Re: Can anyone tell me what's going on with Heat's defense this season?
1.) Lazy and unmotivated
2.) The guards are getting blown by easily
3.) Lack of big in the middle
4.) Teams that pass the ball well and can shoot the 3 murder their help defense.
While #4 has always been a problem, it's worse it's ever been. The defense just looks very slow on their rotations. It's like they just jog to the defender.
They used to hold teams under 100 almost all of the time, but now we're the Nuggets.
Re: Can anyone tell me what's going on with Heat's defense this season?
1. In their starting lineup Lebron is their most efficient player defending, rebounding and boxing out Centers/PowerForwards.... yep... They are undersized like hell, the tallest guy they have there in the lineup is a soft PF in Bosh who is horrible defensively & a bad rebounder/hustle guy imo...
2. Because of the above, players are forced to help the paint from the constantly penetrating perimeter players or from the true opposing Centers creating an instant mismatch.... opening up wideopen shooters for opponents every single time.... now they are forced to run around trying to contest/cut the open shots.... but with good ballmovement you can repeat everything..... even if you miss the open shot you still have advantage for the offensive rebounds due to Miamis small lineup........
3. Lebron is their only consistantly good defender... a guy who is running around like a headless chicken defensively trying to help everybody/everything and trying to guard ALL positions (but the problem is he cant guard all 5 at the same time)....... Battier is good sometimes, but limited (and undersized, they desperately use him to guard PFs).... Joel Anthony is good sometimes to, but is also another undersized guy not any bigger than Lebron and is a huge liability offensively, therefore not used much... The rest of the squad is just not good enough... to lazy...... and to undersized...
Re: Can anyone tell me what's going on with Heat's defense this season?
Wade's lack of effort rubs off on others.
And seriously like only 2 players touch the ball 90% of the time per possession. Lebron and his shooter of choice. No one's really involve so why make the extra effort on defense?
They miss Joel Anthony and his transition defense by sprinting the floor. Plus his blocked shots gives them an opportunity for a Wade/Lebron fast break. I'm gonna say Bosh at the center doesn't even give them a rebounding advantage over Anthony. Bosh is there to bring the opposing center outside the paint? Like really? No one drives to the hoop anymore besides Wade and you know he's inconsistent. Needs to lose weight I think. Lebron only gets a half-court layup/dunk attempt like once or twice a game.
Lebron and Wade needs to play their post game like 50% of the possessions. Wade murdered JKidd in the finals down low. Only saw him go at it like once maybe twice on the block.
Can anyone tell me what's going on with Heat's defense this season?
