Obviously hes a celtics fan, as am I....but the heat hype is pretty justified considering LeBron is by far the best player in the world and seems to have finally "figured it out" yawn @ missing guys like wilcox, green and ray and pierce on one leg (id agree the ab loss was a big one)
still, that means nothing concerning the upcoming season in terms of adding bench depth and those guys coming back...the Heat also got considerbly better on paper
How did they get better? Yeah they added an other spot up shoot(wont mention his name). But did that solve their Center and PG problem?
The way it sounds Wade will play PG to let that OTHER guy start at SG. That doesn't scar me at all. If Miami does the running of the screens plays for that guy not to be mentioned, AB has that, he can track him down. Plus it slows down their offense like we all know and thats better for us.
They also got a guy that hasn't played in like 3 years. Not sure how that will work out.
Celtics have added TWO bench scorers in Terry and Green. Got ride of the 10 screen offense and added Lee who is more well rounded right now than the guy that played last year.
Wilcox is back, they added Colinson, and got a rookie in Sully that can help out now when they are playing the bad teams to relieve to older players some this year. And he can board as well. And if by any blessing of the basketball GODS Melo can help out too.
So they added a Center that isn't the best, but plays good pick and roll deff(which is what we need to go against Miami). A possible Center in Melo.
Fixed some of the rebounding problems with Sully and Colinson. Green can get some too.
BENCH scoring that has been missing for a couple years, with Terry,Green,Wilcox or Bass, AB or Lee. Just in the Terry,Green,Lee line up for the bench these guys can get us points in any given night. Both Lee and Terry have been getting 14-15 PPG off the bench and no reason that Green can't bring in 10 more, especially playing with Rondo. An actual PG that Miami doesn't have .
So to say "Well Miami has gotten better to" doesn't really scare me, because the Celtics improvements are WAY surpioror than Miamis and the Celtics almost beat them with that banged up, none bench of a team last year.
Lewis who hasn't played in 3 years and the guy that played here last season just doesn't seem like that much of an improvement. Especialy if some one like Wade goes down they replace with some guy, were if PP goes down we replace with Green...
Not too shabby.