It comes to my attention how "the beach boys" are not winning the games they supposed to.Is understandable they need to find their roles in this new and excessively marketed Miami Heat, since all of them were scoring leaders in their previous teams. Big questions of the pre-season were who was going to step up offensively? and who was going to take Magic Johnson's role of drive the plays. After 15 games is Lebron who leads the team in minutes, points, assists and steals but so far it isn't working out very well having only 8 wins and 7 losses.
When you see a Heat game the 3 first quarters are ok, nice plays, dunks and fast breaks. But when the 4th quarter arrives, a lack of leadership is reflected in a really poor shot selection and is like each one of them is just isolated from the team.
It is not a coincidence D Wade and King James are shooting 5% worst when compared with last year. Wade FG 09-10 was 47,6% and 10-11 is 43,8%, same with Lebron who was FG% 50,3% and this season is 45,5%. Dear Heat fans this is pure poor shot selection.
Although scoring responsibilities are well balanced having James with 23.6 ppg, Wade with 21.1 ppg and Bosh with 17.6. ppg it is certainly balanced between them but not for the team reflecting 62% of the offensive load in Miami. This is by no means healthy for a NBA final contender team. If we compare them with the first season together of the original big three in Boston, NBA champions of 2007, Pierce, Garnett and Allen were responsible of 55% in 2007 and by that time we talked of an unbalanced squad. The difference is that 07 Celtics' big three were having better shot selection reflected in 482 FG% while 2010 Heat's beach boys are shooting 469 FG%.So Miami needs to start thinking about tweaking a little bit the offense in order to start winning more games, but this has to be from Spoelstra's head and his inexperience leading with superstars might be a big negative factor accomplish it. Only the time will show us the answer.
Nice review LEP.. Miami is not having the season that everyone expected. I have to admit that i expected this to happen, in fact, i was hoping to. You, as a Real Madrid fan, knows that money doesn't buy championships. I agree with you about that is not easy to handle with 3 super stars and it is not their task to assign their roles. Maybe those guys need a head coach like Phill Jackson in order to manage that kind of team. Anyway i see them on conference finals at least, but we will have to wait.
ReplyDeleteNice to read you! Keep posting about NBA, remember that not all your fans see hockey or MLS.. Lol