Miami Heat, Contender's or Pretender's? (part 3)

            With all of the hype surrounding the Miami Heat this off season, most sports fans want to know if this team is a legitimate threat to knock off the Los Angeles Lakers as the next NBA champions. There is a lot of controversy surrounding this team, there are too many egos, they don’t have enough supporting players, and they don’t have a coach with a back bone who can hold them together. All of these are great reasons to bet against the Heat, but will they hold up when the season finally comes around. There are some people that pose the argument that if the Celtics “Big 3” could do it in 2008, why cant the Heat? Just like the Heat, the Celtics brought together three superstar players to try to win a Title.  Although this worked out perfectly for the Celtics, there are a few main reasons why it will not work as well for the Heat. First, the Celtics were built with three veteran players that were willing to do anything to win. The Heat’s superstars are still in the beginning stages of their careers, which means that they are still all about themselves. One day they will wise up and play together, but this will not happen in the upcoming NBA season. The next reason that the Celtics were a success is the fact that none of their big three had ever one a Title. They had all been in the league for many years giving everything they had, but getting nothing in return. This fact tells us that they would have done anything just to win something before they retired. The Heats “Big 3” is a talented team with all the ability in the world to win a title, but although they might think they are, they are not willing do anything and to give up everything to win. So in the question of contenders or pretenders, the Miami Heat are most definitely pretenders for the 2011 NBA Championship.

Miami Heat, Contender's or Pretender's? (part 2)

The Heat are a NBA team loaded with talent. Much like the new era "Dream Team" the Heat have many superstars that are going to be expected to play together and play together well. In the 2008 summer olympics, the USA had an amazingly talent basketball team, a "Dream Team" of sorts. This team had every ego in the book, but they were brought together by the great Coach K ( Krzyzewski). Coach K is known to be one of the greatest basketball coaches of all times, but when he took the national job he knew it would be a challenge. Despite all of their diversities and the clashing ego's, Coach K rallied these superstars to win the Olympic Gold medal. Looking at the roster of this medal winning team, we will find all three of the Heat's supertars. This would tell some people that they can play together and they will succeed because all of them know how not to be selfish. If you look deeper into the situation you will find some flaws in these facts. First of all The had the great Coack K, who has been known for allways bringing the purity back into the game of basketball. The Heat have a coach by the name of Erik Spoelstra, and although he is a NBA coach, he is no Coach K. Coach Spoelstra may be able to keep the Heat going for a few weeks of the season, but eventually someone will get unhappy and coach Spoelstra will lose controlof his team. The second flaw that we find in the Heat's so called championship run is in the length of the season. In the Olympics the big ego's of the "Dream Team" were only together for a few months, meerly a fraction of what the NBA season consist of. So, looking back at all the evidence we know that the Miami Heat are stacked with talent, but we also know that they will not be proceeding past the first round of the playoffs, if they even make it at all.

The Miami Heat, Contenders or Pretenders?

There is a new mindset in Miami and that mindset is to never lose. If you dropped almost 50 milllion dollars for just three players annual salary, you would expect to win too. In the 2010 NBA offseason the Miami Heat aquired two more superstars to add their roster. These two stars include Chris Bosh, formally of the Toronto Raptors,  and, potentially the best player of all time, LeBron James. These two will team up with Dwayne Wade to run through the 2010 regular season with ease and win the NBA Championship, or so people would say? These three players are all superstars in their own respects, and have known nothing in their NBA tenyer, but to carry their teams on their backs. Each one of these players scored all of the points on their former teams and where never told to take a "back seat" in a game. Now they are all on the same team, which means two of the three will no longer be at this superstar status. A championship team always consists of two types of player, a superstar and a bunch of role players that just help the superstar win the game for them. The question is can these former superstars embrace this role player status or will this whole season for the Heat go down the drain? The Heat are to big, they have too many assperations, and their dreams are out of reach. These players will play well together for a couple of games, but then they will start to get greedy. Each one of them feels as though they have the right to be the superstar, which cooks up a recipe for disaster for the Heat. The Heat have all the talent iin the world, but they have no team and it takes a TEAM to win an NBA championship.