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I suppose everyone here loves basketball and that's why you chose to play this game. Speaking of basketball now it's all about the NBA Final's this year, between the Oklahoma City Thunders and the Miami Heat.

Personally, like many others I think the Thunders have a better team in general, with Durant been clutch and efficient, Westbrook penetrating and Harden hitting shot consistently, as well as the Ibaka+Perkins front court and some solid role player like Sefolosha and Fisher. Although i think LBJ will be better in the match-up against KD, but as a team the Thunders will be better.

Strength: Height, Clutch basket, better front court and rebounds, Home Court Advantage (referees...), better coach and fans...
Weakness: N/A (young? maybe)

With the Heat, have to say they need to do more than just playing Lebron to win the series. D-wade have to get into a better form and show his energy, Bosh needs to do his job in the paint and the other guys running their play.

Strength: LBJ and D-Wade penetrating the basket, Having Lebron James, having Pat Riley, having a chance to play the upset...
Weakness: Height, less in front court depth, rebounding, not consistent beyond the arc, No HCA

Well not going to make a prediction here as Im a fan of D-Wade and the Heat personally... So no doubt I would want the Heat to win, but not only because of my own preference. I think it's time for Lebron to get a ring. It's obvious that Lebron is the best player on Earth now and how he has not been able to compare the great names just because he has no championship. A championship is all he needs and I think he has done his best this year to earn it.

Open for discussion!

Beat the heat!

Having the best player does not mean a championship.. The best team will win the title. Doc rivers outplayed eric speolsta which is why the celtics was able to take it to game 7 with the aging hofs.

Lebron is the best player on Earth

You misspelled Durant...

Also, remember Le-4th quarter choke James' comments about winning "many many titles" ... he misspelled OKC

Was a good game, Chalmers and Battier were shooting good in the first half. A lot of turnovers for OKC early, LeBron got 4 steals as a result of guarding Perkins who has almost no Offensive presence unless they can find him deep in the low post. Second half was just too easy for OKC, seemed like every drive produced points or a foul leading to a 3 point play. Collison was great on the offensive boards, he tipped a lot of rebounds out to the perimiter which ledt the Miami defense scrambling.

I can see Miami taking the next game if LBJ and Dwayne Wade stop settling for Jump Shots. They need to run Chalmers as point guard and pass to lebron in the high post, he needs to back in and draw the double team. If he can do that then you're most likely going to have an open Bosh for a jumpshot or a cutting Wade or even an open man on the perimiter.

Lebron is the best player on Earth

You misspelled Durant...

Not really, i mean KD is good, but Lebron has more strength, as well as better at both Offense and Defense in the low post. Oh and Lebron got better vision (or better assists).

IMO KD is more like a lethal scorer whereas Lebron can do all you can ask as a Foward or a player. The only thing missing is some championships. Oh and also he's not that cluch. Well if he has both of them he will not be Lebron James but Micheal Jordan.

The defense of OKC was too good in the 2nd half.
Kept Miami to 19 points in the 3rd and 21 points in the 4th.

And the hussle of Collison was awesome, so awesome that he got a more minutes then he usually gets and coach Brooks kept him on in the 4th quarter in favor of Harden who is normally their 4th quarter closer.

I like OKC's 8 man rotation and minutes distribution

westbrook and durant 45 mins
thebo, perkins, ibaka, harden, fisher and collison all around 25 mins.

and Lebron is the best on earth atm.. but dam man durant is a close second... name another 7 footer who can run the floor, finish fast breaks, and having the shooting range that he does... he is pretty much unguardable... last person who can do all that was george gervin... Durant should be called Iceman v2.0

"not one...not two...not three....not four...not five...not six...not seven....."..while Wade and Bosh are sniggering beside him...

oh man if i was lebron i would be cringing everytime i saw that video...
I know every time i see it it makes me cheer louder for whoever they are going up against!

I think he's matured quite a lot since then.. but that arrogance will haunt him for all time.

I cant wait for one of them to do something stupid like Wade did last year at Dallas, and really fire up KD and the Thunder.

Go Thunder!!!

He never said "not zero", so we can't rule out that he intends to never be a champion

I had the Thunder in 5 before game 1. They just match-up so well with a Heat team that is soft inside. The Thunder don't have a dominant big-man scorer but their guys are active, can pass and most importantly defend the paint well.

Westbrook has speed that can't be matched, he can breakdown whoever is on him.

I don' think the LeBron era is ever going to start....

Go CAVS!