Palmetto Proving Grounds

Awesome game.

Tied up heading back to South Beach. This will be a 6-7 game series. Anyone saying otherwise is a fool

Such bs how that wasn't a foul. If it would have been reversed situation the crybabies would have been talking about it for the next 3 days.

Agreed on the Durant / Battier foul. Was 50 / 50 and refs are almost always going to give the star the benefit of the doubt on that play, especially when a charge would mean said star fouling out.

Even if the calls even out over the course of the game (which they tend to do), it's a shame that Lebron managed to commit two fouls on the most important possession of the game and got called for neither. There's always a fair amount of BS calls in any basketball game but with the way the refs had called this game I thought not calling the foul on KD was egregious.

Regardless, the Heat outplayed the Thunder tonight. Game 3 just got a lot more interesting.

after last night i have decided that OKC will win this. I dont think they could play much worse in the first half, and if that's the worst their best is going to be a nightmare for miami.

This is gonna be a good one!

I am with you on the 6-7 games. I cannot wait till game 3.

I thought it was ironic the team leading the league in FT % was schooled at the line in this game.

Pressure back on OKC

I think they respond.

If so, Game 5 will likely be the pivitol game in the series...

Thunder is 7 hopefully. Not sure if I can stomach Wade/Lebron winning a championship.

Don't like the way they play. Haven't liked either player since they were in the NBA. Kind of like how we don't like Clempson.

and that doesn't mean I don't think they are good/talented. They are great but that doesn't mean I have to pull for them. Another reason is because of the bandwagon fans MIA picked up when all of this big 3 (really 2) started.

I'm still sticking with Thunder in 6 (although that's looking awfully tenuous right now).

On another note, the 2nd most important player on the floor these days for the Heat is Shane Battier. He is really a unique player ... this is a really, really interesting article that came out about him a few years ago when he played with the Rockets ...

Don't forget about game 2 in miami when rondo got slapped in the face with no call. C's may have won that game.

Who would you label as 'great' that played with Dirk last year? Kidd? I'd agree that Kidd used to be great, but not his current self and def not a top 5 player like Wade is. Jordan, Magic and Bird - who did they run to? Chicago was a joke pre-Jordan. Jordan made them the Bulls you know today. And it's not just about the teaming up, it's the teaming up and then spouting off that your newly formed boy band is going to be the greatest ever. Should all players jump ship and team up? Nash and Dirk should team up and run to Kobe, Dwight Howard and Durant should team up and run to Rose, Kevin Love, Hibbert and Iguodala should run to Joe Johnson. If these guys want any hope - run to each other in the biggest markets. It'd be great if the All-Star teams were made up of about 5-7 teams. The playoffs would be much more entertaining, right.

I don't recall who said it, but one of the pundits recently said LBJ is the best player we've ever seen.

Sefalosha reminds me a little of Pippen on defense. He is not as good, obviously, but he is still very, very good on D.

As far as Lebron, you cannot blame him for going to Miami. I don't really like the guy either, but Cleveland was showing little interest in putting up the money to get even another great defender, much less some other offensive guys.

Lebron is unstoppable. He is the best combination of size, strength, and speed I have ever seen. He is a mix between Dominique wilkins, Karl Malone, and Charles Barkley. It is amazing to watch him sometimes. Him and Wade have got to be in the top five as far as best two players to play together on same team, ever. That is a formidable pair.

I thought that OKC would not have as much trouble with the Heat as they are having. Battier has started channeling his inner Larry Bird all of the sudden, and Mike Miller is putting in quality minutes as well. It is going to be interesting. Durant has gotten a couple of iffy fouls called against him, and that has affected the games in big ways. They suddenly are applying "the Jordan rules" to Lebron and Wade.

There are abberations. 79 (?) Sonics, 04 Pistons, 11 Dallas, Portland the year they won it.

Bulls, 80s Pistons, All the Celtics and Lakers dynasties. All have been collections of stars, whether free agents or by trade.

I'm not why you are so mad about LBJ. It really is no different than Garnett and Allen demanding a trade to Boston.You read way too much into the celebration that was primarily for Miami season ticket holders. Lebron said if they work hard and got lucky he thought they could win multiple titles. He did not ask everyone to bow down to him for the next ten years like some seems to think.