Well, Miami is up 2-1. This time it wasn't a case of missed shots or
anything else. Miami was just better on this particular evening. Period.
You can say that Chris Bosh can't make a fifteen foot jumper each game.
OK, but he made that shot tonight. And if he continues to make
that mid range jumper in game four and beyond.....checkmate.
I assumed that Thibs would come up with a game plan to
neutralize the missing link formerly known as Udonis Hazlam.
But there was Hazlam again; getting key rebounds, claiming loose balls,
and knocking down mid range jumpers. If Thibs isn't concerned with
Hazlam, he really should be. I'M concerned with the fact that
James and Wade essentially played the maestro roles tonight and yet
Miami still took the game over. Still, I will not step onto the ledge until
the Heat have game four firmly in their hip pocket. Nope, I refuse to
break into full panic and or sports meatball mode at this point. Indeed,
there is a difference between being down 3-1 in series and being down
2-1 in a series. I just hope that coach Tibs has enough of that basketball
lifer mentality within him to somehow slay the Deathstar in game four.
Perhaps it's time to admit that Miami is fully awake and fully
engaged. And when a group of the best basketball mercenaries ever
assembled are fully awake and engaged and hungry....... there may be
nothing that coach Thibs CAN do. It's a fact of life in sports.
Sometimes..... talent simply outshines pure will. We'll see in
game four.
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