Miami Heat Continue Slide, Lose By 16 To Pacers

The Indiana bench completely outscored the Miami bench, despite Lebron playing 41+ minutes. Can’t way I’m surprised either.

Albeit, Wade & Lebron did both have off nights shooting (wade was 1-13), so good luck counting on that.

But in the words of one of my heroes, Jeff Clark, “HAAHAHA HAHAHAH” :)

The two wins against the heat are still “big”. The heat are a depleted team with multiple injuries. Sure, they are hitting a rough patch, but they will still be dangerous come playoff time.
As a Celtics fan, I would still see the heat (with Lebron+Wade+Bosh) as a playoff threat, no matter how badly they perform in the regular season. Teams with talent can beat any team, and lose to any team.
Just ask the Celtics in 2010. And probably this season.

…I wonder how long Riels will wait before he makes a coaching change? Dampier might help some, but he’s a notoriously unmotivated player. Etan Thomas would have been a better fit.

they have no identity, no depth, no rallying cry outside of getting mad when they hear chants of “over-rated”. They’ll get better when their guys Miller, Halsem and Wade get healthy but they still can’t play “together” as Doc would put it.

I like Wade. He is tough. The other 11? fugedabahtit.

The best part of this to me, is the contrast between our 3 in ’08 – they hit the ground tearing up the league, There was a plan, they worked together over the summer, Doc put it together.

This is the opposite. “It takes time to meld” – yeah – that’s what the summer is for/

He’d fit right in with the Heat’s present chemistry.

honestly, this team will prob win 3-4 rings…JUST NOT IN THE NEXT 2 YEARS WITH THE CELTICS AROUND

George must have had a preminition of the future when he wrote that song, as it describes the Heat perfectly. Everybody’s out to get their’s and nobody is worrying about the team. Classic Lebron on display here….enjoy it. He should really get in the post and display all the hard work he’s put in during the offseason on his post play….that might actually help the team. but since LBJ’s all about himself you know he hasn’t worked on his post game. The only thing he’s been posting up are the young cuties down on the beach.

That guy is just terrible. I know his stats from last season look fairly solid, but they don’t tell the true story. That guy is just horrible. If I were KG, I’d call Damp “cancerous”

Everyone I know who watches a lot of basketball knew Lefaker should have gone to Chicago or stayed put. Chi would have been an upgrade from his Cle team
Last year Cle had Shaq and Sideshow Bob up front PLUS Hickson and Jamison. And Mia has LeBosh??? Sheeds shadow dominated LeBosh last year. Haslem is ok but come on, and he is not a big guy.

Did I mention Cle had Shaq and Sideshow Bob???

So Mia has Miller and Wade. Wade has been hurt a lot. If you had to guess one of the guys (the small 3)would play like he was an overrated joke and and another would get hurt who would you have picked? Thats right.
Cle had shooters too. Mia wasn’t gonna be better than Cle was, yet. Mle every year though

It sounds like making excuses for Lebron, saying he had a lousy team in CLE built up around him.

That team last year… think about it: replace LeBron with Paul Pierce, and their coach Mike Brown with Doc Rivers… and that team easily could win a championship.

Not because PP is a better athlete, but a better teammate. With Brown’s coaching, you had a bunch of very capable role players and scorers standing around watching the Lebron show.

I kind of felt bad for the role players on CLE (except when they played the Celtics, then suffer the wrath) because it was watch the Lebron show, wait your turn to maybe get the ball with 4 seconds left on the shot clock, miss two in a row, and you are benched.

They’re still a formidable team when they play the Big 2 1/2 40-45 minutes which they did in both losses to Boston. LeBron and Wade can go off at any time and few people can guard them when they do. Dwayne had the worst shooting night of his career in the loss to the Pacers.

They had Haslem when we played them and it’s obvious losing him is huge for the Heat. They were out rebounded by 9 last night and I expect that trend to continue. Erick Dampier will not solve their problems, he was overrated in his prime and there must be a reason why he was sitting at home at the end of November when plenty of NBA teams could use a center.

When Wade and LeBron have big nights they can beat anyone but they can’t rely on that night in and night out when the rest of the roster is so weak. The only way this team is going anywhere in the playoffs is if they ship Chris Bosh out next month and receive a capable point guard and center in return. Pat Riley is not going to do that so they’re going nowhere.

Miami has never won a title at Boston`s expense…something LA has done 3-5 times!

It’s gonna happen. This is exactly how Pat Riley wanted it to happen. Now he has the excuse to step in and get another ring, a la Stan Van Gundy in 2006. But it won’t be until after the Lakers Christmas Day game. The Heat will embarrass themselves, and Riley will be coach by New Years.

Of course none of that is gonna matter, because the Celtics are gonna roll the East before taking on the Spurs in the finals (Lakers lose in 7 in the WCF).

Write it down.

However, I don`t see Riley taking over a sinking ship.

If they were to create some chemistry or positive energy first, then I could see it happening.

Jeff,
I see the heat as an unfinnished project. I didn’t get caught up in all the hoop-la this off season. It ain’t that easy to just go out sign the best players and buy a title. It takes alot more than that to win a title. Tallent may get u to the playoffs but that’s it really.
The heat aren’t winning a title this year and maybe not next year. Teams win titles.
 I being a life long Celtic fan preach this daily. Miami doesn’t hace the role players and tallent past the superfriends. Wade doesn’t know how to adjust. LEBRON is just unsure. Bosh however is plain out lost! Boston sanantonio LA even Orlando and Utah aand Denver has that team mentality to go with wide spread tallent., Miami will get things on track eventually…the superfriends will hopefully figure it out…if I’m Miami I tell lebron to play power foward…post up or I look to trade him for a coue of real good players. Hello clippers make an offer u have pieces to offer….long term looks good for Miami but for now they aren’t a real threat to any veteran championship caliber team.