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

[TripleOT]

I was surprised that Indy could pull off a Game 2 win. I don't know how they can win this series if their wings are going to play like wimps.

Game 1, George and Granger played real scared.  This game, they were more competitive. I love the toughness West brings to this team.  Too bad he didn't sign with Boston. We'd be so much better.     

[nickagneta]

Miami's lack of a game from any of their bigs is going to really hurt them the rest of the playoffs.

Wade and Lebron are going to have to average 60-65 PPG in order for their team to reach 80-85 PPG of total offense.

Without any post game from any big and without anyone to stop another team's bigs, the Heat are going to be in trouble. Is it this series or the ECFs or the Finals where that problem eventually costs them? I don't know. But I do know they aren't winning the title this year. After Wade and Lebron and without Bosh, that team is awful.

[Kane3387]

At this point I would rather play Miami without Bosh then Indiana. Indiana is a bad matchup for us.And they don't really fear us. I feel comfortable playing Wade, James and a bunch of scrubs. I think Boston puts a little fear in their hearts too based on all out past success against them.

[KGs Knee]

I was surprised that Indy could pull off a Game 2 win. I don't know how they can win this series if their wings are going to play like wimps.

Game 1, George and Granger played real scared.  This game, they were more competitive. I love the toughness West brings to this team.  Too bad he didn't sign with Boston. We'd be so much better.    

Yeah, with the way KG has played since moving to C, him and West would have made a very formidanle front-court pairing.  With Bass being able to stay in his bench role, we'd have a very strong front line rotation.

Stupid West, picked Indy for a few extra dollars, and is going to end up losing out on a title.  Indy isn't winning a title with their current roster.  Boston still might, and would be favorites to come out of the East right now with West.

[esel1000]

not having bosh changes them big time... outside of lebron and wade, no one scored over 5 pts in today's game on the heat. thats pathetic... I mean no one else can create their own shot. Its not even a real team in my opinion, the pacers are the overall better team

no bosh, no real big men that are threats. If we play them kg will literally have a field day. so much pressure on lebron and wade, and no matter how good you are, two players cant win a series. They played the heat hard in game 1, and Indiana took one in Miami today... thats big, the heat are much worse on the road and they can't even go to Indiana 2-0 now.

I honestly see the pacers in 6 or 7... and people thought I was nuts when I said that at the beginning of the series

[Yoki_IsTheName]

No Bosh changes this entire series.

Not only does Pacers' big men have to drift away out of the paint because of Bosh's perimeter threat, they can outplay any Miami big man on the offensive end.

Miami is in trouble right now.

[jdz101]

Lebron and wade combine for 52 and the rest of the team scores 23....yikes...

[esel1000]

Lebron and wade combine for 52 and the rest of the team scores 23....yikes...

thats what happens when half the team is d-league. Outside of Haslem, Chalmers, and maybe James Jones (role players) I don't even see the rest of them as real nba players. Thats what happens when 3 superstars are eating up your cap space... and when one goes down... ouch

[esel1000]

this story basically describes it all...
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/15/2801625/miami-heat-in-trouble-after-game.html

bosh does so much more for that team than people have given him credit for over the last 2 years

[j804]

This was just the refs "let's not make the series and officiating look so one sided" game where they swallowed their whistles the Heat usually always get, and where Indiana actually had some calls go in their favor. I wouldnt expect that to continue or keep up though.

[2short]

This was just the refs "let's not make the series and officiating look so one sided" game where they swallowed their whistles the Heat usually always get, and where Indiana actually had some calls go in their favor. I wouldnt expect that to continue or keep up though.

gotta say they were still enough questionable calls going on that i thought the refs were going to pull the game out for miami, blatant bad calls, ones you didn't need to see on replay, i'm not a fan of indy either so i'm not watching with "green" glasses

[Moranis]

Lebron and wade combine for 52 and the rest of the team scores 23....yikes...

thats what happens when half the team is d-league. Outside of Haslem, Chalmers, and maybe James Jones (role players) I don't even see the rest of them as real nba players. Thats what happens when 3 superstars are eating up your cap space... and when one goes down... ouch

Mike Miller and Shane Battier are wondering where you get your information.  Turiaf is quite offended as well.  And you put Jones but not Anthony.  Please.

[Chelm]

Lebron and wade combine for 52 and the rest of the team scores 23....yikes...

thats what happens when half the team is d-league. Outside of Haslem, Chalmers, and maybe James Jones (role players) I don't even see the rest of them as real nba players. Thats what happens when 3 superstars are eating up your cap space... and when one goes down... ouch

Mike Miller and Shane Battier are wondering where you get your information.  Turiaf is quite offended as well.  And you put Jones but not Anthony.  Please.

I was thinking the same thing.  It's not the quality of the players... that is there.  It's the combination of the players that hurts them (sans Bosh).

[Moranis]

Lebron and wade combine for 52 and the rest of the team scores 23....yikes...

thats what happens when half the team is d-league. Outside of Haslem, Chalmers, and maybe James Jones (role players) I don't even see the rest of them as real nba players. Thats what happens when 3 superstars are eating up your cap space... and when one goes down... ouch

Mike Miller and Shane Battier are wondering where you get your information.  Turiaf is quite offended as well.  And you put Jones but not Anthony.  Please.

I was thinking the same thing.  It's not the quality of the players... that is there.  It's the combination of the players that hurts them (sans Bosh).

Honestly I think they will be fine, there is just an adjustment period.  I mean it isn't like they played long stretches without him at any point during his time in Miami.  It may take another game or two to figure it out, but they will, and they will still beat Indiana and still should beat Boston/Philly.  Now beating a team out west, which are just younger and better than the ones left in the east, probably doesn't happen without Bosh, but they should still reach the finals without him. 

I mean seriously is Miami without Bosh really that much different than the Bulls teams of the 90's (in team construction, not necessarily talent, chemistry, etc.).  Very similar makeups in most ways. 

[Who]

I mean seriously is Miami without Bosh really that much different than the Bulls teams of the 90's (in team construction, not necessarily talent, chemistry, etc.).  Very similar makeups in most ways. 

More like the 1995 Bulls team that didn't have Horace Grant or Dennis Rodman. That lacked that interior presence and got beat because of it.