Miami Heat vs. Chicago Bulls – NBA Eastern Conference Finals 2011 Analysis (Part 2)
Strong aspects of Miami
The Miami Heat will encounter the Chicago Bulls on Sunday. Although, the Bulls swept the season series against the Heat, this is playoffs time and the scenario will be an entirely different one. Out of the four top players in the
series, the Heat are arriving with three. In addition to that, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James have firing down the stretch down the stretch lately – a thing which we did not see in the regular season. That could make a huge difference in defeating the Bulls.
A few people believe that Chicago’s Carlos Boozer is a better player as compared to Miami’s Chris Bosh and they seek Boozer as the winner of the matchup against Bosh. However, if one looks neutrally at the performances of both
players, it will be known that Boozer is lagging behind Bosh in postseason. Chris is way up in scoring average and rebounds than Boozer and the added advantage Bosh has is that he got these numbers against All-Defensive forward Kevin Garnett.
So far in the playoffs, Miami’s defence has played exceptionally and people who rate the Bulls for their defence will be surprise to see Miami’s numbers as they gave up just less points in the postseason than Chicago, they allowed
88.8 points per game in contrast to the Bulls’ 89 points each game. The Heat are the only team that haven’t allowed any of their playoff rival to score 100 points against them until now.
When it comes to attack they have two such players that can create opportunities in the paint not only for themselves, but also for their team-mates, which gives them an offensive edge over the Bulls.
The Heat were criticized all season as their bench let them down time and time again, but as far as the Bulls are concerned they have a lot of fire power in their bench quality-wise. However, one can’t just simply discard the Heat’s
bench by looking at their scoring point average that is one of the least in the league. The most vital point of Miami’s bench is that they had a propensity to make “timely contributions" which didn’t reflect in their mere statistics.
Frail aspects of Miami
The Heat have been overwhelmed with their focus issues and not consistent play right through the season. Maybe Miami were just pacing themselves or perhaps they are still in the process to get used to the offense.
At the same time, this team has a propensity to play like world beaters one minute and the other minute they look incompetent on offense. It hasn’t reared its head as abundant during the playoffs, but Miami has flirted with adversity
on few occasions, for instance blowing advantage in Game 1 and 5-point lead against the Sixers.
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