Miami Heat: Predicting ECF Results, Games Played, And MVP – Kenneth’s Take
The Miami Heat have a super tough task before them. Facing off against a Boston Celtics squad that beat them, 2-1, in the season series, they will renew that rivalry, once again, in these Eastern Conference Finals.
Kenneth’s Take (@K_Said_Que)
Speaking of the season series though, the Miami Heat were able to win the most recent matchup between the two. In a game near the end of the regular season and where things were closer to equal as they had been in any matchup earlier in the year, the Miami Heat proceeded to go into Boston and come away with a tough gritty victory over a surging Boston Celtics squad at the time.
That meant something. There are also several other factors that play into this one.
If you looked at the most key elements of winning in any professional sports playoffs, the Miami Heat have the edge. When it comes to experience, as players and coaches, you have to take the Miami Heat’s pedigree from guys like P.J. Tucker, Kyle Lowry, and Markieff Morris, guys that have all won titles.
Heck, when you look at the deep run the Miami Heat made in the NBA Bubble, culminating in a Conference Finals matchup with these same Celtics, that gives the rest of the guys like Jimmy Butler, Bam Adebayo, Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson, and the rest of the crew a certain level of couth in the situation too.
When it comes to coaching, Erik Spoelstra, no doubt, has the experience factor clinched. Next, who can be the best player on the floor?
While Jayson Tatum is a better offensive talent, Jimmy Butler is the better overall player at the moment and has been throughout these playoffs. Tatum might give you 30, but Jimmy will give you 24 and limit the opposing best player to under 20.
That’s a value in itself. Lastly, the guy that really helped make them into the defense they are, Robert Williams, isn’t nearly 100 percent.
Sitting out quite a few games against Milwaukee, they were able to get it done with Al Horford and Grant Williams. Can they hold up to do that again?
That goes especially against a team that is, as tough or tougher, than they are and one that will constantly attack your cup to bludgeon you to death behind Jimmy Butler? I don’t know about that.
You can call it the homer pick or you can just take what has been said into full account.
Prediction: Miami wins 4-2. Jimmy Butler wins Conference Finals MVP.
The Miami Heat have a tough task before them, but they can get it done. They are built for this.
This is what the Miami Heat Culture is all about. When the chips are all pushed in, are you willing to be more gritty, harder working, and tougher than your opponents for the entirety of a game, sequence, or series?
That’s what the Culture is. The Miami Heat know that and should be down for it all.
Let’s get it going already!