Are the Big 3 Really A Big Two Plus Three
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 at 9:05AM Joe Simmons 
Basketball, my third love, is a very complex game. One has to be astute to the nuances that make a player great. In the NBA greatness is measured by a lot of different formulas, one being the NBA championship. If you were to ask me who I thought the best five players in the league were, I am sure you would get a different response than most other people. I am not suggesting that I am right or wrong, its just that everyone has a little bias in their rankings of the top five players in the league.
This brings me to my current dilemma. I have seen enough basketball to recognize greatness. When I watch the NBA several people jump out as good, but not many have the it factor that makes them great. You may ask where is this all going? Well let me tell you. When I watch Chris Bosh play basketball, I don't see what everyone else is proclaiming about him. His game is lazy and unorthodox. He is a big man who would rather play the perimeter than to bang. He is a small guy trapped in a tall guys body.
Everyone proclaimed Bosh as the linchpin to "The Decision." He might have served as a mechanism that made the 3 friends decide to play together but I don't see his greatness. If you were to ask me what power forwards I would rather have than Chris Bosh, I would immediately come up with three to four names.
Can you honestly say with a straight face that Bosh is better than Amare Stoudemire? I mean seriously the only advantage Bosh has over Amare is age. Is Bosh better than Pau Gasol? If you answered yes to either of those, then you have some real bias in your opinion.
I am by no way insinuating that Chris Bosh can't ball. The man has a solid offensive foundation, but as a power forward, he is definitely lacking in the area of banging. I have stood on the outside looking in as I have watched people on twitter and Facebook argue about his ability and most of the legitimacy around both sides of the argument is bias.
I was making the assessment last week about the Miami Heat and their over-hyped team. I do think they are great. But not because of Bosh. But because they have two of the best five players on the planet on their team. The only problem I see is that they are the same two players. They both like the ball and they both like to dominate when on the floor. I predict you will see more from them as the season goes on because they will probably both rarely be on the floor at the same time.
I made the comparison of this team to the team the Knicks put on the floor when they had Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Charles Oakley, Allen Houston, and Greg Anthony. Everyone kept saying they had the best team in the league. I had to remind everyone that may be the case on paper, but you still have to play the games and at the time there was an assassin still in Chicago with a pair of snipers and a wingman that would stand in their way.
You can argue that the same is true for the Heat. There are a couple of assassins out there with just enough fire power to make things and life difficult if they don't get more production out of the third leg of the equation. The third leg can't let guys like Paul Millsap (who played out of his mind last night) go for 46 points against you and you are supposed to be an elite big man. I know Millsap will probably never shoot like that again but I can't recall that ever happening to Rodman, James Worthy, or Horace Grant.
In my estimation the third leg of the equation needed to be a point guard. Then the matrix would be complete. Similar to that in Boston. Rondo has made life easy for that threesome and chances are it will be that threesome that will send the Big Two Plus Three packing.
Stay Breezy ~ Im out.
Reader Comments (8)
Man I am going to have to disagree. Bosh is a baller. It's up to the coach to figure out how to get them all on the same page. It's going to be tough though.
I agree with you. You can't let Milsap score 46 on you.
Well the fact that their losses have come against teams with top 5 point guards says a lot. Paul, Williams, and Rondo have all exposed them. Even though Williams fouled out, he was making life hard for the Heat.
Bosh is a bum. Period... The NBA is passing out max contracts to anyone these days. Price of tickets going up and production going down.
fans have to be mad in the migrane atom of the dot stuck in the corner of dat mind if they think T.O. is a great player......that player next to his lil pal robin ( chad im so full of my ocho blow cho), is the biggest brats on the planet..........thoze 2 wouldnt be satisfied if both of them got married to each other and went to silver dollar city and necked...............WC...............as for u HEAT fans u should go ahead and get used to the fact that your bench will get u eliminated in the semis..........boston vs orlando..............LA lakers vs thunder..............but give thoze three credit, they got heart and wanted to do this since they were rookies at the draft....and i dont care what fans say about james, at least he tried his best when he was in cleveland...............hey joe how bout that espn MARCUS DUPREE 30 for 30....i know you like McClendon in high school but marcus was something else....i was in tears myself at the end when he was thinking of reggie and his mom...just all kinds of bull@#$% and pressure and the media over doing some of that barry vs marcus show they had............WC........until i see someone better, marcus dupree is the best RB ever...........miami heat nba fans in florida forget my last comment cause you are haters anyway so this iz dedicated for u HEAT fans.....................
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ring ring ring
watch dat belly sing
u HEAT fans
aint gettn no ring
your team of three
only will it be
watchn the finals
on their big T V
boston LA
magic and thunder
whatever it may be
miami gonna plunder
dirty little devils
is what the heat are
u mine as well eat
a nasty candy bar
It's still early. With that said, I'll hold out on dissecting their situation too much, Crazy Joe. I definitely don't like what I'm seeing right now, but I'll give it more time.
i tell u what u shouldnt see KENNY, thats that day or night of the date thats coming soon......full transfer complete..........signal back" hey dang kenny my mind got juggled...yo joe.. joe my man the man of joe im back in this area now..........dang i was talking bout that time.......hey joe what do u think about the 2012 summer olympics coming up ? ....did anyone know that in the summer of 2012 in our nation we will get hit with the biggest solar storm since the late 1800s ?.dang that magnetic field shifting like magic..........power will be out.............riots............religious wars...........13th zodiac ariving.......the beast from the sea............200 million from the east..............many warriors from the kingdom of the north...............darn what me talking bout ?....................WC......................oh the magnetic field........when the documentary of the bible code came out in 2003 it predicted some things that have happened............but the one im waiting on is the one it predicted in 2010.......a major earthquake in california............los angeles was said to be gone..........well here it iz.... nov of 2010........stay tuned................MAGNETIC FIELD IZ SHIFTING.......THE PLANETS WILL LINE UP............A BLACKHOLE IS INVOLVED............CRAZY SH!T ON EARTH CRAZY SH!T IN SPACE......FOLKS THINK ABOUT THIS...........HOW IN THE MIND FU&% DID THE MYANS PREDICT THE PLANETS TO LINE UP ? THEY SAID THEY STUDDIED FOR GENERATIONS..........OK MAYBE I COULD BY THAT BUT HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT A BLACKHOLE WOULD BE LINED UP WITH THE PLANETS ?.....THAT BLACK HOLE WASNT DISCOVERED UNTIL JUST A FEW YEARS AGO BY ASTRONOMERS......THOSE PEOPLE DIDNT HAVE NO DAM TELESCOPE OR SUPER COMPUTER BULL$%#& IF U THINK THEY DID..........BUT LETS SEE WHAT HAPPENS................HEY I PREDICT WHATZ GONNA HAPPEN ITS GOING TO BE--
@wildcard you are too much.. I see your prediction. I don't believe its going to happen. But if you can predict the future, lottery numbers would be appreciated.