Them Nikkas Had a Parade!!!.Official Season Thread Of The World Champion Miami Heat

[Alexander The Great]

yall sign harrellson yet?

he's in camp trying to win a spot

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

he's in camp trying to win a spot

How is he lookin'? Who does he have to beat out?

dude went from not even dreaming about playing overseas to being on the knicks after our final four run, I hope he gets a spot

 

[Alexander The Great]

ehh...didn't show that much in the scrimmage. We'll see more on Sunday in the 1st preseason game. He's pretty much battling some other no name bigs for that last roster spot. The Heat have 2 non guaranteed roster spots open, but I think Terrell Harris will get one of those.

 

[He Who Posts Well]

I can see Harelson getting that roster spot.

A pair of Boston Celtics fans — one wore an Allen jersey and the other Rajon Rondo — in the first quarter were booed out of the arena. When they resurfaced in a different section, Wade rushed to grab the microphone from public-address announcer Michael Baiamonte.

Wade was then greeted with cheers when he said, "Will all Celtics fans please exit the building."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/miami-heat/fl--miami-heat-scrimmage-1004-20121003,0,2843105.story

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

I can see Harelson getting that roster spot.


Miami Heat: Heat guard Ray Allen scores 13 points in his first performance in front of the home fans. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

Wade

 

[He Who Posts Well]

Random: Florida brehs, anyone listen to 104.3/790 around 9-10 o'clock tonight?

Instead of talking about sports, one of the radio personalities was talking about a fight between him and his wife and sh!t was mad awkward. When I first turned on the radio he was talking all serious and I thought someone died. It turned out his wife has been talking to her ex via Facebook. He probably shares her and probably going to lose her for talking about it in detail on the radio (hopefully not) Not to mention, mad people were calling up giving him bad advice and sh!t too.

It was just a mess that I couldn't turn on on my drive home. I honestly wanted to call up and ask him why is he disclosing intimate information about his marriage on the radio when he should be talking about sports

 

[Alexander The Great]

as @THEREALBRAND would say for those that missed it

 

[He Who Posts Well]

Thanks laya, had to watch it on mute though.

 

[BStapies]

Was this on nba tv or something?

 

[Rain]

They need to stop letting the junior broadcast crew do these fukking scrimmages.

 

[intruder]

Yo im in town until next thursday. What's going on this weekend after the caribbean Carnival?

 

[Constellations]

I can see Harelson getting that roster spot.


Miami Heat: Heat guard Ray Allen scores 13 points in his first performance in front of the home fans. - South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com

this season bout to be a war

 

[He Who Posts Well]

[ame]http://youtu.be/KcQlTa_R5w4[/ame]

I cringed a little when Bron compared us to Orlando. I see the similarities but I just don't like to be compared to them. Dwight was more of a decoy in that system, I don't want Bron or Wade to be that here. I want him to be aggressive and not draw in defenders just so someone else can take a three. We'll be alright though, I'm sure.

http://fukkyealebronjames.tumblr.com/post/32851405152

It's good to be king.

 

[Alexander The Great]

Miami Heat will try to amp up its defense further by using the press in certain situations

MIAMI — All the talk the past two years has been about pressure, pressure to fulfill potential, pressure to win a championship, pressure on the head coach and his stars. After enduring and overcoming all of that pressure, the Heat is now experimenting with ways to put a bit more on opponents, all over the court.

So the surprise about Erik Spoelstra’s admission – that his team has been working on the full-court press that it showed in Wednesday’s scrimmage – was that he let the media in on his secret. The strategy itself? That is perfectly reasonable to consider, since it seems to perfectly fit the Heat’s roster.
“Well, that’s not a question,” LeBron James said. “We have enough guys, we have enough speed.”
Depth, quickness and discipline are the primary requirements for pulling off the press. Miami should be comfortable playing as many as 12 players if the press wears one or two of them out, even if Spoelstra certainly won’t go a dozen deep every night.
The Heat has three of the league’s three quickest players at their respective positions in power forward James, shooting guard Dwyane Wade and center Chris Bosh. And Norris Cole and Mario Chalmers are young and spry enough to pester opposing point guards. Discipline? That’s where all the veterans, notably Shane Battier and Udonis Haslem, come in.

So while Spoelstra emphasized Thursday that the Heat won’t be putting on any sort of permanent press, he acknowledged that he intends to expand upon its limited use last season, in order to force teams to play at a faster tempo.
“We’re going to look at it a little bit right now, and then I’ll have to make a determination,” said Spoelstra, who watched assistant David Fizdale use it in the Las Vegas Summer League in July. “I think it’s a good idea to practice against it, but the way we want to play, it also makes sense for us to at least explore it.”
It makes some sense to get other teams worrying about it. There should be little drawback for Miami, so long as the players don’t, as Spoelstra put it, “compromise our defensive principles of protecting the paint” by failing to recover and retreat if required.
“We’ve got to be smart about it,” Haslem said. “Usually, we use our (power forwards) as the trap guys, the press guys. That will most likely be me or Shane or LeBron, but that’s our decision.
“We kind of quarterback that situation of when we press and when we don’t. We have to make sure we don’t put the rest of the guys at risk. We’ve got a good idea of when to go or when not to go, or when to fake it.”
And while the best outcome is a steal and easy score, and the second best would be to increase the overall number of possessions – which usually benefits the more talented team – sometimes it would be sufficient simply to get an offense out of sorts.
Battier welcomes that challenge. He has studied the way that former NBA player Bo Outlaw served as a “one-man press” while playing power forward, and Battier employed some of that himself during the playoffs, especially after missed free throws.
“You’re not trying for a steal, but you’re putting a lot of time pressure on the other team,” Battier said. “Oh, yeah, with the positions and the length that we have, we can do that.”
Battier said it’s easiest to exploit teams that usually ask their power forwards to take the ball out of bounds, and then get it back.

“All of a sudden, a four man has the ball in his hands, trying to bring the ball up,” Battier said. “The 8-second count is against them. There’s hot clock pressure. So by the time they finally set their offense, there’s 15, 16 on the clock. That’s a huge, huge difference.”
So this can make a significant impact – in spots.
“Selectively,” Battier said. “We’re not going to run the (Rick) Pitino-style press. But we can selectively get the tempo up in a game. You can only do it selectively.”
Which was the point Wade most wished to make about pressure.
“We ain’t gonna do that all game,” he said, smiling. “Sometimes to contain the ball.”
He laughed.
“Norris can do it all. He can pick it up every time he gets in the game.”

been hoping for them to use this for 2 years now. Growing up watching the Bulls and how effective their press was and how similar the athletes the heat have are seemed like a good idea.

 

[AkaDemiK]

I think this season is going to be something special as far as wins/losses. I can feel it.