The State of the NBA Playoffs...Possible Re-Peat??

[Nick Saban]

This thread is no way trying to bait other teams fans, meant to disrespect other teams, or meant to make me sound cocky about the Miami Heat and their titles chances. I'm just simply breaking down the other playoff teams compared to us, and showing that a re-peat looks VERY ATTAINABLE once you break it down and put in on paper...

MIAMI HEAT: Champions last year. Added The Birdman, Ray Allen, and Rashard Lewis, and now we look even stronger than last season.

The Field...
New York Knicks: Amare' Stoudemire out with injury
Indiana Pacers: Danny Granger out with injry
Brooklyn Nets: Appear healthy, but we'd be a for sure favorite
Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose out with injury (and possibly Joakim Noah)
Atlanta Hawks: Traded away Joe Johnson for nothing, appear weaker than last season
Boston Celtics: Rajon Rondo out with injury
Milwaukee Bucks: It's the Bucks......
Houston Rockets: Appear healthy, but we'd be for sure a favorite. I doubt they make it out of the west anyway
Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe Bryant out with injury (and possibly Steve Nash)
Golden State Warriors: Andrew Bogut out with injury
Memphis Grizzlies: Traded away Rudy Gay and OJ Mayo, appear weaker than last season
Los Angeles Clippers: Appear healthy, would be the scariest team we could face in my opinion
Denver Nuggets: Danillo Gallinari out with injury
San Antonio Spurs: Boris Diaw out with injury. Stephen Jackson released. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili limping into the playoffs
Oklahoma City Thunder: Traded away James Harden. When OKC plays the truly truly truly elite teams (Heat, Spurs when healthy, and Clippers) I believe they will find out their is a HUGE difference between James Harden and Kevin Martin. That trade will end up biting them in the you know where.

Lots of teams are beat up and injured right now....it's looking really good for our Heat

[Heat fan06]

would have to play a shocker to lose..we are heavy favourites right now.

[Heat_Fan_87]

Yea, we good.

[Greatness]

Don't sleep on Memphis, I think they're the one team that could give Miami problems.

[DWadeno3]

It would look good for us regardless of the competition's injuries. You are NEVER gonna have everybody healthy come postseason time. We're the best team in the league, even if everybody is healthy, so we're heavy favorites to repeat regardless of the status of other teams' players.

[TRG]

If I were a betting man and I had to choose 1 team to win it all I'd feel pretty comfortable siding with the Heat.

Trying to contain my excitement but I just have a really good feeling about this post season. This team/franchise is on the brink of becoming legendary... We'd only be the 6th franchise in NBA history to repeat. That's pretty incredible when you consider that the league has been around since the mid-1900's and the Heat franchise didn't start until 1988.

[MiaFLSurf]

This thread is no way trying to bait other teams fans, meant to disrespect other teams, or meant to make me sound cocky about the Miami Heat and their titles chances. I'm just simply breaking down the other playoff teams compared to us, and showing that a re-peat looks VERY ATTAINABLE once you break it down and put in on paper...

MIAMI HEAT: Champions last year. Added The Birdman, Ray Allen, and Rashard Lewis, and now we look even stronger than last season.

The Field...
New York Knicks: Amare' Stoudemire out with injury
Indiana Pacers: Danny Granger out with injry
Brooklyn Nets: Appear healthy, but we'd be a for sure favorite
Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose out with injury (and possibly Joakim Noah)
Atlanta Hawks: Traded away Joe Johnson for nothing, appear weaker than last season
Boston Celtics: Rajon Rondo out with injury
Milwaukee Bucks: It's the Bucks......
Houston Rockets: Appear healthy, but we'd be for sure a favorite. I doubt they make it out of the west anyway
Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe Bryant out with injury (and possibly Steve Nash)
Golden State Warriors: Andrew Bogut out with injury
Memphis Grizzlies: Traded away Rudy Gay and OJ Mayo, appear weaker than last season
Los Angeles Clippers: Appear healthy, would be the scariest team we could face in my opinion
Denver Nuggets: Danillo Gallinari out with injury
San Antonio Spurs: Boris Diaw out with injury. Stephen Jackson released. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili limping into the playoffs
Oklahoma City Thunder: Traded away James Harden. When OKC plays the truly truly truly elite teams (Heat, Spurs when healthy, and Clippers) I believe they will find out their is a HUGE difference between James Harden and Kevin Martin. That trade will end up biting them in the you know where.

Lots of teams are beat up and injured right now....it's looking really good for our Heat

Every post you make seems to be a cocky post to make Heat fans look bad.

This SCREAMS alternate account troll if I can say so myself.

Just stop.

[Sejope]

This thread is no way trying to bait other teams fans, meant to disrespect other teams, or meant to make me sound cocky about the Miami Heat and their titles chances. I'm just simply breaking down the other playoff teams compared to us, and showing that a re-peat looks VERY ATTAINABLE once you break it down and put in on paper...

MIAMI HEAT: Champions last year. Added The Birdman, Ray Allen, and Rashard Lewis, and now we look even stronger than last season.

The Field...
New York Knicks: Amare' Stoudemire out with injury
Indiana Pacers: Danny Granger out with injry
Brooklyn Nets: Appear healthy, but we'd be a for sure favorite
Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose out with injury (and possibly Joakim Noah)
Atlanta Hawks: Traded away Joe Johnson for nothing, appear weaker than last season
Boston Celtics: Rajon Rondo out with injury
Milwaukee Bucks: It's the Bucks......
Houston Rockets: Appear healthy, but we'd be for sure a favorite. I doubt they make it out of the west anyway
Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe Bryant out with injury (and possibly Steve Nash)
Golden State Warriors: Andrew Bogut out with injury
Memphis Grizzlies: Traded away Rudy Gay and OJ Mayo, appear weaker than last season
Los Angeles Clippers: Appear healthy, would be the scariest team we could face in my opinion
Denver Nuggets: Danillo Gallinari out with injury
San Antonio Spurs: Boris Diaw out with injury. Stephen Jackson released. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili limping into the playoffs
Oklahoma City Thunder: Traded away James Harden. When OKC plays the truly truly truly elite teams (Heat, Spurs when healthy, and Clippers) I believe they will find out their is a HUGE difference between James Harden and Kevin Martin. That trade will end up biting them in the you know where.

Lots of teams are beat up and injured right now....it's looking really good for our Heat

Every post you make seems to be a cocky post to make Heat fans look bad.

This SCREAMS alternate account troll if I can say so myself.

Just stop.

Eh, the dude is just trying to point out observations he made. I don't see anything wrong with it. I for one, didn't know that Danillo Gallinari was out with an injury. This is a sports forum. What's the big deal?

[Nick Saban]

It would look good for us regardless of the competition's injuries. You are NEVER gonna have everybody healthy come postseason time. We're the best team in the league, even if everybody is healthy, so we're heavy favorites to repeat regardless of the status of other teams' players.

Exactly. That's why my confidence is high. If all those injured players weren't injured, we'd still be the favorites

[Run DLC]

I'd like to see the Heat vs any teams in the West not named, OKC Thunder. I know the Heat can beat them in a 7 games series again, but I just don't like the thoughts of Durant having a chance of winning a title while LeBron is still playing.

[C0bR]

This thought never crossed my mind... possible repeat

[MiamiHavok]

Usually, people can have a toss up between matchups in the NBA and not be entirely sure about who is going to win..

Not this year. AT. ALL.

Expect the repeat.

[DivineFury]

Rose injury was the most devastating for those concerned with parity and challenging the Heat. Knicks are a threat sure, but to be frank losing Amare wasn't that huge. JR has taken on most of the offensive load Amare would get anyways, and he is a liability on defense. Knicks could beat us, but consistency makes me wonder if they can hang in games where they aren't shooting well.

Healthy Bulls team would be scary though. Don't care what you say, but with a great defense you are never out of a game. We beat them in 5, but 3 of those wins were really close. We should still win, but I would fear a healthy Bulls team more than any healthy WCF winner.

Which brings me to my final point about how whiners from the Western Conf can suck a fat one. If Rose was healthy I think East would have the two best teams in the NBA. And much like last year we would struggle more in the East than in the Finals.

[Slot Machine]

This thread is no way trying to bait other teams fans, meant to disrespect other teams, or meant to make me sound cocky about the Miami Heat and their titles chances. I'm just simply breaking down the other playoff teams compared to us, and showing that a re-peat looks VERY ATTAINABLE once you break it down and put in on paper...

MIAMI HEAT: Champions last year. Added The Birdman, Ray Allen, and Rashard Lewis, and now we look even stronger than last season.

The Field...
New York Knicks: Amare' Stoudemire out with injury
Indiana Pacers: Danny Granger out with injry
Brooklyn Nets: Appear healthy, but we'd be a for sure favorite
Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose out with injury (and possibly Joakim Noah)
Atlanta Hawks: Traded away Joe Johnson for nothing, appear weaker than last season
Boston Celtics: Rajon Rondo out with injury
Milwaukee Bucks: It's the Bucks......
Houston Rockets: Appear healthy, but we'd be for sure a favorite. I doubt they make it out of the west anyway
Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe Bryant out with injury (and possibly Steve Nash)
Golden State Warriors: Andrew Bogut out with injury
Memphis Grizzlies: Traded away Rudy Gay and OJ Mayo, appear weaker than last season
Los Angeles Clippers: Appear healthy, would be the scariest team we could face in my opinion
Denver Nuggets: Danillo Gallinari out with injury
San Antonio Spurs: Boris Diaw out with injury. Stephen Jackson released. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili limping into the playoffs
Oklahoma City Thunder: Traded away James Harden. When OKC plays the truly truly truly elite teams (Heat, Spurs when healthy, and Clippers) I believe they will find out their is a HUGE difference between James Harden and Kevin Martin. That trade will end up biting them in the you know where.

Lots of teams are beat up and injured right now....it's looking really good for our Heat

Every post you make seems to be a cocky post to make Heat fans look bad.

This SCREAMS alternate account troll if I can say so myself.

Just stop.

Yep, this is exactly what it is. I'm not sure if this is the norm on RealGM or just on our board, but we have had a ridiculous amount of fake/troll accounts. Perhaps it's the same guy.

[Nick Saban]

MIAMI HEAT: Champions last year. Added The Birdman, Ray Allen, and Rashard Lewis, and now we look even stronger than last season.

The Field...
New York Knicks: Amare' Stoudemire out with injury
Indiana Pacers: Danny Granger out with injry
Brooklyn Nets: Appear healthy, but we'd be a for sure favorite
Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose out with injury (and possibly Joakim Noah)
Atlanta Hawks: Traded away Joe Johnson for nothing, appear weaker than last season
Boston Celtics: Rajon Rondo out with injury
Milwaukee Bucks: It's the Bucks......
Houston Rockets: Appear healthy, but we'd be for sure a favorite. I doubt they make it out of the west anyway
Los Angeles Lakers: Kobe Bryant out with injury (and possibly Steve Nash)
Golden State Warriors: Andrew Bogut out with injury
Memphis Grizzlies: Traded away Rudy Gay and OJ Mayo, appear weaker than last season
Los Angeles Clippers: Appear healthy, would be the scariest team we could face in my opinion
Denver Nuggets: Danillo Gallinari out with injury
San Antonio Spurs: Boris Diaw out with injury. Stephen Jackson released. Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili limping into the playoffs
Oklahoma City Thunder: Traded away James Harden. When OKC plays the truly truly truly elite teams (Heat, Spurs when healthy, and Clippers) I believe they will find out their is a HUGE difference between James Harden and Kevin Martin. That trade will end up biting them in the you know where.

UPDATED IT FOR YOU...

MIAMI HEAT: Champions last year. Added The Birdman, Ray Allen, and Rashard Lewis, and now we look even stronger than last season.

The Field...
New York Knicks: Amare' Stoudemire out with injury.
Chicago Bulls: Derrick Rose out with injury, Kirk Hinrich injured, Luol Deng sick. Most tired team in the playoffs having gone 7 games in Round 1.
Golden State Warriors: I'd just be very surprised to see Steph Curry and David Lee holding up the championship trophy in June....come on, it's just not going to happen.
Memphis Grizzlies: Traded away Rudy Gay and OJ Mayo, appear weaker than last season.
San Antonio Spurs: Biggest threat to the repeat
Oklahoma City Thunder: James Harden still ain't walking through that door....and now Russell Westbrook isn't either.
Indiana Pacers: No Danny Granger.

[DefenseWins]

I don't like threads like this because it can lead to bad karma...

But I expect a repeat, and a repeat until LeBron leaves this team...

[Nick Saban]

It's just sports, have fun with it. If something bad does happen to one of our players, trust me, it had nothing to do with this thread or any other thread lol. I doubt LeBron will ever tweet out "That sumbi*ch Nick Saban on the RealGm started a thread and now I've hurt my knee and im out for the playoffs, it's all his fault!"

[pylb]

Honestly (coming from a Bulls fan) the Heat were firm favorites to repeat since the beginning of the season.

The other "top teams" back then were probably OKC, who had to get rid of Harden, Chicago, who had to get rid of Asik (and with Rose not expected to play until after the ASB) and the Lakers (who flamed out very quickly).