Spoelstra said some Heat players are crying in the locker room at the moment.

[MavFan6488]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao..........


http://i52.tinypic.com/1rbzgp.jpg

[lefty]

Wut?

[ALVAREZ6]

would it be a huge surprise?

[MavFan6488]

http://twitter.com/WindhorstESPN


Bosh said he was not one of the guys crying but that he almost did.

:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin

[namlook]

Crying after a regular season game? These guys are mentally weak.

[JamStone]

At least they care... they must be concerned about how it affects the kids, they're crying for the kids

[hitmanyr2k]

This is getting ridiculous :lol :lol :lol This is one of the funniest weeks the NBA has seen in a long time and it all had to do with Miami. They're providing too much comedy.

[JJ Hickson]

:lmao "reports of crying in the locker room."

[ALVAREZ6]

crofl. Heat are never winning a championship. Bulls baby. crofl.

[sribb43]

I bet it was Bibby, probably sad that he left the Wiz for this debacle

[4>0rings]

lol Bosh twitting he wasn't the one being a pussy and crying


No laker fan should ever comment about crying after a game.

[LkrFan]

Somebody get in here and :downspin: this shit!! :lmao

[Banzai]

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/45/1269602956_dr-mccoy-and-captain-kirk-approve.gif (http://www.threadbombing.com/details.php?image_id=5416)

[hitmanyr2k]

Is Spo trying to get fired though? No coach should reveal that kind of shit to the media. That can kill a team.

[Venti Quattro]

Seriously now???

[resistanze]

Is this a real report?

[Killakobe81]

At least they care... they must be concerned about how it affects the kids, they're crying for the kids

LOL on so many levels ...

1. Agree at least they care ...Dfish and Kobe cried at the end of teh 3peat so no shame in that .

2. But a regular season game in March means THAT much? That is the problem the media hype and the shit they have talked ...has made these guys way too tight in close games.Lebron has never been this shitty in teh clutch.

3. You cant be mad at floks wanting yall to lose when you brazenly discussed 5 6 titles Rex and his Jets faced the same thing ...

4. Crying for the kids ...where is Harlem? or Harlem preach?

[The Refrigerator]

Crying after two REGULAR SEASON games in ONE WEEK? :lmao That has to be some kind of pussified record for pussyness.

[oh crap]

them niggas is soft as fuck. watching this team fail has proved even more fun than i anticipated.

[sribb43]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao..........


http://i52.tinypic.com/1rbzgp.jpg

Best pic ever :lmao

[baseline bum]

Wow, I can't believe another team could look more pathetic than the Spurs today.

[duncan228]

Is this a real report?


...And when it was over, Spoelstra said some in the Heat locker room were moved to tears.

“Just to come up short again and again, it hurts,” Bosh said. “We all want to win. We all want to win very badly.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011030614

[hitmanyr2k]

Wade and Lebron need to own up in the interviews like they don't give a fuck...

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/interestingpropositionp1.gif

[u4lakers14]

total bullshit. they wouldnt cry.

oh wait, my avatar.

[resistanze]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2011030614

Thanks. I can't remember the last time I've felt so much second hand embarrassment.

[Muser]

All is not bad in the NBA world right now :lmao

[Spursmania]

:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao..........


http://i52.tinypic.com/1rbzgp.jpg

OMG!!! :lmao:lmao:lmao:lmao

[TE]

wow

[jag]

Wade and Lebron need to own up in the interviews like they don't give a fuck...

http://chzgifs.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/interestingpropositionp1.gif

:lmao

[tlongII]

Is Spo trying to get fired though? No coach should reveal that kind of shit to the media. That can kill a team.

Agreed. Pretty stupid thing for the coach to say.

[cobbler]

I have to give credit when its due....

All summer and the first half of the season when Ho and all the San Antonio Heat slobbers were telling us how the Heat were gaing to "tear up the league" I assumed they were talking domination.

My Bad. Good call! :toast

[midnightpulp]

I have to give credit when its due....

All summer and the first half of the season when Ho and all the San Antonio Heat slobbers were telling us how the Heat were gaing to "tear up the league" I assumed they were talking domination.

My Bad. Good call! :toast

Cobbler, with the bads.

[jmard5]

My brother texted about this news, and I initially thought that it was a joke or something.

Wow.

[Jt.ONE]

Is Spo trying to get fired though? No coach should reveal that kind of shit to the media. That can kill a team.

yeah seriously...



but in the mean time
:lol:lol

[duncan228]

Miami Heat players moved to tears after another close loss (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Miami-Heat-players-moved-to-tears-after-another-;_ylt=AlXPVLZELBi168f66t0ZpX28vLYF?urn=nba-330370)
By Kelly Dwyer

It's safe to say the Miami Heat took Sunday's loss to the Chicago Bulls harder than some of their noted fair-weather fans. According to Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, several Miami players were reduced to tears following the team's 87-86 loss to the Bulls. The defeat marked their third close loss to Chicago this season, and it tops off a frustrating week that started last Sunday with the squad's tough defeat at the hands of the New York Knicks. The Heat now have lost four in a row.

After Dwyane Wade's last-second desperation jumper rimmed out, a catatonic Heat team sulked to the locker room. The Heat's season-long clutch struggles were made even more obvious with Sunday's national TV showing while Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau said after the game that Chicago has "guys who can close."

And whether he was trying to relay his team's frustration and obsession with winning, or trying to point out a weakness, Spoelstra dropped a dime on some unnamed players. According to The Associated Press (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_ylt=AontPyREYI8K036JGTVXuFA5nYcB?gid=201103 0614):


And when it was over, Spoelstra said some in the Heat locker room were moved to tears.

"Just to come up short again and again, it hurts," [Chris] Bosh said. "We all want to win. We all want to win very badly."

Bosh also told ESPN's Brian Windhorst (http://twitter.com/%21/WindhorstESPN/status/44506991418281984) that while he wasn't among the players who were crying, he was nearly in tears after yet another close loss.

Wade? He took a different, snottier, approach. From the AP (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap;_ylt=AontPyREYI8K036JGTVXuFA5nYcB?gid=201103 0614):


"The Miami Heat are exactly what everyone wanted, losing games," Wade said. "The world is better now because the Heat is losing."

Oh, stop it. As if you didn't have any idea last summer that NBA fans would react poorly to you flexing and preening for the cameras, promising championships three months before training camps even started.

What's more important is this astonishing lack of clutch play (http://twitter.com/%21/tomhaberstroh/status/44518897449312256) from Miami's troika of LeBron James, Wade and Bosh. All three had exemplary clutch statistics in the seasons leading up to 2010-11, but in shots taken with less than 10 seconds to go in the fourth quarter or overtime, with Miami trailing by three or fewer points, the Heat have gone 1 for 18 this season. A falloff like that is remarkable and just about unprecedented in recent NBA history.

With the win, the Bulls have moved percentage points ahead of Miami in the Eastern Conference standings while sweeping the teams' season series three to nil.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Miami-Heat-players-moved-to-tears-after-another-;_ylt=AlXPVLZELBi168f66t0ZpX28vLYF?urn=nba-330370

[ChrisRichards]

This shows the team has heart and passion. I feel better after reading this, come playoff time this team will be a much better unit.

[cobbler]

This shows the team has heart and passion. I feel better after reading this, come playoff time this team will be a much better unit.

The team like it's fans have no heart.

They like you, talk a big game, but when it comes down to delivering...

They welch!

[Tp9gospursgo]

lol its the regular season get over it.

[easy7]

The players are getting paid, the owners of this team should be the ones crying their asses off.

[jjktkk]

I bet it was Bibby, probably sad that he left the Wiz for this debacle

:lol

[duncan228]

Hit the link for the whole piece.


Spoelstra makes mistake in saying Heat players cry after loss (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/06/spoelstra-makes-mistake-in-saying-heat-players-cry-after-loss/)
Kurt Helin

...I can understand some players were crying after a loss. Maybe it’s a little immature, but at least they are invested. At least they care. That matters.

But telling the press? Oh, that was your mistake, Spoelstra. This was a regular season game. Say they were in tears after being eliminated from the playoffs is one thing, but to spill that after a regular season loss is a mistake. You may have been trying to pass along the message that they cared, but that will not be the perception. Tweens crying over not getting Justin Bieber concert tickets will be the perception. Your heat will look soft. Which, on top of playing soft makes them look, well, soft. Like a Nerf ball soft.

And, it keeps the Heat soap opera going.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/06/spoelstra-makes-mistake-in-saying-heat-players-cry-after-loss/

[mystargtr34]

Nothing wrong with showing emotion... i would assume the ONLY guys crying were LeBron and Wade... these two guys are the only two on that team who have the drive and care about winning.

I seriously doubt anybody else on that roster shed a tear.

[mikeschy55]

Is Spo trying to get fired though? No coach should reveal that kind of shit to the media. That can kill a team.

this

[gospursgojas]

Whens Riles gonna rememeber that Spolstra is a video cordinator?

[Obstructed_View]

Spo just lost the team. The only way Riley doesn't take this thing over is if he doesn't think they can actually compete in the playoffs.

Makes me feel a bit better though; my team got the holy bejeezus facefucked out of them on national TV and at least the players weren't sobbing about it afterward.

[gospursgojas]

No way Riley takes over now. Same reason why he didn't in the first half of season...He knows the Heat aren't winning anything this year, and scapegoating spo has been his plan the whole time.

[Harlem Preach]

fuck you spoelstra! how dare you throw lebron and the heat under the bus! your piece of shit soul will die in hell!!!!!!!

[Josepatches_]

It's regular season.Two months ago was different.

He who laughs last, laughs best.

Let's see what happen in June

[Josepatches_]

This shows the team has heart and passion. I feel better after reading this, come playoff time this team will be a much better unit.


In the long run it will be good for them.They will only care about winning not who's the best player.No more it' your turn,it's my turn offense.

They were too good to win easily in theirs minds.Now they know the truth.I would be worried coming playoff time if i were a fan of Chicago or Boston. It will be easier to defeat them before last week.

[Sportcamper]

At least they care... they must be concerned about how it affects the kids, they're crying for the kids

Niiiice...:lol

[hater]

Maybe Lebron should ask the children to donate their pacifiers to the Miami Heat

[Red Hawk #21]

Haha this Miami Heat Saga has been all kinds of "Tragic Comedy" this season lol

[NRHector]

I guess crying was also another talent that LeClown was taking to Miami

[boutons_deux]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVBvy2cc0Io

[resistanze]

LMAO @ Spo trying to get fired.

[ManuBalboa]

How can you not love ESPN's hype creation crumbling on itself because of the ESPN hype creation. This is sweeeeet sweeeeet justice.

[Chillen]

I don't see why the coach had to make that public. It's his job to toughen these guys up and keep them in check, if they cry there is no need to let anyone know about it. He should have kept that private, most coaches do. Spoelstra is definitely on the hot seat there in Miami, if they don't win it all this season I could see them firing him because coaches always get the blame not the players.

[Red Hawk #21]

I hope Spo is looking into other jobs, the man is gone after this season.

[Viva Las Espuelas]

The self-proclaimed king should've gone to Chicago.

[TheMACHINE]

someone repost the original pix!

[Giuseppe]

The Celtics were in a cascade of tears last June in Los Angeles.

Grown men crying is accepted now, even encouraged.

[Mugen]

The Celtics were in a cascade of tears last June in Los Angeles.

Grown men crying is accepted now, even encouraged.

Yup, Kobe and Fish both cried. Didn't even wait till they got to the locker room. Adam Morrison openly wept sitting down on the middle of the court.

LakerFan should know more than anybody that crying = passion in basketball.

[Red Hawk #21]

The self-proclaimed king should've gone to Chicago.

I actually think Wade should have gone to Chicago. He would have been back home with another hometown Kid in Rose. Rose and Wade would have been dynamic together imho.

[duncan228]

As Heat lose, James, Wade fall apart (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-heatissues030611)
By Adrian Wojnarowski

For all the flexing and preening, the third-person proclamations and South Beach parties, LeBron James finally delivered these Miami Heat something pure and authentic in the privacy of the locker room: Full of emotion, he apologized for his big-shot, big-games failures and promised redemption.

“I told my team I’m not going to continue to fail them late in games,” James told reporters in Miami. “I put a lot of the blame on myself.”

James has used the words “fail” and “blame” a lot of times, but seldom in context of his own performances. His idea of accountability has always been his cronies and him nudging you in the direction of the guilty parties – his coach, GM, teammates – but never the global icon in the mirror.

LeBron didn’t promise to do different.

LeBron promised to do better.

He didn’t go to Miami to construct a partnership, as much as he did gather superior sidekicks. He’s going to keep trying because the solution will never be to bend to the I-told-you-sos that insist Dwyane Wade’s the closer on this Heat team. The Heat have two of the best five players in the world, and they still can’t play together when it matters most. Derrick Rose never wanted to play with James, but he welcomed the idea of Wade as his shooting guard. Wade must have some regret that he hadn’t gone home to Chicago in free agency and spared himself this most unhappy ever-after with the Heat.

It’s March, the playoffs aren’t that far away, and the Heat are still regressing. New York survives two shots out of James in the final seconds. Orlando makes a wild comeback to beat them. San Antonio blows them out. Chicago makes James miss a wild, driving shot in the final seconds. Four straight losses, and the gulf between James and Wade widens with every embarrassment.

“I’m used to coming down in the fourth, having the ball, making mistakes, getting a chance to make up for them, etc., “ Wade told reporters Sunday. “You try to do your best. That’s all you can do. That was one of the things we got to understand when we all decided to come together. That there were going to be sacrifices that have to be made. And you live with the consequences.”

Yes, you live with the consequences. Wade has started to say publicly what he’s been saying privately for a long time: Why don’t I get the ball when it matters? Miami’s no longer his town, and the Heat no longer his team. Didn’t you hear James? It isn’t our team. It isn’t D-Wade’s team.

My team.

When people warned Wade about letting LeBron into his life, they wanted him to think about how he’d handle James making all the big shots, becoming the biggest star on South Beach. They never considered the possibility of what it would feel like for Wade to watch James fail over and over.

So, Wade played the victim act and reminded everyone that he never, ever wanted to join James on his Hate Me Across America Tour. “The Miami Heat are exactly what everyone wanted, losing games,” Wade said. “The world is better now because the Heat is losing.”

Keep reading... (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-heatissues030611)

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-heatissues030611

[Giuseppe]

Yup, Kobe and Fish both cried. Didn't even wait till they got to the locker room. Adam Morrison openly wept sitting down on the middle of the court.

LakerFan should know more than anybody that crying = passion in basketball.

Yep, me too. I sat there in Luva's basement and cried like a baby last June. Kool was a cool as a cucumber though.

[crc21209]

It was probably the vets like Juwan Howard, Mike Bibby, and all the other ones who jumped on the train that we're crying because they realized they probably won't get a ring now....:lol

[GuerillaBlack]

Difference between championship crying and crying over a regular season loss, tbh.

[HighLowLobForBig-50]

too many urkels on that team

[Red Hawk #21]

too many urkels on that team

That's why their wins are low against elite teams tbh

[Dirk Nowitzki]

In the long run it will be good for them.They will only care about winning not who's the best player.No more it' your turn,it's my turn offense.

They were too good to win easily in theirs minds.Now they know the truth.I would be worried coming playoff time if i were a fan of Chicago or Boston. It will be easier to defeat them before last week.

:rolleyes
Oh look. A fan who is making excuses for the heat. You ignore their obvious flaws (bench, frontcourt, lack of a system, etc etc). You think it is just their mindsets. GTFO of here with that bullshit.

[Mister Sinister]

Haha this Miami Heat Saga has been all kinds of "Tragic Comedy" this season lol
The Germans call it "schadenfreude." The rough translation of which is, "Hey, look, that Jew fell down."

[bluefoot]

I bet Lebron doesn't like "Coach Spo" as much nowadays. I think the reason he was crying is he got everything he wanted and he's trying as hard as he can and in truth he knows the Heat aren't good enough to win. Now he's stuck with D-Wade and a bunch of role players and broke down players that can't win. That wasn't what he signed up for.

Like someone said, I feel a lot of second hand embarrassment for Lebron. Everyone knows it was him and the media has ran with it. At first I didn't know if it would be a big deal because sports players are a bunch of pussies nowadays and its the new generation thing to be a bitch but the media are now acting like 3rd graders and telling as many people as they can Lebron cried.

Crying over a game is something some little leaguers do. NBA players?

And no its not ok for Kobe and DFish because they were eliminated from the playoffs.

Erik Spoestra for some reason gave up what should have stayed in that locker room. I'm not sure if he's that stupid to where he didn't think it would have some impact but the end result is he just outed the leader in their "brotherhood". That's gunna cost ya.

[TheMACHINE]

steven a smith says a few miami players said there were two guys crying....he said one was not Wade for sure. Also, the only reason someone would cry for a reg season is game is if they are soft mentaly.

[duncan228]

Hit the link for the whole piece.


Wade, Heat continue insisting, ‘We’re fine’ (http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-onbasketball-heatmisery)
By Tim Reynolds

...So maybe it was fitting that Heat coach Erik Spoelstra had his back to the wall of Miami’s practice court Monday when trying his best to clear up “Crygate.” Here was his clarification: He saw glossy eyes, but heard no whimpering.


...“We’re a team that no one wants to see in the first round,” Wade said. “We lose every game from here on out, somebody’s got to see us in the first round. And the Miami Heat isn’t really a team you want to see in the first round.

“We’re fine.”


...“At the end of the day, we’re in a good position right now, in the Eastern Conference and in the whole league,” James said. “We get a win, we’ll be all right.”

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-onbasketball-heatmisery

[Dex]

Say it with me now everyone...

THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASKETBALL!

[Jt.ONE]

This shows the team has heart and passion. I feel better after reading this, come playoff time this team will be a much better unit.

kobe/fish/lakers cry = pussies

miami heat cry = heart and passion :cry

[sa_kid20]

o1PJhoKPKCM

[Jt.ONE]

http://img828.imageshack.us/img828/7024/heatcrying.jpghttp://img821.imageshack.us/img821/559/chrisboshcrying.jpg

[duncan228]

Just Spoelstra's quote, hit the link for the whole piece.


Heat’s Spoelstra regrets saying players were crying (http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/24/heat%e2%80%99s-spoelstra-regrets-saying-players-were-crying/)
Kurt Helin

"I wouldn’t have said it [the players were crying after the Chicago Bulls lose]. I mean the players…we don’t have a problem with it because everybody has been in a situation where their words have been taken out of context. In a strange way we’ve all been through this together and everybody in something where they have tried to say something to the team that has been taken out of context and it strengthened us. I brought it up to the team the next day and there wasn’t any broken trust. You know you’re in front of the media three times a day eventually something you’re going to say is probably not going to have the meaning you would have expected. I wouldn’t have said it if I had a do over just so I would eliminate one more distraction, but my point about it was the guys do care. I think it is great that we have some incredible, incredibly competitive, self-willed guys in this locker room, but this means a lot more to them, their profession.”

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/03/24/heat%e2%80%99s-spoelstra-regrets-saying-players-were-crying/

[rayjayjohnson]

words out of context? wtf is there to take out of context?

[ALVAREZ6]

words out of context? wtf is there to take out of context?
+1 :rollin