BRIGGS wrote:No one is beating this team for the next 5 years unless there is a miracle. They are going to walk around swiping solid role players for the minimum hell I see Kobe dropping off Cs are old Magic are flawed only injury will stop the heat

Wade and Bosh are injury prone- that is the only hope teams have of beating them. Things that might help a little: Maybe Wade drops off quickly with age. Maybe the ref's aren't anywhere near as kind to them as they have been in the past.

I think we discount how bad there teams were.

There are plenty of guys out there that will hang in miami for a year and play with those guys. Not to mention the guys that get cut and bought out mid season. Chris Quinn can hold his own and just get open jump shots.

An imjury is all that is stopping them. Wade nearly won two games against the celtics all by himself what he did in the playoffs was amazing.

Lebron didn't play well and didn't have one teammate against Boston and this was his line

26.8pts 9.3rbs 7.2ass 2.2stls and 1.3blks

Fish that pistons team was like that Golden State team vs. Dallas. Perfect matchup. And Payton and Malone were in serious decline. These three guys are in there prime. That pistons team had Okur who became an All-Star to go with the best defensive team in the league and four all-stars. Orlando is finished if you ask me. I think the Bulls are the best bet to take them out. They will handle the Lakers if the Thunder don't do it before them.

I like were the knicks are as a team right now if Gallo and AR develop Amare stays healthy get some experience and add melo in the offseason we are matchup nightmare

MS wrote:Joel Anthony, Chalmers, Richardson, Jermain O'Neal. Wade is better than Kobe right now. He couldn't get that team to the playoffs only one other guy could have and that's Lebron.

I think we discount how bad there teams were.

There are plenty of guys out there that will hang in miami for a year and play with those guys. Not to mention the guys that get cut and bought out mid season. Chris Quinn can hold his own and just get open jump shots.

An imjury is all that is stopping them. Wade nearly won two games against the celtics all by himself what he did in the playoffs was amazing.

Lebron didn't play well and didn't have one teammate against Boston and this was his line

26.8pts 9.3rbs 7.2ass 2.2stls and 1.3blks

Fish that pistons team was like that Golden State team vs. Dallas. Perfect matchup. And Payton and Malone were in serious decline. These three guys are in there prime. That pistons team had Okur who became an All-Star to go with the best defensive team in the league and four all-stars. Orlando is finished if you ask me. I think the Bulls are the best bet to take them out. They will handle the Lakers if the Thunder don't do it before them.

I like were the knicks are as a team right now if Gallo and AR develop Amare stays healthy get some experience and add melo in the offseason we are matchup nightmare

Anyway the thing w/ Gallo and AR is they are both quick enough to guard and deal w/ smaller players and big enough to destroy smaller players. In a lot of ways AR is a bigger stronger Prince.

Imagine is the Russian kid is a solid defender/rebounder/shotblocker? He's sure as hell athletic. Even if Turiaf is healthy you could a center with Amare 6'10, Gallo 6'10, AR 6'11 and Felton. Just play a zone. You have 4 guys with 7'2+ wingspans who are highly skilled on offense. Thats a matchup nightmare!

Now, they have added Mike (can't defend a lick) Miller to the mix as well as hoping Mike (can't hit the 15footer) Haslem back too. Sure they will score a lot ala Phoenix but they won't be stopping anyone either.

But the point of this video was to kind of laugh at what a-holes they're being about it.

smackeddog wrote:As well as hating the Heat, I hate their reporter, Dan LeBatard too, but I can't remember what he said in the past (I think it was back at the height of the rivalry) that annoyed me so. Was it something about LJ? Or did he make racisit remarks about Ewing? Or insult new york? I honestly can't remember, all I remember is his name and my hatred for him!

I know exactly what you're talking about. Here's an article on what that piece of **** wrote. If you can believe it, this was actually published in the NY Daily News as part of an article exchange with the Miami Herald, during the 90s Knicks-Heat rivalries.

Controversy number two resulted from a tongue-in-cheek column Le Batard wrote on the eve of the recent Miami Heat-New York Knicks NBA playoff series. Among other insensitive swipes in the piece -- which was entitled "New York Fans: Obnoxious! Overbearing! Unpleasant!" -- Le Batard described the typical Knicks fan this way: "He has almost as much grease in his hair as he does on his body, and he wears his baseball cap backward because, well, the hat didn't come with directions. He has pasty skin ... and he starts all sentences with the words, 'Yo, Vinny,' even when addressing his mother." Toward the end, the columnist wrote: "Then there's prehistoric Patrick Ewing, whose facial features were once used by cavemen to chase frightened woolly mammoths. The only reason Ewing isn't the ugliest person in all of sports is because a few years ago Washington imported Gheorghe Muresan from Triteni, Romania."

http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1997-07-17/news/a-cocked-pistol/1