The heat are in trouble if they keep this coach.

The lost to Orlando at home is one of the worst loses I have seen in
basketball in a long time. I have to admit I am a Lebron fan and Miami Heat supporter because of Lebron. This was a terrible lost. I put this on the coach I think the evidence is overwhelming that he is in over his head. I think he was preaching the trust stuff to Wade and Lebron in the fourth quarter trying to keep everyone else involved.

Lebron shot 73% from the field and Wade was right at 60%. Lebron was 11-15 and Wade was 10-18. How can a team with two of the top five scores in the league go 5 plus minutes and not score in the third quarter? How can you have two players of this magnitude only have 2 points in the fourth quarter? If they keep this guy as their coach they will be an early exit in the playoffs unless Wade and James decide to take matter into their own hands. Spolestra is in over his head. This task is too big for him he needs help.

Miami had this game completely under control up by 24 points and they just casually let the Magic back in the game. This was a game that told everyone a lot about this team, the coaching and their chances in the playoffs. I would be shocked if they get out of the second round with spolestra as their coach. The Heat have the talent to win it all but their coaching is terrible. This guy makes Mike Brown look like Phil Jackson.

Cleveland is the Team to Beat and will be crowned 2010 NBA Champions.

I said it in my preseason pick and break down of the NBA season 2009-2010 and I am going to reinterate that point now. Cleveland is the team to beat in the NBA this season. Things are going pretty much just as I wrote then that Cleveland would have some challenges out of the gate but would come around once this team gets use to playing together.

After Cleveland started off with a couple of losses a lot of haters and pundits were asking the question if the Shaq trade was hurting the Cavs. This was about one of the craziest questions I have seen in sports. You can get Shaq on your team in a trade for Ben Wallace and Shasa ? Anyone who asked that question should be banned from commenting on anything related to sports.

Mike Brown is a better coach than most people will give him credit for and this Cleveland team will not start playing their collective best until after the allstar break. They have been playing well of late and have beat some pretty good teams including: Orlando, LA, Miami, Dallas, Portland, Houston, Phoenix, and Atlanta.

Mike Brown is starting to find his rotation and Mo Williams is finding out how to be a consistent 20 point scorer on this team. On the defensive end Cleveland has stepped their defensive game up and the new guys are learning how to play Cleveland team defence.

They are asking Shaq to match up when a team has strong bigs like LA, Orlando and Boston. They only need 10-15 points and 7-10 rebounds a game from Shaq in about 22 minutes of play during the regular season. I expect his minutes to go up to about 27-30 in the playoffs and him a Z seeing some court time together against bigger line ups.

Parker and Moon are defending perimeter players just as they were brought in to do. Parker is shooting the 3 better than anyone in the league and Mo Williams and Gibson are not far behind. The bench is learning how to run offence with Lebron out of the game. This is the only weak spot right now but that has improved over the last 8 games.

I have seen Cleveland and Boston live this year and when the Celtics are on their game their ball movement is impeccable but they are not playing with the same intensity on defence as years past. They still have one of the best points allowed and Cleveland is close behind them.

Where Cleveland takes the rest of the league is their bench and their bench will be even better by playoff time because Leon Powe will be with the team.

Lebron is the X factor and if this team doesn't win it all I would be shocked. He can make up for any holes on this team and there are very few.

Write it down the King will be crowned in June 2010 NBA champion!