Ala last year against the Mavs with Marion and Stevenson. The Lakers didn't allow any breakaway fastbreak dunks or layups, which the Heat THRIVE on. The result? 80 something points and a good ole beating on those babied superstars. Lebron and Wade don't play well when you rough up their feathers.
Play physical, slow the game down, stay balanced on offense so they don't get run outs. But you really need dominant two-way bigs.
Not necessarily, Chicago played them physically and they didn't have the talent to match. THe Lakers are fortunate to having to big good bigs, and we should weather this with Chris Bosh being out.
Their big men were a combined 2-16. Wade was in foul trouble all game. Bosh didn't play. If Bosh played, the Heat would have won this game with ease b/c their big men missed so many gimme layups and jumpers.
Bosh is a face-up big that plays from the perimeter. He may have closed the gap by 4 or 5 points but that's about it.
haslem/anthony: 7 points (2-11), 6 rebounds, 1 block gasol/bynum: 26 points (10/21), 22 rebounds, 4 blocks bosh would have balanced out that disparity
Chris Bosh v. the Lakers since the big 3 came together: 1/19/12: 15 pts, 8 boards (6-11fg) 3/10/11: 24 pts, 9 boards (10-17fg) 12/25/10: 24 pts, 13 boards (11-17fg) If you saw how Bynum left the paint wide open and yet still able to recover to bother shots by the Heat's big men... it was laughable how bad the Heat's big men were.
Elite center = death to Miami in the playoffs. Watch out for whatever team Howard is on... if he is on a playoff team.
Orlando is still 5th seed even though every player around Dwight sucks... I don't know! It's a bad team outside of Howard, but they could surprise
i would definitely advise teams to not let chris bosh play and then have washed up guys like artest completely outplay dwade. there's no doubt that's a good strategy.
