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Miami HEAT






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Memphis Grizzlies


Sinestro: "Miami, if your faith in our power has faltered, let me renew it. Let me take a team of my strongest Heatles against this enemy, and I'll prove to you our best days are not behind us."

Meh, Grizzlies by 30.

This is going to be a tough game.

I like that we are about to go back to back against West teams.

We're like 8-6 against the West or something like that.

Blubber Nugget wrote:Meh, Grizzlies by 30.

RhapidKid wrote:

Blubber Nugget wrote:Meh, Grizzlies by 30.

I die so hard when i see this!

Jan_Sobieski wrote:

lol'd.

I wish Spoelstra would sit Lebron this game. He tweaked his ankle last night against OKC, and apparently re-aggravated his ring finger injury.

I haven't watched too many Memphis games this season. I think they're a physical team. I hope Wade and Bosh have their games back for Friday. Last night was real ugly. Hopefully Rio has found his stroke too. Let's go HEAT! PEACE.

DefenseWins wrote:This is going to be a tough game.

I like that we are about to go back to back against West teams.

We're like 8-6 against the West or something like that.

*10-6

Who is ready to get destroyed in the rebound department by Z-Bo and Marc?

mopper8 wrote:

DefenseWins wrote:This is going to be a tough game.

I like that we are about to go back to back against West teams.

We're like 8-6 against the West or something like that.

*10-6

Doh, forgot to count the Dallas and Minny game at the beginning of the season.

Going forward, all I want to see is a healthy team going into the playoffs and Bosh/LeBron get rest. Bosh has looked fatigued lately. Bosh is the key to us winning it all, we need him at his peek.

Sit out lebron and dwade. I want to see some Miami Raptors tomorro! lol just kidding, but yeah, if we can bring the same intensity when we played the hawks without wade and bron, then we can win this game tomorrow even with a banged up bron and wade!

Gasol worries me. His length is going to kill us inside.

arsenic wrote:

Jan_Sobieski wrote:

lol'd.

I wish Spoelstra would sit Lebron this game. He tweaked his ankle last night against OKC, and apparently re-aggravated his ring finger injury.

what the hell, didn't hear about all this.

OtW wrote:Who is ready to get destroyed in the rebound department by Z-Bo and Marc?

I don't think Z-Bo is playing. It's Speights

That being said, they're still the #6 Orb% team in the league, so guys will have to crash the defensive glass hard.

bosh is gonna drop 30+ tonight. he plays well against teams whose mascots are animals with hair/fur. bobcats,grizzlies,raptors,bucks

My god Odaymis is so stunning! With that said i am excited to see Allen on Wade. I want to tie the 18 win streak at home, i think they have been told about that record so if they play bad it might from all the energy they put in the OKC game.

Interesting stat to keep an eye on that I noticed:

When the opponent's Oreb% is great than Miami's, Heat are 14-11*
When even or Miami's Oreb% is greater than their opponent's, Heat are 28-3

Take away - teams simply are not going to out-play Miami on first shot opportunities. They're not going to outshoot the Heat, they're not going to draw more fouls, and not going to cause more turnovers. Even if they're able to do one of those things, they almost certainly won't do two or all three of them.

So the only way they win is by simply getting up more looks at the basket, by way of offensive rebounds. If Miami can simply match them on the offensive glass, though, then they get no advantage in terms of total looks -- and Miami wins basically always.

*advance box score for OKC game is not up yet, but I'm guessing from raw stats that OKC slightly out-rebounded Miami on the offensive glass (+4 in total offensive rebounds on +2 total opportunities, I believe), so that would push the wins to 15. Data here