nba finals prediction

the heat will be the champions of 2006.

i'm not an expert but i just like basketball and the nba and this is my site so if you don't like it or think i'm spewing nonsense, then gtfoh. and if you don't know what gtfoh is then you ain't in it. anyway, this pick isn't really a wild bold prediction but with a lot of "experts" touting detriot, indiana, and san antonio as the class of the league, i feel like the heat are getting pushed to the side, especially with all the supposed chemistry issues they'll be facing with all the new players.

first, i'll address the chemistry issue. i don't think it's gonna be a problem. next issue. okok, obviously, they got a lot of new pieces and they lost key role players. but talent wise, they've gotten upgrades everywhere. besides, jason williams is a true point guard. yeah, he shoots a lot and maybe too early, but he won't on this team. he knows he's the 3rd if not 4th option on this team and besides, he's friends with shaq and shaq will keep him in line. not b/c he's shaq and he's huge but b/c they're friends. when friends tell you to do something, you usually take their advice a lot better than when some random dude does. also, posey is a very solid defender and with everyone saying "oh now that eddie jones is gone, dwyane wade's gotta step it up" which he can definitely do, he might not have to. the only real problem is antoine walker who as everyone knows, is a selfish bum and he's ugly and his shimmy has got to be the single most annoying thing in the world. at least shaq's monster strut after dunks is funny. antoine looks like a reject from the thriller video. http://p089.ezboard.com/finsidehoopsfrm1.showMessageRange?topicID=57925.topic&start=1&stop=20 one time, some reporter asked him "why do you shoot so many 3s?" and he goes "because there are no 4s" ... ummm... great. but 3 point shooting is what the heat needed anyway so he fits. and if he doesn't and he acts out, he'll bow to shaq too. if not, he'll sit and udonis haslem will hold it down.

secondly, they got shaq. he's still shaq. and he said he felt "weak" last year so he decided to build up more muscle. more muscle!!! he's shaq!!! do you know how big he is? ask chris kwon, he knows how big shaq's wang is!!!

thirdly, they got dwyane wade, the best player with the worst phoenetically spelled name in the nba. and arguably just the best player in the nba (no comments about kobe, tmac, lebron, i said arguably. actually at the rate of my comment count, nobody's gonna leave comments anyway so feel free). if this guy didn't go down in the series against detroit with an abdominal injury, the heat own detroit and move on to take the spurs down in 6.

fourthly, i'll discuss why the teams mentioned at the beginning of this entry will not win. the pistons are garbage. now that they've lost larry brown, they're going to lose their defensive identity. flip saunders is the new coach and he likes letting his players get loose and just play. which did wonders in minnesota, btw. i just don't see detroit being the same "team" they were as last year, and being that "team" is what got them so far because individually and on separate teams, none of them prospered.

san antonio is definitely solid. they won last year, they got tim duncan and ginobli, arguably just as effective as shaq and wade, and even more depth on their bench with nick van exel and michael finley. but i thought the heat could've taken them last year, and i think they can this year. nick's old now and he's still a competitor but he is old. and on defense, he's not stopping the real jason williams or dwyane. and finley's even older and further gone. he might put in 1 good night in a while but that's it. besides, i think haslem can do a better job of guarding duncan than nazr can with shaq.

i think the team to beat this year for the heat is indiana. they got a really really strong team and they'll finally be able to show their stuff this year. i thought last year's team was better than detroit and with artest back and, according to him, ready to play "out of control", they're pretty scary. plus they added that european dude, sebastian or something like that jusneinvkajfklajsfkl;fakl whatever. he's good. i watched him play last year or a couple years back in some international championship thing and he tore it up. he was just shooting the lights out and he demanded the ball everytime in clutch situations and hit everytime. i think he singlehandedly beat italy or something that year. he's a shorter, stouter, whiter reggie miller.

so that's why the heat will win. the rest of the east (cleveland may be surprising) ain't gonna do squat and the west has embraced some real parity over the past couple years. especially with perennial powers sacramento, dallas, l.a., and minnesota taking big steps backwards the past year and with the suns losing amare for the better half of the season (not to mention if he'll even be the same). heat in 06 baby. dwyane wade is league MVP. and ROY will be rashard mccants. and david lee is gonna be nasty. and ha seung jin is so ugly.