The Official Miami Heat Return to the Playoffs Thread.

The Heat could be in position to finish off its roster by choosing from a group of 2009 free agents and salary-cap exceptions with which to work. One particular name comes to mind: Jason Kidd. Considering the 36-year-old is in search of only a championship at this point in his career, and given his familiarity with fellow Olympians Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh, it's hardly a stretch to believe Kidd would make his way to Miami. And given how most are expecting large paydays hard to come by this summer, it's likely the Heat could have him at a bargain price. He's a playmaker at the point, one of the best defenders at the position, an ideal mentor to Mario Chalmers and the type of all-time great Pat Riley would ride with any day.

 

told ya'll beasely is a SF. he doesnt have the physical build to compete with bigger, stronger PFs. He will be a 3 and play 4 when we go small.

 

Interesting.

 

MIAMI is looking like an 8th seed right now. The East is getting so strong, especially our division. Orlando landed Vince Carter, Atlanta got Jamal Crawford, Randy Foye and Mike Miller to a healthy Washington Wizards team. Yikes. I am afraid that if we hold off until next offseason, our regression due to much stronger competition in the East is going to push Dwyane out the door. We've got to land Chris Bosh. Right now.

 

If his team DECLINES in 2009-2010? Yes.

And this line-up right now, if everyone stays healthy... currently trailing Orlando, Boston, Cleveland, Atlanta, Washington, Philadelphia.

 

That Beverely kid we traded for is supposedly the very definition of "potential"

We'll leave him over in Ukraine for a year or two I suppose.

 

the guy is 6'1" 180, so i'm not sure who he's "locking down" at the two.

 

Beverely is a PG from everything I've read about him. His competition at the moment is Chris Quinn, so he should have a great chance to earn some PT.

I really, really liked Dozier in college but I question his transition to the NBA. He's so frail, but he's got the frame to add weight.

 

Overall I thought our draft was poor..but we'll see.

 

I was hoping we would get whats his face, oh McClinton from the U.

Temporary brain fart, dont kill me UM fans.

 

He went to the Spurs, how do you have the best draft in the NBA(Spurs) and not even have a first round pick? Blair and McClinton....

 

I think that with what we had to work with, you can't really put a grade on it. Our draft position is almost the near equivalent to going into the NFL Draft with a 5th and 7th rounder.

If Beverly and/or Dozier ever contribute to this team, then it's a major plus. If not, then it's moot, IMO.

 

Also... I'm hearing that Memphis offered Thabeet, Gay, and Conley for Beasley and Chalmers.

If comfortable that we'd be able to land Bosh or Amare next summer, I don't know if I decline that deal.

 

OMG if true i would do that trade in a heart beat I like Beasley and Chalmers but Gay, Conley, and Thabeet with D-Wade, Cook, Moon and Haslem with the opportunity of getting Bosh or Amare in 2010 - 2011 is a dream come true come on Riley do it make it happen.

 

No way they make that deal.

and face it, the only way we can make a significant move is if we throw Beasely in there. Otherwise we can trade some of our role players and get back in return another team's set of role players who most likely wont have as much of a difference than if we kept those players. Just sayin, theres only two options for us right now: 1. We trade Beasely and either Haslem/Cook/Both/someone else? or we wait until 2010 and keep Beasely and hope we can land a good FA. Either way we're gambling and taking a big risk.

 

b-easy's twitter:

http://twitter.com/superCoolBeas

here's a pic from it:

http://twitpic.com/7u5dc

 

Wade is not feelling the love FN, can anyone blame him? Athletes think about competing...right now...not 16 months from now, P Riley wants his name on a contract extension, Wade doesn't want to end up like Tim Hardaway, next year may as well be another dimension for D Wade.

 

i thought wade said this all along. imo it's non news.

 

not sure if this is funny or sad, but dorell wright's twitter (i think):

http://twitter.com/DWRIGHTWAY

he tweets like every 5 mins. plus he's gotten real big and has tats now from the pics. his gamertag is dwrightway1.

 

Get Wade a real partner in crime and you have multiple championships. I dont see why we won't make a splash.

 

I dont want to blow up the team, I just want Wade on it.

 

he'll stay.

 

Well, the way I understand it, Wade if he stays will be pretty much locked into a set contract of "X" dollars for "X" number of years, the only way to avoid that is to sign elsewhere for a shorter contract.

Beasely must be feeling about 2 inches tall at the moment, the more Wade speaks, the less his value appears to be in Wade's eyes...

(just zinging Sect a bit...)

 

Well, if he signed a short term contract he still would have one more MAX contract in his future, if he signs with Miami, that is pretty much all she wrote, he wins in Miami, or nowhere else realistically speaking.

 

Is there a thread you two arent argueing in?

 

I've seen "the plan" fail on several occasions in several different sports E, and DWade is my favorite NBA player and I would hate to see him waste away on a "good" Heat team that just never makes it over the hump again.

The problem with "the plan" type of situation is it assumes every other team in the NBA will do nothing, and everything breaks correctly for the team instituting "the plan" and it seldomly works out like that.

Put it this way Hedo was set to sign with Portland, it looked like a done deal until his wifey said "I think I like Toronto" and off he went to Canada, stuff like that happens all the time in pro sports.

A digression but one of the things I like about Sparano/Ireland/Tuna is they never fall for "the plan" they are willing to try whatever it takes to win and they don't simply throw money at problems they develop players or find them wherever they may be...

 

No, they would find a niche's player, that is what the Tuna does.

BTW Sect, there is no guarantee the salary cap moves upwards next season, in fact it could decline down to 53 million or so (per ESPN radio's Broussard).

That is 5 million less for "the plan".

Cap numbers to be announced this evening:

http://www.cleveland.com/cavs/index.ssf/2009/02/nba_insider_economy_may_bankru.html