Miami Heat @ OKC Thunder 8:00 P.M. EST 3/25/2012 ESPN

[radikalBaller]

This game was mostly lost on lack of adjustment, how can you not play Turiaf and Pittman when you clearly see Joel and Bosh getting aossraped inside by Perkins and Ibaka for 35 pts, two players that don't even average 6 pts per game ? This guy will never learn, he cannot adjust during the course of the game.

Now watch these guys get a little more playing time against Indiana one game to late. This shiat won't work in the PO as we will always be trailing one or two game behind.

Sorry guys but Spo is just a dumbfoak psychorigid imbecil, and he will not lead this team to a championship until he changes his mental makeup FML...

Thank you for pointing out what you did about Pittman. That is why i said in other thread and everyone was against me we need to play Pittman more as a back up give him more minutes because he can REBOUND better than Joel at least percentage wise even better than Turiaf so he can get more NBA experience before playoffs because we will need him eventually. Turiaf should start once he gets his feet a little more wet with us. Joel i would use as third string or if we need DEFENSIVE STOP or playing a faster center maybe.

You need to play him as a situational player when neither Bosh nor Joel are strong and tall enough to box out and defend guys like Perkins and Ibaka. You need to match your opponent's physicality when it's a major factor to why they are beating you so badly...

[OUHeatFins]

I went to the game last night in OKC and here's my take on this game. This is a very very loud arena. There's a reason they call it loud city in there. In my mind, we need to get home court advantage against them if we were to meet in the finals or else it's gonna be a very difficult to get a victory in that arena.

[TrueRain]

Pittman has been getting better as the season goes on. His foul trouble comes from being overly aggressive pursuing rebounds and not wanting to give up on the play, which is something you want. You just need to get it under control. We need to stop playing down to every other team and match up to them. Tired of seeing rebounds going to other teams.

[-MK-]

Pittman has been getting better as the season goes on. His foul trouble comes from being overly aggressive pursuing rebounds and not wanting to give up on the play, which is something you want. You just need to get it under control. We need to stop playing down to every other team and match up to them. Tired of seeing rebounds going to other teams.

Agree, but rebounding or one on one defense vs bigs weren't the problems this game. Perkins was getting wide open dunks (missed rotations) and Ibaka was hitting long mid-range Js - I don't think Pittman could have helped there much. Turiaf should have played more though, as he could have helped with the biggest problem - turnovers.