Don't expect the Heat's roster to change much more

Jeez…it amazes me how there are people that still aren’t satisfied with what we’ve got.

I can’t wait for this team to finally hit the floor. I think people are underestimating the quality that of the big 3 (especially Bosh) when looking at our depth.
Whenever people talk about our “bigs” Bosh isn’t mentioned – the fact that he is the 3rd best player on this team is incredible. We still have Haslem providing interior defense as well plus the fact that one thing Spo does get right is his defensive coaching. Opposing bigs still need to be able to get the ball – not so easy with Mario, Wade and Lebron lurking the perimeter and making life difficult for opposing guards and influencing passing lanes.
Anthony will be great this year with a defined role and the minutes to produce – Z will help stretch opposing 5’s from the paint and our defensive zone should be improved from last years stellar efforts. All in all I think we will be as good defensively as we will be offensively – worst case, matchup issues in the frontcourt defensively will be more than balanced by matchup issues in the backcourt offensively.

Can’t wait to see the quality of basketball this team produces.

Just want to clarify that it is not because I think Joel is a bad player. He is great on D and provides great energy, but I am just worried about his rebounding come playoff time. Because of his size, he is not a great rebounder and we need someone to control the boards against LA and Orlando. You can’t give second chance points to great teams and expect to win. Like the post said, Kwame was only getting 15 mpg, of course he wasn’t putting up numbers. I thought this would have been the best scenario. Kwame starts (25mpg), Joel comes off the bench (20mpg), and we save Big Z for the playoffs. This gives size and someone to control the boards in the starting lineup and leaves Joel in that energy role off the bench that he thrives in. I think Anthony being the starter and playing a lot of minutes will diminish some of his effectiveness. In my opinion, leaving him to his bench role while giving him a few more mpg will maximize his effectiveness and give us a big, strong rebounder/ defender in the starting lineup. But, since most roster spots are spoken for, I realize that this is unlikely to happen, which I am fine with. Even without Kwame we had a decent off-season, we improved the team a bit in my opinion

when you have speedy Eddie on your team?

I would not mind Kwame Brown added or if Dampier was bought out and we sign him.
Point blank….
Next season we still must upgrade the center spot.
Oden,Marc Gasol,Tyson Chandler,Deandre Jordan are all free agents next season.
Surely we can sign one of them.
I did not include Perkins cause I doubt he leaves the celtics and with the addition of Collison to the pacers I doubt they let Hibbert walk.

I just know the heat will beat everyone!!!!!

I seriously doubt some people on this blog have watched the Heat before. I live in Australia and am lucky to watch maybe 10 Heat games a year but have been a fan of them since the Timmy and Zo days.

Was thrilled Wade resigned and Bosh tagged along but was more “oh well” about LeBron (the guy is a big douche bag). I thought once we got Wade and Bosh we should have then focused on filling out the roster with a fantastic supporting cast (not that we haven’t). Of course you don’t say no to the 3rd best player in the game (I list Wade and Durant in front of him – mainly based on the fact his douchery takes him down a level or two) wanting to join your team.

But why would we want to add people like Kwame or Ericka??

Kwame is one of the biggest #1 draft busts of all time. Ericka has been given the chance by Dallas to be an elite centre for years and come up well short. Joel is not pretty but as indicated by the author of this article does a great job defensively. Z is there for the bigger guys that are just too big and strong for Joel (Dwight, Yao, Bogut, Shaq etc) and Magloire does what he does (although the hand over the eyes dunks are just stupid).

But there are two things everyone needs to remember about the centre position.

One – how many great centres really are there in the league?? Dwight certainly. The Bynum/Gasol combo will cause problems and Bogut if he comes back from the injury like he was playing like last year (and no, it’s not an Australian thing, he was clearly coming into his own last year) will also cause problems. But other great centres?? Yao is coming back from so many major injuries his minutes will be limited let alone how productive he will be is a question mark. Shaq, Jermaine, Chandler and a few others are all shadows of themselves, let alone miss chunks with injuries. Plus Dwight really hasn’t got great post moves unless you give him space which brings me to point…

Two – What will Kwame or Ericka add that the Heat can’t already cover with our very effective zone?? Haslem has been stopping people for years while being undersized and Joel is in the same mold. Bosh’s length is a plus and now we have LeBron as well as Wade coming in from behind for blocks and steals. We had a “defensive big” last year (and I use the term loosely although he had his moments) with Jermaine and how well did that work?? I seem to remember it was Haslem and Joel getting big minutes in the end last year because our defensive big wasn’t getting the job done.

The PG position is fine because Arroyo/Chalmers are basically only there to bring the ball across half court for the 1st 6 minutes of every quarter. You think the ball will be in anyone but Wade’s or James’ hands inside the last 6mins of any quarter in any game that isn’t a blowout?? If you do then please go back to Basketball 101.

i like how after the whole explantion of why we don’t need kwame or whoever, people are still like, “but we need kwame because…” i’m sick of seeing that guy’s name. the heat are going to kill everyone this year. end of story.

Nice pic of a block on a 6’4" player at the top…

There won’t be many of those against Noah, Dwight Howard, Shaq or either Gasol. IF he ends up starting at the 5, he will struggle when matched against true 5’s, and many teams will play Bosh with their 5 on defense, which will make Bosh’s offense suffer

I think team rebounding WILL be an issue for the heat, I can’t see them being in the top 15 with this roster.

Considering everything, I’m surprised at the Heat signing some of these scrubs and ignoring Earl Barron (who had 17/18 vs the Celts last year while with the Knicks)….

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