The Official Let's Over React To The Heat Thread

[NAHSTE]

...Anyone got the score of the Celtics and Hawks game from last night?........

:smug:

I didn't watch it, but at least we didn't get blown out by the Pacers.


:kanye:

 

[Primetime]

I'll start to over react when the Heat are .500 in the end of January. Until then, none of this matters.

 

[mgoblue2290]

I hear James isn't having any "fun"

But it worked so well when he was playing his NBA Live 2010 franchise!!

 

[Miggy]

Wade blows.


/that is all

 

[Dan The Man]

They will sign Shawn Kemp or Chris Webber to replace him.

 

[IamMedellin]

Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson isn't surprised that the revamped Miami Heat are struggling initially, but he thinks if they don't get it together soon coach Erik Spoelstra's days could be numbered.
After adding LeBron James and Chris Bosh to go along with Dwyane Wade, Miami has limped to an 8-6 record. Wade has been banged up, Mike Miller hasn't played a game and now Udonis Haslem could miss significant time.

"That record, I think, says a lot about coming together with some real talented guys, and not having a base," Jackson said on "The Waddle & Silvy Show" on ESPN 1000 in Chicago. "And then some things happened to them, Wade getting hurt.

"They're still kind of searching out how they're going to find a role and work their roles together," Jackson continued.

Jackson acknowledged public sentiment is working against the Heat at the moment instead of rooting for them to turn it around.

"I think a lot of people are looking at that kind of hoping things go wrong instead of hoping things go right because of the way they were formed," Jackson said. "There's a lot about public feelings. There's a lot about this that hoIds sway over how things go for people and I think they just have to have some good will in them and get it going."

With expectations so high going into the season after team president Pat Riley assembled his dream team, the pressure is on Spoelstra to deliver. When the Heat struggled to an 11-10 start to the 2005-06 season, Riley shocked the league by replacing Stan Van Gundy on the Miami bench. He hadn't coached since the 2002-03 campaign but led the Heat to the NBA championship.

The scenario that sits kind of behind the scene, is that eventually these guys that were recruited -- Bosh and James -- by Pat Riley and Micky Arison, the owner, are going to come in and say, 'We feel you [Riley] can do a better job coaching the team. We came here on the hopes that this would work,' and whatever, I don't know," Jackson said. "That's kind of my take on it, is that eventually if things don't straighten out here soon, it could be the Van Gundy thing all over again."

http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=5842655

 

[ralaw]

I hear James isn't having any "fun"

You can tell by the way he's playing. With the Cavs he seemed to have fun, but with Miami you can tell the pressure has forced him to be all "business," which IMO isn't good for his game.

 

[mgoblue2290]

You can tell by the way he's playing. With the Cavs he seemed to have fun, but with Miami you can tell the pressure has forced him to be all "business," which IMO isn't good for his game.

Kind of ironic because the whole reason he went to the Heat was so he could have fun and not worry about every game every night.

 

[NAHSTE]

It's like a Greek tragedy. Brought down by hubris, and unable to have the very thing which you wanted to have most. Which in this case, is fun.

 

[citizenerased]

Wonder if Erik Spoelstra has started clearing out his office (and stealing all the stationery) yet?

They were 11-10 when Riley gave Van Gundy the chop in 2006.

 

[Deviant]

"Once the game starts, it's gonna' be easy."

-- LeBron James, July 9th

 

[MvP]

 

[NAHSTE]

^ Tremendous.

 

[IamMedellin]

Medellin Fact: Heat are 1-6 against teams over .500

 

[Primetime]

^ Not a Medellin fact....just a fact.

 

[Deviant]

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You know what's funny about LeBatard telling New York to welcome to another decade of irrelevance? The difference between the Heat and Knicks is only one win. They're both mediocre!

 

[citizenerased]

Look's like there was a reason you go them all at a discount Lebamatard,

 

[ralaw]

Sources: Erik Spoelstra frustrating Heat
The Miami Heat's players are frustrated with Erik Spoelstra and some are questioning whether he is the right coach for their team, according to people close to the situation.

With the ballyhooed Heat losing four of their last five games and sporting a mediocre 9-8 record, the players are privately grumbling about Spoelstra on several fronts.

Sources say the players believe he is not letting them be themselves, that they are questioning his offensive strategies, and that they think he is panicking because he fears losing his job.

In contrast to the popular view that Spoelstra has been hesitant to jump on superstars LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, sources say the Heat coach has shown no fear in criticizing them.

Exhibit A was a recent shootaround in which Spoelstra told James that he had to get more serious. The source said Spoelstra called James out in front of the entire team, telling him, "I can't tell when you're serious."

"He's jumping on them," one source said. "If anything, he's been too tough on them. Everybody knows LeBron is playful and likes to joke around, but Spoelstra told him in front of the whole team that he has to get more serious. The players couldn't believe it. They feel like Spoelstra's not letting them be themselves."

It is not known whether the players voiced their concerns about Spoelstra during their players-only meeting following Saturday's loss at Dallas. Nor is it apparent whether the bump between James and Spoelstra during a timeout in that game was accidental or a result of tension between the two.

Following the loss Saturday to Dallas, Wade said: "I never would put anything on the coach -- win, lose or draw -- because they can give us the game plan but they're not on the court playing. ... Now it's time to take ownership. This is our team, even though we respect our coaches for what they do."

Spoelstra was not immediately available for comment. The Heat has a shootaround Monday morning in preparation for a game against Washington later in the day.

According to the sources, the Heat players believe Spoelstra's offensive strategies have been too simplistic. They feel like he is running nothing but pick-and-rolls and telling the Heat's secondary players to find open spots on the floor for catch-and-shoot jumpers.

The sources said the players also think the constant speculation about Spoelstra's job security is getting to the third-year coach and that he has resorted to nitpicking over minor details because of it.

"He's not a motivator," one of the sources said. "Instead of coaching he's at the point where the players are starting to sense that he's fearing for his job."

"I don't worry about changes," Wade said on Saturday. "I can't control them. Only thing we can control is our effort and the way we play."

Several people close to the situation said Wade definitely does not want team president Pat Riley to come down to the sidelines. Sources also said that while recruiting players this past summer, Riley insisted that he would not coach the team.

"Riley kept saying 'Spoelstra's a good coach and he'll grow into a great coach,' " a source said. "He said he got his coaching break [with the Los Angeles Lakers] around the same age as Spoelstra got his."

It is widely believed that Riley does not want to coach this season. However, one source said that privately Riley has at times been critical of the Heat's game-planning.

While expectations around the league have started to lessen for the Heat because of their struggles, the sources said the players still have a championship-or-bust mentality for this season and that they are open to whatever changes are necessary to get there.

While the players think that may mean a coaching change, one member of the Heat organization said the team is suffering from a lack of leadership from the players, not the coach.

"They don't want to step on each other's toes," the person said. "There's no leader on the team. Somebody has to speak up and be the leader on the team. They can't be afraid to step on people's toes. They need a vocal leader who's going to make everybody accountable. I don't think it's on the coach. It's on the players."

Chris Broussard covers the NBA for ESPN The Magazine. Information from The Associated Press is included in this report.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/news/story?id=5862172

 

[mgoblue2290]

This whole situation is hilarious at this point. One of the major concerns was not who would step up but who would step aside and now we find out neither LeBron or Wade is really willing to take full control of the team.

 

[Mogriffjr]

This is clearly Wade's team though mgo.