Can The Celtics Beat The Heat? Small Line-Up Vs. Small Line-Up?

[krook]

chalmers/bradley
d-wade/lee
allen/pierce
battier/green
lebron/bass

or

chalmers/crawford
d-wade/bradley
lebron/pierce
haslem/bass
bosh/kg

the rest

cole/terry
allen/lee

bench players
anothony
white
lewis
randolph
huward
t-will

or we go big

lee
pierce
green
randolph
kg

or by experimenting
bradley
pierce
green
white
randolph (kg rest)

i felt like going small we will never ever beat the heat
i think a team of spurs memphis denver indiana bucks bulls can beat them
okc will never ever beat them

[Celtics4ever]

Nothing guarentees they will play small ball, were I them I would use Anderson, Wade, LeBron, Bosh and Chalmers we'd would be hard pressed to match up with their size.

No, I think with our ijuries we can't beat them.  Healthy we could.  No one knows how well Lee or KG will bounce back, we barely beat the Cavs last night.

[krook]

Nothing guarentees they will play small ball, were I them I would use Anderson, Wade, LeBron, Bosh and Chalmers we'd would be hard pressed to match up with their size.

No, I think with our ijuries we can't beat them.  Healthy we could.  No one knows how well Lee or KG will bounce back, we barely beat the Cavs last night.

that's a killer line up whew

chalmers = bradley
wade = lee
lebron = pierce
anderson = bass
bosh = bosh

[droopdog7]

Can they beat them?  I suppose in sports, anything can happen. 

Will they beat them (should they even get that far)?  No.

[krook]

Can they beat them?  I suppose in sports, anything can happen. 

Will they beat them (should they even get that far)?  No.

agree, but can okc beat them? i don't think so
my choices to beat the heat are memphis spurs bulls denver, all teams going big

someone says here defense is more inportant than rebounds, i disagree....
rebounds are not important? do you know why we lose? missed shots that goes to opponents,

do you know what doc rivers style is? shoot the ball if you missed run to opponents basket
look miami heat are quick players that can spread the floor and hit 3’s
do you think rebounds don’t matter?
if james allen chalmers battier wade keep hitting 3’s and missed does rebounds matters now?
bulls by going big gibson boozer deng etc, they beat them
 

[Celtics4ever]

Boards are vital against a transition team.   A rebound gained is a fast break stopped or started depending on whether your on defense or not.

[pearljammer10]

Our best chance at beating the Heat is to go big and unfortunately we dont have the clientele to do that.

If we try to match up with the Heats small ball run and gun game we are going to get killed. Unfortunately, they can also put out a killer run and gun line up that is big with

Chalmers
Wade
James
Bosh
Anderson

thats a tough lineup for any team to match up against. With Allen, Haslem and Battier to fill in when needed. 

[Celtics18]

Our best chance at beating the Heat is to go big and unfortunately we dont have the clientele to do that.

If we try to match up with the Heats small ball run and gun game we are going to get killed. Unfortunately, they can also put out a killer run and gun line up that is big with

Chalmers
Wade
James
Bosh
Anderson

thats a tough lineup for any team to match up against. With Allen, Haslem and Battier to fill in when needed.

I disagree.  We beat them back in January by matching up with small ball, and we came within a possession of doing the same when we played a couple of weeks ago.

Pierce and Green at the forwards is one of the things that gives us a better chance than most teams against the Heat. 

If we counter the above lineup with:

Bradley
Lee
Pierce
Green
Garnett

Putting Green on Anderson and vice versa creates way more of a match up in our favor than in theirs.  Same (but even more so) if they substitute Haslem for Anderson.  We showed this in the last game.