Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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.

10 comments:

  1. its hard to say that Derrick lost the game for them by not driving but i was a factor, i think the true reason they lost the game was because of Noahs fairly soft play down on the low post on offense. earlier in the year he would have gotten the board and went up strong, but now he looks to pass and if he does go up it isnt with the same fearlessness and energy and the noah that we all know and love.

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  2. I can agree with you on that. I guess I shouldn't make it sound like Rose lost the Bulls the game with that play because that isn't true. There were plenty of plays earlier that could have affected the outcome. I am just saying that when the MVP has the ball with a chance to win the game I would like for him to go to his strength, which for him is driving to the hoop. I think you're right in that Noah has not looked the same. His energy is a must if the Bulls are to win.

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  3. Just hard to root for a team like that. I won't sit here and say they aren't good or that the refs give them the game. That's not right to say that but all I'm saying is I don't like the way they go about their business. There's not a whole lot of class in that organization down in Miami.

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  4. Derrick Rose is a two guard in a point guards body they have figured out how to guard him. He may get a few highlights but Miami wont let him takeover the game

    GO HEAT

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  5. Problem is Rose has to improve his shooting skills. Miami has done a superb job on him defensively. I will give you that.

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  6. Miami is all class... Great organization and knows how to welcome an amazing player like Lebron and Bosh. Too bad the media projected it throughout the nation and everyone felt bad for the broken hearted girlfriend (Cleveland)...

    Everyone hates Miami because we welcomed in a couple of players the only way Miami know how to do it... The reason why all you snow bird come down to our home town to get away from your insane weather...

    Talk about Miami Fans FAke?!?!?
    Miami has been growing none stop for many years. When I was growing up we didn't even have a Miami team. The closest was Orlando. So its not like we naturally grew up with a home town team. A lot of people in Miami had to set their heart on other teams like Orlando and the Lakers or whatever and some still do... I myself was a huge bulls fan when I was growing up. If Miami would've lost to Chicago, I would pick up from were I left off before the heat was born and cheer for the bulls too. fyi.

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  7. While I did make the comment that some Miami fans were fake, my main point was people all the around America all of sudden being Heat fans. You make a good point from a Miami prospective. In Miami I know that there were already Heat fans. Obviously some became fans after the signings of Bosh and LeBron. What makes me angry though is when people in my hometown, which is an hour south of Chicago, all of sudden start cheering for the Heat. To me that is just wrong. Maybe I'm too loyal to the hometown team but that's how I feel.

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