Just trying to get our Coli Rating Up - Miami Heat Season thread 2015/16

[prophecypro]

Not gassed by these home wins vs the Cavs

 

[Draje]

This squad., brehs

If Bosh is healthy (And we all know he's one of the best players in the league at putting aside ego for team success) then we could be a legit threat to meet GS in the finals where anything can happen.

I dunno how I feel about them Spurs though

And I think Spo is one of the better coaches at planning defensive schemes that are anti-Lebron.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

Not gassed by these home wins vs the Cavs

last time they didn't have bron so I didn't put much stock in it. this time they were fully stacked and we destroyed them. give me one good reason why the heat shouldn't beat the cavs in a series?....fukk all that. only way heat lose is if they flat out choke.

 

[Alexander The Great]

This squad., brehs

If Bosh is healthy (And we all know he's one of the best players in the league at putting aside ego for team success) then we could be a legit threat to meet GS in the finals where anything can happen.

I dunno how I feel about them Spurs though

And I think Spo is one of the better coaches at planning defensive schemes that are anti-Lebron.

he knows him. Heat might be the best team in the East equipped to face him solely based on knowledge of him.

 

[((ReFleXioN)) EteRNaL]

what's crazy is that udrih going down was the best thing that happened for us all season. J rich would prolly still be at the end of the bench right now if that didn't happen

 

[Alexander The Great]

 

[Alexander The Great]

what's crazy is that udrih going down was the best thing that happened for us all season. J rich would prolly still be at the end of the bench right now if that didn't happen

breh we always "fall into" these lineups that end up being our best

Bosh gets hurt in 2012 playoffs, we go to small ball with Battier starting
Bosh gets hurt this season and we start Deng at 4 and go small again.
udrih gets hurts opening pt for JRich and

in Spo's defense on the last one tho, who expected this from him

 

[Alexander The Great]

I wonder how many votes hassan will get for dpoy. he's not one of the media's golden boys like draymond, gobert, or leonard

 

[ReggieFlare]

Brehs, with the emergence of J.Rich, how does TJ now fit into the equation?

I honestly forgot what skills he brings to the table. Is he gonna be running out there when Dragic and Wade are out?

 

[Alexander The Great]

Brehs, with the emergence of J.Rich, how does TJ now fit into the equation?

I honestly forgot what skills he brings to the table. Is he gonna be running out there when Dragic and Wade are out?

spot duty....as needed. we need depth to rest guys as well. even the rookies need rest. kinda like mcroberts right now.

 

[Primetime21]

I wonder how many votes hassan will get for dpoy. he's not one of the media's golden boys like draymond, gobert, or leonard

I get the sense listening from media talking heads that Leonard already has it sewn up. Guy's an outstanding defender don't get me wrong I just hope DPOY doesn't turn into him winning every year on reputation while ignoring what Whiteside is doing.

 

[Primetime21]

The remarkable tale of Heat's road to Richardson

There was a time when Josh Richardson wasn't even the Miami Heat's focus. And there was a time when they couldn't get him off their mind.

The road to rookie revelation often can be circuitous, and for the guard out of Tennessee the path to the Heat involved so many twists and turns that even now, as he's out scouting the NCAA Tournament, Chet Kammerer, the team's vice president of player personnel, revels in the reflections.

Drafted as a senior with the No. 40 pick last June, Richardson kept growing on the Heat to a point where this current breakthrough arrives almost as if it had been expected.

Where to start?

Pat Riley were scouting Tennessee at the Southeastern Conference tournament.

"On their team they had Jarnell Stokes and they had Jordan McRae, and those were the offensive players on that team," Kammerer said of the initial scouting focus. "But on that team Josh Richardson was a starter and he was very active defensively and caused a lot of havoc."

Duly noted.

Then move forward to the 2014-15 season, when the Vols were down, with Richardson shifted to point guard.

"His senior year, he had a fairly good year, although people quit watching him because the team was bad," Kammerer said, with Richardson dropping off the scouting radar to the point where he wasn't selected for the NBA's 2015 pre-draft combine. "He didn't get invited to Chicago, which was a little surprise. But, again, he got kind of lost because Tennessee did not have a very good year."

That left him available for the Heat to work out as a potential second-round pick.

"In our workout, we tested him," Kammerer said. "Well, when we tested him, one of the things that got my attention, he was the second-fastest guy of all the draft picks last year on the three-quarter-court run. So now we've got a long, athletic guy who's fast. He also had a plus-six wingspan."

But also a prospect who couldn't shoot particularly well. That could have been the end of it right there, until Kammerer conferred with coach Erik Spoelstra during that session.

"All I remember is asking Spo, 'Spo, give me your opinion. Just watching him shoot, tell me whether you think he's going to be an adequate shooter in the NBA?' " Kammerer continued. "And the consensus was his shot wasn't bad."

That led to a second look, this time at a Santa Barbara, Calif., group pre-draft session run by agent Bill Duffy. Among the featured attractions was Arizona forward Stanley Johnson, who would eventually be drafted No. 8 by the Detroit Pistons.

But even then, Kammerer and Riley remained fixated on Richardson. Then, when the session was broken into one-on-one drills, Richardson was matched up against Kentucky guard Andrew Harrison.

"I watched this workout and he dominated him. He couldn't get around him," Kammerer said of the torment Richardson created for Harrison.

By then, Kammerer was sold. But he also was uncertain whether Richardson would last until No. 40.

Then came draft night, when Kammerer sidled up to General Manager Andy Elisburg.

"I went and asked Andy, 'If there's any way we can move up, I think we should try to move up and get a late first-round pick,' " Kammerer reflected. "We just didn't have the ability to do that.

"And then there was a fairly large scouting service that actually rated him in the first round, of which I was sick about. Until then, I was, 'He's kind of a sleeper, didn't have many workouts.' And then when I saw that service had him in mid-20s, I said, 'Oh, no, the word is out.' "

Eventually, Richardson was available at No. 40. Kammerer had his man. But, also, still some doubts.

"I did not waver on him," he said. "But I thought it would be like college, that it would take him two years."

And then came a moment during training camp, while seated at a courtside table alongside Riley, Elisburg and Heat owner Micky Arison, when Kammerer felt his vindication well before Richardson achieved this latest rotation validation.

"In training camp," Kammerer said, "I remember Mr. Arison, Micky Arison, said, 'You know, our second-round pick, he's a good prospect.' I heard him say that to Pat. I didn't say anything. I just listened. I was convinced, watching in training camp, that this guy could be playing down the road."

 

[OfTheCross]

Great franchise from top to bottom

 

[havoc]

when we end that Spurs home winning streak tho

 

[Alexander The Great]

so Eddie Jones was at last nights game? the JRich comparisons must of brought him out