Last season, nobody caresstopping a streak ain't awesome, doing a streak is the awesome part. at some point, team having streaks get tired cuz every team give them their best and it's always a little team that come and stop the streak. pacers streak not a big deal, people already forgot that. u get proud cuz they're stopping streak? how bout they start doing streak if they're that awesome?
They'd be even better if Beal could get a more efficient shooting. Around 40% isn't something you'd like to get out of him since he's #1 option in offense.
He started the season cold, but has been shooting better lately. He is primarily an outside shooter, he's never going to have a FG% over fifty. His game is similar to Rip Hamilton or Ray Allen. He'll take it to the rim, but primarily he is going to curl off screens, and hit open jumpers.
Everyone gets fired if they don't make the playoffs. Leonsis pretty much hinted at that over the summer. This team is too talented to pick high in the lottery. Even if they do not make the playoffs, they are not going to pick high enough to draft an impact player. This draft may be deep, but it probably will still take a top five pick to land a franchise caliber player. The Wizards traded a top 12 protected pick for Gortat (who has played well), they would need to have had a pretty horrible season to keep their pick. Gortat is better than anyone they could have drafted between 14 - 30. The top three in this draft are the best I can remember, probably since Lebron, Mello, Bosh, Wade in 2003. The Wizards won't draft that high without some catastrophic injuries.
Excuses excuses. Stopping a streak is awesome, even though continuing the streak is better. It's okay to be sad that the Bulls ruined your precious Heat's streak last year.stopping a streak ain't awesome, doing a streak is the awesome part. at some point, team having streaks get tired cuz every team give them their best and it's always a little team that come and stop the streak. pacers streak not a big deal, people already forgot that. u get proud cuz they're stopping streak? how bout they start doing streak if they're that awesome?
That is a little bit off. Shaq and Kobe played together later, after the others were past there prime, or retired. Their prime was the early 2000's, the rest peaked in the early to mid 90's. Shaq in Orlando was a little like Lebron in Cleveland. He was so great that he made them a contender. Those Magic teams were a little better (but not much) than Leborn's Cleveland teams, until Penny Hardaway got hurt.
Scav is right, the NBA historically has been dominated by a small number of franchises at a time. The Celtics and Lakers teams from the 80's (golden age of the NBA) were built just like the Heat. The Celtics had Bird, Kevin Mchale, and Robert Parish. The Lakers had Magic, Kareem, and James Worthy. That is six of the 50 greatest players ever on two teams. If you look at any era, going back to the 60's, only four or five teams at a time really contend. The era with the most parity, the 70's, was also the worst era in NBA history. That was the time, before Magic and Bird, that the NBA finals were aired on tape delay.
Jordan was in his prime during the 90's. The Bulls dominated everyone, except during Jordan's retirements. It wasn't even close. The Knicks, Pacers, Sonics, and Jazz were consistent contenders, but could never get past Jordan. The Rockets took advantage of Jordan's first retirement, but were not consistent contenders throughout the decade. There were other good teams, some made deep play off runs, but they were not dominant teams.