2010-2011 NBA Season

Esquire's Scott Raab going Bissinger on LeBron.

http://twitter.com/Scott_Raab

 

Man, I'm seeing a shit ton of excuses for Miami this morning.

All this chemistry talk, and breathless anticpation for the return of the Incredible Mike Miller won't change the fact that:

1. Chris Bosh will always be soft.

2. Wade will get hurt at some point, miss time, which will make it even harded to jel when it really counts.

 

Too erratic. Good streaky shooters but not over the long haul. Miller will be key.

 

Perfect - it now comes down to Mike Miller.

How long before Riles is back on the sidelines.

 

Phil Jackson wins another three-peat in LA then takes his talents to South Beach in 2011

 

Aren't Riley and the owner tight? No way that happens under Riley's watch. If Riley was gone, that scenario makes perfect sense.

 

As Doc Rivers noted, Wade looked pretty explosive at various points in the game. I don't think Wade would use the hammy as an excuse. He was on the court, and didn't appear particularly hampered by the leg. Was he 80 percent instead of 100? Maybe. But the bottom line is that with the game slipping away, it was LeBron pulling the Heat back, while Wade scored 6 points in the second half.

 

Boston did a great job of forcing Wade into spinning fadeaway jumpers from the baseline rather than allowing him to get to the rim and draw fouls. Bosh is so weak; I mean he's a good player but he's not a "max" guy.

How do GMs fall for that when if you compare his game to Scola its obvious that Scola does so much more, rebounding, positioning, consistent jumper? And Scola is hardly a max guy.

 

Jack Haley agrees.

 

Are you comparing Scola to Wade or Bosh?

 

Bosh.

 

Not excuses, just reasons to withhold judgment one way or the other for at least a month or two.

I happen to agree, the Celtics are better and so are the Lakers, but I'd have written the same thing had they won by 20 points last night.

We don't know what the team is going to look like until it becomes a team and not just a collection of parts. That process takes time.