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Cnasty wrote:I see them trying to bully up the heat and playing a mental battle of words and hard fouls.

I think that will play right into the heat just crushing them with their game.

Heat in 6

DRiccio21 wrote:i'm really not sure what to do if you're Cleveland

pg - Kyrie
sg - Waiters (hate him)
sf - lot of nothing
pf/c -- Thompson/Zeller/Andy V

do they draft Otto Porter who fills a need at SF? do they make a run at someone like Iggy if he is there in free agency? do they keep the SF spot warm for the return of the King? do they try to trade Andy V for another vet and take Noel?

you don't need a usage player, since you have Kyrie dominating the ball, so getting a Noel isn't the worst option. But they still struggle to score outside of Kyrie so a guy who can score off the ball would be ideal.

i'm gonna guess they shock and actually take Otto Porter.

Against any other team today or yesterday, the superstar is taking that last shot. Kobe Bryant. Kevin Durant. Carmelo Anthony. All of them. You can’t give up a layup, so naturally Hibbert stays in against just about any other superstar who has ever played, especially since Indiana has stayed big all season no matter the opponent. But you never know where the hell the ball is going with James because he is fundamentally hard-wired to make the smart basketball play, to bring the defense to him in search of a weakness an open teammate can also exploit, a fast-twitch calculator tallying efficiencies while up in the air and before he comes down. Funny to think that was viewed as a cowardice in some circles less than one year ago, a shrinkage, but in Game 1 it was the very thing that a fearful Vogel was guarding against, and it is ultimately what made the avalanche fall upon his defeated head.Vogel knows he has one of the best LeBron defenders in the league, if indeed there is such a thing. That’s a young extraterrestrial named Paul George, and he has an absurd wingspan that makes his standing reach 8 feet 11 inches. Vogel chose to cover the shooters James always finds and prayed that James couldn’t make a contested jumper over his All-Star to win the game. We can quibble about whether an open Bosh jumper is more desirable than a contested one from James if you are Indiana, but the Pacers leader trusted his very best player to guard Miami’s very best player at the most important time for 2.2 seconds from the top of the key. It did not occur to Vogel that James could reduce his best player to bones in the 2.2 seconds it takes piranha to feed. It might not have occurred to any of us, either, if we hadn’t just witnessed it being done so expediently, without George offering even a tenth-of-a-second’s worth of resistance.To arrive at that rim so freely, soaring as if liberated, James had to fail in

shel311 wrote:No clutch gene.

Reign said so

ReignOnU wrote:

shel311 wrote:No clutch gene.

Reign said so

You could have drove to the hoop and scored in 2.2 sec with that kind of defensive screw up.