The Miami Heat have charged full blast into the playoffs and
woe to anyone willing to stand in their path. The New York Knicks got to see firsthand
as the Heat charged all over them in a 100-67 victory in their Game 1 matchup
in Miami on Saturday.
LeBron James scored 32 points in only three quarters of play
but the key to this monstrous win had to be Miami’s stifling defense. Miami limited
Carmelo Anthony to just 11 points and three of fifteen shooting from the field.
Amar’e Stoudemire was even worse hitting only two of his
seven shots on the night. He would finish the game with nine points and a seat
on the bench with Anthony and the rest of the Knicks' starters in the waning moments of the game. Both Anthony and Stoudemire sat and pondered what
went wrong so terribly wrong that they would lose by 33 points.
The answer is simple, LeBron James happened. No one believes
that Miami will lose this series to the Knicks but James and the Heat wanted to
let the rest of the league know what to expect for the rest of the playoffs.
The Heat are on a mission and James has taken it upon
himself to make sure they don’t come up short this time the way they did last
year. James speaking after the game said, “I've waited to get back to the
postseason, prepared myself all season, throughout the offseason to get back to
this point.”
The Miami Heat stormed their way to the NBA Finals last year
and looked unbeatable as they took a 2-1 lead in the series. Then they
collapsed as the Dallas Mavericks would edge them in Game 4 and go on to crush
them in the final two games.
So James’s play against the Knicks and his postgame comments
were meant as a message to anyone that has the misfortune to face the Miami
Heat during the 2012 NBA Playoffs. The Heat won’t be denied this year and that
is the word according to James.
Roosevelt Hall is an NFL Blogger for The Sport Mentalist and an NBA Blogger for The Sport Mentalist 2. He is also a Sports Reporter for Pro Sports Lives. He can be contacted at RHall_TPFB@Yahoo.com and be sure to follow him on Twitter @sportmentalist.
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