William Bassington
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"If you watch any sports show, (the Lakers are) taking up half of the show," Bosh told USA TODAY Sports. "But the thing that I try to tell people (about so-called Super Teams) is, 'This isn't XBox, it's not PlayStation. In real life, it's a lot more complicated. Guys have to make a lot of sacrifices, roles have to be established.
"It's a very long season. We figured that out. There's going to be a lot of ups and downs, and when you're contending for a championship that's how it is. One day you're on top of the world, and the next that world is crumbling. It's a part of the gig, man."
"Yeah, we watch everything that they do," Bosh said. "We know that they have huge upside and their propensity to really bring it together, it's huge. The potential danger (of the Lakers) is there."
"This team can win 60% of its games without a coach," Wade said of the Lakers. "They can figure it out. And they have players who will figure it out. Just like us. It's early in the season, and they'll figure it out. We were 9-8 (in 2010), and then at one point I think we won 21 of 22 games. And then we went through another tough stretch. There's going to be highs and lows with those kinds of teams.
"(The Lakers) don't have the same personnel (as D'Antoni's Phoenix Suns teams from 2005 to 2008). But he's one of the best X's and O's coaches that this game has ever seen, and he (will) put them in a position to be successful."
LeBron James, Dwyane Wade offer advice to Mike D'Antoni, Lakers