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NBA Finals – Spurs vs Heat Game 3 Predictions
There’s some cliché about game 3 being the one that usually decides the series, but it seems a lot of the conclusions in NBA Finals are determined by who is the team that is able to gather momentum while making adjustments on the fly quicker than their opponents, which leads to the very important question: Which team, the Miami Heat, or the San Antonio Spurs, have more reasons to feel confident heading in the third game?
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Comfortable With Letting Others Score
Through the first two games of the NBA finals, LeBron James has averaged 17.5 points, 13 rebounds and 8.5 assists, in two games that weren’t that different on the stat sheet for him individually, but looked completely different on the floor and in the end result, giving the Miami Heat quite a lot of confidence heading towards three straight road games.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Makes Mario Chalmers Look Like a Star
The Miami Heat were bound to look much better in game 2, even though LeBron James didn’t have the offensive explosion people expected him too. Instead, he did everything else, which started with excellent defense, and continued with hardly making mistakes on offense, making Mario Chalmers and Ray Allen look the way they’re supposed to.
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LeBron James Blocks Tiago Splitter – Best of the Playoffs, Best of His Career
For about two and a half quarters, it wasn’t the expected performance from LeBron James, once again struggling to score against the San Antonio Spurs. But during the Miami Heat’s late third-quarter run that turned into a fourth quarter rout, James pulled off his most incredible dunk, by blocking Tiago Splitter on his way to a rim shattering dunk.
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NBA Finals – Spurs vs Heat Game 2 Predictions
No team that has lost its first two games at home in the NBA finals went on to win the NBA title. That’s why the Miami Heat are in a must-win situation heading into game 2, while the San Antonio Spurs are feeling confident without trying to show it too much, unlike other teams that lost to the Heat along the way.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James and the Fine Fabric of the Big Three
In order to win their first NBA title together, Dwyane Wade had to sacrifice his own standing with the team, clearing the way for LeBron James to become the number one go to guy on the floor, all the time. Chris Bosh? From a superstar power forward he became a role player with certain duties on defense and offense, nothing more.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Needs Erik Spoelstra to Do His Job
The Miami Heat didn’t play a good game of basketball in Game 1 of the NBA finals, but it’s not the right thing to do and pin it all on LeBron James and usual clutch cliches. Erik Spoelstra, not for the first time in this playoffs, struggled making adjustments inside a game and giving the right kind of instructions to his MVP, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade in order to somehow come out with the win.
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Miami Heat – LeBron James Can’t Leave the Game up to Chris Bosh
It’s not that LeBron James needs to be the one to take the final shot every time for the Miami Heat; Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade are on this team for a reason. But if Tim Duncan feels very comfortable with letting Bosh shooting three pointers, the defending champions needed to get a little more creative in finding a way for James to be more efficient offensively for the rest of the NBA finals.
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NBA Playoffs – Heat vs Spurs Finals Series Predictions
If this would have happened a year or two ago, all the talk would have been about the Big Three from the Miami Heat – LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh facing off against the Big Three from the San Antonio Spurs – Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili. But the 2013 NBA finals are going to be very different by definition, with a whole of a lot more moving parts that will determine the outcome.
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Miami Heat & San Antonio Spurs – The Two Teams of the NBA Finals
The difference between the Miami Heat and the San Antonio Spurs? Teams that love to Pick & Roll, but defend very differently, not to mention one having their game based on the cooperation between a point guard (Tony Parker) and a center (Tim Duncan), while one man, LeBron James, runs almost everything for the NBA champions.