NBA 10-11

[Bodie The Cursed]

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

weakness is exposed in the post season. No bigs, bye bye..

Will LeBron quit again?.. Take his ball and go home like the season before?..

So much fun..

 

[The Josh]

Heat fans just seem to think all their problems just miraculously fix themselves once the playoffs start and it just doesnt work that way. Its the opposite. In the regular season you can bounce all over the place playing bad teams to good teams and back to bad teams.

In the playoffs youre playing the same teams 4-7 games within a week to two weeks. Your problems are excaberated five fold playing against smart, talented teams. They dont just disappear. Why do you think Lakers and Spurs fans are so worried? We know our weaknesses. And they can be exploited against the right teams. The most glaring problem for the Heat is their crappy bench. Foul trouble, injuries, cold shooting, whatever will exploit that. I cant think of a team that won it all with a poor bench.

Not to mention they dont have any closers. Their record STINKS to high heaven when the game is on the line. I think its something like 1-16 when they are down by 5 or less with :24 to go. They cannot handle the pressure. They are mentally WEAK.

Right thats the thing is how these teams get around their weaknesses and make them strengths. Will Miami be able to make their bench play better or will those three have to score at least 90 a game to have a chance. My concern with Chicago is they have to get solid production out of Boozer and Deng. The rest of the guys can do their thing and I think we're ok. I saw one or two folks (not here) say they expect Rose to crash back to earth. Like all of a sudden he's gonna start playing like crap. To me that just seemed crazy.

 

[jstep13]

Newsflash! Miami fans suck balls...

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/15/sports/basketball/15miami.html?_r=2

Smoke. No Fire.

By DON VAN NATTA
Published: April 14, 2011

MIAMI — With a roster headlined by LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, the Miami Heat, at least in theory, has enough star power to effortlessly rally a city and pump up a crowd.

But in Miami, where people love parties but rarely arrive to any of them on time, it has not quite worked out that way: Ticket holders straggle in long after the opening tip and flee en masse midway through the fourth quarter to beat the traffic. Clusters of red-and-orange seats remain blindingly vacant, making American Airlines Arena appear half-empty on television.

Meanwhile, the arena’s plush lounges are jammed with fans sipping mojitos, snacking on tapas and taking in the sumptuous Miami skyline. Texting is rarely interrupted for cheering. And when P. Diddy claims his courtside seat — midway through the second quarter, usually — his presence creates more electricity among the nearby high-paying fans than any alley-oop dunk by the Three Kings, as The Miami Herald has christened James, Wade and Bosh.

“This is the most interesting sports team of my lifetime,” said Dan Le Batard, a local sports radio commentator at the Heat’s flagship station and a Herald columnist. “And yet when LeBron does the powder toss before each home game, he does it before a bunch of empty seats. It’s embarrassing.”

Even before the current season began, Heat executives, worried about South Florida basketball fans’ notoriously distracted behavior, began imploring fans — bribing is probably not too strong a word — to show up on time, and be rewarded with discounts at the concession stands. The Fan Up, Miami! program, not shockingly, was ridiculed across the country.

It is not necessarily the players, though. It might just be the town.

“We are a bipolar city,” said Josh Baumgard, a Heat fan who writes the MIA Sports Guy blog and works at WQAM, a sports radio station. “This is probably the best product in the N.B.A. and the team needed to put out a memo to get people to come out in time for tip-off and cheer. It’s sad.”

Rick Torrente, a season-ticket holder since 2000, is stunned that some season-ticket holders in his section do not take their seats until halftime. “In general, and I’m sorry to say this and sad to say this: Miami fans are not true fans,” Torrente said. “I have never seen a team work so hard to get people to cheer.”

It was not supposed to be this hard.

When James and Bosh decided to join Wade in Miami last July, their move transformed the Heat into one of the league’s marquee clubs. Brokers bought season tickets at mark-ups of 400 to 500 percent. (Torrente said he sold a pair of his $130 face value tickets for $600 each.)

But South Florida’s shipwrecked economy has made premium tickets difficult to resell. On many nights, brokers say they are forced to sell some of the arena’s best seats at deep discounts.

“Our city is broke,” Le Batard said. “You’ve got the rich people who don’t value those seats, but if you look at the television and radio ratings, they are going crazy. People are very interested in the team — they just can’t afford to go to the games. As much as a bandwagon town that this is, I just think a lot of what you are seeing in the arena has to do with the economy.”

Fair enough. But there are other factors involved. James’s now-infamous declaration live on ESPN last July — “This fall, I’m going to take my talents to South Beach” — made the Heat the most despised team in the league. And it has turned off some longtime Miami Heat fans, like Anita Marks, who grew up in South Florida.

“LeBron kind of ruined it for me,” Marks said. “I watch and enjoy it more when they lose.”

Some fans assumed the team would cruise through the regular season, but the team’s lack of chemistry contributed to a wobbly 9-8 start. And the Heat, which play the Sixers in the opening round of the playoffs, has struggled against the league’s elite teams.

Although the Los Angeles Lakers have also had to hunt for innovations to energize distracted fans, the problem is more deeply entrenched. Florida, after all, is transient, full of people newly arrived or on their way through.

“Miami is the only city in America where you go to any professional sporting event, and you can expect half the crowd to root for the other team,” said Sid Rosenberg, a WQAM sports commentator and unapologetic Knicks fan. In addition, he said, “this is a football town.”

Mindful of these challenges, Heat executives last October initiated the program Fan Up, Miami! Fans in their seats before the game are handed black cards rewarding them with 10 percent discounts at concession stands. “Thanks for Showing Up on Time! We Noticed,” the cards read.

The strangeness of it all is only underscored because the Heat is not an upstart franchise; the team won the N.B.A. championship in 2006.

Team executives challenged fans to mute the criticism by attending all 48 minutes of home games. “The organization stepped up and put a team together that every other team wants,” Michael McCullough, the Heat’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, told The Sun-Sentinel last October. “Let’s show we’re worthy.”

McCullough and other Heat officials declined to comment for this article.

“We laugh at these people who arrive four minutes before halftime and then they go out to the bar and get something to eat and they don’t return until early in the fourth quarter,” said Norman Braman, the longtime Eagles owner and Miami auto-dealership magnate who regularly attends Heat games with his wife.

Scott Raab, a writer for Esquire and a Cavaliers fan who is now writing a book about James’s departure from Cleveland and fan loyalty, said Heat fans love their mojitos most of all. “I have been to Jets games where the crowd holds their liquor better,” Raab said.

A Heat home game ranks among the loudest in the N.B.A., but much of the noise is artificial. A platoon of Heat employees, all armed with microphones, repeatedly order fans to cheer. The public-address announcer Michael Baiamonte regularly shrieks, “Ladies and gentlemen, stand up and make some noise for your Miami Heaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!” A rap D.J. named DJ M. Dot even shouts, “Make some noise.”

Last Sunday afternoon, the Heat played its final regular-season home game, against the Boston Celtics. The No. 2 playoff seed in the Eastern Conference was up for grabs. But fans once again straggled late into the arena as a national TV audience watched. It was Heat Fan Appreciation Day, and the team rewarded a handful of “the best fans in the N.B.A.” with gifts like autographed sneakers and new tires. In return, the Heat could be forgiven for hoping fans would reciprocate during an impressive 100-77 victory.

In a videotape played for the crowd, James said, “Without you guys, there’s no us.”

The Heat begins the playoffs at home on Saturday against Philadelphia. Veteran fans, like Braman, are hopeful that even the people sitting near P. Diddy will rally around the team that the rest of America loves to hate.

“They may be villains,” Le Batard said, “but they’re our villains.”

 

[NosferatuBill36]

^^^^ That article is 100% truth. Lebatard, Rosenberg, etc. are RIGHT ON THE MONEY.

Miami sports fans are terrible. Which is sad, because they ruin it for the TRUE Miami fans. The ones that actually attend games, etc.

 

[FlyAndFight]

This thread =

 

[The ill Jedi]

Heat Fans =

 

[denger4000]

I truly hope that is the matchup for the Finals.

I truly hope neither of those teams make finals.

 

[Sweet Rabbit]

...just when you thought it couldnt get any more retarded...

I feel like I should come into this thread with a bowl of popcorn

 

[Shatterer of Dreams]

You can be dismissive all you like... I suppose your attitude isn't much different than the stalwarts who laughed in Columbus' face when he told them the world was round, or locked up copernicus when he suggested that the center of the universe wasn't the earth.

- maybe they all laughed at him because they already knew the world was round by the time Columbus was alive. It was Pythagoras who first stated that the world was round and had the science to back it up, however Columbus used some Hinky math to calculate its size so that a westward passage to China/India would be possible. Columbus gets wrongly credited with a lot of things.

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Once again wake gets owned

 

[jstep13]

I guess Wake believes Forrest Gump taught Elvis to dance and busted Nixon for Watergate too...

 

[FlyAndFight]

This thread =

Actually, I should have used these emoticons:

 

[Wake]

I guess Wake believes Forrest Gump taught Elvis to dance and busted Nixon for Watergate too...

I don't undertand... So Forrest Gump didn't win the medal of honor?!?





HEAT GONNA LAY SOME SMACK DOWN .... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

https://youtu.be/YckTXZ3WjA0

 

[Deeznutz6]

That is a sick photo

 

[nash]

ROFL against the BUCKS!!

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

____er can get up..

 

[jstep13]

Anyone remember when LeBron got dunked on by some punk college kid? I couldnt find any video, you know why? Because LeBron is a PUNK and confiscated all the video! I guess we cant be witnesses...

https://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4315071

AKRON, Ohio -- What happens at LeBron's camp stays at LeBron's camp.

A minor controversy erupted at the LeBron James Skills Academy on Monday night when two videographers recorded a pickup game in which Xavier's Jordan Crawford dunked on James.

Gary Parrish reported on CBSSports.com that a Nike representative confiscated tapes of the dunk after conferring with James.

A representative with Nike, which runs the camp at the University of Akron in James' hometown, made no mention of Crawford's dunk. He said the tapes were confiscated because videotaping of after-hours pickup games at the camp is not allowed.

"Nike has been operating basketball camps for the benefit of young athletes for decades and has long-standing policies as to what events are open and closed to media coverage. Unfortunately, for the first time in four years, two journalists did not respect our no videotaping policy at an after-hours pickup game following the LeBron James Skills Academy," Nike spokesman Derek Kent said on Wednesday.

Ryan Miller, who videotaped the dunk and had his tape confiscated, detailed the events to CBSSports.com.

"[Nike Basketball senior director Lynn Merritt] just said, 'We have to take your tape,' " Miller said. "They took it from other guys, too."

Miller, who is a freelancer, was at the camp in part for ESPNU. He also was getting material for Syracuse.com. Miller, who attended Syracuse, had been part of ESPNU's Campus Connection program, which uses college students to report on various sports events at their campuses. The tape that was confiscated belonged to Miller, not ESPN, and he is not an ESPN employee.

Miller said he had been filming all day and had his tapes confiscated only after Crawford's dunk over James.

"LeBron called Lynn over and told him something," Miller told CBSSports.com. "That's how I knew his name was Lynn. LeBron said, 'Hey, Lynn. Come here.' "

Minutes later, Miller said Merritt demanded his tape.

"There's nothing I can think of besides LeBron just not wanting it online," Miller told CBSSports.com. "It's a good story to tell people, I guess. But then again, I'm kind of pissed. I lost my tape."

A spokesman for James said he had no comment.

The camp features 80 top basketball prospects from around the nation.

Crawford said his dunk happened in the first 20 minutes of a game that lasted about two hours and did not prompt any reaction from James.

"We just went on playing," Crawford said Wednesday. "It was exciting just to be playing on the same court as him. I can see why he is so great at what he does."

In an interview on "ESPN First Take" on Thursday, Crawford said he didn't realize the magnitude of his feat until he noticed the reaction of other players at the camp.

As for the tape not being available for public viewing, Crawford said: "It's really not a big deal to me."

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

< LOL!!

 

[Bodie The Cursed]

Go indy!!!!