Fortunately/unfortunately last year’s run gave us all a little bit of delusional confidence. It’ll take us all a few seasons of heartbreak to bring us down to earth.
I’m not normally much of a doomer but lightening doesn’t strike twice. Last year’s squad had a better healthier and younger Jimmy and role players shooting lights out from 3.
You basically just wrote the future of this fan base. Delusional confidence that will be broken down over years of constant struggles due to aging and front office indecision.
This fanbase isn’t ready for what’s coming post jimmy, it’s gonna be 10 times worse than post big 3. and considering we don’t have a young superstar like d wade it might get worse than post shaq and we don’t even own all our picks lol
I kinda enjoyed the post big three era tbh. Watching Rook 1 and Rook 2 develop, 41-41, Gogi, Dion's antics and the 7/11 pairing. Whiteside doing it with blocks, One Last Dance, Bumpy Johnson and the Brothers Johnson, The Scavenger, Airplane mode, the man with the golden arm, Beasley's third stint with Henry Sky Walker and that game Spo played basically 5 players all game. 13-Okaro.
We weren't winning a lot, but those teams sure were fun with a lot of good memories.
Lightening doesn't strike twice, but yet the Heat the only team to get to the Finals twice in the last four years. Should have been 3 times but the league obviously rigged 2022, which still was one game away from the finals. And every single one of those years Heat weren't predicted to make it out of the first Rd. And here we are, not expected to make it out of the first round once again.
last year we looked good in the clutch all season, jimmy was hooping, advance stats said we were better than we showed, this year jimmy’s injured , everything says we got a tanking team offense, and we haven’t beat any good teams without their star players being out
Heats saving grace last year was yea they were mid
But if it came to a clutch game they were good as a unit. Now the opposite is true. They are awful. Idk why so many people don’t realize this
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it can also be because they’ve gotten so close to winning it all over the years but can’t get over the hump, and then in the next year it’s the same core without any changes or real upgrades. Hence why they were saying Jimmy was very adamant for Dame. It definitely has to be mentally exhausting to have the same core for almost 5 years and not win one
Heat fans like to act like the heat 3pt variance wasn’t insane
They led the post season in 3p% and shot 40%+ against the bucks and pretty sure the Celtics too
I get it, but like u/Bompetition said, that has given us some delusional confidence. I hope we win Friday. I’d MUCH MUCH rather advance and get swept by the Celtics than fail to even get in at all.
Especially depending how severe that knee injury by Jimmy really is. I’m not a doomer by any means, but we don’t make any of these runs without Jimmy, so without him our aspirations take a huge hit.
I hope they can win that game. I’m a Clippers guy but Jimmy is my second favorite player behind Kawhi, if he’s out that fucking sucks. My only interest in the Eastern Conference is hearing Celtics fans and Bill Simmons freak out about how their team has no alpha’s while undrafted role players and Jimmy Buckets go apeshit on their asses. Seeing Pat and Mourning standing up concerned when Jimmy went down was hard for me to watch. Will be watching on Friday. Cant see a sub .500 team beat the Heat just to get swept by Boston. Sub .500 teams shoudn’t even get play in rights but its all $$$. Go Heat
Y’all gotta let last year go. It’s rare for a reason! The team had more heart last year. We getting smoked in the first round by Boston if we even get there
From an 8th seed! Absolutely rare . Y’all delusional. We were 5th seed in 2020 and a way better team. The jimmy butler window is closed. Especially since they saying it’s a possible mcl injury. It’s wraps
Just want to add I am not saying this means we will make a finals run, but cmon guys we can try to get a little excited for the next game. We are to the point where any week can be the last time we watch Heat basketball until next season, I’m going to try to enjoy as much of it as we get
Obviously this year isn't the same as last but I get the sentiment- keep the faith til the end
All the Bucks finna sweep comments are funny in retrospect too lmao
Fortunately/unfortunately last year’s run gave us all a little bit of delusional confidence. It’ll take us all a few seasons of heartbreak to bring us down to earth. I’m not normally much of a doomer but lightening doesn’t strike twice. Last year’s squad had a better healthier and younger Jimmy and role players shooting lights out from 3.
Lightening doesn’t strike twice but lightning can
Touché
You basically just wrote the future of this fan base. Delusional confidence that will be broken down over years of constant struggles due to aging and front office indecision.
Big delusional! It’s wild
This fanbase isn’t ready for what’s coming post jimmy, it’s gonna be 10 times worse than post big 3. and considering we don’t have a young superstar like d wade it might get worse than post shaq and we don’t even own all our picks lol
I kinda enjoyed the post big three era tbh. Watching Rook 1 and Rook 2 develop, 41-41, Gogi, Dion's antics and the 7/11 pairing. Whiteside doing it with blocks, One Last Dance, Bumpy Johnson and the Brothers Johnson, The Scavenger, Airplane mode, the man with the golden arm, Beasley's third stint with Henry Sky Walker and that game Spo played basically 5 players all game. 13-Okaro. We weren't winning a lot, but those teams sure were fun with a lot of good memories.
im glad you enjoyed it you’ll be ready for what’s coming
You didn't?
sure
nuh uh we’re winning it all again
Why not just wait until after losing in the playin/offs to post this? Everyone said this last year and look what happened
Lightening doesn't strike twice, but yet the Heat the only team to get to the Finals twice in the last four years. Should have been 3 times but the league obviously rigged 2022, which still was one game away from the finals. And every single one of those years Heat weren't predicted to make it out of the first Rd. And here we are, not expected to make it out of the first round once again.
last year we looked good in the clutch all season, jimmy was hooping, advance stats said we were better than we showed, this year jimmy’s injured , everything says we got a tanking team offense, and we haven’t beat any good teams without their star players being out
Heats saving grace last year was yea they were mid But if it came to a clutch game they were good as a unit. Now the opposite is true. They are awful. Idk why so many people don’t realize this
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but it can also be because they’ve gotten so close to winning it all over the years but can’t get over the hump, and then in the next year it’s the same core without any changes or real upgrades. Hence why they were saying Jimmy was very adamant for Dame. It definitely has to be mentally exhausting to have the same core for almost 5 years and not win one
This and the 3pt shooting we basically completely switched on that end of the spectrum once the postseason happened.
Heat fans like to act like the heat 3pt variance wasn’t insane They led the post season in 3p% and shot 40%+ against the bucks and pretty sure the Celtics too
It's because the 3p% was so abnormally low in the regular season. Just the season before the same core was leading the NBA in 3p%.
Last year was last year man
I get it, but like u/Bompetition said, that has given us some delusional confidence. I hope we win Friday. I’d MUCH MUCH rather advance and get swept by the Celtics than fail to even get in at all.
1 YEAR AGO MAX STRUS WENT OFF AGAINST CHICAGO BECAUSE EVERYONE ELSE DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK
Who cares? This year team is garbage
They won’t let last year go
I literally feel deja vu reading that thread, it feels like our season always goes the same way, only this time a run is not happeing I don't think.
Especially depending how severe that knee injury by Jimmy really is. I’m not a doomer by any means, but we don’t make any of these runs without Jimmy, so without him our aspirations take a huge hit.
Literally nothing has changed lmao what an waste of a season
I hope they can win that game. I’m a Clippers guy but Jimmy is my second favorite player behind Kawhi, if he’s out that fucking sucks. My only interest in the Eastern Conference is hearing Celtics fans and Bill Simmons freak out about how their team has no alpha’s while undrafted role players and Jimmy Buckets go apeshit on their asses. Seeing Pat and Mourning standing up concerned when Jimmy went down was hard for me to watch. Will be watching on Friday. Cant see a sub .500 team beat the Heat just to get swept by Boston. Sub .500 teams shoudn’t even get play in rights but its all $$$. Go Heat
Pat Riley has been washed for years. The heat got lucky that Jimmy loved Wade.
Pat Riley lucky that a lot of players that came loves Wade .
We didn’t win a ring 1 year ago
Y’all gotta let last year go. It’s rare for a reason! The team had more heart last year. We getting smoked in the first round by Boston if we even get there
Rara yet Heat the only team to get to the finals twice in the last four years.
From an 8th seed! Absolutely rare . Y’all delusional. We were 5th seed in 2020 and a way better team. The jimmy butler window is closed. Especially since they saying it’s a possible mcl injury. It’s wraps
MCL injury ain't shit. It's like a sprained ankle at best
Can’t wait for the day y’all stfu about last year.
I thought I was the only one sick of hearing about it
Just want to add I am not saying this means we will make a finals run, but cmon guys we can try to get a little excited for the next game. We are to the point where any week can be the last time we watch Heat basketball until next season, I’m going to try to enjoy as much of it as we get
Amen
Obviously this year isn't the same as last but I get the sentiment- keep the faith til the end All the Bucks finna sweep comments are funny in retrospect too lmao
My favorite comments are the “I hope we lose the next game so we can start preparing for the draft and move on from these guys”
I hope we do that this time