A little Cold

I don't think there is any way the Miami Heat win the NBA Championship this year, and I think their game against the Bulls yesterday was a perfect illustration why.

• They have absolutely no post presence at all. Chris Bosh is a 7 foot jump shooting, no rebounding, pile of junk. The dude only operates 13-18 feet from the hoop, and oh by the way, he's not that good of a shooter. Shooting less than 50% for the year as a 7 footer, on a team with two of the best perimeter players in the game? Inexcusable.
• The season is nearly over and the Heat still have absolutely no idea what they are doing on offense. I blame a lot of this on the fact that LeBron has no low post game. They can't go two-man with him and Wade, because LeBron can't go to the block. The play at the end of the game should have been him in the post working with Wade. LeBron can't post up Luol Deng? That's an issue.
• They are not tough at all. Ultimately it's a team of crybabies, especially with Udonis Haslem not playing. Derrick Rose showed 10 times the heart yesterday, and Joakim Noah would eat any of those guys for breakfast if given the chance. I don't even care if they were 'crying' in the locker room as their coach reported, they aren't tough on the court.
• The outside shooting hasn't materialized the way they had hoped with Mike Miller and Mario Chalmers. Chalmers was good in yesterday's game, but he's not consistent enough. The Bulls showed yesterday how you can disrupt LeBron and Wade, and if those guys can't consistently bury jumpers, they can't win.
• They aren't playoff built. I think there is way too much lip service given to 'playoff basketball', but the game does slow down, and it does get more physical. Forcing the Heat to play half-court basketball, and pushing them around looks pretty easy to do right now.
• They don't have the 'switch'. This is their biggest fault. I almost guarantee that LeBron and Wade think that when the playoffs start, they've got this 'switch' they can flip and then all of sudden they are going to be the team they are supposed to be. It will never happen with this team for two huge reasons. Number one, the team is all brand new, they have zero chemistry. How are you going to flip a switch when not everyone is on the same page. That chemistry takes time to develop. But, their biggest issue is the fact, they have no leader. None. LeBron and Wade are constantly deferring to each other, and both of them are alpha males that can't step up right now. Don't even get me started on Bosh. That dude is the epitome of weak. I worshipped Bulls basketball in the 90's, and those teams could flip the switch because of Jordan and Pippen. The Lakers can do it because of Kobe. The Heat have no chance.
• Two random observations from the game. Derrick Rose is a mandingo. The dude can straight play, and now that he has improved his shooting, he should be running the league for the next 8-10 years.
• Changing the team uniforms to EL Heat, and Los Bulls, doesn't it just seem kind of condescending? So just changing the word 'The' for each team is some how honoring the Spanish contingent of NBA fans? Ummmm......okay.