Miami's road to the Finals: Charlotte, Toronto and Washington/Atlanta

[Lebron23]

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1987 Lakers (Regarded as one of the greatest teams of all time) road to the finals:

Denver 37-45: -1.14 SRS
Golden State 42-40: -2.53 SRS
Seattle 39-43: 0.08 SRS

2014 Miami Heat theoretical path to the finals:

Charlotte 43-39: -0.89 SRS
Toronto 48-34: 2.55 SRS
Washington 44-38: 0.48 SRS


If you think 10 years from now anybody will care
about how "easy" the Heat's path was/is you're an idiot.

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Kobetards are so stupid. They also forget that Kobe is averaging 25 ppg on 40 FG% against these pathetic eastern conference champions in the NBA Finals.

[ihoopallday]

This whole " put this team in the west" argument makes no sense. You can't just transplant a whole teams win loss record from another conference and expect it to be the same against a completely different conference. That's the most idiotic point I have seen in some time and you keep making it.

Washington/Toronto and Brooklyn are teams with depth and talent. I don't see what makes west teams, especially lower seeds like Dallas/Memphis/GSW a tier above them.

Nailed it right on the head. But nowadays the only thing Heat haters have left is hypotheticals.

[poido123]

This whole " put this team in the west" argument makes no sense. You can't just transplant a whole teams win loss record from another conference and expect it to be the same against a completely different conference. That's the most idiotic point I have seen in some time and you keep making it.

Washington/Toronto and Brooklyn are teams with depth and talent. I don't see what makes west teams, especially lower seeds like Dallas/Memphis/GSW a tier above them.

The first part is right, but then you fck it up in the second part. Although people don't mean that in the literal sense, but making a point of the level of competition in the 2 conferences.

Dallas, Memphis and Golden State are all better teams, Wiz are really hard to judge right now, they could easily fold up like a bad tent against a team like Miami. Toronto are not built to win a championship now, too young and inexperienced. Brooklyn are the most part old, and blow big leads because of it.

[Big#50]

The Heat are still an awesome team. They will miss Mike Miller in the finals though. Dude is a killer.

[dannysc305]

Come on guys have some respect at the end of the day they're all professionals

[Relinquish]

You know the Wizards wouldn't have even made the playoffs if they were in the west, right? Not even close as a matter of fact.

Yes because Miller, Gooden, Nene and Harrington played every game right? Those are/were all crucial pieces to our team in the regular season and they either were not on the team for much of the season or missed a whole bunch of games due to injury. On top of that, Beal missed quite a few games.

[Leftimage]

This is down right embarrassing

Meh, it'll be a moot point yet again once the Heat dismantle their WC counterpart in the finals.

b-b-b-but the ''elite'' west teams got all battered & bruised In the 1st and 2nd rounds! No fair!

[All Net]

Miami aren't bothered but yeah this is why we need top 16 teams in the playoffs

[jimmy77x]

Colluding. Things are Just how Lebeta and his blind idiot followers like it, as easy as possible, then try and throw it in everyone's face like its some great accomplishment

[OmniStrife]

Washington could beat any Western Conference team.

Washington couldn't Beat the Suns in a series, let alone OKC / LAC / MEM / SAS
Maybe they could take out DAL / GSW

[Big#50]

Colluding. Things are Just how Lebeta and his blind idiot followers like it, as easy as possible, then try and throw it in everyone's like its some great accomplishment

Lebron is still an all time talent. He took the easy way to a ring or whatever. He may not be a Duncan or Shaq but the dude is still great. No need to hate. Appreciate the game you love.

[BlazerRed]

Leastern conference. Every one of Leflop's rings has an asterisk on it.

[plowking]

Lebron is still an all time talent. He took the easy way to a ring or whatever. He may not be a Duncan or Shaq but the dude is still great. No need to hate. Appreciate the game you love.

He is a better player than Duncan ever was. That much is apparent from watching the game.

Shaq is better than both of them.

[Lebron23]

He is a better player than Duncan ever was. That much is apparent from watching the game.

Shaq is better than both of them.

Lebron would be the goat forward if the Heat wins another championship this year.

[ihoopallday]

Miami aren't bothered but yeah this is why we need top 16 teams in the playoffs

This, I agree with. Sucks seeing teams like Phoenix not in the playoffs. But what's annoying is people trying to make it seem like Miami has control of what other teams do.