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knicks need a real solid power forward. Melo playing at the 4 will drain that dude.

And ninjas also didnt want to hear that all that three point shooting while camping behind the line isnt a long term strategy.

Christ if they play the bulls Thibs gonna make Chi sit on those shooters and suffocate them
 
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(AP) - LeBron James and the Miami Heat are about to play another game in Cleveland.

Yawn.

That's what a 23-game winning streak will do for a team.

It mutes even the LeBron-Goes-Home-Again hype.

Someday the Heat will lose another basketball game. Maybe even Wednesday night, when the reigning NBA champions drop by James' old neighborhood to take on James' old team, which happens to be decimated by injuries right now.

Still, could happen. Almost did in Boston on Monday night, save for James' game-winning jumper in the final seconds after Miami rallied from 17- and 13-point deficits to squeak past the Celtics 105-103.

But given how they wrapped up their latest "W" and what lies ahead, it may no longer be farfetched to think that the record of 33 straight victories set by the 1971-72 Los Angeles Lakers is within the Heat's grasp.

"It means a lot," James said after the Boston game. "I know the history of the game. To be sitting in second place right now ... for us to be there and doing it in the way we want to do it, it means a lot."

It also means a lot that Miami (52-14) won't be visiting many playoff-bound teams any time soon. Five of their next six games are against teams with the worst records this season, starting with Cleveland (22-45).

While it will surely be emotional - after all, James is coming home, again - Miami would have to simply lay an egg to lose on Wednesday. The Cavs are incredibly banged up and out of the playoff race. Kyrie Irving is out, Anderson Varejao's season is over and on Tuesday, Cleveland revealed that guard Dion Waiters may need surgery to repair a problem in his left knee.

Yes, the Cavaliers nearly knocked off the Heat in Miami on Feb. 24, but Waiters and Irving combined for 43 points in that upset bid. They'll combine for zero on Wednesday for Cleveland, which has lost three straight and seven of nine.

Miami won last month's matchup 109-105 and also came away with a 110-108 victory in the first meeting of the season Nov. 24. The Heat are 8-1 against the Cavaliers since James bolted for South Beach following the 2009-10 season, with the reigning league MVP averaging 26.4 points, 6.9 assists, 6.2 rebounds and shooting 51.2 percent - similar numbers to what he's put up this season.

"I think you can give the (MVP) trophy to him right now," Cavaliers coach Byron Scott said. "He's the best player in the league right now, and he's playing like it."

Despite his team's injury situation, Scott says Cleveland is confident heading into this matchup, especially since its two losses in the series this season have come by a total of six points.

"Anything can happen," Scott said. "Just like boxers. James Buster Douglas against Mike Tyson. Nobody in the world thought it would happen. ... We have to play probably our best game of the season because they're playing at a different level than everybody else.

"I'm sure from their standpoint, they're on a high. When you're playing that well, you have to have some luck in there during that streak. But you almost get to the point you feel you're invincible, that you can't lose."

This is the end of a five-game trip for the Heat, who return home to face Detroit (23-46) on Friday and NBA-worst Charlotte (15-52) on Sunday before starting another four-game stretch away from home.

"It's a special opportunity that we have with this group and you don't want to take it for granted," coach Erik Spoelstra said. "You want to treat every day as a special opportunity to be with this group, to share these moments together, but more importantly to take a step closer to going after our goal and every day that we improve puts us in a better position in a quest where nothing is guaranteed for anybody."
 
CLEVELAND (AP) -- LeBron James wasn't just satisfied with dunking over Jason Terry. On Wednesday, he threw it in the Boston guard's face again.

The NBA's ruling MVP said he ranks his monster dunk over Terry on Monday night as one of his best, and that it's one of his favorites because of his history with the talkative Celtics guard.

''I've had a chance to (review) it and it was one of my better ones,'' James said at the Heat's morning shootaround. ''The fact that it happened to J.T. made it that much sweeter because we all know J.T. and he talks too much sometimes.

''I'm glad it happened to him.''

Late in the first half in Boston, James soared and grabbed a lob pass before smashing it over a helpless Terry, who couldn't defend himself in the lane against the onrushing 6-foot-8, 260-pound superstar. After the ball crashed through the rim, James stared and walked toward Terry, who was sprawled on the parquet floor.

The monster dunk is regarded as one of the league's best this season, ranking with the one Clippers center DeAndre Jordan recently delivered over Detroit's Brandon Knight.

James said his problems with Terry date back several years. James said Terry committed a flagrant foul on him when the guard was with Atlanta. Terry was also very talkative during the 2011 NBA Finals as a member of the Dallas Mavericks, who defeated James and the Heat in six games.

James was back in Cleveland for the first time this season with the Heat, who will try to extend their winning streak - the second-longest in NBA history - to 24 games against the undermanned Cavaliers. Cleveland is missing All-Star guard Kyrie Irving, center Anderson Varejao and rookie guard Dion Waiters because of injuries.

James isn't sure what kind of reception he'll receive from Cleveland fans, some of whom will never forgive him for the way he left as a free agent in 2010 after playing seven seasons with the Cavs.

''It can't be no worse than Year One, Dec. 2, 2010,'' James said recalling his first trip back home, when Cleveland fans booed and taunted his every move. ''I'll be all right.''
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Horrible 2nd quarter

Too much relying in the jump shot

Time to pound the ball inside

And put Anthony in with Anderson to out

Second half starters should be

Bron
wade
Bosh
Anthony
Anderson
 
That was a horrible...horrible 2nd quarter.

The defense has been really bad in first halves for the majority of the season.

This is what happens when you have an off offensive night and are used to sleepwalking on defense until the 4th quarter.

They'll make a good run at this next half, but 21 points is a big hole to dig out of.
 
sinsay said:
That was a horrible...horrible 2nd quarter.

The defense has been really bad in first halves for the majority of the season.

This is what happens when you have an off offensive night and are used to sleepwalking on defense until the 4th quarter.

They'll make a good run at this next half, but 21 points is a big hole to dig out of.
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They get the lead down to 10 in the 3rd it's a wrap heat winning

They have to keep the cacs from attacking the paint
 
Skinnie Talls said:
They bleeding bad tho... :smh:
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Didn't I call it? Heat smell blood

You can let mofos come back from a 27 pt deficit

Lead is 9 if Gibson didn't hit that 3 it would be 6

If the heat win this game it would be the biggest come bak of the season
 
It was nine when I walked away at end of the 3rd, comes back it's tied with 10 mins to wTF
 

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