Big Roy, the Georgetown 18-year-old who couldn’t stay on a Stairmaster past the 5.0 setting because he was too uncoordinated, is now gangsta in the post. He is that good.Īnd Hibbert - 24 points, 11 boards, mean-mugging after yet another Pacer putback! Believe it. Within a year, he is probably going to be one of the top five wing players in the game, right behind Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony and a healthy Kobe Bryant.
George was a money player in the biggest game of his career, dropping in long-range jumpers, breaking down a relentless Heat defense for 28 points, answering every Heat run with a bucket of his own. The Pacers had a lot to do with Miami’s demise and they don’t get the short shrift here. Of course the Heat’s inability to get the job done wasn’t just its own fault. My rhythm seems off, it’s been like that the whole series. “That’s about the only thing that will help me now. “I have to get back in the gym and work on my game,” Bosh said in an almost withdrawn way. He didn’t look like a player who had another lousy game afterward in the locker room he looked and sounded like his house had just been foreclosed on. He doesn’t hit the glass he massages and caresses it. Bosh made 1 of 8 shots and gathered four rebounds in 31 minutes. Now we get an invisible 6-foot-11 perimeter player named Chris Bosh, suddenly afflicted with the confidence of an acne-covered, 14-year-old at his first school dance. D-Wade is so banged up he is barely physically able to be part of LeBron’s supporting cast in a deciding game, which is three nights before someone has to play the Spurs. Now we get a duct-taped, fading, tender-ligament all-star who managed just 10 points on 3-of-11 shooting. See, for the Heat this wasn’t merely about avoiding a Game 7 on its home court Monday night in Miami if it could dispense of the Pacers in six games – instead of getting run over, 91-77, in this deafening building that pierced the inner eardrum like it was the 2000 Finals - Dwyane Wade’s right knee is afforded recuperation time before Miami faced San Antonio in Game 1 of the Finals on Thursday night. But with what they had at stake, the Heat should have been even more desperate than Paul George, Roy Hibbert and all of Indiana staving off elimination Saturday night. I don’t know at this juncture if Miami beats San Antonio even with the extra rest.
Unless this is who LeBron James and Miami are, unless they need to absolutely milk the drama for all its worth this time of year and adversity is always going to be their alarm clock, the alleged best basketball team in the world just severely damaged its hopes for a Heatpeat. INDIANAPOLIS - This whole Heat accompli thing - the long-held notion that LeBron and friends were going to frolic to a second straight NBA title - is on the precipice of needing some serious revision.
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