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You contain him with mismatches and a team defensive philosophy. For the smaller guys on defense, you have to front him, have the perimeter players pressure the ball to make it a difficult pass, and have defenders on the wing be there to help deflect passes if LA tries it. Also, have Wade and James constantly attacking the rim, trying to get him in foul trouble. On the other side of the ball, put Howard in PnR's with weak PnR defenders (Nash, for instance), and force him to guard guys like Bosh who will take him away from the rim, or make him think twice at least about contesting penetration. All easier said than done, especially with the players he has around him. IMO, on paper, LA is the better team. Their top pieces fit better and in some ways have greater versatility, and they have a solid supporting cast. However, Miami figured out in the playoffs that a small-ball lineup with James at the 4 can work because of how good and versatile he is defensively and offensively. Now with Ray Allen, they will be even better with that small ball lineup because they will have another dead-eye shooter who is somewhat versatile and can make smart basketball decisions (unlike, say, Cole, Jones, Battier, and injured Miller). Basically, the formula for beating this LA team is the much the same as it was last year because they still have a major hole defensively at PG, are relatively unathletic at 4 of the 5 positions in the starting lineup, and their core players aside from Howard are still getting up there in age. Kobe isn't a great spot-up shooter, Artest is still awful offensively, Pau will probably still wander the perimeter, and Howard has some limitations that could be magnified by his back issues. If you want to beat LA, you have to space them out and force Howard to make decisions on the defensive end once penetration is made, and on the other end of the floor you have to blitz them with aggressive defense and allow the athleticism on rotations to make up for missed opportunities.

don't understand the power and technology...ok buddy. if the ps3 was really as technologically superior as sony touted, it would be lead dev for every [expletive]ing game. but as it is, it isn't, and looks worse than 360 in the majority of multiplats. is it technically capable of more? sure, but so is the ps2, xbox, etc compared to what we got. who cares? as it is, ps3 is severely limited by its ram. three straight generations? you realize PS2 was the worst console(by far) in terms of power last generation if we don't consider dreamcast last gen? really, you see the difference between the two when playing multiplat games. madden/ncaa are a step behind on ps3 in terms of visuals, and fifa's load times on ps3 really do irk me. and yes kyle, system updates, downloads, game updates, etc take forever on PSN. sorry that PSN has servers slower than steam during a sale, but i'll gladly pay for xbl to have content downloaded in a reasonable amount of time.

FINE, until you change your avi you're just a Nitro wanna-be

i laugh everytime i see his avatar

J-Mac would have gotten out of the first round with Yao Ming.

LOL @ #19.

You gotta change your avy asap. Keep seeing your posts thinking its Nitro. Shits retarded.

This is how you want your URLs to look if you want them to show up as videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Hw8DVLw-A Opposed to the one you linked, which looks like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Hw8DVLw-A&feature=youtu.be

Raptors fan poll obviously lol.... Caldy/Derozan shouldn't even be in the discussion.

And you're a homer Raptors fan. I don't think there's one person (who isn't a Raptors fan) that would agree with you.

Lawson and Iggy are more deserving to be part of the discussion than Calderon and Derozan.