Fuck all you haters.
The Heat are a dream team now
Not quite yet. It really depends on who they surround themselves with. Right now all they have waiting in the wings is Mike Miller, who plays the same positions as Wade and Bron and friggin D. Fish, a fucking worm if there ever was one. "Oh no, I have to leave Utah because I have family problems, but I'll rejoin the Lakers to tug on Kobe's nuts". Fuck that bum.
The bottom line is this, Magic, Kareem and James Worthy was a dream team and they had great role players like Byron Scott, AC Green and Brian Shaw around them. Pierce, Allen and Garnett were a dream team, but they had James Posey, Rondo, Big Baby, Sam Casell and Kendrick Perkins around them. Parish, Bird and McHale were a dream team but they had Danny Ainge, Cedric Maxwell and Dennis Jones to complement those guys. The Heat don't have a real center. Bosh is soft and too much a pussy to want to guard centers and outside of him they will get KILLED on rebounds. The only really good center left out on the market is Shaq and he's only good for 20 mins or less at this point in his career and is easily the worst pick and roll defender in the league. And they have no assets left to trade for a big man. They could go after Spurs free agent prospect Ian Manhimni and that could be a steal. But if they get stuck with old veterans like Kurt Thomas or something even worse they will get MURDERED on the inside. They wont be able to match up with the big front courts in Boston,Orlando, Chicago and L.A. But with the lack of a legit inside defensive presence is easily one of their biggest glaring issues.
Then there's the issue of shooting. While DWade, LBJ and Bosh should be good for around 75-80 points combined, but where will the rest come from. If Miller is a swingman, and the teams two best players are swings, who's going to be his set up guy for his 3 point looks? Are they going to employ an incredibly smallball lineup of Bosh (who doesn't want to play center) James, Wade, Miller and Fish? They will A: get MURDERED inside and B: have some very big defensive liabilities on the court in Fish and Miller. I can see Fish benefiting from Wade and James with some easy 3 point looks, but he isn't as effective has he once was. Miller at best will be good for 8-10 points and Fish about 6. But how will the rest of the roster fill in? There are almost zero semi-decent scoring threats left in FA. And this team will definitely have to outscore other squads to win because...
They will be awful on D. LeBron and Wade will be their only defensive stoppers and that's about where it starts and sadly ends for the Heat. Bosh isn't a great defender or shot blocker. And their best option for a center is Shaq and he is pretty much useless on the D side of the ball unless its for guarding back-to-the basket centers like Dwight and Bynum. Other than that they will get murdered on pick and rolls and pick and pops. And the smallball lineups...LeBron can't defend Dirks, Duncans, Garnetts, Paus and the whatnots. Fish is absolutely atrocious on D too and gets killed by 98% of all the other point guards in the league because they aren't 50 years old and Chalmers isn't much better. And there aren't many if any defensive studs available except Raja Bell, but he plays the same positions as Bron and Wade too.
So to summarize this, the Heat have no:
Inside presence to rebound or defend and will get murdered by the larger front courts of the L
Won't have much, if any useful firepower off the bench
Only two good defenders and not where they really need them
Too small/lack of size
Looking pretty sad on D and will henceforth need to score 110 or so a game to win and while it looks easy with the stars they have, they don't have the facilitator to rake in the dimes needed unless LBJ becomes the second coming of Magic.
There are plenty of glaring omissions on this squad to automatically anoint these guys the champs. Championships are won with big front courts and killer D. Spurs, Pistons, Celtics and Lakers prove this. The Heat don't have either. And if you really, really knew basketball you'd see this. It's insanely obvious. I'm not saying they wont win the title, but if you think they have it won as easily as some are making them out to have it won, you don't know what you're talking about.
