Hittin' a Lick

"That's on my momma! That's on everything I love homie!"

Vince Lombardi once said, “Individual commitment to a group effort – that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” You know Babe Ruth was probably drunk at the time but he spit some fire when he said this, “The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.” John Wooden shut the building down when he said, “The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.”

The Miami Heat is definitely playing like a team where all attitudes have been left at the crib or at least checked at the door playboy. It’s all about winning and nothing else seems to matter. On Monday night they stretched their win streak to 23 games by winning a battle in Boston 105-103.

The Celtics' Jeff Green came into the joint shooting like a gangsta at a house party. This dun had like 26 points at the half and finished with a career high 43! He was unstoppable and I think that he had boyz shook early on because they weren’t expecting him to come out of the back room on ‘um like that. It was like a hood set up when a bad chick you barely know invites a boy over and her dude and his homie’s are hiding in the closet. As soon as the unsuspecting dun gets comfortable they jump out and rob him or worse. It’s called hittin’ a lick pimpin’ and that’s what Boston thought they had come up on because they thought Miami was just cool with just winning 22 in a row.

What they didn’t realize was that ole boy didn’t come through alone! As soon as he smelled trouble he gave the signal and his homie’s came through the door shooting from all angles. LeBron unloaded 37 points, picked off 7 rebounds and threw 12 dimes causing the room to fill up with smoke. Mario Chalmers let 21 go while D. Wade was a marksman with 16 and Bosh jumped out of the ride with 13 when they needed it most. Battier and Haslem didn't shoot much but kept the ski masks on as they knocked cats out for trying to run out of the back door when the joint got thick!

The Heat, who is one of the best teams in the league at fast break points, only managed 6 points in transition. However, the jaw breaker came on a monster yoke by LeBron on Jason Terry. Ole boy caught all 6’8” 260 lbs in mid-air and it looked he had gotten shot in the back the way he laid out in the floor!

LeBron picked up the taunting technical foul but that was cool because sometimes you gotta let a boy know that you’re in the building and that you’re leaving with his girl anyway! Even when his intent was to jack YOU for your new Jordan’s, jewelry and whip sittin’ on 24’s and shinin’!  

A real G never rides alone and that’s what ole girl didn’t realize when she invited LeBron over last night! It takes an entire team to win at the level that these cats are playing at right now. A superstar riding alone is mark but a stud ridin’ deep is a threat to the community of thugs looking for a come up. Mickey Mantle must have grown up in the hood because he was on point when he broke this down, “A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.”

Boston put up a fight 'til the end but I just wanna hear from all of the duns that keep saying LeBron is afraid to take "The Last Shot!" All I know is that with 10.5 seconds left as he was walking out of the door after slaughtering boyz in the Garden he let one go to blow the joint up! Unless you ridin’ deep out here the Miami Heat ain’t playin’ and cheap come ups using old tactics won’t keep these boyz from winning another title! Stop me when I start lyin’ bruh!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves 
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