#focus#mustwin#playoffs#drama? : 2013 NBA playoffs

Zach Lowe ‏@ZachLowe_NBA 2h
Heat are +5 for series total. They are -20 with Bosh, LeBron, and Wade together. I think that kind of split is unprecedented for them.

yo

#tradewade

i just finished this game a few hours ago and got dayum

that third quarter like a self-published e-book "how to lose a basketball game in under 12 minutes" by your miami heat esq.

"I am able to replay a lot of plays in my head," James said, and soon he started to list – one by one – the circumstance of every, easy Wade miss on Saturday night. No video clips needed, James remembered them all.

"We can state the obvious: They're both struggling," James said.

damn bron http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--lebron-james-dwyane-wade-chris-bosh-big-three-miami-heat-065701885.html

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 2, 2013 10:52 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

im not sure if i recall correctly (lol) but i think larry bird could do this too- or maybe it was magic or maybe both of them- if you describe a game situation to them they will take it from there and tell you where a teammate turned the ball over or whatever

as kerrs been hammering on during the games indys ability force miami to go big is killing their offense, its really the small ball lineups that are transcendent, w two bigs theyre ordinary

― lag∞n, Sunday, June 2, 2013 9:48 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

this is killing me, i know birdman was suspended but you can't throw joel anthony out there and expect jack shit, dude is literally made of cobwebs at this point. you won last year going small and letting lebron go ham and have literally said that's the mistake you made in 2011. vogel is totally in control of this series at the mo

sry for excessive "literally"

i wonder how daniel esq is handling this

the heat could go small last year cuz roy hibbert was terrible on offense, they really had no choice but to give joel some burn last game

the heat can employ no strategy to overcome wade and bosh shooting 1-15 (or whatever) in the east finals

everything else besides that point is just noise

joel played well anyway

Yeah wade bosh is really what it boils down to

im not sure if i recall correctly (lol) but i think larry bird could do this too- or maybe it was magic or maybe both of them- if you describe a game situation to them they will take it from there and tell you where a teammate turned the ball over or whatever

dunno bout bird or magic but doug collins has freakish bball memory

would just like to note that I never even get into discussions w/dayo but he chirps in w/some personal insult w/o fail eventually. seen pics of dude, you know he wouldn't be flapping his gums at anyone irl, internet was made for guys like you homey.

the heat can employ no strategy to overcome wade and bosh shooting 1-15 (or whatever) in the east finals

everything else besides that point is just noise

joel played well anyway

― J0rdan S., Sunday, June 2, 2013 11:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah p much, at one point i looked at that bench and thought there's 34 million dollars' worth of wade and bosh just chilling while joel and mike miller try to spark a comeback, which is totally understandable given how terrible they were but still

hibbert has been huge and george has been very good and really indiana's wins have been when their Medium Five outplays the Big Three in aggregate and everything else on that side is probably just noise too

i do think spoelstra is a really good coach but vogel has been a teensy bit better this series, or at least real close

when did we first know wade had a bum knee?

looking at his game log he took two games off in the middle of november and has been pretty erratic since

wade had a great winter!

ha sry november is not the month i meant!

that would be like the entire season

wade was balky the entire second half. he sat games during the streak, basically didn't play at all once it ended and rested during game 4 of the bucks series.

i'd still be a little shocked if the Heat dont win the title.

the new emerging narrative is that heat shouldn't have gone for the streak, #restwade

has the backpedaling on the Heat already begun? wait until and see if actually lose Game 7... (and i hate the Heat)

the way this series has gone the Heat are going to shoot like 65% tonight. how much of this kind of talk did we have last year vs. both this team and the Celts?

i think they'll win tonight

they look really energized in game 5 behind the crowd and remarkably dead in game 6, i'd imagine (and hope) it swings way back the other way in game 7

yeah i'm sorry but i do not want to see the pacers in the finals

xxp that's true, leading up to that monster Lebron game where he took out the Celts by himself there was a lot of choke talk

Huh. I thought Jason Kidd retired before the playoffs.

good one!

these columns today from posnanski and pflanns that are like IT'S ALL ON LEBRON seem really off-base and fossilized to me

technically they're "right" in the sense that of course lebron is the single most important player in the series but if the heat lose tonight -- assuming lebron doesn't put up an epic stinkbomb -- the only legacies ("legacies") that will be hurt will be wade, bosh, ray allen, maybe spoelstra etc

lebron banked his bonafides last playoffs i think, the narrative if they lose will be about how everyone else failed

yeah a lot of the LeBron haters are mostly dumbfounded by how washed up Wade looks and aren't really saying anything about LeBron other than his flopping

Even washed-up Wade can have an efficient game (and has had a few these playoffs), and honestly that's all they need from him / Bosh, as long as a few more players step up. They've already had unexpected brilliant games from Haslem and Birdman; if either of them, or Chalmers, Allen, Battier, or even Cole can come through w/ a surprise 15pt game, Miami should be able to coast tonight.

rip kidd and hill, both easy HOFers

Hill gonna end up being the most anonymous HOFer from the past 30 years. I had to youtube some career mixes just to remind myself that he was the first in a long list of Jorden heir apparents. Impossible to argue against his career numbers, but it's amazing that he'll probably be best remembered for his injury stats more than anything.

I'm sure Elias is buzzing right now w/ some sweet stats collected over a combined 38 years of gameplay.

Ugh already foreseeing Bron driving the lane / dumping off for 48 mins tonight. Worried it might be a blowout.

heat are favored by 7 across the board in vegas

Grant Hill probably wouldn't deserve to be a Hall of Famer without his college achievements imo

well, he wouldn't based on how absurdly exclusive the hall is.

i like that the basketball hall is exclusive. but grant has 5 all-NBA selections, 7 all-star selections, 2 NCAA championships, and a gold medal. and he was just amazing when healthy

all-star selections are pretty lame though, fans are so dumb

he got on the all-star team one year when he played 4 games, for example

did Hill have a better pro career than Mitch Richmond? Walter Davis? It's debatable for sure. But the college success puts him over the top.

god I forgot Mark Aguirre isn't in the hall, what the fuck is going on there

pls basketball gods let the heat shit the bed 2nite

i beseech u

http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2706373/lebronrun.gif

https://vine.co/v/b3hWIpmXLVj

richmond's prime was a little before my time but i don't think he was nearly the all-around player that hill was, and the newer stats now that i look aren't very kind to him. sweet D honestly i've only seen on youtubes i think

agree about aguirre though