The NBA discussion thread

[Bladeneo]

epicurean said:

leo-j said:

Bladeneo said:

The hate for Miami really is quite funny; LeBron no doubt handled the situation terribly but it was well within his right to leave an awfully managed Cleveland team. I'm sure he got sick of making Mike Brown look like an above average coach, and after Dan Gilbert's comments, his decision was all the more vindicated. 

I'm glad people are "hating" and looking at miami more now, because wade is so underrated, it's not even funny, I hate how the nba and espn and fox sports.. etc.. would constanly praise lebron and kobe as if they were the only good players in the league, when the guy with the highest PPG average last year was DWAYNE WADE, and so far, he's the 3rd best scorer in the league despite having two huge point forwards

Kevin Durant won the scoring title last year.  Lebron was second.  Not sure where you are getting Wade from, unless PPG doesn't stand for "Points Per Game".

But I do like Wade, not trying to bash....just saying....

I firmly agree D-Wade is underrated, in my opinion he's every bit as good as Kobe, but purely from an ability standpoint no player in the league can match what LeBron does night in night out. Of course, every big player on the Miami team will suffer statistically, but once that team gets going I'm not sure who's going to be able to stop them. They've been shredded by fantastic point guards this season, but I can't see Erik Spoelstra not allowing Wade or LeBron to take over defensive duties in the playoffs if they come up against the Celtics. 

Tonight's game will certainly be interesting; Boston are as good as anyone when they want to be, but it remains to be seen if they can keep that intensity up consistently. They played that home opener like it was game 7 of the finals. It's just a shame they didn't show the same intensity in the actual game 7.