A Fan's Frustration With the Heat

I want to be a journalist and that means that I can't be biased. I'm not writing this for journalistic purposes though, but instead writing it strictly from a fan's perspective. I have watched all four games of the Chicago Bulls and Miami Heat series and I am a huge Bulls fan. While the Bulls did earn the number one seed in the Eastern Conference I have never thought that they were the best team in the league. The Miami Heat and even the Boston Celtics seemed much more primed for a championship run and I think this series has shown that there is plenty of work to be done in the Chicago organization.

Derrick Rose is a superstar and I think he definitely deserved the MVP award but, like his team, he has much work to do with his own game. His shot is still suspect and his decision making has been poor throughout the series. At the end of regulation Rose should have tried to take the ball right to the rim. If he did he would have had a higher percentage shot plus the increased probability of drawing a foul. Instead of going to the strongest part of his offensive game he decided to shoot a jumpshot over the 6'8" LeBron James and the shot had no chance. It is plays like that that show DRose still has work to do and that is understandable considering he is still very young. I don't want to sit here and bash the guy because he has done so much for this team but the reality is that he is has room to improve, something that should scare the other teams in the NBA.

As for the Heat, they are really everything that I think is wrong with sports. Reggie Miller tried to tell us that the Heat are just having fun but that is not what I see. I see a bunch of egos yelling, screaming and trash talking their way through the game. Are they doing it for the team? No. They are doing it for themselves and their own personal image. LeBron James could care less about the Heat organization. He simply wants to quiet the critics that say he will never be in the same league as MJ or Kobe. In my mind he never will be no matter what happens. He took the easy way out in trying to win a championship and he will forever be remembered as a traitor and, to some, a quitter. He is all about himself and his own image and his cockiness and arrogance has lost him thousands of fans. He is playing some great basketball right now and I can't deny that but he is also never reached these heights with his ego. The fun-loving kid we once adored in Cleveland is all of a sudden the cocky jerk we hate in Miami. That's real talk.

Chris Bosh is the lesser version of James. Unlike James in Cleveland he had zero chance of winning a championship in Toronto and his superstar status is nowhere near LeBron's. For that, I cannot fault him in leaving for Miami. However, I do find it annoying that he has also taken to the cocky, trash talking style that James has adopted. Bosh is a soft player who comes across as a coward much of the time. Yet, like James, he is playing some great ball this series.

Dwyane Wade is a fan favorite but he has not been the same this year. It is unfortunate but that's the way this Heat team is. It all started with LeBron's televised Decision and then the three-man powwow held at the arena with the new Miami Heat fans. Most of whom had never cared about Heat basketball in their entire life. However, I dare say the Heat have the most fans in the nation all of a sudden and that is strange. People in Illinois and Indiana rooting for the Heat???? That doesn't seem right but that's what we call the bandwagon in the sports world. Go ahead, jump right on with the other million or so "fans" and ride with LeBron, Wade and Bosh to all eleven titles they promised to bring to South Beach. Should be a real fun time. It will be more fun though to keep rooting for the same Chicago Bulls team that we Illinois people have rooted for since we were born. Even through the roughest years in the post-Jordan era we watched and waited and now it seems the Bulls time has come.

The Heat say they are going to win eleven titles but I'll side with Michael Jordan when he says the Bulls have six more championships coming in the near future. When they do start winning those titles I would say alot of those so-called Heat fans will want to hop on the Bulls fan bus. Too bad the true fans have it filled to capacity.