New York Knicks

Miami Heat Confidence Meter:  9.7 (You are gonna pay what you owe.) •  So the New York Knicks idea of “physical” playoff play was to foul incessantly and be out of position throughout and clutch and grab at every opportunity.  To be fair, the Miami Heat did got away with a lot when guarding Carmelo [...]

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Miami Heat Confidence Meter:  8.9 (They got somewhere else to be?) •  That first half was a thing of beauty.  Aggressive.  Fast.  Sharp.  Solid Screens.  Sprinkle in some true shooting, and the Heat looked better than they had all year.  This was a Friday night game on the road in the NBA.  The infamous “date [...]

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•  Another slow start, this time the Sixers managed to use it to make the difference on the scoreboard.  The Heat erased a 15-point deficit in the matter of 5 minutes, what did it was pretty clear.  Simple defensive intensity, crispness and execution in the offense vaulted Miami into the lead.  They just played to [...]

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Confidence Meter 9.8 (Fist pump) •  This was the consummate grind out game.  Fatigue set in after a big lead, Chris Bosh got his 5th foul and the Hawks went to a Zone.  The Zone hurt the Heat, missing their most effective Zone busting weapon, (a mid-range jump shooter), but James Jones then came to [...]

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Confidence Meter 6.7 (Who cares) •  That was ugly.  The Bucks play very good defense, but there was no excuse for the poor execution the Heat displayed whenever they managed to tie the game.  The substitution patterns caught the Heat never using their best 5 on this night whenever a Heat run occurred.  That was [...]

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Putting aside the obvious answer which is Lebron James and Chris Bosh, alot of teams helped themselves mightily this offseason. The thinking behind some of the acquisitions was flawed, and the evaluation of some of the signings misguided. We will attempt to use this column to explain the differences and some of the myths that [...]

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