Post#6 » by DefenseWins » Tue Nov 11, 2014 11:03 pm
Well in general it isn't a circus around here because LeBron is gone. It certainly takes a load off of the Heat, and they can concentrate on basketball.
I liked LeBron when he was here too. I like how he played, his dunks, his passing, and he became more clutch than ever when he was here. DWadeno3 noted how nobody recognizes that this guy really grew with the Heat. He went from shrinking in the Finals, to being Finals MVP twice in a row. His efficiency got better, more better than what it already was, and made him more tough minded. Now LeBron wants to take everything he has learned and replicate it into another franchise WITHOUT the main contributors to his change in Riley, Spo, Wade, and whoever else was in the background. I know the vets on this team really made this team stable, people like Battier and even Juwan.
The few things I DID not like, was the attention he brought and the negativity. He has poisoned the well because people still hate us and the reason we were hated, was because of him and the "not 1, not 2, not 3". But I won't get into that again... I'm sure our fanbase could write a book about that. Also he ball stops more than people recognize, pulling up for a 3 lol.
Anyway, its not a media circus, don't have articles every day out of thin air about some garbage that are distractions. I don't mind being under the radar. This is a new chapter of Heat basketball. In my years since a fan, went through 2004 with the emergence of Wade (that team was fun too), to getting Shaq, first title, then the down years, then obviously Wade being back tearing it up, to the Big 3 era, 4 straight finals appearances and 2 more rings, now its this.
What I didn't like is that people thought we would be back to the stoneage of irrelevancy or some **** after LeBron left. WADE was the main guy here and he still is, before and after LeBron. If LeBron stayed he might have been that guy but I'm glad he isn't, because he planned to leave anyway. That's probably what I'm most disappointed in, he was never committed to this franchise in the first place and LEFT Cleveland to WIN here.
Though with that said it will be a sad ass day when Wade retires. We need to be cultivating a new guy to the face of the franchise (a young guy), like how the Spurs have been cultivating Leonard, while the old heads are still there. We gotta do that while Bosh and Wade are here IMO. It's possible Napier is that guy, but we need more and someone more dominant. That's another story.
Also you can tell when people don't know what the **** they are talking about. People said how Miami ran him to the ground, while he played his least amount of minutes in his career during the regular season here. He wanted a SHOT at multiple titles and he got it but he had to go through 80+ more games, and so did everyone else. Pop is the only guy who would play his guys limited minutes, every other coach plays their main guys atleast 40 mins a night in the playoffs. That's normal man, especially for a freak athlete in his prime. How are the Heat being blamed for something like that?!
