Hoops Game Recaps

With just over a dozen games remaining on the calendar of the 2010-2011 NBA season, the Miami Heat have their eyes locked on the playoffs. Being ranked in the top three of the Eastern Conference, the Heat are in a comfortable position to enter the post season.

It looks like the Heat are heading towards a repeat of the last two seasons, in which they’ve finished 3rd in the East. However, they are looking forward to avoiding first round losses, which they’ve suffered in the last two playoffs.

Miami Heat’s goals were clear from day one of this season. The arrival of Lebron James and Chris Bosh is supposed make the team a true contender for the NBA championship, and relive the sweet memories of claiming the trophy back in 2006. Lebron James left Cleveland due to frustration of not getting the opportunity to compete for an NBA championship.

Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, and Lebron James have formed a powerful trio this season, and this is a legitimate recipe for victories throughout the 2011 postseason. The statistics tell a compelling story about this triple threat. Lebron and Dwyane are some of the top scorers in the league, each averaging above 25.5 points a game. Chris Bosh’s 18 points a game is also quite an offensive effort. Combined together, they’ve scored 70 percent of the Heat’s total points per game this season.

Lebron James and Dwyane Wade have great chemistry, and they’ve been

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If Chicken Little were hanging around the Los Angeles Lakers this year, his voice would be hoarse from screaming out “The Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling!”. Then again, this is nothing new for the Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers are one of the few teams in the sporting world where everything seems to be going right, or everything seems to be going wrong.

While the average team may be able to adsorb a loss here and there, when the Lakers lose a single game, the media seems to be calling for the team to just pack up and dissolve. And Kobe Bryant- forget the fact that he has five rings and is still playing at MVP caliber, he’s done, kaput.

The weird thing is, all of this complaining is about a team that is playing roughly .700 basketball and is a third seed in an ridiculously hard conference. This is a team that weathered the same concerns the last two seasons that they won a championship, has, arguably, the best player in the NBA, and only trails two teams in the Western Conference that are, for all intents and purposes, playing out of their mind. Will the Lakers make the playoffs? Absolutely! Will they make a deep run? Yes! Can they win it all for the third consecutive time? If you were a betting man they would be a good bet.

The thing about the Lakers is that for all of the complains people have

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The Bulls had been 1 of the few clubs having issues versus the the previous year. The introduction of Carlos Boozer may aid ending those issues.

Boozer has produced some outstanding efforts as of late, & versus the Nets during recent seasons, & He will attempt to direct Chicago to a twelfth victory during fourteen contests Friday versus Jersey.

Following skipping the 1st month of the year having a broken hand, Boozer has delivered the Bulls (20 – 10) a required physical presence within the post & has been key to the club’s run. He’s putting in 27 .8 points & 12 .3 boards during his previously 4 matchups.

Carlos Boozer & Derrick Rose starting to gel and assist each-other more and more on the court. The forward and All Star guard continue to develop their pick and roll and other aspects of the game together. The Bulls have dropped their 1st 2 game when Boozer initially came back from his injury, but since then have picked up 11 of 13.

The Bulls beat the Bucks 90 – 77 on Tuesday to climb ten games above .500 for the 1st occasion since completing the 2006 – 2007 year 49 – 33, & now they More »

The Miami Heat will be on the road Friday, taking on the New York Knicks. Both of these teams have had their ups and down this year, so this match up has the making of a rumble in the Bronx.
The Heat were supposed to come out and dominate this season. Early on their performances left much to be desired. Along with shoulder bumping drama, and players only, locker room session, the Heat looked like a team on the verge of implosion. Simply too much star power in one place, at one time many people thought.

Since then the Miami Heat have ripped off 10 straight wins and are starting to look like the team everyone expected to see this year. LeBron James has led the charge, scoring more than 23 points per game on average, and the rest of the team has really rallied around Miami’s big three. Dwanye Wade remains the consummate leader of the team, directing traffic, to open up King James, and even Chris Bosh, who disappointed early, has stepped up his game, to make this team look more like what fans expected in the off season.

The New York Knicks have been very middle of the road this year, and their 16-10 record shows that fact very clearly. They have been playing better than in More »