To be honest, every other year a team will go 65 wins. So whats an extra 7. Mark my words - the heat will get either close, or will equal/beat the 72-10 record.
The thing is, with both LBJ and Flash (Bosh is a hack, I don't consider him much of a talent), its very close to guaranteed that at least 1 will have a good game on any given night. Against most scrub teams, this will be enough to win. And when they play good teams, they will be more motivated to win. LBJ single-handedly took the cavs to an impressive record, the kid is a BEAST.
from the other thread: so apparently there's a chinese guy that's not 8 feet tall, signed by the warriors.
http://www.nba.com/warriors/video/2010/01/12/WWWGLeah011110mov-1178680/index.html
now i gotta be a warriors fan...at least a little bit.aww, was hoping he joined the lakers but warriors is still good, at least I can catch some games that way
an extra 7 wins is HUGE.
aww, was hoping he joined the lakers but warriors is still good, at least I can catch some games that way
To be honest, every other year a team will go 65 wins. So whats an extra 7. Mark my words - the heat will get either close, or will equal/beat the 72-10 record.
The thing is, with both LBJ and Flash (Bosh is a hack, I don't consider him much of a talent), its very close to guaranteed that at least 1 will have a good game on any given night. Against most scrub teams, this will be enough to win. And when they play good teams, they will be more motivated to win. LBJ single-handedly took the cavs to an impressive record, the kid is a BEAST.
That would be cool, but seriously, how much would he play on the lakers? A championship team isn't a place for an undrafted rookie to find his place in the league. Warriors are probably an excellent fit for him because there is a lot opportunity to play and grow, and make mistakes along the way (since the warriors suck so much. )
lol
please, you and many other people are obviously delusional. one man does not make a team nor wins games alone, as you would believe lefraud did. believe it or not, the cavs are still a decent team without him. williams, gibson, jamison, hickson, and varajao are a solid starting five albeit a bit undersized.
there's also the fact that quite a bit of talent moved out east this offseason. teams won't be able to take as many nights off with the additions the bulls, knicks, nets, and wizards have made. in the best case scenario, i'm going to guess that they will win 64 games at most. realistically, i see them winning 55-60 games.
that would be karma?Hopefully leSuck gets injured.
i hope not, since i actually like d-wade. he's one of the classier guys in the league, he doesn't showboat, and he's loyal. i guess bosh can get injuredHe won't, Bosh or D-Wade will.
The young and rebuilding Timberwolves aren't interested in taking on a player with West's baggage. His $4.6 million contract will only cost Minnesota $500,000 if West is waived by Aug. 5, and that's what the Wolves plan to do.
Exactly. 65 wins in a season is basically already including an 'extra 7'. It takes an incredible level of 'gelling' for a team to be the machine that the '96 bulls were. Having Phil Jackson here was huge.
Sure they had Jordan to score, but they won 72 because of 3 first-team all-defense players.
That and the fact that Jordan was humiliated earlier in the year by Orlando in his return to the playoffs, and the chip on his shoulder was huge (that never boded well for his competition).
The 'chip on the shoulder' works in the favor of the heat, but they aren't the defensive kings that jordan, pippen, and rodman were, and their team won't gel as quickly either.
To win 72, there an extremely small margin of error and little room for injuries.
(my prediction: NO fvcking way the heat even win 70.)
Eddie House signs with Miami for 2-years
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/29/1752129/miami-heat-signs-guard-eddie-house.html
argh, that's a good pick up by the heat ... looks like things might be coming together for them. no worries though, kobe and & will take care of business
Eddie House signs with Miami for 2-years
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/29/1752129/miami-heat-signs-guard-eddie-house.html
Shaq close to signing with Boston Celtics
http://sports.espn.go.com/boston/nba/news/story?id=5434969
WTF?
I don't doubt that the Heat will win a championship in the next 3 years. With that being said, this year and next are very important for them to learn how to play together well. Kobe and the Lakers are getting older and I think the only chance for Kobe to beat Jordan's number of championships is next year possibly and then things will change once Phil leaves.
It will be pretty enjoyable to see the Heat beat down the Lakers once they start to mesh together well. Gasol's flopping skills won't help them now and Kobe might rape a chick then bitch/whine and want to be traded again.