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Originally Posted by pmayjr
STS,
The only problem with your observation about the Heat, was the Diesel missed half the year. In the last few years I think we've grown accostomed to Shaq missing a lot of time, but being healthy for the playoff run. In fact they played pretty well without Wade, BECAUSE THEY HAD SHAQ. I think since Shaq was a Laker, he's never been on a team that has finished worse than getting to the conference finals until this year. I'm not shocked they lost the series, but I'm shocked that they got swept. Much credit to the Bulls.
But yeah, we'll find out by year 3 whether Miami passed on the next Marino or not. I don't mean that in the sense that Marino and Quinn are the same players by any stretch, but the best QB they could've had since Marino.
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I think it's more than that. I go to about 10 games a year and aside from Wade and Shaq, when healthy, they just did not look good this year. Williams has definitely lost a step (or three) and was hurt all year, Alonzo didn't get any younger, Payton was just awful, Walker looked lost most of the time and, worst of all, neither Posey nor Haslem played nearly as well as last year.
Guys lke Posey, Kapono and Dorrell Wright would go from starting and playing 25-30 minutes to playing 5-10.
They were still a fun team to watch but they looked old and slow.