By Josh Baumgard (@MiaSportsGuy) Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character. John Wooden’s words should be embodied by this particular Heat team. Especially with the squad setting its sights on the first back-to-back championship in Miami professional sports since the 1973 Dolphins. History reveals a scary precedent for such an endeavor. In 2007, immediately [...]
First off, throw out the Heat’s 3-1 record against the Pacers this year. As we learned last year, “analyzing” regular season outcomes to predict playoff series are about as useful as Charles Barkley using shampoo. Worthless. However we can take certain realizations about those matchups and apply them in the playoffs. Let’s take a [...]
The Final: Miami 110 Indiana 103 Game Ball: Dwyane Wade (41 PTS, 12 REB, 16/29 FG) – 20 points in the first six minutes. Are you kidding me? Stat: Wade, James, and Bosh combined for 90, while the rest of the team finished with 20. Quote: “I’ve never seen that before. It looked like Randy [...]
Tipoff: 7:00 PM (ET) Tuesday, February 15, 2011 Where: Conseco Field House, Indianapolis, IN TV/Radio: Sun Sports, 790 WAXY Records: Miami 39-15 (2nd in East), Indiana 24-28 (8th in East) Line: Miami by 5 Offensive Efficiency: Miami 4th, Indiana 24th Defensive Efficiency: Miami 3rd, Indiana 10th Notes Indiana is 7-1 since Frank Vogel took over [...]
The Final: Miami 117 Indiana 112 Heat’s Record: 38 – 14 (1/2 game back of Boston in the East) Game Ball: LeBron James – 43 PTS, 13 REB, 8 ASS, 3 STL, 15/23 FG. He is the hands-down MVP this year. There is nobody playing on his level right now and for that he deserves [...]
