Bosh out with an abdominal strain; Pacers chances increased??

[LooseCannon]

This sounds like the sort of injury where you question a player when you have doubts about their toughness and will to win (like Jermaine O'Neal?) if they take longer than average to recover.

[Celtics18]

This sounds like the sort of injury where you question a player when you have doubts about their toughness and will to win (like Jermaine O'Neal?) if they take longer than average to recover.

Come on, no one will ever question Chris Bosh's toughness and will to win.

[thestackshow]

Without Bosh, the entire heat offense will start with LeBron or Wade at the top of the key.

Nobody else on that team can get their own shot.

They cant pass it to the post, because Haslem, Turiaf, and Anthony are not offensive threats and cant get their own shots.

So its basically LeBron and Wade shooting contested jumpers or driving into the lane to seek foul calls.

That wont win you many games in the playoffs and definately wont win you a championship.

"Wade and LeBron, heres the ball, go 2v5 and try to win us a title"

[pearljammer10]

This sounds like the sort of injury where you question a player when you have doubts about their toughness and will to win (like Jermaine O'Neal?) if they take longer than average to recover.

Come on, no one will ever question Chris Bosh's toughness and will to win.

Yeah semi ridiculous.

Bosh or no Bosh the Heat are still better than the Pacers. I still dont think Bosh is anything special. He could easily be traded and replaced as third fiddle on the Heat.

[Celtics4ever]

Of course, it hurts them ( the HEAT)  he is one of their best post players.

[RyNye]

Bosh was not very good this season individually, but I had to rethink my opinion when I saw these stats on TrueHoop today:

This season, including playoffs, Miami Heat WITH Bosh:

.746 win percentage
99.9 PPG
92.3 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 26.9

WITHOUT Bosh:

.444 win percentage
87.1 PPG
87.2 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 30.8

They are 4-5 without Bosh.

[ThaPreacher]

This sounds like the sort of injury where you question a player when you have doubts about their toughness and will to win (like Jermaine O'Neal?) if they take longer than average to recover.

Come on, no one will ever question Chris Bosh's toughness and will to win.

Yeah semi ridiculous.

Bosh or no Bosh the Heat are still better than the Pacers. I still dont think Bosh is anything special. He could easily be traded and replaced as third fiddle on the Heat.

OH MY Bosh by Kosh!

Certainly his abscence tilts the scale to the middle.  The heat have no legit low post player in their front line.  They also will miss his length.  This will change their rotation.  And what about fouls?  The match-ups? Haslem, Anthony and Turiaf < Bosh!

The Heat may be better than the Pacers.  But this makes things interesting.

[nickagneta]

Bosh was not very good this season individually, but I had to rethink my opinion when I saw these stats on TrueHoop today:

This season, including playoffs, Miami Heat WITH Bosh:

.746 win percentage
99.9 PPG
92.3 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 26.9

WITHOUT Bosh:

.444 win percentage
87.1 PPG
87.2 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 30.8

They are 4-5 without Bosh.

This is still a big man's game, even if great smaller men proliferate the game. Without Bosh the Heat have exactly zero quality starting big men on that team.

Now they have to play Hibbert and West without their best big man. I think this makes things a lot tougher on the Heat.

Of course I'm the guy that predicted Roy Hibbert could average somewhere between 18/13 and 21/15 for the series, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

[Fafnir]

Bosh was not very good this season individually, but I had to rethink my opinion when I saw these stats on TrueHoop today:

This season, including playoffs, Miami Heat WITH Bosh:

.746 win percentage
99.9 PPG
92.3 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 26.9

WITHOUT Bosh:

.444 win percentage
87.1 PPG
87.2 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 30.8

They are 4-5 without Bosh.

Two of those games they were without LeBron and I think they were without Wade a few more of them. So I'm not sure how useful those numbers are.

With LBJ/Wade and no Bosh they were 2-2

[lightspeed5]

Bosh was not very good this season individually, but I had to rethink my opinion when I saw these stats on TrueHoop today:

This season, including playoffs, Miami Heat WITH Bosh:

.746 win percentage
99.9 PPG
92.3 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 26.9

WITHOUT Bosh:

.444 win percentage
87.1 PPG
87.2 OPP PPG
LBJ PPG 30.8

They are 4-5 without Bosh.

Two of those games they were without LeBron and I think they were without Wade a few more of them. So I'm not sure how useful those numbers are.

With LBJ/Wade and no Bosh they were 2-2

one of those games was against the celtics, where we were without ray and KG, so its a fair comparison.

[KG Living Legend]

 UPDATE  It's a torn M.C.L.  He's out for the season. 

         The doctors said it's a fully torn Mangina suffered in   
         game one. LOL had to do it Bosh.

[lightspeed5]

shaq diesel thinks hes out for the whole playoffs

[Meadowlark_Scal]

The refs are so good at stemming a run....they called 4 fouls in a row on indy...al while they were climbing up on the lead.....VERY subjective ones too....i mean, i don't even care for indy........this is terrible.......so, to beat miami, you need to be able to focus past the bad calls, and keep your composure....if the coach can identify the most likely calls.....and they can STILL socre and defend...well, you can beat them......i have seen that IF and when you really get past the heat by 15....the refs leave you more to play.....tough road....i bet BIRD is hating this stuff....

[Meadowlark_Scal]

oh my god is wade a whiner......just pushed collison into the crowd.....after a no call...because of no foul....wade is such a major hacker.....oh i hope they get kicked out of the league.......refs still trying to save the heat........and if you watch...lebron now leads his charge and or turns the corner with a hand out to automatically PUSH the defender off.....what a creep...!

[Meadowlark_Scal]

they actually erased a double tech on james and granger.....granger needs to stay out of foul trouble....he is a great scorer...sometimes...!