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Wade not playing as much makes their record misleading.
Miami Heat
Oklahoma City Thunder
Regular season stats don't mean a lot in playoffs, different type of bball.
Wade not playing as much makes their record misleading.
Miami because they are so balanced. Wade looks rejuvenated, their role players are dangerous, Spoelstra can actually coach, and they have the best player on the planet. Miami and it's not close.
Miami but they are like okc without ibaka inside. We have a huge mismatch inside with Timmy and if Tony and Manu can get in the paint there is no one to stop them.
Not a question of better per se just of matchups. An Achilles heel of the Spurs is the ultra fast pg penetrating into the lane ala the Mavericks series and our constant problems with Westbrook. The Heat don't have that, they have a good team a just as good team, they just don't do what hurts us the most so while they Heat might beat the Thunder 8 times out of 10, we match up with the Heat better. Respect Lebron but they don't do the thing that even mediocre teams can damage us with.
I think it really depends on who they are matched up against. Who would have thought the Mavs would have been so good against the Spurs?
I think the Heat will have a much harder time against the Spurs than either the Mavs or the Thunder because the Spurs match up well against the Heat. In fact the Spurs should be their toughest opponent after the Pacers. The Heat have for the most part coasted through the playoffs so far, while the Spurs have been tested practically the whole way.
It would give me great pleasure to have the Spurs sweep them although I seriously doubt that would happen.
The OP put the word TEAM in the le.
OKC is automatically disqualified.
Is it possible when the OKC TEAM is interviewed we could see something other than Durant and Westbrook doting on each other? They have bought into what the NBA wants them labeled, a 2 man freak show.
It's nauseating...
The OP should have asked which team was a harder match up for the Spurs. If he had I would have answered OKC. It seems they are the Spurs krytonite, they were apparently assembled to beat the Spurs IMHO.
But as worded by the OP, the Heat are clearly the better team IMHO.
Luckily the Spurs are a bad match up for the Heat.
The player I now worry about the most is Wade, he can be a terror when fully healthy.
Hopefully there is a long enough wait so that TP can get healthy.
with 4th quarter officiating, the thunder are even better than the 86 celtics. and it's not even close
OKC has a better team on paper, and is a much worse match up for the Spurs. However, Miami has the best player in Lebron, a known big game player in D-Wade, and is much better coached than OKC. Despite OKC's superior record in a tougher conference, I believe the Heat would have trounced them in the Finals just as they did in 2012. Just as OKC was a bad match up for the Spurs, the Heat are a bad match up for the Thunder.
In hindsight, OKC-Spurs was the real NBA Finals. San Antonio, OKC, and the Clippers would all have beaten the Heat in a 7-game series.
Or even the Mavs.
Dallas would have beaten Miami because of coaching. OKC/Miami would have been a tossup. But those are the only two that could have competed against Miami. Other than the Spurs of course. If you could call that series a 'compe ion'.
OKC and Miami were similar teams. 'OK' coaching, built on 3 players and no depth. Coin toss. Durant is not LeBron, Wade is no Westbrook, Ibaka with the slight edge over dino, and two horrible benches barring Allen for the Heat.
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