ESPN by a large margin pick heat to win it all

Heat fan06 · Post #1 » by **Heat fan06** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:17 pm

http://espn.go.com/nba/preview2011/stor ... redictions

25 picked Miami
3 picked bulls
2 picked thunder

Swampdonkey · Post #2 » by **Swampdonkey** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:24 pm

Not surprised at all Jon Berry didnt pick us. Shocked that Marc Stein did. MVP was pretty split. Half for Durant and half for Lebron

WD · Post #3 » by WD » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:26 pm

I would have rather flown under the radar this year - no margin for error this year

Mourning_Would · Post #4 » by **Mourning_Would** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:54 pm

Why do Legler and Barry hate us? I dont care for Barry. He's a tool that knows nothing about basketball.

Pimpwerx · Post #5 » by **Pimpwerx** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:59 pm

Jon Barry is going down with the ship. I admire his consistency on this matter, but he is so going down with that ship. The Heat hate flotilla is getting blowed the **** up this season.

PEACE.

GreenHat · Post #6 » by **GreenHat** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:08 pm

WD wrote:I would have rather flown under the radar this year - no margin for error this year

Lol how were we going to go under the radar?

We are the overwhelming favorites for the title this year. Anything less is another underachievement

Miamis3rdRing · Post #7 » by **Miamis3rdRing** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:22 pm

No respect at all for the Mavs. They didn't win, we just lost. :lol:

I can't speak for other teams but I think we either improved at every position whether it was from a signing (Battier), drafting (Cole), or having a fully healthy player (UD).

The only question mark is the center position.

SweetTouch · Post #8 » by **SweetTouch** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:46 pm

I was watching this numbers show on ESPN, and Michael Smith? (not sure) stated that the HEAT last season had scrubs ( <10 PER) play the equal amount of minutes both LBJ & WADE combined to play

mind= blown

Tim_Hardawayy · Post #9 » by **Tim_Hardawayy** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:50 pm

SweetTouch wrote:I was watching this numbers show on ESPN, and Michael Smith? (not sure) stated that the HEAT last season had scrubs ( <10 PER) play the equal amount of minutes both LBJ & WADE combined to play

mind= blown

Now those minutes will hopefully all go to Battier/Haslem and maybe Miller, health permitting.

Unfortunately we're going to get a very heavy dose of Joel this year unless something changes, and soon.

Post #10 » by **DefenseWins** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:29 pm

Meh, ESPN also picked the Heat to win last season... whatever lol.

I'd rather not be the favorites. But it is definitely redemption year and people can see it.

And yeah, Spo would give Joel 30 minutes, and even Miller who could not shoot he'd give him 30 minutes.

Thank goodness the bench is better this season, or else we'd be looking at terrible box scores and the worse bench scoring in the league again.

I hope Pittman really grows as the season goes on, and gets the majority of the minutes. Unless Curry is a surprise, but I am not expecting anything out of him.

And Jon Barry is that guy who always goes "OMG HOW DOES HE DO THAT" when commentating on ESPN and it's a Bulls game, regarding Rose. Last season he always went against the Heat, til the end. Except the 1st round. He picked the Celtics, Bulls and Mavs. I'm guessing 1 man in Hamilton is making people believe they have the East in the bag huh?

EscapoTHB · Post #11 » by **EscapoTHB** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:52 pm

The hilarious thing is in all of their previews they pretty much trash our players and team, and then at the end it's like "so who are you picking to win it all?" "uh...the Heat"

It's the only pick that makes any kind of sense after last year. And deep down they all know it, and it disgusts them.

insfo · Post #12 » by **insfo** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:34 pm

lol @ the reigning MVP not even garnering a single vote.

Chosen01 · Post #13 » by **Chosen01** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 12:44 am

insfo wrote:lol @ the reigning MVP not even garnering a single vote.

Not surprised especially after what happened in the ECF.

arsenic · Post #14 » by **arsenic** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:26 pm

Great. Doesn't mean **** until we actually do it.

Though I'm not surprised.