Can We Skip Season For Heat-Lakers Final?
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Oh hell nah. Heat fans might disagree, but a little food for thought when they sober up tomorrow. A little Left Coast perspective, if you will.
As I mentioned to my man Jimmy G, old hoop heads like me are all giddy about the endless possibilities of another promising NBA season that remains more than 4 months away. Still, unlike what Michael Wilbon inaccurately stated, the balance of power still resides in the West.
The Heat, C’s and Magic are the cream of the crop in the East, but the West still has the 2-time defending champs, the rising Thunder and their quiet assassin Kevin Durant, the Nugs, Mavs, Jazz, Spurs and the Blazers, health being the major factor for them and their noted flasher Gred Oden withstanding.
Some folks will laugh, but the Clip Joint has some nice pieces, enough of them they could become a playoff team.
But let’s get back to everyone’s favorite flavor and surely the preseason favorite to win it all, the Heat and all their new-found bandwagon riding fans.
My 1st question: Who’s your center? Freaking Jamaal Magloire? Or a fat-meat-is-greasy rook like Dexter Pittman? While Heat fans were wetting their pants tonight, their former center Jermaine O’Neal was wetting his and signing a deal with the C’s. If you don’t believe that’s significant, you need to get out more.
My point is this: Unless Miami finds someone to plug its glaring hole in the middle (please, Chris Bosh is a forward and Andrew Bynum would eat his lunch, as Coach Quinn was fond of saying), it might not come out of the East despite the All-Star threesome the Heat now employs. Though they have plenty of time to address their weakness, they will need to address it, which is required balling, particularly in the East.
Last time we checked, Boston still have some major beef inside and Dwight Howard is still the best center in the NBA. The Heat will have to deal with that.
As far as the Lakers go and if Miami ventures this far, LeBron already slipped. He provided some incentive in an innocent way, saying “If Kendrick Perkins doesn’t go down” the NBA Finals could have had a different result. Who?
Don’t think Kobe didn’t catch that. His eyes and brains almost popped out of his head.
And like us, he’s probably drooling already. Too bad we have to wait.
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