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How long before the Heat go back to traditional basketball? Without LeBron James, Shane Battier, there are no other players who can play small ball. Josh McRoberts looks nothing like the player we saw last April in the playoffs. -- Stuart.
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We need the reinvention Riley called for. Spoelstra is still playing smallball, but it can't work without LeBron, whose special abilities compensated for the bad rebounding and headless chicken defense. Spo continues to do everything just the same as last year, while taking no personal...
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A: The question is whether the Heat are failing because of the system, because of the personnel or because of effort. If it's the last of those three, then there likely is no answer. And there are times when it looks that way. A team that previously could turn it on at will no longer has the personnel (or person) who can do that. The system certainly was exposed by the Spurs during last season's NBA Finals, but that also was during a week that Gregg Popovich said his team played at its ultimate level. The reality is teams with far less talent or coaching also are carving apart the Heat this season. I think personnel has a lot to do with it, with dismal play at point guard. The hope has to be that when Luol Deng and Josh McRoberts are on the court together, the Heat will have enough to at least attempt to compensate for other deficiencies. The reality is that the depth is lacking. So far this season there have been Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and huge question marks.
Q: Friday night was truly painful. I tried to convince my dad this team is worth watching for its scrappiness. That only worked for the first 10 games. -- Diego.
A: The reality is that if it doesn't improve during this five-game trip, I think you are going to see major drop-offs in attendance and interest when the Heat return home to play eight of nine starting next Sunday. And that will be one of the most important stretches of the season for the Heat. The performances this past week against the Wizards and Bucks were disgraceful. It would be difficult to find any fan who could stomach a double dose of that.
Q: If it’s all about the cap space and available free agents for 2016-17, maybe the Heat are just buying time with what they have, with a couple of possible tweaks involving young, inexpensive prospects for now. Of course, I'm hoping the Heat find away to put a competitive team on the floor that can at least go past the first round, but no one knows what Pat Riley has planed. It's tough to go from last year to this year. -- Chet.
A: I think the Heat's major work came this past offseason, and it will be difficult to find any other path than working through this with McRoberts, Deng and Danny Granger. Given considerable cap space to work with in July once LeBron left, Pat Riley decided that those three, plus Mario Chalmers was the best way to go with that cap space. Now it likely will come down to those players providing a payoff. Otherwise, the Heat's options are limited.
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We need the reinvention Riley called for. Spoelstra is still playing smallball, but it can't work without LeBron, whose special abilities compensated for the bad rebounding and headless chicken defense. Spo continues to do everything just the same as last year, while taking no personal...
JOSH22
AT 9:31 AM DECEMBER 07, 2014
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A: The question is whether the Heat are failing because of the system, because of the personnel or because of effort. If it's the last of those three, then there likely is no answer. And there are times when it looks that way. A team that previously could turn it on at will no longer has the personnel (or person) who can do that. The system certainly was exposed by the Spurs during last season's NBA Finals, but that also was during a week that Gregg Popovich said his team played at its ultimate level. The reality is teams with far less talent or coaching also are carving apart the Heat this season. I think personnel has a lot to do with it, with dismal play at point guard. The hope has to be that when Luol Deng and Josh McRoberts are on the court together, the Heat will have enough to at least attempt to compensate for other deficiencies. The reality is that the depth is lacking. So far this season there have been Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and huge question marks.
Q: Friday night was truly painful. I tried to convince my dad this team is worth watching for its scrappiness. That only worked for the first 10 games. -- Diego.
A: The reality is that if it doesn't improve during this five-game trip, I think you are going to see major drop-offs in attendance and interest when the Heat return home to play eight of nine starting next Sunday. And that will be one of the most important stretches of the season for the Heat. The performances this past week against the Wizards and Bucks were disgraceful. It would be difficult to find any fan who could stomach a double dose of that.
Q: If it’s all about the cap space and available free agents for 2016-17, maybe the Heat are just buying time with what they have, with a couple of possible tweaks involving young, inexpensive prospects for now. Of course, I'm hoping the Heat find away to put a competitive team on the floor that can at least go past the first round, but no one knows what Pat Riley has planed. It's tough to go from last year to this year. -- Chet.
A: I think the Heat's major work came this past offseason, and it will be difficult to find any other path than working through this with McRoberts, Deng and Danny Granger. Given considerable cap space to work with in July once LeBron left, Pat Riley decided that those three, plus Mario Chalmers was the best way to go with that cap space. Now it likely will come down to those players providing a payoff. Otherwise, the Heat's options are limited.
