*t.

Bottom line is we all can think of different schemes they’ll throw at each other but I think realistically no one can guess what’s going to happen. Tons of fire power on each side so I think I’ll hold off on adjustments and scheme talks until Wednesday.

Stop posting as me Fatass

1. When thabo is in the game, put wade on westbrook and have thabo’s defender (Chalmers) shade for a quasi-double team look. Mario doesn’t have to double the whole way when westbrook gets a pick to drive because westbrook more times than not these Playoffs has settled for a midrange jumper this year v. going 2 the rim. However, if you shade well enough, it can slow westbrook down and make the shot contest either at the midrange or 3pt line easier. When harden is in the game with westbrook, take chalmers out, put battier on harden, put lebron on KD and put wade on westbrook. this is the best way for them to guard that lineup. Battier will get torched by KD as he was semi-torched by melo. This way, the thunder have a tougher time going at three average-above avg defenders (wade/lebron/battier). OKC has a lot of sets they can run but they are like miami in that the penetration sets up their plays.

2. I truly think that the heat are counting on westbrook to be over-aggresive. Westbrook is a gr8 player but going against this perimeter D might limit him. Miami can handle scoring guards… They CANNOT handle the ones that run a good halfcourt offense & dictate tempo. go down the list… chris paul, rajon rondo, jason kidd, tony parker, steve nash… these guys gave theh heat fits this yr. However, PG’s such as D-Rose & westbrook, PG’s that score first have had PEDESTRIAN games the past 2 yrs against the heat. They may have led their teams to victories but shot horribly in the process… come finals time that will be expounded unless brooks sees it quick and switches to harden playmaking for a bit so westbrook can collect himself. Look… i’m not hating on westbrook but he gets out of control a lot. he passes into passing lanes way 2 often for my taste and a top 10 perimeter defense in the spurs led him to turn the ball over 3, 6 and 5 times in their last 3 games. Now he’s going to go against a top 3 perimeter defense…

3. In terms of the big men… The heat have the MOST trouble with scoring 4s and high rebounding, long, defensive 5s. I think thats why some people had the knicks giving the heat some trouble in the 1st round. problem is amare was injured/past his prime & chandler was sick for a game or 2. The pacers were the best example but were missing the defensive 5 (hibbert is long but he sucks @ D). Plus, the pacers were missing an offensive setter that could control tempo which is also something the heat can’t match up with. The thunder have no scoring big man threat which will drastically help the heat’s chances. The heat have already driven against tyson chandler to success whom imo is a better initial rim contest guy than ibaka. Ibaka gets most of his off help & if he has 2 guard bosh… perk will be all alone down there. I would NOT put perkins on bosh… because when bosh goes off in games he usually doesn’t cool off and all it will take is a good game from either lebron or wade to be very tough. Perk is injured right now as well… bosh will just shoot over him or drive right past. Bosh aint gonna be in the post often so that makes perk… well … i’ll let yall decide.

# Sorry for all this writing. this is just what i have 2 say about this matchup. Everyone is picking the thunder so i just want to share some points that the heat may employ. This NBA Finals is going 2 be awesome.

& to expound on rim contest, the spurs and lakers had an easy time getting to the rim imo. Kobe had like 5 dunks in game 5. That guy usually never drives. Parker, ginobili and duncan got to the rim almost any time they wanted and converted buckets pretty well down there. Its not like OKC is a shutdown team in the paint… they are a great post defense and help defense team but the heat have 2 elite rim finishers so i expect the heat to do pretty well in that dept.

Lol ^ only one of the last three posts are from me. Which is weird, either i got 2 trolls or one is arguing with himself. lmao, y’all suck at this.

@nbk leave us alone

Since when did nbk and Lakeshow officially hate each other? It’s time to apologize… and just hug it out, b!tch.

I think it’s miami’s finals to win, and the thunders to lose. I think OKC has the overall better balanced team, but the Heat have the special tools to unravel OKC.
Once again Bosh is the key, his jumpers, and even Haslems from midrange should draw out at least one interior defender and wil open up the middle for wade and james. What they should do is start of every game driving like crazy, show the ball and create contact. Perkins bumps easliy and Ibaka does not come across as a very smart player, he will be very intent on blocking every shot. Let him get his 6 blocks but also 6 fouls per game. Attack, attack, attack and create early foul trouble.
On defense get back on transition if your life depends on it and force the stagnant OKC halfcour game to shoot jumpers. Spoelstra can go with lineups of 1.wade, 2.jones/miller/battier, james, bosh, haslem/turiaf/joel to put superior height and strength against westbrook (wade) and harden (james/battier), matchup with Sef (jones/miller) etc.
If wade and james wil not drive hard and go up strong or kick out it will be over.
Teams are close and it will be about who applies the best strategy. They both have young and often critisized coaches.
Curious to see if finals experience will show…