“ArE tHe HeAt bUbBle fRaUdS”

[Left.A1]

Lmao @ nikkas in here reduced to talking about some fukking role players being changed out when the driving force and core of this squad is the same as the bubble...the critique was always that the CORE particularly the performance of Butler in that elite category and Herro as a bonafide scorer was sus...


Now that that that argument has absolutely 0 legs to stand on anymore the narrative is shifting to “buhh buhh buhh Gabe Vincent makes this team totally different!! You can't compare!!! BuBble FRauDs!!!”




Clown shyt

 

[Damnshow]

Heat are legit

However losing 3 home games in a series where you have a home court advantage is inexcusable. You play 4 at home, you beat your opponent twice on the road. That's it, ball is in your court.

Duncan Robinson is a problem that most of the teams have. You pay for these new contracts and someone eventually gonna suck or be injured soon as the ink dries.

 

[Th3Birdman]

Heat are legit

However losing 3 home games in a series where you have a home court advantage is inexcusable. You play 4 at home, you beat your opponent twice on the road. That's it, ball is in your court.

Duncan Robinson is a problem that most of the teams have. You pay for these new contracts and someone eventually gonna suck or be injured soon as the ink dries.

These are my thoughts as well.

Heat deserve all the respect, especially for doing what they did with the pieces they had. But we have to count Ls, and that's OK, because every great team has growing pains. Every contender got hit with the injury bug this year (and yes, you bytch ass nikkas, the Lakers are contenders when healthy, even with Russ-- I'm dying on that hill )

I think the Heat are a year or two and a piece away from competing in the Finals. They are the team that most surprised me this year, outside of LAL fumbling as hard as they did.

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

Lmao @ nikkas in here reduced to talking about some fukking role players being changed out when the driving force and core of this squad is the same as the bubble...the critique was always that the CORE particularly the performance of Butler in that elite category and Herro as a bonafide scorer was sus...


Now that that that argument has absolutely 0 legs to stand on anymore the narrative is shifting to “buhh buhh buhh Gabe Vincent makes this team totally different!! You can't compare!!! BuBble FRauDs!!!”




Clown shyt

The Heat crashed out in the 1st round last season, and not only did they lose, but they got swept (they went from winning 14 playoff games in the Bubble to winning ZERO the next postseason) - that is more reflective of their Bubble performance being an anomaly than two entire seasons later where players have progressed, added to their skillset, and the majority of the roster has changed.

The Heat proved themselves this season, but this squad's achievements doesn't validate anything that happened in the Bubble.

 

[Left.A1]

The Heat crashed out in the 1st round last season, and not only did they lose, but they got swept (they went from winning 14 playoff games in the Bubble to winning ZERO the next postseason) - that is more reflective of their Bubble performance being an anomaly than two entire seasons later where players have progressed, added to their skillset, and the majority of the roster has changed.

The Heat proved themselves this season, but this squad's achievements doesn't validate anything that happened in the Bubble.

nikka... now you know your c00n ass has a two sentence threshold with me... ain't nobody checking for all that babble... Another day another moron’s post left on Unread

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

I've got nothing in reply.

And this is what defeat looks like.

 

[Left.A1]

And this is what defeat looks like.

Left On Unread

 

[Goatpoacher]

The Heat crashed out in the 1st round last season, and not only did they lose, but they got swept (they went from winning 14 playoff games in the Bubble to winning ZERO the next postseason) - that is more reflective of their Bubble performance being an anomaly than two entire seasons later where players have progressed, added to their skillset, and the majority of the roster has changed.

The Heat proved themselves this season, but this squad's achievements doesn't validate anything that happened in the Bubble.

So 2020 was an anomaly because they got swept in round 1 in 2021.
But since they went to game 7, round 3, in 2022, doesn't that make 2021 an anomaly?

 

[Gil Scott-Heroin]

So 2020 was an anomaly because they got swept in round 1 in 2021.
But since they went to game 7, round 3, in 2022, doesn't that make 2021 an anomaly?

Everything that existed in the Bubble was an anomaly. You can't use a postseason two years later under normal conditions with a near-completely different squad to validate what happened in the Bubble.

That's the point.

 

[Goatpoacher]

This statement is fine. But your prior use of 2021 to invalidate 2020 seems odd when you can use 2022 to invalidate 2021 by the exact same logic.

Everything that existed in the Bubble was an anomaly. You can't use a postseason two years later under normal conditions with a near-completely different squad to validate what happened in the Bubble.

That's the poin

 

[Draje]

@Gil Scott-Heroin

-1st seed in the East (Which matters)
-ECF-bound
-Destroying the Atlanta Hawks and making Trae Young look absolutely pedestrian
-Mollywhopping the 76ers and completely choking the life out of them to the point where the Sixer fans were booing their team on their home floor.
-Butler being, arguably, the most consistent and efficient superstar in the entire goddamn playoffs so far. Has been absolutely elite on offense and defense.

So is it more likely that the lockdown season, the one with the extremely shortened off-season and had COVID protocols destroying entire lineups at random throughout the entire season, was the fluke season?

Especially considering the Heat are one of the two teams that had the absolute shortest off-season due to playing in the finals? That the Bucks might have been a better team but the Heat were running on fumes due to all those extenuating circumstances?

I dunno, Coli geniuses, y’all tell me what you think.

Let’s start the discussion.

We lost our starting PG in the middle of the 1st series, lost our only game that series to a buzzer beater floater, and then closed them out with two of our best players doing a DNP? That’s not being tested?

We had three games where we shot in the 20% from 3 after Embiid came back, watched Danny Green turn back the hands of time for one of his best playoff performances, had James Harden turn the clock back and win a game by taking over a 4th quarter, and then we turned up our defense to absolutely destroy them in our home and in their house. Jimmy had two fantastic games wasted due to shooting like 23% from 3.

We didn’t get tested by losing those two games with everyone thinking Embiid’s return would galvanize the Sixers? We shot trash from 3 this last game too but we still absolutely dominated them on the defensive end.

The Heat have responded to their losses fantastically so I’m not sure what you mean by “not tested”.

WHERE WAS I WRONG? Lmao

 

[Draje]

Whose beating their chest? Y’all spent two seasons calling the Heat bubble frauds, dismissing the Lakers championship against them, and saying we not a real 1st seed.

Y’all was calling us a tough playoff out but not a contender, saying Jimmy’s contract was aging awful, and cracking jokes about how we unraveling due to a sideline argument with Spo/Jimmy.

We could get SWEPT and y’all still would be full of shyt because y’all were all dead ass wrong about the Heat being a bubble team.

We erased Trae Young (Same Trae Young that beat down and dismissed a healthy Joel Embiid, Simmons, and 76ers in 7) to the point where he looked straight up pedestrian. And now are undrafted backcourt outplayed the 2x MVP and Jimmy has been, arguably, the best player this entire playoffs.


Where am I wrong?

They lost in the 1st round, to the eventual NBA champions, after having one of the shortest off seasons in NBA history during an injury-filled, COVID-riddled lockdown season.

What team doesn’t have new additions? The core of the Heat during the bubble run (Jimmy, Herro, Bam, and Robinson) are still present on the team but if you want to act like the two undrafted starters in Gabe Vincent and Max Strus are the new additions of a lifetime that completely revitalizes the team then more power to you.

So what makes last year the actual Heat but the bubble run/this year the fraud run?

Again, they had the shortest off-season in league history due to the Bubble and COVID + shortened lockdown season was causing havoc throughout the entire season, across the league. The Heat were drained and tired last year.

The Sixers were 2-2 because roleplayers shot better at home. The Heat were getting all the looks they wanted and looks that they hit all series long that just weren’t falling. Lowry, their starting PG, also tried to come back despite being injured and the offense struggled tremendously because he was crippled. The Heat benched Lowry and we destroyed the 76ers.

The next game where the Heat shot over 20% from 3 led to one of the biggest blowouts in the entire playoffs and then the Heat straight up choked the 76ers out, on their home court.

The Heat haven’t been at full strength either and we have still been dismantling all the other teams in front of us.

The Heat proved that they aren’t bubble frauds and weren’t any kind of fake one seed.

-We were a Jimmy 3 away from ECF.
-We didn’t shrink against the elite Celtics defense and we were damn near equal to them.
-Jimmy was the best player on the floor for the majority of this series and showed he’s a number one.

Like there’s no way anyone could watch this abd think we didn’t deserve to be here or that we’re frauds. I was right lmao

@Gil Scott-Heroin this fakkit told me I was ducking him when I was all across this topic, defending my team even when we were down and losing and after we lost lmao.

I can’t help it thst you can’t read lmao

 

[Caponeflowers]

Number 8 sweeping number 1 and number 2 is crazy man.....first time ever I see shyt like this

 

[Left.A1]

@L Scott-Heroin back at it again In another nikkas thread getting shytted on

 

[Caponeflowers]

Number 8 sweeping number 1 and number 2 is crazy man.....first time ever I see shyt like this

I was wrong about the heat....looks like they are gonna choke a 3-0 lead smh