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What makes it so apparent that Miami is unable to extend their championship run this year?
Spurs are done, Clippers and Rockets are in it to lose it while the Heat looks like they wouldn't be able to sustain extend their championship run this year.
Indiana doesn't match-up well with OKC.
Could we actually witness the crowning of Durant winning an MVP, FMVP along with an NBA le in 2014?
What makes it so apparent that Miami is unable to extend their championship run this year?
I'm going to say no because Durant is soft as . This is a guy who calls himself the Servant that is equivalent to the time when David Robinson outed himself as softy when he said the little mermaid was his favorite movie. This guy doesn't have a killer instinct when the going gets tough he tends to melt and disappear. OKC will beat the Spurs if they encounter them but if they face the Clippers, Rockets I can see them getting upset.
disagree about Spurs being done, they're still in 3rd gear at the moment.
OKC could win it this year, they'll get the most favorable officiating. Plus it looks like they'll get homefield advantage, so I expect a FT fest. I still think Westbrook could screw things up though.
Fatigue
Possibly no HCA
Indiana, more experience, deeper roster
at the new version of the 08-09/ 09-10 Cavs winning the le.
Thunder have no ing chance against the heat. It will just be a 2012 repeat. At least the spurs made miami work for it.
"work" for it? You took it back out of the trophy case & handed it to 'em.
You're much too modest, Elm.
I'll put my money on reason #1 alone. No team has made four straight trips to the Finals since the mid-1980s, when the Boston Celtics (1984-87) and the Lakers (1982-85) each accomplished the feat.
It's incredibly difficult then, and it has become much, much tougher in this era. Most teams just flamed out. See both Lakers dynasty in this era, or even the Spurs who never even defended a le.
If people think Lebron alone can rally this team to a 4th consecutive Finals appearance, much more win its third, they're delusional.
The East is incredibly weak, Indiana is overrated just as I stated before, so who is beating them in the East?
Incomplete. Although I would lean towards them getting HCA, considering they cruised through half a season, and still are just barely behind Indy for best record in the league, while Indy played their butts off the whole first half of the season, and since their hot start, have been looking like they are steadily declining.
Still less experience than Miami, I don't see them being any deeper really either. Their only advantage is Roy Hibbert. Miami's is basically everywhere else.
1 for 3. Sorry, but your reasoning is not very good. Bring something better please.
He wouldn't be back-to-back if your coach wasn't likewise.
Your mother?
You can go yours some more. Tee, hee.
Thanks for cursing the Thunderefs like you cursed the Knicks and Nyets
I don't see it with Scotty Brooks coaching and Durant going servant all of a sudden... if those things change, they have a shot.
That James harden trade killed that team.
That's pretty funny to be honest
Dude this era is MUCH weaker compared to back then. If anything, miami has an easy route of getting back in the finals. What's miami's only comepe ion in the east? Pacers and........yep that's about it. Now of course, the pacers are a team capable of preventing the heat to go to the finals, but it's a better route than most teams had to go through back then when they faced 2 or more championship caliber teams and then face the best of the opposite conference. It is possible though the fatigue might get to them in the finals. But to say the heat have no chance in getting its third is stupid, heat have such an easy route.
I think Indiana is better equipped to beat Miami this year. All signs point to them being better, though it looks like they hit the wall recently. We'll see what all their "camaraderie" and "chemistry" can provide when they face the Heat again. It seems like that's their biggest selling point
As to the OP, very unlikely. Durant is balling, sure, but OKC is suffering a whole lot of key injuries late in the season. Westbrook is also a huge question mark as well as the bench which remains thin. I'd be surprised if they can even beat the Clippers.
Don't try charmin' me, 78. You've called me everything but an elderly white man living on a fixed income. Don't even start.That's pretty funny to be honest
At home, Dale....Blake hitting the dagger, DJ making clutch free throws and Matt Barnes going HAM....tee, hee.
Absolutely!
Indiana has a chance no matter how overrated they are. The only year the Heat really cruised to the Finals was in 2011. The tired old bag Celtics with a completely pathetic offense managed to push the Heat to 7 in 2012.
That was also with a hurt Bosh though.
I have no recollection of such details you're accusing me of. We've been relatively friendly throughout the years with the exception of that Committee stuff a couple years ago.
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