Monday, December 31, 2007

Cold Miami


It's amazing how in sports everything can change in a few seasons, one season. By far the biggest disappointment this season in the NBA has been none other than the pitiful Miami Heat.

Miami have two stars, Shaq and D-Wade, who are destined for the Hall of Fame, but the personnel around them seems as if someone threw the team together by playing a game of darts and landing on obscure players. Miami is 8-23.Just in case you are wondering, that's the second-worst record in the entire National Basketball Association. Miami has looked slow, old, and down-right pitiful. Miami got swept by Chicago in the first-round of the playoffs last year and started this season losing nine of their first eleven games.

Let's not forget that Miami won the title in the 2005-2006 season. But this isn't the same team by any stretch of the imagination. No Damon Jones. No James Posey. No Gary Payton. Now, no Alonzo Mourning.

Will Miami make the playoffs this season? Negative. That at the moment shouldn't be focus. Rather, Pat Riley is going to have to find some new pieces to this puzzled that looks utterly confusing. Until then....

There's always next season.

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