Tuesday night’s loss against the Portland Trail Blazers made it 5 straight for the Miami Heat. Even more alarming, they are 0-4 at home right now. With the defending champs coming to town Thursday night, it’s clear that the Heat need to get it together; and fast! After the breaking news of Sunday’s “cry-gate” scandal, these recent losses are starting to cool down the Heats buzz around the league.


I’ll state the obvious, the Miami Heat are the team everyone loves to hate right now; every sport has one. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying the Heat “suck” like a lot of the anti-Heat supporters out there. The Heat are a good team, point blank period. There are Clipper fans out there that wish at their worst point in the season they were third in their conference. The fact is, the Heat aren’t great. After “the decision”, the heat were catapulted to a platform that they truly weren’t ready for. We did not expect this team to just be “good”, they were supposed to be instantly great.

Every great team goes through a slump in a season, hell before the all-star break the Lakers were on a serious land slide. How you react to these tough times is ultimately how the greats are judged. Right now, the Heat aren’t showing up. Like I said before, for anyone else this wouldn’t be a problem. The Heat could ultimately lose every game for the rest of the season and still make the playoffs. Yet, the fact that the Heat will have to go 18-1 for the rest of the season just to match Lebron’s Cleveland record last year leaves us feeling this season has not lived up to expectations. LeBron and Dwayne need to just get it going. As soon as they figure out how to play off of each other, we will see the Miami heat we expected. Yes, I purposely left out Chris Bosh. As far as I’m concerned he was the one in the Locker room crying. The Heat are lacking respect from the league, they are not feared any more, and it starts with Chris Bosh.

This is the Heat’s first season together, they are building chemistry as we speak. They just need a few more pieces for everything to fall in line. These pieces are what will make them great, and not just good. I’m not talking about Mike Bibby, who doesn’t really help the defensive piece they’re lacking. I’m talking tough bench players who will play hard, foul hard, and get garbage buckets. Miami has the lowest bench scoring numbers in the league. The big 2 and Bosh can only do so much. As well, look back at the last 8 championships or so. Think about it. Who were the coaches? I’m sorry, Erik Spoelstra doesn’t have a “Championship” bone in his body. He hasn’t handled his team well, and recently through them under the bus. Once Pat Riley makes those changes, then I’ll let the heat be in the elite discussion.

 Here's a couple of the Heats recent game winning attempts...In case you forgot