Eric Spoelstra has turned off the Heat.

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The new big three, a dream team, the greatest ever, forecasting seven world championships! These where the words of many when the King James took his talents to South Beach, but where is that team? Sure they was a game way from winning it all last season, but the best team in the NBA should be able to win any seven game series. Now it's almost playoff time again, and the Heat is more like lukewarm. I said it since day one that this current team would never win a championship, I always felt they would get in each others way, there's no bench and lastly I didn't see Eric Spoelstra as a championship coach.

They have worked around each other pretty well because Bosh has not lived up to all of his hype and James and Wade just kind of flip flop control. The bench is still not a championship bench, and they don't get great play at the point, but if James and Wade are both playing to there talents they can get around that. What I think now is holding them back the most is Eric Spoelstra. How can he not get more wins out of this team that was handed to him I don't know. They should be a force, but since the all-star break they look more like the 3rd best team in the east. In the last ten days the ageing Celtics hammered the Heat up in Boston and then went down to South Beach and controlled that game as well. Last night they had a big lead on a Bulls that's not %100, but they lost it in overtime.

The buck stops at the top as they say and the top of the Heat is Eric Spoelstra. Its his job to call the play sets and to give this team an Identity and most of the time it seems as if they have neither. If I was Pat Riley I would boot him out and take over because as long as Spoelstra is there the Heat won't be at full flame.

-Patrick Pierce

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