The "Heat," Team Joy the second half of last season, 30-11 on their way to 41-41, an agonizing playoff near-miss ninth place, were run out of their own gym by the Los Angeles "Lakers" Thursday night. They are 3-7 in their last ten and sit eighth in the Least, a mere game and a half from joyless ninth with a "crucial" game tonight with holder Detroit.
It has all gone so wrong for Miami. The historic flipped script of last season has been flipped back.
-Way back. Dwyane Wade, chemistry killer in Chicago and in Cleveland, is now go-to.
-Hassan Whiteside is now Hassan Backside, he sits on the bench so much.
-Next man up can-do has been replaced by Alphonse and Gaston can't get out of each other's way.
-Camaraderie has given way to dark comedy.
-The revolution of versatile positionless basketball has given way to the revulsion of virtual pointless basketball.
-Those glass slippers of the off season were expensive misfits for misfits. 7/11 is shuttered, Johnson & Johnson have reverted to Flotsam and Jetsam.
-Pat Riley has gone from behind the scenes Seer to blind, clueless dotard.
-Erick Spoelstra's magic chemistry act has blown up in his face on center stage.
It is now two and half minutes to midnight for the Miami "Heat," a pumpkin carriage carrying a cargo of bumpkins.
It has all gone so wrong for Miami. The historic flipped script of last season has been flipped back.
-Way back. Dwyane Wade, chemistry killer in Chicago and in Cleveland, is now go-to.
-Hassan Whiteside is now Hassan Backside, he sits on the bench so much.
-Next man up can-do has been replaced by Alphonse and Gaston can't get out of each other's way.
-Camaraderie has given way to dark comedy.
-The revolution of versatile positionless basketball has given way to the revulsion of virtual pointless basketball.
-Those glass slippers of the off season were expensive misfits for misfits. 7/11 is shuttered, Johnson & Johnson have reverted to Flotsam and Jetsam.
-Pat Riley has gone from behind the scenes Seer to blind, clueless dotard.
-Erick Spoelstra's magic chemistry act has blown up in his face on center stage.
It is now two and half minutes to midnight for the Miami "Heat," a pumpkin carriage carrying a cargo of bumpkins.
