Close the door!

I usually try breaking something down through stats and visuals. Right now though I want to explain stuff with my words. Okay maybe a little bit of numbers couldn't hurt. Lets be honest, the team is looking good right now. The national media is ready to put the Heat into the Eastern Conference Finals before they win two more games. But you can't bite on that. Well, maybe we the fans of the NBA can,  but the Miami Heat sure can't. If I'm a Heat player you play game 3 like it's an elimination game. Jump for my explanation and my thoughts for the rest of the series.

The Boston Celtics are now at home. The Celtics have one of the better home records in the NBA, 33-8.Their crowd is very into it, and it pumps their players up. Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen will feed off that crowd to play better. It's just the way it happens. They willed their way past the Knicks two games in a row. The Knicks had both those games from what I saw. Boston just found a way to do it on their home court. 

While they were just 5 games over .500 on the road (23-18). So the Celtics like playing in front of their home crowd a lot more. So if the Heat take game 3 of 4 you force them to come back to Miami at least one more time in the series. Hopefully one more, two would mean this series would go 7. 

Now here is why you want to take game 3. The Celtics are down right now. They feel old and depleted. At least this is what the media is saying. Still though, they think they can storm back and win this series. They believe they could  win the next two games and make it a 3 game series. Miami cannot allow that to happen. When you have a 2-0 you're supposed to win the series most likely. But it's not impossible for the other team to take the series still. The Heat did it to Dallas in 2006. All you need is to get hot at home and you're looking good again. The first two games are the ones the Heat should of taken. Now they need to steal game 3. 

Take game 3 and you win the series. Yes, the Heat would win the series basically. Sure they would need to win another game, but name a time where a basketball team came back down from 3-0? If I remember right that never happened. It's not 2004 in October for the Red Sox and it's not 2010 for the Flyers vs. the Bruins. You see the trend of Boston teams here which is a coincidence. It does make me laugh at the fact that I'm preaching we take game 3 and the Heat win the series and it's vs. a Boston team. And now I'm rambling. 

Seven game series' are too short. You think about it and you might think 7 games should be enough to determine  the better team. Not always the truth.  

Get the hell out of my thread Pierce, wrong truth. A 2-0 lead can be cut in half in one game and then you're on the hot seat again with little room for comfort. You just let the opposing team back into the series and you need to get game 4 unless you want a 2-2 tie going into game 5. It kills me when thinking about the different scenarios. 

The Heat should do what they do though. Ignore the noise and the hate. Take the motivation that people all thought this Boston team was better than the Heat for the entire season up until now. And for LeBron, these guys knocked you out every time you played in a playoff series. You have no rings and you have a great chance to get your first and created a dynasty with Mr. Wade. After all that, I see the Heat splitting with the Celtics in Boston. Then getting the series win in game 5 at Miami.