Heat again fail to stand up to Celtics
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvxsP_vLbxzduxcanmDtbly8vLYF?slug=aw-heatceltics021311
BOSTON – Mike Miller(notes) busted through the doors of the visiting locker room and turned right to walk to the Miami Heat bus when his old coach cropped up in the corridor. Together, they raised hands into the air and waved goodbye late Sunday afternoon. Miller stopped, smiled and bellowed a warning to Doc Rivers.
“Don’t leave me open like that next time,” Miller barked.
Rivers laughed, promised it wouldn’t happen again, and no one could’ve believed the Boston Celtics coach. It will happen again. And again. And again. When the game’s in the balance for the Miami Heat, the ball’s in the air, and LeBron James(notes) and Dwyane Wade(notes) are mere spectators to its flight, the Celtics will live with the consequences.
The Celtics are still waiting for James and Wade to rise up and unleash the fury on them that’s overpowered the rest of the league. They’re still waiting for James and Wade and Chris Bosh(notes) – the three stars flexing and preening on that smoky July party platform in Miami – to trundle down off the stage and wrest away the Eastern Conference championship.
Forget all this back-peddling Miami talk about Boston as a big brother, about themselves as some kind of neophytes trying to overcome the Celtics like Michael Jordan did the Detroit Pistons.....read more..
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvxsP_vLbxzduxcanmDtbly8vLYF?slug=aw-heatceltics021311
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvxsP_vLbxzduxcanmDtbly8vLYF?slug=aw-heatceltics021311
BOSTON – Mike Miller(notes) busted through the doors of the visiting locker room and turned right to walk to the Miami Heat bus when his old coach cropped up in the corridor. Together, they raised hands into the air and waved goodbye late Sunday afternoon. Miller stopped, smiled and bellowed a warning to Doc Rivers.
“Don’t leave me open like that next time,” Miller barked.
Rivers laughed, promised it wouldn’t happen again, and no one could’ve believed the Boston Celtics coach. It will happen again. And again. And again. When the game’s in the balance for the Miami Heat, the ball’s in the air, and LeBron James(notes) and Dwyane Wade(notes) are mere spectators to its flight, the Celtics will live with the consequences.
The Celtics are still waiting for James and Wade to rise up and unleash the fury on them that’s overpowered the rest of the league. They’re still waiting for James and Wade and Chris Bosh(notes) – the three stars flexing and preening on that smoky July party platform in Miami – to trundle down off the stage and wrest away the Eastern Conference championship.
Forget all this back-peddling Miami talk about Boston as a big brother, about themselves as some kind of neophytes trying to overcome the Celtics like Michael Jordan did the Detroit Pistons.....read more..
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_ylt=AvxsP_vLbxzduxcanmDtbly8vLYF?slug=aw-heatceltics021311