First I think it was very telling on two fronts last game as to where the Heat stand as a team.<div>
</div><div>1. Almost every lose ball went to the Celtics - And this was IN MIAMI.</div><div>2. All night, and especially in the 4th quarter, the Heat failed to get back on defense allowing easy buckets for the Celtics.</div><div>
</div><div>You are the Heat and you let this happen in your own house? And you expect to change this in what is the toughest arena in the NBA? (Outside of OKC on certain nights)</div><div>
</div><div>Here is what it comes down to: You have a group of guys pieced together in the Heat who in the back oftheirhead think they will have more opportunities at a ringwhetherit be in Miami or elsewhere Vs. a group of guys in the Celtics who know this is realistically the last year they may have a shot at a title. A title they have already won once as a TEAM.</div><div>
</div><div>Now I know you may point to the OKC/Spurs series and say that it had the same dynamic but it was VERYdifferent. OKC is made up of guys who have been drafted by OKC and who have embraced playing for OKC as a team. Miami is made up of guys brought in from all over the NBA map. The last thing people say about the Heat is that they play as a team.</div><div>
</div><div>The X factor in all of this is that Doc Rivers is a FAR SUPERIOR coach than Erik Spoelstra. If the Heat come out hot tonight they will still have to over come the coaching gap that has a guy like Doc Rivers who keeps a team as beat up and old as the Celtics going against a guy in Spoelstra who has the most talented starting 5 in the NBA and can't get them to play even close totheirpotential.</div>
