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Spurs at full strength have a shot. Clippers a wild card.
Who is gonna stop this juggernaut of a team? We clearly don't match up them. Our best players are not as good as Miami's, specifically Lebron. The only way I see us beating Miami is if KD matches Lebron and some of the Heat role players go cold - something I don't see happening this year.
Say the Spurs or Clippers get to the finals instead of us. Do they have a legit shot?
Spurs at full strength have a shot. Clippers a wild card.
No one.
Thunder, Spurs, Clips all have a "shot," but it's a very, very long one. I do think that the Spurs and Clips match up better with the Heat than the Thunder, though.
That said, Clips are something of a wildcard. Paul went down while they were still hot, causing them to lose a few games, and everybody soon forgot about them. Clips could very well be an emerging juggernaut.
They won't beat Miami, but they just might be the favorite to win the West.
The Heat are a bad match for the Thunder just like the Thunder are to the Spurs. The Heat will curb storm the sh!t out of the Spurs & the Clippers. Lebron is on another level at the moment.
He's playing the game with such ease.
The Spurs can beat them. The Spurs will have homecourt in the Finals against the Heat and they don't lose in the Finals. I hate the Spurs but they dominate the out of teams in the Finals. True, this Heat team will probably be their toughest test in the Finals but Duncan, Parker, Ginobili, Bonner, and Pop have beaten Lebron in the Finals before so it can happen again. If all the guys are healthy and playing great, the Heat will lose.
Lebron
Oh wait, he plays for them
Since Heat are in no danger being screwed by refs, I can see Spurs having best shot at them. No one is gonna stop LeBron, but Pop can easily outcoach Spo.
yeah no one they won it last season and will again it is lebrons decade
Preach on bro.
No one
Nobody. As i said from day one if this season. All the rest of d teams are competing for 2nd place. Lebron #2 is written in stone
Okay, so I was wrong about Bonner or was I? He was on the Spurs in 2007 and played in some playoff games during their 2007 run. He got a ring even though he didn't play in the Finals. Besides, he was just keeping the bench warm for Duncan, Horry, Barry, and Parker. Nothing wrong with that. My memories of the 2007 Finals are a little rusty because that Finals was really bad and ty and I was working 12 hour shifts at a factory that summer.
even bothering trying to remember that finals at all
That finals was the first one since 1995 where I didn't watch a single second of it
Curb stomp them? lol no.The Heat are a bad match for the Thunder just like the Thunder are to the Spurs. The Heat will curb storm the sh!t out of the Spurs & the Clippers. Lebron is on another level at the moment.
He's playing the game with such ease.
Out of the Spurs and Clippers, I would say the Spurs would have the best shot. Highlight plays and breakaway dunks for the other team don't really get into the Spurs' heads. They know a dunk is still 2 points and don't let it rattle them. I choose the Spurs mentality to make a possible Spurs/Heat finals a damn good one.
The Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs are the only team who can beat Miami
both teams have shooters and great ball movement. But the problem with both teams is they dont have a 7 foot defender like Tyson Chandler who can stop Heat perimeter players from penetrating to the paint.
Miami is the certainly the strong favorite but in their dominating streak they have not had to play close games where Wade or Allen or LeBron got to close it out and they are still not a strong team inside. However if Wade gets it going in the playoffs along with this or a higher level of LeBron they could roll through the East and it would take a veteran team, ala the Spurs, with a core of le proven veterans benefitting from sublimely hot shooting from the outside, Duncan and Parker (who would have to prove still he can not be stopped by a great team by targeted defense on him in a close series) both having fabulous series, decreasing turnovers as much as possible, Manu being fully healthy and hot from the field, and Pop pulling an absolute rabbit out of his hat defensively at key times perhaps letting one Miami scorer go off, ala Stoudemire and concentrating on shutting down everything else. Still easier said than done, especially if the Heat also get Bosh and a few others playing well, in case against anyone it may not be close, and a team like the Spurs has to get through a number of strong teams in the West to get there first. Miami this year with James at this level will roll over Clippers or Thunder; as teams without proven championship mettle will fold under King James brilliance unless somehow the Thunder add something missing that perhaps they lost with trading Harden.
Indiana or if the Knicks catch fire
Lol d knicks. D knicks could catch fire 1 game or 2 but no way they catch fire 4 playoff games. Nobody can beat this heat team 4 times
cancel the rest of the season tbh
no one is going to beat them, when they play D no one scores, and they turn TO's in points quick in transition. only problem is rebounding, they are down in the bottom somewhere
If the Heat plays 100%, no body will beat them (unless TD becomes a 2003 version, and Manu into 2005 version). A 90% Heat (ala last year, when Bosh is a bit injured in the final), then a 110% Spurs (meaning role players play above their reg season average, catch fire ala '99 Jaren Jackson) will have a 50-50 chance. For the Clips to have a chance, DeAndre or Blake will have to become an above average rim defender, something i seriously doubt at the moment will ever happen this season. Honestly, IF only the Thunder keep their core for one more season, they MIGHT be the only team who can stand on the same ground while playing 100% (i believe last year final was a 80% Thunder vs 90% Heat, the Thunder core are just too green while the super friends are final veterans).
Correct. Heat will probably three-peat or four-peat. Basically, they'll keep winning until we see a noticeable decline in Lebron's game(which I don't see happening anytime soon)
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