2012 Heat Media Day/Training Camp Thread

[Wade2Bosh]

[Wade County]

That baby hook is awesome.

[Wade2Bosh]

Just looked up the stats of the 3 guys we thought we'd be drafting in this last draft, before we decided to trade out of the pick.

Festus Ezeli - 7ppg on 80% 6rpg 2blks 26mpg

Perry Jones III- 11ppg on 56%, 4rpg 24mpg

Arnett Moultrie- 2ppg on 33%, 3rpg 10.3 mpg


Cant teach size. And Ezeli is huge. Would've been nice to have him to develop...

[Wade County]

Yeah, still annoyed about those 3 a bit. All could've helped.

[Jace]

For what its worth, Blatche is starting off nicely, too.

[Wade2Bosh]

Noticed that as well. He looks to be in shape now.

[myst]

Originally Posted by Wade County

Yeah, still annoyed about those 3 a bit. All could've helped.

"Traded a 2012 first-round pick to Philadelphia for a future first-rounder and the No. 45 pick; drafted Justin Hamilton: This was a heck of a trade. Miami chose to massage its luxury tax hit by using a first-rounder at some point down the road instead of picking 27th this year. The pick from Philly is top-14 protected each of the next three seasons and then turns into second-rounders in 2015 and 2016; most likely, it will be a pick in the late teens in 2013 that will replace the one the Heat owe the Cavs from LeBron's sign-and-trade.

The Heat moved down 18 spots and selected project center Justin Hamilton, who will play in Europe this season. Apparently Miami's lovefest with players of this ilk couldn't be completely cured in one go, but last season's playoffs came pretty close to extinguishing the malaise."

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/previ...i-heat-outlook

[Wade2Bosh]

That pick looked much better at the time, before they got Bynum.

It didn’t take me long to embrace being a Celtic. I hate whoever they hate. The Lakers are number one up there and the Heat aren’t too far behind. Doc tells us every day to think about the Heat. Not only does he tell us, but the film plays over and over if you go to the practice facility. Before practice and after practice, that series [2012 Eastern Conference Finals] is playing over and over on the television. We start off the season against them (Oct. 30 in Miami). Obviously the road to the championship goes through the champions and that’s the Miami Heat. I take it on. I take it on personally.

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Doc is going all out. I just wonder what happens if we beat them again this season after how hard he's been pushing this Miami hate train?

[Jace]

Honestly, and I love the "Lakers are number one" comment. Spo doesn't seem like the bulletin-board-material-type, but that's gotta go up in the locker room.

Shows Terry and Doc aren't exactly in lock-step. Rivers' claim has been that they're not worried about the Lakers because they need to beat Miami first.

[Wade2Bosh]

For those wondering, Mike Miller is not injured. At least that's what he told me on Tuesday when I asked him why he hasn't been playing lately. Miller started the first game of the preseason and played 17 minutes but hasn't sniffed the court since.

"No, I'm good," Miller said when asked if he was injured. "We've just got a stacked team. I'm just going to keep working and hopefully find a spot."

Now, it's entirely possible that Miller is hiding an injury. After all, he has been injured off and on for the better part of two years. But Miller said he went "full bore" in practice on Tuesday. The Heat practiced for two hours today, working on everything from conditioning to defense, to fast-break offense, to side-out-bounds plays.

"It was actually a really good practice," Miller said. "We were surprised."

Read more here: http://blogs.herald.com/miami_heat/2...#storylink=cpy

Doubt he's not playing because the team is stacked and I doubt he's hiding an injury. Just think its part of the maintenance program for him. We know what he can do, just gotta make sure he's good to go when the games begin to matter.

[Dee-Zy]

I say, just rest him until March.

[doctordrizzay]

There are so many 3 point threats on our team it's ridiculous. Besides Allen, I like Miller the most...but he's so brittle. I think the only way the wings are going to find playing time is if one of them catches on fire during the game's and spo decides to keep them playing.

Then again Spo is the ulitimate master of taking the hot hand out of a game for absolute no reason.

[Dee-Zy]

For pure shooting, I actually prefer JJ to MM.

[doctordrizzay]

Originally Posted by Dee-Zy

For pure shooting, I actually prefer JJ to MM.

Absolutely, But Mike is light year's above JJ on everything else.

[Dee-Zy]

At hustling, rebounding and playmaking but JJ is better in Defense IMO (and drawing charges).