Miami is #1, did you think it would happen this quickly?

[andre316]

Lakers got trashed last Christmas too, its not that big of an accomplishment

Yeah, because you make the Magic and Celtics do the dirty work for you on their side of the playoff bracket.

I expected it sooner. I'm still not impressed though. Not enough wins against contenders.

Well, we went 0-2 against the Celtics when we were still very, very raw, and it came down to the Rondo-Allen 1-2 punch more than "size" or "depth". Two regular season matchups left, though, so we'll see.

We went 0-2 against Dallas, and that's that for this season. Will only be a cause for concern if we meet them in the Finals, but personally I think either LA or San Antonio will beat them first anyway. Besides, a big part of their success against us was the zone, and that won't fly in a seven game series.

We're 1-0 against the Lakers, with a rematch in Miami looming. I won't read too much into it, but we did show we can hang with the champs if they don't bring their A-game, or we bring ours. And yeah, Milwaukee did the exact same thing, but we can sustain a competitive challenge for an entire series where the Bucks just don't have the offensive punch to do so.

We're 1-1 against the old Magic. Still no idea how we fare against this new, smaller, but more offensively potent Magic team.

We have yet to face San Antonio or Chicago. Should be interesting. That's it for contenders.

Granted they are playing w/o Garnett, who is imo their most important player, but last season they started slumping midway through the season but it didn't matter because they knew that no matter what seed they had in the playoffs that they were still the best team and they showed that as they upset the Cavs as a #4 seed. (Pretty sure that was a huge run on sentence..oh well).

But the lack of home court did eventually come back to bite them in the Finals. Who knows if they can overcome that a year older. Who knows if they can even push it that far again. It's a lot to expect of even the best teams.

[TDevilsG]

heat is already head and shoulders above lakers. celtics is the only team arguably better than us. orlando magic? expect them to choke in the post season. these poodles are no better than bulls.

Not one, two, or three but at least five championships are what i expect from the Heatles. Easily.

No way man. The Heatles will easily win 17 championships in the next five years.

[Flash3]

Chosen1 - Thanks for proving my point. 1st, the bulls board may laugh at the team - your board laughs at posters. There's a difference.

I'll say it once and I'll say it again - Posters like you is why your board gets a bad rep.

Edit: Oh and guys like this..

heatlesWinItall
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yup i became a fan when heat got bron and bosh last july.

I've never seen a more obvious troll.

He'll probably get figured out soon enough as a PBP. Don't make too much out of them.

[Flash3]

Chosen1 - Thanks for proving my point. 1st, the bulls board may laugh at the team - your board laughs at posters. There's a difference.

I'll say it once and I'll say it again - Posters like you is why your board gets a bad rep.

Edit: Oh and guys like this..

heatlesWinItall
Ballboy

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Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:30 am

yup i became a fan when heat got bron and bosh last july.

Me too!

[andre316]

Chosen1 - Thanks for proving my point. 1st, the bulls board may laugh at the team - your board laughs at posters. There's a difference.

I'll say it once and I'll say it again - Posters like you is why your board gets a bad rep.

Edit: Oh and guys like this..

heatlesWinItall
Ballboy

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Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:30 am

yup i became a fan when heat got bron and bosh last july.

Me too!

It took me like 8 days, personally. I really had to mull it over before deciding whether I was ready for this kind of commitment.

[calamity]

wow guys. decisions decisions.

[Wavy Q]

Chosen1 - Thanks for proving my point. 1st, the bulls board may laugh at the team - your board laughs at posters. There's a difference.

I'll say it once and I'll say it again - Posters like you is why your board gets a bad rep.

Edit: Oh and guys like this..

heatlesWinItall
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Joined: Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:30 am

yup i became a fan when heat got bron and bosh last july.

Me too!

i knew it all along.

[heatlesWinItall]

[fishfuego.]

No one seems to remember during the 2nd loss to the Celtics, how bad Eddy House was chucking open 3's and at one point was even playing point guard (Chalmer was still injured).

He hits a 3 or two and the outcome would've looked quite different, as one of those 3's would have been the tying score with a few minutes left in the game. BTW, he did not hit a single 3 and sincerely cost the Heat about 6 possessions if not more, on its own.

Everything at that point in time, was nothing more than experimental tryouts on the part of the Heat with entirely new core.

Ever since SPO figured out the starting rotation and what not, it was a Team rebirth. And of course, Eddy House is out of the rotation.

[heatlesWinItall]

No one seems to remember during the 2nd loss to the Celtics, how bad Eddy House was chucking open 3's and at one point was even playing point guard (Chalmer was still injured).

He hits a 3 or two and the outcome would've looked quite different, as one of those 3's would have been the tying score with a few minutes left in the game. BTW, he did not hit a single 3 and sincerely cost the Heat about 6 possessions if not more, on its own.

Everything at that point in time, was nothing more than experimental tryouts on the part of the Heat with entirely new core.

Ever since SPO figured out the starting rotation and what not, it was a Team rebirth. And of course, Eddy House is out of the rotation.

and wade had an off night too. there's no such thing as an off night for the 30 pt duo nowadays.

[Celts17Pride]

If I had a dollar for every Miami fan making some kind of excuse for the Heat losing twice to the Celtics this season I'd be a millionaire. Please, Give it up.

[heatlesWinItall]

The Heat won't win the East in the playoffs, so in the end, all of this doesn't matter much.

only boston has a chance to beat us. those bitches in orlando can only dream of beating us.

[calamity]

No one seems to remember during the 2nd loss to the Celtics, how bad Eddy House was chucking open 3's and at one point was even playing point guard (Chalmer was still injured).

He hits a 3 or two and the outcome would've looked quite different, as one of those 3's would have been the tying score with a few minutes left in the game. BTW, he did not hit a single 3 and sincerely cost the Heat about 6 possessions if not more, on its own.

Everything at that point in time, was nothing more than experimental tryouts on the part of the Heat with entirely new core.

Ever since SPO figured out the starting rotation and what not, it was a Team rebirth. And of course, Eddy House is out of the rotation.

since we already had house we knew how to contain him. sure wade was off but our defense made him struggle moreso.

If I had a dollar for every Miami fan making some kind of excuse for the Heat losing twice to the Celtics this season I'd be a millionaire. Please, Give it up.

thank you.

[Googjob]

yup i became a fan when heat got bron and bosh last july.

You're not a Heat fan, your'e a Lebron and Bosh fan. If they played for the Knicks, you'd be a Knicks fan. That's not a team fan, just someone who rides player jocks around the NBA.

[heatlesWinItall]

yup i became a fan when heat got bron and bosh last july.

You're not a Heat fan, your'e a Lebron and Bosh fan. If they played for the Knicks, you'd be a Knicks fan. That's not a team fan, just someone who rides player jocks around the NBA.

certainly nothing wrong with that.

[andre316]

If I had a dollar for every Miami fan making some kind of excuse for the Heat losing twice to the Celtics this season I'd be a millionaire. Please, Give it up.

LMAO. A Celtics fan would talk. "We would have repeated, but KG got hurt." "We would have had 2 in 3 years, but Perk got hurt." "Oh, we planned on going 27-27 down the stretch all along, what we're really doing is resting for the playoffs, not struggling because our bench is overrated."

And before you get offended, I actually think all of the above (well, other than intentionally tanking, no way KG would put up with that kind of ****) were legitimate REASONS for why the Celtics kept losing, and put their situation in clear perspective, considering they really were good enough to three-peat otherwise.

Face it, the Heat now versus the Heat then is almost more of a changed team than the Magic post-trade. Whether that tips the scale in our favor, yours, or nobody's remains to be seen. But spare us the intellectual dishonesty of pretending you can draw definitive conclusions on how the teams match up based on the first and ninth game of the season, when we've played 30 games since, with a change of starter (7'3" Big Z instead of 6'9" Anthony), a new player (Dampier), a changed rotation (Chalmers instead of House), and in general a roster that is finally starting to play as a cohesive whole rather than disparate parts thrown together.

Yes, you're favorites until further notice. But you're lying to yourself if you're judging your greatness on two early regular season games when your opponent wasn't even at their best. I thought the pride of a champion was getting their enemy's best shot and still prevailing?

since we already had house we knew how to contain him. sure wade was off but our defense made him struggle moreso.

I'll give the Celtics defense some credit for that (how could you not?), but remembering how Wade successfully went 1-on-5 against them in the playoffs, and then seeing how Wade proceeded to go 1-of-13 against the PACERS, among other early season stinkers, and it's clear lack of preseason + trying to figure out how to play with these guys (at the time, he was doing a lot more camping out for kickouts, rather than cutting to the basket and generally keeping his defender moving) were by far the biggest factors. There's just no objective way to assert otherwise.

[calamity]

well to answer the op I didn't expect it to end so fast either.

[Spicy P]

Sorry, but Boston is #1

[bc legends]

well to answer the op I didn't expect it to end so fast either.

me neither.. gotta watch out for those clippers

[Ojmayo]

Sorry, but Boston is #1