[HandDownManDown13Participant]

With the finals ending in the fashion that they did, it’s only natural that every NBA fan is spamming the panic Button on behalf of the heat. I think, however, that most of the reactions have been blown completely out of proportion. Heres a couple thoughts on which I’d like to see yalls opinions. 1) every NBA fan and his uncle are saying that the heat wasted a year (Jim Rome even said it) since they didn’t win the championship this year. Everyone is chastising them for losing and saying thing like "the future is hopeless" and "they won’t ever win a championship".  I think this is totally ridiculous. While the Heat were considered heavy favorites by the mass of NBA fans this season, if you look back at the experts predictions at the beginning of the year, almost none of the "experts" predicted the heat to win. For the most part they predicted exit in the Eastern conference finals or semi’s to the magic or celtics.  As such, I would say that the heat have actually slightly outperformed their expectations for the first year. They had a lot of gaping holes on their roster and those holes were even further exposed with key injuries to the likes of Haslem and Miller (neither of whom were close to normal form in the playoffs).  Additionally, they beat a very good bulls team in the eastern conference finals, which has to count for something.  2) pending the new CBA, the Heat should get to add a solid veteran free agent each year with the Mid-level exception. The MLE let’s teams sign free agents to a deal that begins with them being paid the average salary in the league while allowing teams to go over the salary cap in the signing. This allows the Heat to partially shore up their weaknesses with key free-agent signings over each summer, leading to them improving over time.  3) They will get better. Seriously. This team is oozing with talent and I think it’s obvious that they didn’t make full use of it this year. Wade, Bosh, and James didn’t get magically worse this year, they just saw less touches with the improved talent and also had to deal with the adjustments needed to play together. As their chemistry improves, I think they will continue to get much better. Their defense is already great. Once their offense starts to flows better, they should improve greatly (they still won a ton of games with that incredibly disgusting looking, stagnant offense).  3) stop calling for the heat to fire Eric Spoelstra. He didn’t do a bad job considering the circumstances. Spoelstra is one of the budding young coaching stars of the NBA and he will continue to improve as a coach.  Everyone says that he was outcoached by Rick Carlisle in the finals. I don’t think that the finals are a complete measure of what kind of coaching capability Spoelstra possesses.  Remember, it looks like Rick Carlisle severely outcoached Phil Jackson in the mavs-lakers series.  Does this mean that Carlisle is a better coach than the Zen Master? No.  Does this mean that Phil Jackson is an incompetent coach? Hell no.  Also, during the bulls-heat series, it appeared that Spoelstra outcoached  Tom Thibodeau. Thibs was the coach of the Year if y’all didn’t remember.  All in all, the heat could be In much worse situations than they are. Let’s just hope chris bosh finds some aggressiveness and LeBron stops falling in love with 20 foot fadeaways when he’s being guarded by a point guard. Maybe then, the heat can start tapping into all that Talent. 

[Tongue-Out-Like-23Participant]

Please use paragraphs

[andxxxParticipant]

 paragraphs are your friend

[HandDownManDown13Participant]

Yeah I tried posting it From my iPhone with the plain text editor. #fail. I’ll repost it with proper formatting in a minute when I have a computer

[The Scare Crow ReturnsParticipant]

You are allowed 1 MLE signing every other year and you must be over the cap, but with the New CBA likely to ban the MLE and impose a hard cap you can start finding other options to fill your rosters…The Heat have Wade, Lebron, Bosh, Haslem, Miller and Anthony signed next year, Mario is a RFA and the Heat may very well be out bid for his talents, The Kings have a ton of cap room and a need for a Pg like Chalmers, yes he won’t be back up singer to the Heatles but he’ll make plenty of money…so with the 1st pick in the 2nd round and almost 0 cap space, how do they fill these huge holes at Pg and C , they’ll need shooters too…

[Memphis MadnessParticipant]

Well, the Big Three might not have gotten worse over the year but they haven’t gotten better either.  Chalmers is the only guy that got a lot better.  Joel Anthony got marginally better but the other guys fell off big time such as Bibby, Juwan Howard, Big Z, Dampier, and Mike Miller.  Udonis Haslem played very well when he came back but has been in the league a while and has probably already peaked too.

Dirk was the best player in the Finals, both as an outside shooter but also a guy that can score on post-ups and going to the basket with big men draped all over him.  Dirk has a better post game than LeBron and Bosh.  Wade is a great scorer but so is Dirk.  Dirk can kill teams with 3’s too.  If Dirk keeps refining his post game he will be unstoppable inside giving the Mavs an unorthodox but deadly Twin Towers with Dirk and Chandler.  Caron Butler and Beubois will be coming back and will make the Mavs even deeper.

In the East the Bulls will get better (I think they make some upgrades this offeason).  Rose and Noah are getting better each year and Deng is steadily refining his game.  Plus, both the Bulls and Mavs have better draft picks than the Heat do. 

[cbeckermanParticipant]

 that I was trying to establish. players in the middle of thier careers arent going to transform themselves and if they add to one area whos to say it may not affect thier games negatively in another area. its also called the offseason for a reason, lebron, wade, and james also have family lives, business interests and they do need time to relax and rest as well.

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