digital7 Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 no excuses.. we were in position to win the game despite the injuries we had..nobody really stepped up. Damon Jones, Eddie Jones, Haslem, Butler... and Dooling played foolishly. He was taking wild shots, not playing under control, not distributing the ball properly. He wasnt doing anything right.. Im not sure if he's going to be on the roster next year.. along with Haslem and D.J. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 What a great series!!!!!!!Congrats to the Heat... I honestly believe you will win the championship in `06... But this year, I hope its Detroit again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbliss Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 no excuses.. we were in position to win the game despite the injuries we had..nobody really stepped up. Damon Jones, Eddie Jones, Haslem, Butler... and Dooling played foolishly. He was taking wild shots, not playing under control, not distributing the ball properly. He wasnt doing anything right.. Im not sure if he's going to be on the roster next year.. along with Haslem and D.J.ok... here are my thoughts on the issue... first off, although I am disapointed in the loss the heat went the furthest we have in franchise history so congrats to that... now on to last nights game, the series in general, the loss and danny's comments above.. We should have won that game without question. Without injuries we would have taken that series in 5 maybe 6 as the heat were clearly the better team. The officiating last night was horrible as it was the entire series. This is the playoffs! let the guys play basketball for godsake. anyways big props to wade for playing through his injury and to shaq for doing all that could be imagined of the big fella last night...plain and simple we lost last night because of awfull coaching. We can all play monday morning coach but come on vangundy. Lets start with the obvious. Wade was hurt. van gundy made no substitutions till 2 minutes left in the first quarter. wade should have played in 4 - 5 minute incriments leaving him with energy for the 4th quarter. Keyon dooling should have played more. I don't know what game you were watching danny but there was a point where the boy took over. he distributed the ball well, shot the ball well and played defense unlike damon jones. Damon got hurt in the first and never got back in rhythm. he didn't make a single shot and can't play good D on two legs let alone on one. Now someone tell me why the guy with no points and one leg still played the starters minutes instead of the guy producing, distributing the ball, and PLAYING D? second question, why on earth in a game of this magnatude with neither shaq nor zo in serious foul trouble did zo only play 10 minutes? why was he not in there alongside of shaq in the crucual moments? udonis played a great game but is to small when rasheed posted up on him... that would not have been the case if zo got more minutes or even laetner for that matter who his much taller then udonis. would have totally changed the rhythm of the game in the paint and limited rasheed and mcdyess by putting bigger bodies on them. here is the final and most crucial question. shaq played great last night. shaq played with energy and was leading the team to victory in the 4th quarter. when the ball went down low to him they had no answer. we were leading with 5 minutes to play now its obvious to me that the offense should have run through the big man on every possesion with us up by 7 near games end. through the ball to the big guy he draws the double then he either breaks through it or throughs it out to the open guy... commen sense tells you what should have been done yet the heat never got the ball to the main guy down the stretch giving us our best chance to keep the lead wade played so hard to give us. I don't blame the players I blame vangundy for horrible player substitution and horrible play calling down the stretch on top of bad officiating. I disagree with the comments that we would have had a hard time with the spurs. we match up well against them and would have given them a much better fight then the pistons injured or not... i think san antonio in 5 or 6 tops but i guess we'll see.... bottom line - we had the chance to win the east, we should have won the east, boo on vangundy for last night but I guess there's next year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxgrooveericxx Posted June 7 Report Share Posted June 7 The Heat got beat in a hell of freaking game and series, although the pistons pulled away with the victory I still believe if it wasn't for the injuries the heat would have won, but with all the injuries the heat had if they would have gone to the finals which begins Thursday they probably would have gotten spanked by the SPURS... The injury bug hit the Heat big time in the end. Both Shaq and Wade, the 2 best players on the team, playing hurt and yet they ALMOST made it to the finals. Can't wait till next year, with some upgrades in the roster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digital7 Posted June 8 Report Share Posted June 8 Im afraid I was watching the same game that you were John... and Im not quite sure at what point did Keyon Dooling take over except for that 3 minute stretch run where he scored a whopping 4 points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcbliss Posted June 8 Report Share Posted June 8 Im afraid I was watching the same game that you were John... and Im not quite sure at what point did Keyon Dooling take over except for that 3 minute stretch run where he scored a whopping 4 pointsyou are right but at least he was driving the lane, playing d, and was able to walk unlike damon jones. he was also distributing the ball and giving energy to the team when needed then pulled for the injured guy. just bad coaching in my opinion. thought keyon was playing well and would have given us a stronger chance. thought zo would have given us a better inside D if he was allowed to play more than 10 minutes also.... oh well, whats done is done but we were just overcoached not over matched in my opinion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skytraveler Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 All I've got to say is To be the man, you've got to beat the manIn this case To be the Team you've got to beat the TeamPistons are the Defending Champs so if you can't beat them then you don't deserve to go to the Championship gameHope the Pistons repeat for the hell of itpeace, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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