Game 1: 5/28/2012 Celtics @ Heat 8:30 PM EST

[Miamis3rdRing]

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Time: 8:30 PM (EST)
Place: The HEAT's House aka the AAA
TV: ESPN

Projected Starters:


Injury Report:


Miami Heat
- Chris Bosh out indefinitely with a lower abdominal strain
- Dexter Pittman is serving a three game suspension for his flagrant foul in Game 5 of Round 2. He will be eligible for return in Game 3 of this series.

Boston Celtics
- Avery Bradley is out for the season after having surgery on a dislocated shoulder.

[krikor]

ayyyyyyyy

Time passing too slow, back to being nervous again.Come on heat!

[DefenseWins]

I don't know, I feel like this may be harder than we think.

Rondo kills us... KG and Bass, if their jumper has it going, it will be trouble.

Doc Rivers said how we can't score in their half court defense, we'll see...

BUT HEAT IN 5 MANG!!!!!!!!!!

our defense against them will be key.

Philly did a good job IMO. They just couldn't hit their own shots.

[Grumpy Heat Fan]

Celtics are old. They played on Saturday and now have to play a rested Miami team on Monday.

Expect a blowout. Celtics are done in 5 or less.

[unowen85]

This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.

[Akshan]

Kevin Garnett is gonna have a field day on us we will need Udonis to play solid D and keep shooting like he has until Chris Bosh is back. Not worried about Ray Allen or Paul Pierce they will be outplayed by D.Wade and LeBron James especially with the injuries Allen is suffering.

BIGGEST MATCHUP

Mario Chalmers Vs. Rajon Rondo if we can get the shooting rebounding and defending Chalmers I will be context but if we get the bonehead air balling and getting beat every time Chalmers expect Rajon Rondo to have a party.

LET'S WIN GAME 1 and hopefully we can have Chris Bosh back towards the latter end of this series.

[Chosen01]

Heat in 5-6.I'm more confident in this series without Bosh than without the Pacers...
Why?

Pacers had all the supposed advantages to beat the Heat without bosh. They were supposed to have the rebounding advantage, bully the Heat in paint, have individual defenders who could "slow down" Wade and James.

Boston has none of that, with Bradley out I expect Wade to have a feast along with LeBron who has routinely **** on Boston for this career.

But then again it's to the Heat sooo....














Let's Not Suck

[Tony Fiorentino]

This is it. It's for all the marbles. I'm sitting in the house loading up the pump, I'm loading up the Uzis, I've got a couple of M-16s, couple of nines, couple of joints with some silencers on them, couple of grenades, got a missile launcher. I'm ready for war.

[WD]

Just protect OUR HOUSE and steal one on their floor

[cb1]

Our defense only gives up 85ppg in the playoffs. Lebron and Wade can go for 60 alone. The rest of the role players are more than capable of giving us 30 points combined. We got this is 5 but we have to care of homecourt though.

[FireRicBucher]

Celtics entire offense is jumpshots. The Cs will struggle to get to 80 points in every game.

[WD]

[Gant]

Oh man, are they going to decide this series by binding resolution? This is taking democracy too far.

[Moggs24]

Well the truth is that the pacers are better than the celtics. The problem is the Celtics have 3 incredibly clutch playoff performers. If we keep playing the way we played the last 3 games this will be a very short series , if we don't we are in for a dog fight. I think we are ready to roll but the Celtics are no joke and our guys are not going to take them lightly. We need to use our team speed to exhaust them and also just stop pierce and allen from killing us from the 3 line.

[LikeABosh]

Whenever Philly started to run in the open court, the only guy that didn't look gassed out was rondo. Unfortunately, philly kept going into their half-court offense where they have no advantage against the C's. I hope we don't make the same mistake

[iboxlefty]

Yep, run the ball win the series, they are old

[Chosen01]

Whenever Philly started to run in the open court, the only guy that didn't look gassed out was rondo. Unfortunately, philly kept going into their half-court offense where they have no advantage against the C's. I hope we don't make the same mistake

Half-court offense?

Give the ball to Wade in the post and let him abuse whoever guards him.

Also spamming LeBron/Wade pnrs and 3pt shooters hitting their shots is key as well.

[Jan_Sobieski]

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[Heat11114]

I can't help but laugh at all the talk of kg's offense. He's a system scorer at this stage shooting 18 foot jumpers. It helps one of our biggest weaknesses (rebounding) when the opposing pf is shooting long jumpers. We will give a few different looks on the kg pick and roll including at times giving him those jumpers.

[Lord Hades]

God, I want to run these ****ing codgers into the ground.

We need our role players to continue the productivity they had going toward the end of Indiana series.