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WADE

"They told me the worst-case scenario was surgery," he said, with X-rays negative and the finger instead splinted. "I looked at my finger and the knuckle was up and down.

"I'm blessed for it just to be dislocated."

He did not sound like someone poised for an immediate return, certainly not Sunday's home finale against the Houston Rockets.

"I'll be prepared and ready for the playoffs," he said, with the postseason opening next weekend. "It'll be an adjustment, but I'm blessed that it's nothing worse."

BOSH

And don't buy into this "bumps and bruises" with Bosh. He has an injury, although it does not appear to be too severe, the way he has is moving and talking about it. Erik Spoelstra said that the expectation is Bosh would be back by the end of the regular season.

RONNY

Hamstring and other nagging ailments

then there's Turiaf but I like Dex right now. We all said he just needed the burn and he's gotten it and looked much better. STILL foul prone but he's in a groove. I was losing my patience with him but right now he's all we got in terms of size.

Wade seems like he'll be fine. Lmao he's probably resting for the rest of the season, but Wade is a huge ass rhythm player... he should come back atleast the last game to get some shots off. Especially if we're facing NY.

Again Philly he can just fool around lol.

They need to stop pulling this guy(Pittman) after 2 fouls, it's very deflating, let him play through it. He's getting better with each game, just think if he got some real burn during the season.

smh....Wade is one of the most fragile SGs ever. Not his heart, just his body.

WD wrote:They need to stop pulling this guy(Pittman) after 2 fouls, it's very deflating, let him play through it. He's getting better with each game, just think if he got some real burn during the season.

ugh...just makes me even more upset with spobot. Pitt has probably had it in him all year and yet we kept starting Joel

I wouldn't get my hopes up about Dex playing in the playoffs. Our rotation is going to be really tight in the playoffs. I think it will be:

Rio
Wade
Lebron
Bosh
Haslem

Joel, Mike, Shane

That's an 8 man rotation with Lebron playing minutes at the 1/3/4. Bosh playing the 4/5.

This will piss a lot of people off because they'll want Turiaf, JJ, and Dex to get minutes--but you don't play that many guys in the playoffs unless you get into foul trouble. Foul trouble or injuries are the only way JJ, Turiaf, or Dex get on the floor IMO. And Cole probably won't play at all unless it's in the second quarter spot minutes against a quick point guard to save Lebron's legs for the fourth.

Joel, Mike and Shane as our bench.

Dear god help us (offensively).

DefenseWins wrote:Joel, Mike and Shane as our bench.

Dear god help us (offensively).

Why? when we have Wade, Bron , Bosh and Rioin the SL?

If we go only 8 deep then at least 2 of them will be on the floor at all times.

I think Mike Miller is getting more comfortable with shooting his shots and if he stays injury free he will be an ideal 6th man who can make threes and rebound he has played well recently and if he had more than .5 seconds on the clock he could have def hit a three to beat the Wizards.

We all like Dexter but he gathers up 2 fouls in the course of 3 minutes when we are only allowed to have 5 fouls in 12 minutes why put a player on the court who is still a prospect same thing applies to Norris Cole.

I hope to see our rotations like

Mario Chalmers ( smart Mario not the bonehead) , the one who was making half court shots against Dallas
Dwyane Wade ( injury free and out for revenge)
LeBron James (MVP)
Chris Bosh (the double double one we saw before he sat out the regular season)
Udonis Haslem (injury free)

Bench
Joel (energy guy),Mike Miller (shooter), Shane Battier (defender) and Ronny Turiaf as an extra body.

If Bosh doesn't make it back for the second stop of this two-game trip, Thursday's season finale against the Washington Wizards, it would mean he would be going into this weekend's start of the playoffs coming off back-to-back doubles, against the New York Knicks and then the Nets.

"Just have to mentally stay focused," he said, "and when it's time to get back out there, get back out there and I'll pick up where I left off."

To a degree, Bosh said he welcomed the time off to freshen up before the postseason.

"I think it helps me," he said. "I just have to make sure that my conditioning is going to be the same, if not better."