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these dudes always play ass against the bucks
Cavaliers-Heat Preview
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For the first time, LeBron James will be facing his former team as an NBA champion.
James has never lost a game in his new home to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers and will try to help the Miami Heat improve to 6-0 at AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday night.
The acrimonious departure two seasons ago of Cleveland's top overall pick in 2003 will always be notable in the career of James, who finally added his name to the list of great NBA champions last season with his play during the Heat's run to the title.
Wearing the mantle of champion is a new burden for James. He and Miami (9-3) showed signs of difficulty in handling that challenge Wednesday in blowing an 18-point lead before hanging on for a 113-106 overtime home victory over Milwaukee.
"Guys get up to play us and we understand that," James said. "Guys are in this league for a reason."
Cleveland (3-9) could be up for this game as it tries for its first win in five tries in Miami. James has only been needed to average 21.8 points in four previous home meetings against his former club, with the Heat prevailing each time thanks to the depth of talent surrounding him.
The Cavaliers, however, travel to South Beach without the services of Kyrie Irving, who has replaced James as the face of the franchise after being drafted first overall in 2011. Irving is out with a broken finger.
Jeremy Pargo picked up the slack in Cleveland's first game without Irving with a season-high 28 points in Wednesday's 92-83 victory over Philadelphia. Pargo was held to 15 two nights later as the Cavs dropped their sixth straight on the road, 108-104 to Orlando.
Cleveland allowed Orlando to shoot 50.0 percent. Opponents are shooting an Eastern Conference-high 49.0 percent against the Cavs.
"Again, we allowed another team to shoot a high percentage tonight, and those guys shot the ball pretty well," coach Byron Scott said.
Led by James, Miami leads the NBA at 49.2 percent from the floor.
One positive Friday for the Cavs was the 25 points from Dion Waiters, who is second among all rookies with a 14.8 scoring average. Waiters has totaled 11 assists in the two contests without Irving for his best two-game stretch.
Anderson Varejao had 19 points and 17 boards for his third straight double-double as he gets ready to bang inside with Heat big man Udonis Haslem.
Haslem became Miami's all-time franchise leader in rebounding Wednesday. He surpassed Alonzo Mourning with 4,814 boards.
"Words can't really describe what I feel right now, just coming from where I came from, going through the situation that I had to go through, being undrafted, going to Europe, I had to fight to make the team," Haslem said.
The Heat continue to get excellent production from Chris Bosh, who had 24 points and 18 boards Wednesday. He's averaging 20.0 points -- his highest in three seasons with Miami.
Miami's 5-0 start at home is its best in team history.
STATS LLC
For the first time, LeBron James will be facing his former team as an NBA champion.
James has never lost a game in his new home to the lowly Cleveland Cavaliers and will try to help the Miami Heat improve to 6-0 at AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday night.
The acrimonious departure two seasons ago of Cleveland's top overall pick in 2003 will always be notable in the career of James, who finally added his name to the list of great NBA champions last season with his play during the Heat's run to the title.
Wearing the mantle of champion is a new burden for James. He and Miami (9-3) showed signs of difficulty in handling that challenge Wednesday in blowing an 18-point lead before hanging on for a 113-106 overtime home victory over Milwaukee.
"Guys get up to play us and we understand that," James said. "Guys are in this league for a reason."
Cleveland (3-9) could be up for this game as it tries for its first win in five tries in Miami. James has only been needed to average 21.8 points in four previous home meetings against his former club, with the Heat prevailing each time thanks to the depth of talent surrounding him.
The Cavaliers, however, travel to South Beach without the services of Kyrie Irving, who has replaced James as the face of the franchise after being drafted first overall in 2011. Irving is out with a broken finger.
Jeremy Pargo picked up the slack in Cleveland's first game without Irving with a season-high 28 points in Wednesday's 92-83 victory over Philadelphia. Pargo was held to 15 two nights later as the Cavs dropped their sixth straight on the road, 108-104 to Orlando.
Cleveland allowed Orlando to shoot 50.0 percent. Opponents are shooting an Eastern Conference-high 49.0 percent against the Cavs.
"Again, we allowed another team to shoot a high percentage tonight, and those guys shot the ball pretty well," coach Byron Scott said.
Led by James, Miami leads the NBA at 49.2 percent from the floor.
One positive Friday for the Cavs was the 25 points from Dion Waiters, who is second among all rookies with a 14.8 scoring average. Waiters has totaled 11 assists in the two contests without Irving for his best two-game stretch.
Anderson Varejao had 19 points and 17 boards for his third straight double-double as he gets ready to bang inside with Heat big man Udonis Haslem.
Haslem became Miami's all-time franchise leader in rebounding Wednesday. He surpassed Alonzo Mourning with 4,814 boards.
"Words can't really describe what I feel right now, just coming from where I came from, going through the situation that I had to go through, being undrafted, going to Europe, I had to fight to make the team," Haslem said.
The Heat continue to get excellent production from Chris Bosh, who had 24 points and 18 boards Wednesday. He's averaging 20.0 points -- his highest in three seasons with Miami.
Miami's 5-0 start at home is its best in team history.
spo gives no fucks about defensive adjustments
team make it a point to throw up a lot of three point attempts against the heat and if enough of them fall the game gets out of hand
man Spo won a championship but the mofo drives me up a wall
team make it a point to throw up a lot of three point attempts against the heat and if enough of them fall the game gets out of hand
man Spo won a championship but the mofo drives me up a wall
What I say?
AYE YOOOOO RAY
Must suck to high hell when you give it 1000% effort and still lose
Cavs wanted this game badly
However I think Dan Gilbert got one of those refs in his pocket because for the refs to give the cavs the ball back when Gibson clearly shot an airball is some suspect shit
AYE YOOOOO RAY
Must suck to high hell when you give it 1000% effort and still lose
Cavs wanted this game badly
However I think Dan Gilbert got one of those refs in his pocket because for the refs to give the cavs the ball back when Gibson clearly shot an airball is some suspect shit
Ray Allen's 3 allows Heat to rally, escape Cavaliers
Associated Press
MIAMI -- Ray Allen took a pass from LeBron James and made a 3-pointer with 18.2 seconds left, and the Miami Heat rallied from a seven-point deficit in the final 1:52 to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 110-108 on Saturday night.
James finished with 30 points for the Heat, who remained perfect at home despite leading for only 2 minutes, 29 seconds. Chris Bosh scored 23 points, Dwyane Wade added 18 and Allen finished with 17 for the Heat, who lost Shane Battier in the third quarter to a sprained right knee.
Cleveland had a good look at the lead, but Wade blocked Jeremy Pargo's jumper with 3 seconds left, and Allen added one free throw to stretch the lead to two. Cleveland controlled the rebound with 0.6 seconds left, but never got anything near the rim.
Associated Press
MIAMI -- Ray Allen took a pass from LeBron James and made a 3-pointer with 18.2 seconds left, and the Miami Heat rallied from a seven-point deficit in the final 1:52 to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 110-108 on Saturday night.
James finished with 30 points for the Heat, who remained perfect at home despite leading for only 2 minutes, 29 seconds. Chris Bosh scored 23 points, Dwyane Wade added 18 and Allen finished with 17 for the Heat, who lost Shane Battier in the third quarter to a sprained right knee.
Cleveland had a good look at the lead, but Wade blocked Jeremy Pargo's jumper with 3 seconds left, and Allen added one free throw to stretch the lead to two. Cleveland controlled the rebound with 0.6 seconds left, but never got anything near the rim.
Who's the man? It's been everybody for the Heat this season...
*** The clipboard is handed from coach to trainer. The huddle is broken. The final five get into position. Or sometimes they simply flow from defense to offense.
*** And then? The beauty of this team, this roster, these possibilities, Dwyane Wade said Monday, is not even the Miami Heat know what's next. Or who's next.
*** Because the expectation of LeBron James having to make the moment is gone.
** *Because there now is so much more in place, namely confidence, continuity, cohesion.
*** Over the Heat's first 13 games, there have been seven make-or-miss decisive moments, with five different protagonists.
** "Our guys absolutely salivate in those situations," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "You can see they come to life."
*** Because everyone on the floor is live, capable of making it their moment, beyond the NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player.
*** "We have so many options," Wade said after Monday's practice at AmericanAirlines Arena, two days after Ray Allen hit a game-deciding 3-pointer against the Cleveland Cavaliers. "Coach can draw up one play, but there can be many different options out of it.
*** "It's not just going to one guy."
*** And it hasn't.
*** On Nov. 3 against the visiting Denver Nuggets, it was Allen completing a four-point play with 6.7 seconds remaining off a James assist for the victory.
*** On Nov. 9, in a road victory against the Atlanta Hawks, it was Allen putting the Heat ahead for good with a jumper with 1:22 to play and James stepping up with a jump-shot dagger up two with 13.6 seconds left.
** Three nights later, it was James making a go-ahead layup with 18.6 seconds left in a road victory over the Houston Rockets and then Chris Bosh putting it away with a pair of free throws with 7.1 seconds to go.
** Later on that six-game trip, it was Norris Cole stepping up with a decisive 3-pointer off a James assist with the Heat down 92-91 with 51.4 seconds left in a victory in Denver.
** Two nights after that, it was Bosh sealing a victory over the Phoenix Suns with a pair of free throws with 1:28 to play and the Heat up 90-88.
** And on the current homestand, it was Wade being given a decisive shot, a jumper with eight-tenths of a second left in regulation that was blocked, in what turned into an overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, and then Allen's decisive 3-pointer Saturday.
*** Because Allen made a pair of 3-pointers off James' late passes, and because Cole made his, this time there weren't questions about James deferring.
** He said Monday that if skeptics want to judge based on the results, that's fine also.
** "I live with it not matter what," he said. "I hit U.D. [Udonis Haslem] last year in Utah for a wide-open free-throw shot and U.D. is a 60-percent shooter from there and he just missed it. People got on me for that, because I had 20 or something in the fourth. It doesn't matter. I make the right play.
** "It's the way I've always grown up, how I was taught to play the game. You make the right play."
** But this season, in a closing group that includes James, Wade, Bosh, Allen and often one more outside-shooting threat, it is like playing with no-fault insurance.
*** "Whatever opens up we find that guy," James said. "It's multiple guys that can make plays late in games."
* **To a degree, Allen, as much as any teammate James has had, has made the questions disappear.
*** "I don't understand how he continues to be open," James said.
** *At 10-3 overall and 6-0 at home, skeptics have had to look elsewhere to get their second-guessing fill.
*** "It's interesting that our group at one time was criticized, questioned about their ability in close games," Spoelstra said. "I mean that couldn't be further than the truth."
*** So Spoelstra releases his players from late-game huddles with the confidence that it could be any of their moments.
*** And that it doesn't have to just be James.
** *To Wade, it is a different world from the start of the Heat's Big Three era.
** *"I don't think any of us knew what the heck was going on," he said of their initial make-or-break moments as teammates. "We were just trying to make it up on the fly. Now, knowing that we have a lot of options, you have a lot of guys out there who can make plays, who can make shots."
*** So who's the man? Any of the men.
*** "We've come a long way," Spoelstra said, "from two and half years ago, where there were a lot of those type of questions."
*** The clipboard is handed from coach to trainer. The huddle is broken. The final five get into position. Or sometimes they simply flow from defense to offense.
*** And then? The beauty of this team, this roster, these possibilities, Dwyane Wade said Monday, is not even the Miami Heat know what's next. Or who's next.
*** Because the expectation of LeBron James having to make the moment is gone.
** *Because there now is so much more in place, namely confidence, continuity, cohesion.
*** Over the Heat's first 13 games, there have been seven make-or-miss decisive moments, with five different protagonists.
** "Our guys absolutely salivate in those situations," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "You can see they come to life."
*** Because everyone on the floor is live, capable of making it their moment, beyond the NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player.
*** "We have so many options," Wade said after Monday's practice at AmericanAirlines Arena, two days after Ray Allen hit a game-deciding 3-pointer against the Cleveland Cavaliers. "Coach can draw up one play, but there can be many different options out of it.
*** "It's not just going to one guy."
*** And it hasn't.
*** On Nov. 3 against the visiting Denver Nuggets, it was Allen completing a four-point play with 6.7 seconds remaining off a James assist for the victory.
*** On Nov. 9, in a road victory against the Atlanta Hawks, it was Allen putting the Heat ahead for good with a jumper with 1:22 to play and James stepping up with a jump-shot dagger up two with 13.6 seconds left.
** Three nights later, it was James making a go-ahead layup with 18.6 seconds left in a road victory over the Houston Rockets and then Chris Bosh putting it away with a pair of free throws with 7.1 seconds to go.
** Later on that six-game trip, it was Norris Cole stepping up with a decisive 3-pointer off a James assist with the Heat down 92-91 with 51.4 seconds left in a victory in Denver.
** Two nights after that, it was Bosh sealing a victory over the Phoenix Suns with a pair of free throws with 1:28 to play and the Heat up 90-88.
** And on the current homestand, it was Wade being given a decisive shot, a jumper with eight-tenths of a second left in regulation that was blocked, in what turned into an overtime victory over the Milwaukee Bucks, and then Allen's decisive 3-pointer Saturday.
*** Because Allen made a pair of 3-pointers off James' late passes, and because Cole made his, this time there weren't questions about James deferring.
** He said Monday that if skeptics want to judge based on the results, that's fine also.
** "I live with it not matter what," he said. "I hit U.D. [Udonis Haslem] last year in Utah for a wide-open free-throw shot and U.D. is a 60-percent shooter from there and he just missed it. People got on me for that, because I had 20 or something in the fourth. It doesn't matter. I make the right play.
** "It's the way I've always grown up, how I was taught to play the game. You make the right play."
** But this season, in a closing group that includes James, Wade, Bosh, Allen and often one more outside-shooting threat, it is like playing with no-fault insurance.
*** "Whatever opens up we find that guy," James said. "It's multiple guys that can make plays late in games."
* **To a degree, Allen, as much as any teammate James has had, has made the questions disappear.
*** "I don't understand how he continues to be open," James said.
** *At 10-3 overall and 6-0 at home, skeptics have had to look elsewhere to get their second-guessing fill.
*** "It's interesting that our group at one time was criticized, questioned about their ability in close games," Spoelstra said. "I mean that couldn't be further than the truth."
*** So Spoelstra releases his players from late-game huddles with the confidence that it could be any of their moments.
*** And that it doesn't have to just be James.
** *To Wade, it is a different world from the start of the Heat's Big Three era.
** *"I don't think any of us knew what the heck was going on," he said of their initial make-or-break moments as teammates. "We were just trying to make it up on the fly. Now, knowing that we have a lot of options, you have a lot of guys out there who can make plays, who can make shots."
*** So who's the man? Any of the men.
*** "We've come a long way," Spoelstra said, "from two and half years ago, where there were a lot of those type of questions."
JESUS SAVES AGAIN
Celtics mad
Believe it or not...I just got home when it was just above 2 minutes left.
The Heat snuck by with one. I know SA were down on their top players but they should be proud of their second string staying in there like that.
Nah it wasn't so much sneaking by.. SA got a good Bench....
plus they play for Pop thats the difference
but once again Big shot Ray is there for a reason...
So long as Ray on the floor in close game situations the Heat will win more times than not
oh yeah Beeii mad
Heat got a bad habit of playing at the level of the competition, when they should be dominating.
Stole oNe! 
these dudes play down to competition.
It pisses me off tho
It pisses me off tho
I think the fact that they don't get rattled in close game situations like they did the first yr is great...
Do it enough times during the season and the playoffs will be a breeze
Same thing I was thinking.
Two seasons ago, if they were in a dog fight under two minutes even with a sub .500 team, they would lose. This year, these close grind out games seem to be the time when the play the best the whole night.
ray gonna be up to his ears in broads down in Miami if he keeps this up
Rashard Lewis on defense again
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You niggas are gettin' Cheesecake'd...
Upstate ninja prolly telling him self am gon be aight I can always root for the Knicks tomorrow afternoon..lol
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