The Forgotten Season: The 2007 Miami Heat...From Contenders To Pretenders.

[Reggie]

I knew after the first game of the season that they would not repeat. You cant lose by 40 points on the night you receive your rings and be expected to be taken seriously as a contender.

 

[madness]

they celebrated that championship all summer long, nobody picked up a basketball or stepped foot into a gym and it showed.

i remember seeing antoine walker on south beach right before training camp opened that season, drunk and chubby as fukk

 

[THELASTALKAHOLIK]

I never thought I would see the day that laker fans would act like this. You people are absolutely pathetic. I know Chick Hearn is somewhere looking and shaking his head.

 

[Torrential]

The 2007 Heat is the most disappointing team of all-time. Easily.

4 HOFers (Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Gary Payton)

Coming off of a NBA Championship, predicted to repeat at the beginning of the 2007 NBA season, the highest rating on BOTH NBA 2K7 and NBA Live 2007 , all of their players healthy and ready to go at the beginning of the playoffs.........











And then proceeds to get swept out 1st round by a Bulls team led by Ben Gordon and Luol Deng

LOOOOOL I remember that God awful season.

 

[Newzz]

Funny thing is nobody disputed that this 2007 season by the Miami Heat was garbage.


Whole bunch shots at the #LWO , as usual, but nothing to refute the points


The 2007 Heat season is erased from everyone's memory, but they were the most disappointing team of all-time.


How a starting lineup of Old Man Ben Wallace, Grandpa PJ Brown, Luol Deng, Ben Gordon, and Kirk Hinrich with Andres Nocioni as the 6th man sweep the defending champions out the playoffs

 

[Taadow]

The 2007 Heat is the most disappointing team of all-time. Easily.

Reeeeeally, doe?



Are you sure?


'member them?

4 HOFers, had injuries but were ready by playoff time...

I mean, they got to the Finals...and they better had because everyone expected them to win it all...then they got beat by Detroit 4-1, who has arguably NO hall of famers.

You think a team that got Gary Payton and Shaq 3 years after this disappointment of a season was supposed be better?

To be fair though, I don't remember what they were rated on video games - because that is dumb.

 

[Brief Keef]

The 2007 Heat is the most disappointing team of all-time. Easily.

4 HOFers (Dwyane Wade, Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Gary Payton)

Coming off of a NBA Championship, predicted to repeat at the beginning of the 2007 NBA season, the highest rating on BOTH NBA 2K7 and NBA Live 2007 , all of their players healthy and ready to go at the beginning of the playoffs.........















And then proceeds to get swept out 1st round by a Bulls team led by Ben Gordon and Luol Deng

and we got WASHED on opening night

 

[Newzz]

Reeeeeally, doe?



Are you sure?


'member them?

4 HOFers, had injuries but were ready by playoff time...

I mean, they got to the Finals...and they better had because everyone expected them to win it all...then they got beat by Detroit 4-1, who has arguably NO hall of famers.

You think a team that got Gary Payton and Shaq 3 years after this disappointment of a season was supposed be better?

To be fair though, I don't remember what they were rated on video games - because that is dumb.

First of all, We went 56-26 that year and made it to the NBA Finals. How the hell can you disappoint when you playing for the championship

Added to that, Karl Malone GOT INJURED IN THE 3RD GAME OF THE NBA FINALS

While Shaq, Gary Payton, Zo Mourning, and Wade were all healthy for the playoffs and played in all of their playoff games when they got swept.


The Heat were more disappointing because the WON the championship the previous year, was predicted to repeat, went 44-38 in the regular season and was swept out in the 1st round by a Bulls Team with Old ass Ben Wallace and Grandpa PJ Brown in the frontcourt.



But what should I expect out of a dude that follows the Browns....

 

[PS5 Pro]

First of all, We went 56-26 that year and made it to the NBA Finals. How the hell can you disappoint when you playing for the championship

Added to that, Karl Malone GOT INJURED IN THE 3RD GAME OF THE NBA FINALS

While Shaq, Gary Payton, Zo Mourning, and Wade were all healthy for the playoffs and played in all of their playoff games when they got swept.


The Heat were more disappointing because the WON the championship the previous year, was predicted to repeat, went 44-38 in the regular season and was swept out in the 1st round by a Bulls Team with Old ass Ben Wallace and Grandpa PJ Brown in the frontcourt.



But what should I expect out of a dude that follows the Browns....

You somewhat right, but you not factoring in that Shaq/Zo/Payton were way past there primes at that point. I don't even remember GP being on that team. I thought he retired after losing with the Lakers. What the hell happened to him anyway, I never see him anywhere. I guess we'll see him on a 30 for 30 special with William Perry

 

[Taadow]

First of all, We went 56-26 that year and made it to the NBA Finals. How the hell can you disappoint when you playing for the championship

...You can disappoint playing in the Finals when you lose 4-1 and EVERYBODY in the world expected you to skate.

Added to that, Karl Malone GOT INJURED IN THE 3RD GAME OF THE NBA FINALS

Okay, so the Lakers were down to 3 HOFers against a team with none. Got it.

While Shaq, Gary Payton, Zo Mourning, and Wade were all healthy for the playoffs and played in all of their playoff games when they got swept.

The Heat were more disappointing because the WON the championship the previous year, was predicted to repeat, went 44-38 in the regular season and was swept out in the 1st round by a Bulls Team with Old ass Ben Wallace and Grandpa PJ Brown in the frontcourt.

You actin' like Shaq, Zo, and GP weren't "Old-ass" players themselves at that point. And, 2 of the 3 fucced up on your team when they were younger and had greater expectations, so again - how did you expect them to be better on an arguably worse team? And how far do people normally expect 44-38 teams to go? Exactly.

Outside of all that, the biggest flaw in your reasoning is that you yourself assert that that team was "forgotten"...how can a "forgotten" team be the "most dissapointing" (or most anything, for that matter)...they've been forgotten! lol


Now go back to the lab and come up with something better than this.

Or not.

 

[Newzz]

And how far do people normally expect 44-38 teams to go? Exactly.

They were expected to get to the NBA Finals at the beginning of the 2007 season.

http://www.nba.com/preview2006/gmsurvey_predictions.html
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/nba/specials/preview/2006/scouting.reports/

Clearly it ain't broke, so there's no need to fix a Heat roster that could return as many of 14 of the '15 Strong' that won last year's NBA Championship.

The biggest difference between this year and last will be the presence of Pat Riley on the bench from the outset, a decision Riles only made final in August.

"Winning the championship showed me that I am definitely in the right place, at the right time, with the right people," Riley said of his decision to return.

It stands to reason, then, that the Heat could be an even better team in 2006-07 than they were a year ago.

http://www.nba.com/preview2006/mia.html


They disappointed by finishing with a record of 44-38 (which is lower than both the 2004 and 2013 Lakers finished with) and was swept out of the 1st round by the 5th seed Bulls (while the 2004 Lakers lost in the NBA Finals and the 2013 Lakers were swept by the #2 seed Spurs...a much better team than those Bulls)


The 2007 Miami Heat losing in the 1st round:

It was the first time a defending champion had been swept in the first round in 50 years. The last time was 1957, when the Philadelphia Warriors were beaten 2-0 by the Syracuse Nationals in a best-of-three series.

First-round sweep leaves Heat in disarray - USATODAY.com

But you say the 2004 Lakers were more disappointing even though they made it to the championship game while the 2007 Heat did something that hadnt been done in 50 years

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

That series netted ben gordon like $40MM...fukkin dumars

 

[Taadow]

They were expected to get to the NBA Finals at the beginning of the 2007 season.

You posted all of that there for nothing...because regardless of how people felt before the season, after they played the season they ended up 44-38.

So like I asked you earlier...how far do people expect 44-38 teams to go in the playoffs? Exactly.

Again, like you said, we even forgot about them...as we always do about 44-38 teams. They're supposed to lose in the 1st or 2nd round. lol

Now, the 2004 Lakers didn't have their Big 4 healthy the whole season, and were still whoopin' ass. That wasn't shocking, because everyone expected them to beast. Then, they got bossed up by the Pistons, whose best player was...was...wait a minute, people still have that argument about who the best player on that team was...and only won 1 game?

Boy gone wit' dat foolishness...

 

[Francium]

Deng gave us that work

 

[Francium]

That series netted ben gordon like $40MM...fukkin dumars

Gordon got paid after the legendary Celtics-Bulls series.