Heat vs Contenders

Earlier this month, the Miami Heat played both the Boston Celtics and the Chicago Bulls. The Boston Celtics are a very old team, and the Miami Heat should run them off the floor, but they didn’t. The Chicago Bulls are playing without Derrick Rose, so the Miami Heat should run them off the floor, as well, but just as with the Celtics, they played down to their competition. The Heat have enough talent on the team to run circles around a team without Derrick Rose, but they keep playing at a level that is well below their own. In high school, I was on a team that was victim to this phenomenon, too. But in high school, it’s a lot harder for kids to turn the switch when it comes times to play in the post season. I’m not worried about the Heat in the post season, but I just hope they don’t get set in their ways of playing down to the competition. They are almost guaranteed to have a 1 or 2 seed in the playoffs, so they’ll be playing one of the lower caliber teams in the Eastern Conference. If they play down to their competition, then they could be beat by one of these lower caliber teams, and that would be embarrassing. That is the last thing that LeBron James needs. LeBron needs to start leading this team when they play the lower caliber teams. The role players need to get up for these games just as they do for the bigger games.