What exactly happened to the Heat in the 2014 finals?

[Jplaya2023]

it's crazy had miami won that finals, lebron would've stayed, and when bosh went down next year whiteside would've emerged.

I wonder how the 2015 heat minus bosh would've done against the warriors

whiteside
bron
????
wade
chalmers

 

[Rigby.]

Manu took Allen's and Bosh's souls after this

The proverbial tears I shed

 

[malbaker86]

good points, but with all that, they were a lecramp away from being down 0-2 in the series.

Now they coulda won 4 straight easily with how they played but miami had a chance to put them in a hole

Not true. The Spurs wet the bed at the line with a minute left in game 2 or it could have easily been 2-0 headed back to Miami

 

[Brief Keef]

it's crazy had miami won that finals, lebron would've stayed, and when bosh went down next year whiteside would've emerged.

I wonder how the 2015 heat minus bosh would've done against the warriors

whiteside
bron
????
wade
chalmers

what ? you dont even know if we woulda got whiteside we didnt even know we were getting whiteside

 

[ghostwriterx]

It was a wrap when Splitter was dunking on 'em. at Bron acting like that breakdown had nothing to do with him.

Looks like Bron got lost, but can't figure out why Bosh would double Diaw there.

 

[RammerJammer]

God I thought they could still clutch it out until this shyt

edit: I still have bad memories about that Ginobili fireman carry dunk

Don't forget Patty Mills getting hot

 

[DaRock]

Looks like Bron got lost, but can't figure out why Bosh would double Diaw there.

not only why...but the horrible/dumbazz angle he took...he's on the same side as Wade and ends up putting his hands on his back...

 

[Rigby.]

Don't forget Patty Mills getting hot

I didn't see Spurs before this series really, so it's quite unfortunate to know these guys weren't as good before these series

 

[duckbutta]

Lost in the offensive numbers is just how ruthless the spurs were on the defensive end...

Every player on the heat team looked like a D League guy except Lebron...just utterly shut down...

Had Spo going to Beasely in game 5 trying to give him something...

Spurs were just playing on another planet altogether...from game 1 against Portland to game 5 against the heat I don't think I have ever seen a team play better...

Everybody probably remembers this gif of Kawhi

Just hounding an all time guard...flattening a screen by on all time goon...

But look at the background...check the time and score and quarter...game was completely over...

If Ibaka had never come back for OKC to get those two games the Spurs would have averaged a completely unfathomable 120 or more per 100 possessions...that is just ...even peek Curry and peek Klay can't get the Warriors that high...

Instead OKC goosed their numbers a bit so the spurs had to settle for what...118 or 119 per 100 possessions

 

[CourtesyFlush]

So I watched the highlights, Spurs definitely assaulted them. What I found interesting was in Game 1 Heat stayed right with them until the end, where then Spurs started hitting an insane amount of 3s and made it impossible for em. So if the heat had won game 1 and won game 2 like they did, and then going onto home court for game 3, I wonder if that would have changed the series.

 

[CourtesyFlush]

it's crazy had miami won that finals, lebron would've stayed, and when bosh went down next year whiteside would've emerged.

I wonder how the 2015 heat minus bosh would've done against the warriors

whiteside
bron
????
wade
chalmers

I wonder that too. I'm all about the "what ifs", I find that the most fascinating aspect of sports

 

[Fortunate Lee]

Nothing happend to the heat, the Spurs were just way too good in that series, prolly one of the best team
performances i have ever seen in any sport.

 

[Smoking With Cigarettes]

Spurs were simply on a mission. You just knew it wasn't going to be pretty for Miami after that OKC series.

That game 1(I believe) in the Portland series where they shot 70% at the half let me know they were out for blood

 

[Makavalli]

Kawhi ascended to super saiyan levels when he caught the put back dunk with the whole miami team in the paint looking up. He lost the series the year before missing them free throws so he was waiting to evolve into final form

 

[KRiLL (+)]

I can see Golden State doing the same thing to Cleveland.

like the Heat did OKC?