"OUCH!" Heat Are All Wet

"Big 3 Can't seem to figure it out"

 Luol Deng either got pushed in the back by Mike Miller on what became one of the final two game-deciding moments, or tripped over his own feet stumbling for a rebound. In my opinion, he tripped over his own feet but my opinion doesn't win or lose games. The Big 3 have got to figure out who's going the win ball games for them in the final seconds.

 I've seen stats that suggest that Lebron leads the league in game winning shots with under twenty seconds left down by one in the regular season. Kobe by the way, leads in that category in the playoffs. From what I've seen so far this year they've got to relinquish the rock to D. Wade in the final seconds because Lebron isn't getting it done.

MVP?

 They're No. 3 in the East at this point, after Derrick Rose scored 27 points, Deng capped an 18-point effort with two free throws on a hotly debated play with 15.9 seconds remaining, and the Bulls beat Miami 87-86 on Sunday to hand the Heat their fourth straight loss.

Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said some players were moved to tears in the Heat locker room. "This is painful for every single one of us to go through this, there are couple of guys crying in the locker room right now, it is not a matter of want," Spoelstra said. As a head coach you never throw your team under the bus. No one had to know that guys were crying in the locker room. That's just more ammunition for the media to ride with. The guys already had beef with him earlier in the season. Now he's just opened that wound up again. Talk about another distraction. What was he thinking?

As his comment lit up with reactions as it hit ESPN's SportsCenter and Twitter, Heat players recognized they're wearing a major target on their backs. Again, they discussed the strain of having to adjust to playing with a bull's-eye on their jerseys all season.

"Inside our locker room, we stick together, we're like brothers," Wade said. "We win together, we lose together. Outside, the Miami Heat are exactly what everyone wanted, losing games. The world is better now since the Heat is losing."

The Heat have to figure out who and what they're going to be at this point. They're still in the thick of the Eastern Conference Playoff race but they've got to get a hold of this thing because Chicago and Boston aren't playing with these teams. They're doing exactly what they should be doing right now and that's winning games. Oh yeah, the Lakers and San Antonio are sitting out West waiting on boys too. The Heat can't afford to show up to the playoffs next month still trying to figure out who they're going to be. What's your opinion?

Jay Graves
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Information from The Associated Press was used in this article.