Am I a "hater"? Well I suppose, or you could describe me as someone with an opinion and a legitimate point. I'm going to go out on a limb and defy star power, and boldly state the Miami Heat will NOT win the 2011 NBA Championship. Remember where you heard it first.
Lebron James was a liar. Is a liar, and until he realises it and stops being a selfish young adult may very well continue to be. When he states that Miami gave him the best chance to win a title, or that he wanted to go where he had the best chance to go win a title what he really meant was ; " I want to go where I can make a MAX salary, while competeting at a high level" If Lebron really wanted to go where he had the absolute best shot to win a title this upcoming NBA season, it would not have been with the Miami Heat who finished the season at 47-35, but with the already dominant Los Angeles Lakers, who finished at 57-25, a whole ten games ahead of the Heat. Or perhaps not just burn Cleveland into the ground, after all they are you home team right?
The Cleveland Cavaliers had the best record in the NBA last season at 61-21, yet the Lakers playing in a much tougher, more competitive, and tighter western conference were in reality the team to beat, but they couldn't offer "The King" a max salary, but what they could, with out a doubt was offer him the best shot at a title that any team in this Association could. With one setback, he couldn't make 15.8 million dollars. Which sadly even with upwards of 30 million dollars a year through endorsment with Nike etc money is still his primary goal.
Now aside from Lebron's childish ways, as well as his decietful and betraying moves, there are three main reasons the Miami Heat will not win their already engraved title, at least not in 2011. They are the fact that two number one options barely ever work well together, not at the prime they should, nevermind three! Secondly their bench is way to weak, but that is expected as roughly 47 million of the $58,044,000 salary cap is dedicated to three players, leaving only 11 million free for another nine positions. Finally the most important reason they will not achieve their goal immediately is because of the L.A Lakers.
I have already minutely compared the starting rotation of the two power house teams and have given the edge to the Miami Heat, but the Heat's roster is basically only three of the five starters, and when they turn to the bench you recieve a bunch of no name, low rate players with polyster pants, helping to warm the bench. The lakers have a much better eight man rotation then the Heat and that will be a large factor. The Heat can rely on their big three, and dominate a growing eastern conference but in retrospect after 82 regular season games and roughly 16 post-season games before the finals, the big three that were depended heavily upon every night to win , without any other options will be fatigued, and as Tark the Shark (Jerry Tarkanian), the great NCAA coach once said...
"The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy."
So Kobe has his great eight, but Lebron... Do you ?
Enough said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_Salary_Cap Breakdown of the Salary Cap
http://www.nba.com/standings/team_record_comparison/conferenceNew_Std_Cnf.html - Why L.A's record is more impressive, 8 teams have 50 w's in west.
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