At This Rate, Wade and James Will Need a Resuscitator'' By Shaun Powell http://www.nba.com/2010/news/features/shaun_powell/11/16/heat-grind/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt1 .
that's a terrible assessment stats-wise, they're actually AHEAD of the curve. Even with LeBron "struggling" compared to his past two seasons, Bosh playing the worst basketball of his career, and the Heat barely scoring inside the paint, the team is third in the league in offensive efficiency. Eventually, James, Wade, and Bosh are going to embrace each other's versatility, get creative, and start clicking, and that's when things are going to get frightening for the rest of the NBA. http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/miamiheat/post/_/id/1236/taking-the-temperature-10-games-in this gives you stats of the different combos. the thing is: lebron can play much better (his fg% is his lowest). bosh can play much better. and mike miller is not playing yet. they will be fine
There was one thread I read about stats vs in-game scenarios. Can't find it now.. DD was adamant about this, one time or another. Although this is a small sample size (10 games in or so w/ the Heat*) I really do appreciate the stats as some kind of measurement. But there is also the 'eye-test' and the human evaluation of player vs player, clutch moments, fatigue and game schemes which help to correct the flaw of statistics at the end. Teams match up differently to other teams.. You've also got to take into account what/when Lebron says of "playing too many minutes" accordingly with playing multiple positions -preferably. The stats you noted are pretty cool and undeniable but its somewhat, to an extent, inconsistent really- having one evaluation without the other On another note, I hope 'they'll be fine' and barring no injuries. The NBA loves its new hated team
when the season started, i sad we won't really know how great this heat team can be until january AT THE EARLIEST. stats-wise, they are way ahead of the curve. looks-wise, they're up and down. but the season is 82 games. i would be SHOCKED if they don't dominate by like late february and march and rolling through the L.
RMcClanaghanNBA Bosh on Coach Spoelstra "He wants to work, we wanna chill. I hope he can meet us halfway"
People are trying to defend him, saying that his statement "came out wrong." I don't see any way to misconstrue what he said. Coach wants him to work, he doesn't want to work. He wants to chill, while playing one of the most physical and demanding sports there is. I also want to know why he's dragging his teammates into it. Do the other Heat players also want to take a vacation for the rest of the season? Really glad we didn't get him. He's not going to score 35 every night (if ever again this season), and he's lazy and soft. Scola all day. The Ice Cream Man cometh.
bosh playing better when james is on the floor http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/21764/bosh-james-lead-heat-in-blowout-of-suns
“[Heat coach Erik Spoelstra] knows he has to meet us halfway. He wants to work, we wanna chill, but we’re going to have to work to get everything down, to get our timing down, and to get our chemistry down.” that's the exact quote. i wonder how that guy took out the last part.
That changes it a little, but only a little. I still don't think that's the kind of thing you say at the beginning of the season, or at any other time during. Winners don't want to chill, winners want to improve. Chill during the offseason. Chill after you win a championship. Right now there should be no meeting halfway. You do what the coach tells you to do. Maybe he feels that the opinions of three superstars (I very loosely include Bosh in that category) outweigh the opinion of the coach? If the coach needs you to work, and you acknowledge that you need to work to get everything down, but also say that you want to chill and hope the coach will meet you halfway, doesn't that mean you only want to halfway get everything down? I don't think there's any defending Bosh's statement, and I'm really hoping for a monumental collapse for the Heat this season. Does that make me a hater? Sure. I hate what they're doing, and the long-term implications of their scheming to play together and cruise into a championship. I have become a huge Heat hater. It's sad though, because I really like Wade and wish him success. I just think it would be infinitely more interesting for the biggest story of the season to become the biggest failure, in terms of the expectations placed on them. And I think it would help the league more than the Heat finding success and inspiring everyone to mimic them.
how did he say it? jokingly? what if the way he says it is a way to compliment his coach? b/c the last part of the comment basically says that he knows that the heat have a lot of work to do, which basically contradicts the first part. this is why i don't like the coverage on the heat. they take a lot of things out of context. secondly, how will the heat "cruise" to a championship. they still lack a C and PG and the big 3 have to do a lot if they want to win. it's not easy. the lakers easily have more balance than the heat ever will, and they have the best group of big men. boston is too. this should encourage more players to take less money and play to win. and learn to sacrifice within a team concept. for them to make this work, they all have to learn how to play together and keep their EGOS in check, which is hard considering all young players want to be the man and solely the man.
Wow I feel sorry for the coach. All of these expectations for them to win and he has to deal with a bunch of diva's who want to 'chill' instead of working their tails off. If I was a heat fan I'd be disappointed. I watched a few videos on youtube of some dude breaking down some of the Heats games and their attitude really shows, especially Bosh and Wade. In one particular play after a turnover, it took Bosh six seconds to even get back on camera and as a result his opponent scored a tip-in. You are NOT getting paid millions of dollars to jog back down the court in transition D. Pathetic.
I don't know dude, I saw it during halftime of the Spurs-Bulls game and it didn't seem like he was joking. You can see it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0OHiv9TTQM After watching it a bunch of times, it doesn't seem as bad as when I first saw it, but it still seems like a really weird comment. I guess Spo was being more strict with them and some of them bristled at it? Maybe the meeting halfway comment was regarding his approach to the players instead of what he was asking of them. I can see that being the case. Maybe the wanting to chill comment was about Bosh's preference to an easier, laid-back style of coaching where players are trusted to perform without being ridden so hard. I hope so, because a professional basketball player saying that he didn't feel like working during an interview would be pretty disgraceful. AI caught heat for not talkin' 'bout practice, and Bosh shouldn't be exempt from that if that is what he meant. If not, he should probably clarify soon before the national media tars and feathers him. I agree that a lot of the coverage of the Heat is taken out of context. What they arranged is controversial, and it's definitely polarized feelings towards them. When I said they were scheming to cruise to a championship, I didn't mean they actually would. I was referring to how half the country was ready to hand them the trophy before a single game was played because they didn't see how any team could stand in the face of all that talent. If they learn to work as a team, fine. Like I said, I like Wade and I wish him success. I just think their behind-the-scenes arrangement to all get together and try to overwhelm the rest of the league instead of stepping up and willing a group of role players surrounding them to win is underhanded and I hope it blows up in their face.
You can tell who the geeks are in this board, people can still party, chill out and also work hard. Life is more then just working hard all the time, you need time to chill out and relax. Some players in the NBA can go to bed at 3.00am and still drop 40 points on you the next day.
Haha apparently you can't tell. I'm one of the laziest, chillest, pot-smokingest dudes there is, but if I were being paid tens of millions of dollars to do something, you can be ******* sure I'd put in work to make sure I kept getting that money. But I agree- life is about more than working hard. Luckily, the basketball season is only six months long, and during those six months games are played every other day with the exception of back-to-backs. So Bosh is complaining about having to work hard for half of half a year? He works three months, gets paid more than most of us will in five lifetimes, and still says that he wants to chill instead of work like the coach asks him? That's what the offseason is for. The season is for doing your job.
But the time to chill out and relax is NOT when you're at work. You can agree with that? Like you said, if you wanna go out late at night in your free time, that's totally cool. But you certainly shouldn't "chill" at work when you're getting paid huge amounts of money for only working half the year. That's the problem with Bosh, he wants to chill at work when his coach is telling him to work.
http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/ Just some info about Lebrons last 8 games. While Bosh’s breakout game was certainly the story, the play of teammate LeBron James should not be overshadowed. Since getting off to a relatively sluggish start through his first three games with the Heat, James has taken on the type of facilitator role that many envisioned for him. Over his past eight games, James is averaging 22.6 PPG, 6.0 RPG and 10.1 APG compared to just 20.7 PPG, 5.3 RPG and 5.7 APG through those first three games. In fact, those numbers -- 22/6/10 -- have been maintained by just two players over the course of a full season: Magic Johnson and Oscar Robertson.
