Post#333 » by WD » Wed Jun 13, 2012 5:35 am
Just had to post these quotes before I go to bed
Observations from Tuesday night's 105-94 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena:
-- Because this is what the kids do in the second half. They wear you down.
-- Especially when Erik Spoelstra only truly trusted six players, and two of them closed in foul trouble.
-- Erik Spoelstra spoke before the game of playing eight, which seemingly would make Bosh, Mike Miller and Joel Anthony the reserves of choice in this series.
-- Mario Chalmers was called for his fourth foul with 1:27 to play in the third. With Spoelstra yet to play Norris Cole, Wade had to reenter.
-- It was a tight, tight, tight rotation.
-- Perhaps too tight against the relentless youth of the Thunder.
-- Mike Miller is the nicest guy in the world, but unless Spoelstra goes to a zone, Miller simply cannot move well enough to be involved in something of this athletic magnitude.
-- Spoelstra changed it all up at outset: LeBron on Perkins, Battier on Durant, Wade on Westbrook, Chalmers on Thabo. No wonder he wasn't talkative in the days and hours leading to the game.
-- LeBron again jumped center, because when you do it all, you do it all. He lost the tip.
-- Spoelstra on LeBron James possibly going 48 minutes in a game this series, "We have 12 games left, I know he has the mentality, 'I'll do whatever it takes.' "
-- Spoelstra, in his pregame media session, spoke about how "you have to survive" to get to this point, "You can never take it for granted."
-- Thunder coach Scott Brooks on Spoelstra delaying his Bosh decision until just before tipoff, "It doesn't matter . . . we have guys who can guard multiple positions."
-- Spoelstra, one why he waits until just before game time to reveal his starting lineups, "One, it's one of the few opportunities that's my right, you know. Secondly, and more importantly, I just want them focusing. Everybody knows what we're doing. I want to keep the noise to minimum."
#HEATLifer
noooooo JJ.