They'd still beat the hell out of Charlotte or Washington in a series. One bad loss doesn't change that.
What's interesting about the Heat offense is that more so than other offense it's predicated on the other offense. If the other offense constantly follows shots for offensive rebounds or have live ball turnovers, the Heat will feast off of that and convert turnovers to points at an efficiently high rate. It gives them free points and efficient points while not having to work hard for it offensively.
It's not intellect. If you just read the right stuff, target Zach Lowe to start, and just look at the database of stats NBA has up which is awesome, it's really easy to see your eyes match what's actually going on. Then it's just pitting two teams against each other and knowing the players. It's just basketball.
Bballbreakdown is a good source. But this guy analyzed a game in December and tried to extrapolate it to a 7 game series in May with 2014 still left in the season. His play breakdown is great and real informative though. Their offense struggles against top defenses, it's true to most good offenses. The key of course is what they can convert at the other end and how much IND turns it over
Every team has bad losses. Indiana is clearly a top 5 team. I'd say OKC-Indiana-Miami would be my top 3 right now.
Lmao heat get their asses handed to them San Antonio is gonna be a dangerous team in the playoffs Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
That was the best fuckin dunk I have ever seen!!! Blake Griffin is such a boss!!! Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-N900A using Tapatalk
I am not going to make a big deal about last nights win, I think all it did was just validate to all the naysayers that the Spurs will be right there in the mix once again and that they arent old/slow. At this point, IDC what happens in the final 21 games. The Spurs are now just waiting for the postseason and have nothing left to prove. The only thing I would say is if the Spurs have the chance to grab the 1 seed, I would try to get it. Right now we are a 1/2 game out of 1st in the west and 1 game behind the Pacers for best record. It would be nice to have the Home Court in the WCF and potentially NBA finals, but as we saw last year the Spurs didnt exaclty need it considering they had game 6 under wraps and had won game one in Miami. The NBA did change the format though to 2-2-1-1-1 which will give the other team a chance to win the series in 6 games at home which is HUGE.
I do but the Spurs have to get ONE more thing established in my mind. That is the TRUST in Patty Mills in the playoffs. I hope Popovich allows Mills to continue to prove himself because in the long run it will help Tony Parker ALOT. Last year Neal was not a real PG, that was probably the Spurs biggest weakness. Ginobli as we all know did not handle the ball well either so it ended up leading to Parker having to play a lot. If Mills can prove himself here and gain Popovich's trust, it will be huge.
Yeah which is a lot better because it used to put the road team at a major disadvantage, winning an NBA finals in 5 games is hard, now they can at least look to a home game for game 6.
Oh no they lost to the Rockets at home who also beat the Heat at home! Good thing IND doesn't face them unless they make the finals. They can watch SA/OKC/LAC/HOU all take each other out as long as they do their job. Easy conference
The playoffs outside of the finals were like this. They changed the finals and it makes sense. In my mind, the lower seed should never have more home games than the higher seed.
