The bulk of this post was written about a month ago, and I never got around to capping it off with my own anecdote until now. Our plan of pre-preseason previews was perhaps a little too ambitious, but I think an analysis of the Miami Heat is still well-warranted. It is, after all the question that everyone's asking: How does this team match up against other championship-caliber teams for 2010-11?
Normally, I would lead a discussion of position-by-position comparisons against the Los Angeles Lakers, Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic, and maybe even the Oklahoma City Thunder and Chicago Bulls, as I did in the Orlando Magic preview.
With the Miami Heat, if we compare their Huge Three to other historic Huge Threes and find that they stack up, in my mind that would usurp the upcoming season's championship-caliber discussion. I know, I know, I've run plenty of rec leagues to know that you still need to play the games, but we're talking a run of four seven-game series that would need to stop this epic Huge Three, not just one game in which anything can happen. IMHO, that's one of the great things about the NBA.
Let us begin with the notion of Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, and Chris Bosh being a Huge Three as opposed to (merely) a Big Three. An easy litmus test is Ray Allen, Paul Pierce, and Kevin Garnett from 2007-08. The year before Boston's Big Three teamed up, we had this...
Ray Allen: 26.4 ppg, 4.5 rpg, 4.1 apg
Paul Pierce: 25.0 ppg, 5.9 rpg, 4.1 apg
Kevin Garnett: 22.4 ppg, 12.8 rpg, 4.1 apg
Here's the Huge Three, the year before this...
Dwyane Wade: 26.6 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 6.6 apg
LeBron James: 29.7 ppg, 7.3 rpg, 8.6 apg
Chris Bosh: 24.0 ppg, 10.8 rpg, 2.4 apg
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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