A beatdown. we are down 31 and I couldn’t watch anymore. Never more so than now was a lack of size evident and boy its been evident before. Maglore needs to heal NOW I dont care if he’s at less than 100%. Just embarasing from the getgo.

Diawara is terrible. Marion is VERY important to this team.

I was in a fairly good mood, Heat basketball on Thanksgiving eve, but man…I feel like crap now. That performance was reminiscent of gasp the 07-08 Heat. And when you think about it, with Marion out, and crappy-Wade and Beasley held to the production of normal-Wade, that’s pretty much what they are. Although that isn’t really fair, because wade did do pretty well off the ball, boards assists and steals.
Speaking of which, can you believe that goaltending no-call for Beasley and that Wade foul call when he stole it and got around Blake (I think)? The game was probably already out of hand, but those just hurt.
But yeah, Haslem cannot be asked to guard 7’ beasts like those Blazers. It’s just not fair. And it was particularly painful seeing the look on Spo’s face every time he called timeout and walked out onto the floor for a second to collect his thoughts before trying to say something to his team. When you’ve already yelled at your guys to try to scrap out some defensive stops in the paint, only for the ball to be kicked out for the “Oh my god not again” 3 pointer, what can you do? If I were Spo, I would be kicking down Pat Riley’s door, asking him where my Marion-for-tall-guy trade is. But I guess that doesn’t work when you used to be in the guy’s tape room.
And Beasley…well, he showed a bit of promise, but…where was this wicked offensive game I’ve heard about? He shows his moves every now and then, but come on! Guys who average 26 points in college are supposed to have large heads and chips on their shoulders, and they’re supposed to come out guns blazing. I don’t know if Spo has been trying to tame the beast that is Beasley by having him run only defensive drills ad nauseam, but somebody needs to tell Beas that it’s ok to try to be the player he was in college. Whip out everything you have in your playbook! I was promised a solid second scoring option, and that’s what I want.
P.S. I think, and this is pure speculation, that when Spo said he wanted to work on Beasley’s defense his go-to drill was the “1 minute drill,” wherein you see if you can get more than 1 foul in under 1 minute. An oldie, but goodie.

Here’s looking forward to Wade’s next streak of 30 and 40 point games…

Heat needs a Center or two, but you know that already. A rough night for Wade, but he remains The Man. Not having Marion sealed it, tough break there. First time I’ve seen Beasley; I’m not a fan.

Not a winnable game, go get ’em next time…

Joel Przybilla have on little Michael Beasley? Poor kid. Ah well, at least you guys have 10 or 11 NFL teams to root for in that state.

don’t give the blazers fans a bad name.
Other team’s fans should only write if they have something relevant to add.
Our blog has more people but it’s also older.
Let the other blogs grow their fanbase without having to put up with blazer fans “brilliant” opinion about their teams.

I appreciate the blog and all but my god its far behind. We just had perhaps one of the greatest reg. season wins in 3+ years

like wouldn’t mind doing this. I found this site a few weeks back and thought it was cool because it updated…yea

Greg used to update this pretty frequently, like his other blog ( http://nbatradejournal.blogspot.com ) and he hasn’t updated that iether for a long time… maybe something has happened to him :S

I found out about this site via bloodyelbow.com, another blog on the SB Nation. This site used to be updated pretty regularly. Hope all is well with Greg.