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As long as LeBron is obsessed with himself, I'm fine with Woj's obsession with undermining LeBron.

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You def have a jew nose.

I @ Miami fans who think firing Spo and hiring Riley is the solution to everything. If anything it's only going to create more problems and destroy the team.

The quotes in the video are from this movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Just because you clean up the program doesn't mean you can be mediocre. Winning is equally and or more important.

Kobe hit how many game-winning shots last year? 6-7?

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I'm not a fan of the video. Everyone is picking apart Spoelstra, and this one is far from the best. I also find his nickname for the coach, "Slowstra," pretty ironic. First off, the first play that he suggests, the curl, is perfect for Ray Allen, and not for Lebron or Wade. It puts Ray Allen in perfect position to do what he does best, which is to shoot. What's Lebron and Wade good at doing? Making plays. In the curl, you see that you have two bigs in the lane. That in itself limits their playmaking abilities. What he is right about is off ball movement. It's the problem that everyone has been alluding to when they're not criticizing the coach. It might be the coach's fault for not emphasizing it, but it's ultimately the fault of the players. This was the reason why Haslem was an important component to the team. He did all the dirty work. What's funny is that now that Haslem is out, it's Spoelstra's fault that the team isn't getting their defensive rotations right or good offensive rebounding position. The stars need to go back and learn the fundamentals.

I think some of you are looking at it the wrong way (not sure how Alex is actually approaching it, though...sort of confused because he's not really coming out and saying who's to blame). Look, Spoelstra was Wade's buddy for years. They ran a system, and Wade bought it. The Heat started off slow last season, finished with 47 wins (started the season 9-7, ironically). This was with a team many Heat fans said should've have been good enough to win that many games, aside from Wade and Haslem's play. Beasley wasn't good enough, Wright just didn't fit, Jermaine was a shell of his former self, and Spoelstra wasn't experienced enough to get out of the first round. Well, now we're talking about Spo not being able to command respect. Why not just say the players (probably starting with LeBron) aren't giving him respect? From how others are putting it, it makes it sound like this is all on Spoelstra, even though a lot of us predicted the team would struggle early. Adjusting the offense? While coaches do the work on the whiteboard, it's the players who do it on the court. Nothing Spo says will make Wade and LeBron better off-ball players. Nothing he says will make them spot-up shooters. No offense he sets up will force these two guys (meaning James and Wade) to play both of their 2009-10 styles without any restrictions. Maybe Spo isn't right for the job, but that definitely, 100% doesn't mean he's the one to blame. Him being the wrong person to coach this team has almost everything to do with LeBron and Wade. Would any other coach have been able to take Kobe and Shaq and turn them into a dynasty duo? I don't know, but it would be much easier because basketball makes life simple when you have a dominant post and a dominant slashing and playmaking guard. This duo isn't Phil's Lakers. It's not even Riley's Showtime Lakers. It's not Jordan and Pippen. It's a superstar duo that contains two guys who play nearly the same exact game on the floor, nearly the same spots on the floor, trying to involve a third all-star that, unfortunately, plays more like them than he does a traditional power forward. Eventually, it'll work and they will be able to run off 60-win seasons (unless they blow a fuse and start feuding with each other), but that won't be up to any coach they will ever have, either...Spo, Riley, or anyone...because it all starts with the two willing to adjust AND redefine their games while improving in areas they never needed to consider before. It doesn't take a coach to tell them this, unless both of these guys are really that ignorant to the game of basketball. In fact, I believe both noted before the season started that it's a work in progress, that they will need to adjust and not play like they were last season...am I correct? But just recently, LeBron stated he was not going to defer or adjust his game, because it would make him a role player. It's very clear where the problems lie.

USC has a student body of 34,000. Miami's is 15,000. That has a lot to do with it as well as USC being on top of college football for close to a decade now and having 1 of the best college coaches ever coaching them and now a very good one in Kiffin. Miami has been mediocre since 05..when attendance started to dip. Again though, attendance doesn't mean one team has more tradition than another. Tradition is national titles, Heismans etc. You really know nothing about the state of Florida do you...Tallahassee is a dump lol including FSU and so is G-Ville outside of UF, which is beautiful. Have you ever been to Tally? FSU is the only thing there. Of course they're going to sell out all their games.

lmao Flash wearin that LeBron cape again. Intentional imo.