Game Thread: Miami Heat Game Thread- April

[Paolo305613]

Monroe and Jennings again inactive for DET

 

[bksballer89]

Wade and Haslem to start for Heat, along with Dragic, Luol and Whiteside.

Its our best starting lineup with the state of our roster.

Not a fan of Walker much.

Doesn't bring much to the table unless he is hot

 

[bksballer89]

The Hawks are playing everyone tonight vs Brooklyn for the record

 

[Paolo305613]

A not surprising slow start and little effort on the defensive end

 

[Andresrenee]

Good to see that Spolestra had his team ready to play this game after the horrible performance against the Cavaliers!

 

[Paolo305613]

I wish the NBA tweaked their illegal screen rule - rather than penalize someone by giving them a foul - just simply make it a turnover and possession for the other team. Most illegal screens are rather harmless, no need to go to the extreme of a foul

 

[Paolo305613]

Good to see that Spolestra had his team ready to play this game after the horrible performance against the Cavaliers!

He always has them ready to play - they dont always execute and respond as needed but lets see what you say when the Heat turn it around and win - lets see if you give as much credit as you do blame

 

[Paolo305613]

And Wade off to a typical start - already missing key FT

 

[Paolo305613]

Wade to the bench with 3 points so far - yeah that will get it done for your team

 

[Andresrenee]

I love the Spolestra apologists.....The man has a roster with Deng, Bosh, and Wade for the first half of the season and was seven games under 500. Subsequently, he has had a roster of Wade, Deng, Dragic and Whiteside and is barely at 500. And this in the Eastern conference.

 

[Paolo305613]

Far from an apologist. I am sure some of the other guys in here who often disagree with me, and I with them - and really any reasonable person would realize that given the amount of injuries and roster turnover throughout the season - there isnt too much a coach(es) can do under their circumstances due to important guys constantly being hurt or just not wanting to play. As I said , and as our broadcasters have said countless times, as well as other fans in here and beat writers - given the amount of roster turnover, the Heat often have to use lineups to start a game or throughout the course of a game - they would prefer not to - and probably wouldnt need to go to were it not for the injuries, etc.

If anything, all this season has done for Spo’s resume and that of his staff, is that they are just as good at what they do in this situation as they would be if they were in the situation they were and have been the last 3-4 seasons.

Too bad your boy Diva Wade and a few other players on the team have cost us so many winable games - certain that Spo wouldve gotten great COY love this season - BTW, just in case your ignorance is just too much tonight, as it often is COY stands for Coach of The Year

 

[bksballer89]

19-5 run

 

[bksballer89]

I love the Spolestra apologists.....The man has a roster with Deng, Bosh, and Wade for the first half of the season and was seven games under 500. Subsequently, he has had a roster of Wade, Deng, Dragic and Whiteside and is barely at 500. And this in the Eastern conference.

Wade missed a ton of games and so did Bosh. Your point is stupid because these guys hardly played together. Deng missed a few games. Whiteside & Dragic had their share of injuries also.

In addition to that unless you have actual stars/superstars as your top 3 players, you need a really good supporting cast to be a good team in this league. Up until the trading deadline our supporting cast after Chalmers was basically Cole, Granger, Ennis, & Birdman.

Not going anywhere with those guys as your 5-9 guys unless your 3 of your top 4 players is Wade, Bosh, & Lebron.

 

[Paolo305613]

Oh btw, your boy Diva Wade seems to have gotten his head out of his vaginal area for the moment and has the Heat up by 4 now - great contributions by him and others now as well as great coaching moves by our coaches as always to stop the bleeding and turn this around

 

[Paolo305613]

19-5 run

Andres is too dumb to realize the imporance of that and just how much great coaching is the reason for it

 

[Paolo305613]

it must be said - well said, bks - well said

 

[bksballer89]

I'm pretty sure that Wade & Bosh did not play 30 games together this season.

This is a flawed roster thanks to Lebron. Our hands were tied because Lebron decided so late in FA that he was leaving. All the guys we would have targeted if he would have told us a week before that he was gone already signed with their new teams or cut their list down to 2 teams

 

[Paolo305613]

Great coaching again for Spo to go to our 3-guard set and its working so far and fueled this run

 

[Paolo305613]

Last broadcast they mentioned how many times the Heat have used a diffrent lineup - I believe its 30 or more - cant expect much from a team in that situation - only an idiot like Andres. I am sure who ever is second to the Heat in that regard is so by a wide margin

 

[Paolo305613]

Hassan doing what he do - even with one hand