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CAN THE WOLVES TAKE THE HEAT??? LETS FIND OUT!!!!

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GAMETHREAD by BREAKDOWN



Sorry this is kind of confusing - I merged the two threads but it merges things chronologically so I edited the first post with Breakdown's game thread. -C.lupus

I'm not sure whethwer to lock or sticky this thread.

Heat's biggest strengths:

1. Transition O

2. Shutting down teams without clear number 1 option on offense

Wolves' biggest weaknesses:

1. Transition D

2. Having no clear number 1 option on offense

Prediction:

My prediction? We're going to get slaughtered.

Love will get pulled early because the Heat will push the Bosh mismatch to start and Beasley will follow a little later as Lebron has his way with him. Johnson, Tolliver and Brewer will put up a nice effort defensively but won't do much against that offence.

It'd be nice if one of our best players was at PG or C. But so far they beat us at practically every position, or cancel us out in the case of Darko and Anthony.

Hopefully Ridnour takes over against Arroyo.

James Jones gets 6 three's.

The Big three don't play 70 minutes collectively.

Beasley shoots the ball at least 25 times (and gets at least 2 offensive fouls)

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Since this game is going to be on My29, will it be another BLACKOUT game through league pass?
Living in Rochester sucks.....in the blackout range yet there is no possible way of viewing games that are broadcast over a channel that isn't available 60 miles away.

I think the Wolves will put up a galant effort. They will want Beasley's return to Miami to be a memorable one, and should play their hearts out.

Honestly, who can stop LBJ and Wade? Lets just shut down their other threats like Z, Jones, House, Bosh and Haslem.

Wolves will keep it interesting, but Heats scoring power will win in the end. Heat by 12.

Beasley will get 20, Love will get 15 and 15, Brewer will get 10 off the bench.

Breakdown777 wrote:Living in Rochester sucks.....in the blackout range yet there is no possible way of viewing games that are broadcast over a channel that isn't available 60 miles away.

You don't get WFTC?

This will either be Beasley's "over the hump" game or an epic failure. I don't see him having an ok game.

My prediction is that this game is going to be ****ing brutal.

Michael Beasley will either go off like a rocket with 35 points or he will just suck because he wants to do too much. I guess it will be the latter one but I still picked him on +/-.

wolves win. big games by wes n beasley. brewer and the rookie play good d.

There's no way I can see us winning that game

I predict an ass whooping.

Tirion wrote:I predict an ass whooping.

I predict two of those. I guess it won't be that bad against Miami but on the next day vs. Orlando they're going to throw us out of the gymn.

We get called on alot of tic-tac fouls ... when we get beat, we need to put bodies on the floor instead.

A couple against the Grizz,the replays showed no contact was ever made on several calls ... 2 on Peckovic for certain. He's done an amazing job being able to walk away from them though without animation.

It won't be pretty. Worst matchup in the league for us.

Breakdown777 wrote:
Since this game is going to be on My29, will it be another BLACKOUT game through league pass?
Living in Rochester sucks.....in the blackout range yet there is no possible way of viewing games that are broadcast over a channel that isn't available 60 miles away.

There is a sports bar, I think it is called "McMurphys" they somehow have it.

shangrila wrote:My prediction? We're going to get slaughtered.

Love will get pulled early because the Heat will push the Bosh mismatch to start and Beasley will follow a little later as Lebron has his way with him. Johnson, Tolliver and Brewer will put up a nice effort defensively but won't do much against that offence.

It'd be nice if one of our best players was at PG or C. But so far they beat us at practically every position, or cancel us out in the case of Darko and Anthony.

Anthony does not cancel Darko out. Anthony is basically a more athletic but far less skilled version of Darko. All Anthony does is set screens and block shots, and he does that worse than Darko.

That's strange. I get My29 through my cable provider and I'm 250+ miles away.

I don't think the next two games are gonna be fun at all for Wolves fans. These are the lumps we take though when you're young. Hopefully Beasley can play really well, I don't doubt he'll bring great effort, but I don't want it out of control, like scoring 29 on 29 shots with 5 TOs. We need Love to have a big game, neutralize Bosh a little bit, and Darko, we need him to start putting in some of those shots. Obviously Beasley isn't containing LeBron, so help defense is going to be important. Ridnour needs to dominate the PG battle as well.

Then if that's not enough, we get to play Orlando on a back-to-back, where effort getting out to three point shooters will be extremely important. I don't like this lol.