LETS GO HEAT!

Ready for the Heat to put a beatdown on the Hawks tonight.

It was ajoy to see the 76ers win a close against the Magic tonight as the Magic is a tougher opponent for us if we were to meet them in later rounds.

Chalmers and Beasely had to play tough with Wade out. O’Neal had some clutch buckets down at the wire as well.

In the end though Pierce got hot and started dropping threes and top of the key twos.

We are now tied with Philly for the 6th spot. Ugh. However, the team is playing well. We gotta keep this up.

After Dalonte West and Lebron made a 26-6 run nearly tieing the game, the Miami Heat rallied back big.

Chalmers popped a few steals and popped a few threes. 6 threes to be precise to make it 21pts. Daequon Cook dropped 5 threes himself for a total of 17 pts on the game. Both of these guys had 0 turnovers. Of course DWade got his points, but was mostly dishing it out tonight.

Marion and Haslem both played excellent supporting roles cutting to the basket and crashing the glass. We needed a Shawn Marion type player so badly. During UD’s rookie years he was the only guy really rebounding and constantly crashing the boards. Now we have two hustlers and it is a major difference in our overall team defense and second chance points.

Like I’ve said before, this team can play with anyone and they just proved it by leading one of the best teams in the league the entire game.

Now if Beasely would get going we’ll be hitting on all cylinders. Joel Anthony sat most of the game.

Heat are playing once again with good team ball. Wade is dishing it out and scoring as well. Cook continues to be hot. He is this year’s Damon Jones, Dan Marjele, or Veshon Leonard dropping 3’s at will.

This team is also making defense a focus. We probably are having one of our better rebounding years as we seem to continue to do great off the glass. I don’t know the figures though, I’m guestimating.

So over the holidays I was talking with some out of towners and they seem to think the Heat are mediocre. Are they?

Am I dillusional that I think they are playing some of the best basketball I’ve seen throughout the past 20 years or is it that they are just playing well above expectations?

Joel Anthony is turning out to be a real find. Two blocked shots inside of 5 minutes.

I know the Bulls sucks, but they have always played us tough no matter what.

The Miami Heat beat the Utah Jazz somewhat comfortably and lead, I think, the entire game.

This team contends from start to finish and its just a joy to watch. The Miami Heat go 3-2 on their road trip.

So the final seconds go like this. We are down by 3 and Wade gets the inbound and heads to the baseline for a 3 point quick shot. It misses and Golden State’s Jama Crawford rebounds the ball and BAM, Chris Quinn comes flying in and causes enough disruption to where Crawford falls out of bounds. Heat ball.

Then Daequon Cook inbounds under the net to Chris Quinn on a wrap around where he nails a 3 pointer in front of the Warriors bench with 7 seconds left.

Michael Beasley is pumping his fists in happiness and looking up at the opposite scoreboard when he remembers to pressure the inbound. Andris Biedrins inbounds the ball to Crawford and Beasley shoots in front and steals the ball. He then charges the basket and rainbows the layup which gets blocked by Biedrins, but catches the blocked ball and puts it up and misses, BUT gets fouled. He makes the first and misses the second putting the Heat UP one.

Stephen Jackson inbounds to Crawford, who had been red hot all night, dribble drives and lays one up on a popper and it rims out. Heat win 130-129 in one of the best reg games I’ve ever seen.

This Heat team contests the opponent throughout the entire game. During the Shaq years we would always lag and make a huge surge in the 4th quarter. Now we play a much more balanced game and its exciting to watch.

Utah Jazz are up Wednesday.

A really nice game where Wade simply busted the Suns up, but as a Heat fan, I never put it all on Wade. This team plays excellent team ball. They are so quick and continue to push a pace on offense and defense that I haven’t seen the Heat play like this since the early days when Tim Hardaway was running the point.

Phoenix Suns have the size advantage, but they have Shaq, who is slow and doesn’t posess the same offensive power that he had at a minimum 5 years ago, which is no match for our speed. The way Spoelstra has this team rebounding is really impressive as well.

Joel Anthony again, just doing what he has to do and its enough.

Chalmers, man this guy is trouble for a lot of players every single game.

This faster team is really allowing Wade to get to the basket more, but without the kind of damage he took when we had Zo and Shaq because our new scheme takes the beef out of the paint.

All compliments and no complaints.

Wow. The Heat played unbelievably that night. Chalmers had a record 8 steals in the game. Wade was solid and scored at will when he felt like it. The team played amazing fast break basketball.

The Heat are no longer a half court team and when they play the teams that are, they will have problems, but the solution will be run them tired.

If the Heat can play like they did against the 76ers then they will be able to contend with anyone.

I was impressed with Spoelstra’s rotation of his players. Almost everyone got minutes and there was much ball sharing going on.

It was Spoelstra himself who said recently in a press conference that when we can click it will be something to see – or something like that. In that game the team clicked. Dalembert could barely keep up and had little shot blocking effect.

I know its early, but there were some glimmers of greatness during that game.

The Heat have no inside game right now and the lack of defense in the paint is going to make for depressing game after depressing game.

The new guys are REALLY slack on their perimeter defense as well.

I was impressed with Mario Chalmers offensive ability in the way he could get to basket at will and was putting up great shots, but his defense is like the boston tunnel. You could drive right through as if there wasn’t even a body standing there. Like I already said, there is no help down low. None. You think Haslem is going to do it…wrong.