In 2007, the Heat only got 44 wins and 38 losses, and was swept by the Bulls 4-0 in the first round of the playoffs, which was really unsatisfactory compared with the 2006 season. I think there are several reasons:
1, the satisfaction of winning the championship made the team start to slack off and indulge in the existing honor. Spiritual satisfaction makes the players' sense of urgency and fighting spirit disappear day by day: Heat coach Si Shuai recalled that after defending the title in 2006, most players were out of shape at the beginning of the new season, and the team's attention seemed to be unable to concentrate on the new season immediately, which made the team spend a lot of time adjusting to get on the right track in the new season.
2. Injuries and state decline of core players. The hidden danger of Wade's meniscectomy broke out after the start of the 2007 season. Wade only played 565,438+0 games this season, although he still scored 27+5+7, but the team's chemical reaction was obviously worse than last season due to the continuous absence of games and lack of running-in. After O 'Neill came to Miami, his illness got worse every year. From the average of 23+ 10+2 when he first came to Miami to 17+7+2 in 2007, O 'Neill's state declined again and again. In 2007, he was also troubled by injuries. He only played 40 games and spent half his time recovering from the injury. In addition, O 'Neill's dominance in the inside is getting weaker and weaker, and the decline in performance in 2007 has also become one of the reasons why the team was swept out of the house in the playoffs.
3. Changes in the rotation of the team after winning the championship. When winning the championship in 2006, Wade in the third grade, O 'Neill at the end of the peak, Payton in the glove, Walker and Mourning came together for the same long-cherished wish. Veterans have injected much-needed toughness and experience into the team with their rich experience and tenacious will. Together, they helped Wade ascend the throne of fmvp. However, after winning the championship, the important rotation players of the Heat, Mourning, Peyton and Walker, all chose to retire. Their retired Heat struggled for the next season.
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In 2006, the super-god fever
2006 Heat lineup, starting: Wade, O 'Neill, Haslem, antoine walker and jayson williams. (Substitutes: Mourning, Peyton, Jones, etc. )
The heat in 2005-06 was not so smooth. At the beginning of the season, the team faced various problems internally:
O 'Neill's injury made the Heat lose the strong support inside.
② Because of his age and slow movement, veteran Payton can't limit his opponent well on the defensive end.
Antoine walker also has some weaknesses on the defensive end, like to throw three-pointers at random, and has poor hand feeling.
Due to the above problems, the Heat lost 1 1 in the first two games. When there was a problem, it had to be solved, so the head coach of the team became a minor figure. At that time, the head coach Stan Van Gundy was fired. The Heat invited Pat Riley, the divine operator, to return to the Jianghu and start coaching the Heat in the second half of the season.
Under Riley's adjustment, the Heat is on the right track. After the regular season, he ranked second in the East with a record of 52 wins and 30 losses. In the regular season, O 'Neal averaged 20 points, 9.2 rebounds 1.2 assists, and Wade averaged 27.2 points, 5.7 rebounds and 6.7 assists.
In the playoffs, the Heat continued to rise strongly. First, the Bulls were eliminated 4-2 in the first round, and then the Nets were easily killed at 4: 1 in the Eastern Conference semifinals. So the Heat met Pistons and Five Tigers in the Eastern Conference finals for the second time in a row. This time, the Heat didn't let go, perhaps because they felt the call of the O 'Brien Cup. In the Eastern Conference finals, O 'Neill averaged 2 1.7 points, 10.5 rebounds and 2.3 blocks per game. Even more frightening, in Game 6 in the Eastern Conference, O 'Neal scored 28 points 16 rebounds and 5 blocks, which was a nightmare for the Pistons.
The Heat rushed into the finals for the first time in history, and they joined hands with the Mavericks at that time.
Mavericks played the first two games of the finals with home court advantage, and angry Riley smashed the tactical board. However, this autumn has completely awakened the members of the Heat. O 'Neill guarded the inside, and Wade pulled the team back from the brink of death by breaking, falling, breaking and falling again. The Heat pulled back a game in the third game of the finals.
Then the heat's self-confidence was beaten back, and they blew the horn of counterattack. In the fourth game, Wade made 23 shots and scored 26 points, and O 'Neill 17 points 13 rebounds. The Heat will eventually win another game, rewriting the total score to 2:2, and this time the flustered person becomes the Mavericks. Wade used his will and desire to send the Mavericks back to Dallas with an excellent performance of 35 points per game, and the Heat won the championship!
The sudden drop of heat in 2007
After experiencing the joy and indulgence of winning the championship, the Heat in the new season seems to have lost its firm belief last year, and its performance in the new season is not as good as last year. In the 2006-07 season, the regular season ranked fourth in the East with 44 wins and 38 losses. Although there are infinite possibilities in the playoffs, this time they failed to survive the first round and suffered a 4-0 sweep by the bulls. The main reasons are actually as follows:
① O 'Neill's injury. With the high-intensity confrontation, O 'Neill's body gradually degenerated, coupled with the torture of injuries, O 'Neill only played 40 games this season, so the Heat lacked a strong offensive point and a defensive door inside. O 'Neill, who averaged 20 points per game last season, only got 17.3 points this season. From then on, the ruler of the Big Mac and the basket is gone forever.
② The player's fighting spirit is weakened. It is the first championship in the history of the Heat and the first championship trophy in most players' careers, so the players are silent in joy. After reaching the peak, their fighting spirit of chasing the next peak was weakened. According to the team coach's later memories, after the start of the new season, most players' bodies have been deformed, and they began to fly themselves involuntarily.
3 The lineup is complete. In addition to the excellent performances of O 'Neill and Wade, winning the championship in 2006 is also inseparable from the excellent performances of other role players. They can all perform their duties in the finals. Veterans like Mourning, Peyton and Walker have brought the team playoff experience. However, after winning the championship, these veterans all chose to retire, and they chose to remain anonymous. As a result, in the 2006-07 season, the Heat lost some depth in the lineup.
In fact, throughout the history of NBA, it is very difficult for a team to win the championship in a row. Unless the team leader and team lineup are relatively complete and have very firm beliefs. Otherwise, most teams will begin to indulge in the decline of record the next season after winning the championship.
Although O 'Neill is no longer the giant of three consecutive FMVP after leaving the Lakers, he was still the first center in the league in 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, and both of them were selected as the best team for some time. However, O 'Neill, who was still a player last season, was not selected by the three teams in 2006-07. Even James was selected by the three teams last season, which shows how much O 'Neill has fallen, so the Heat has this.
In 2005-06, O 'Neill averaged 20 points and 9.2 rebounds per game, and in 2006-07, it became 17.3 points and 7.4 rebounds, and it was not just the data decline. In the 2006-07 season, O 'Neill played only 39 games, and the attendance rate was less than half, which was less than last season 19. As the second strongest point of the team, when the attendance rate can only reach half and the level is only an upper-middle center, the decline in performance can be imagined.
The reason why O 'Neill is worse than before is that he was injured in his left knee in June 5438+065438+ 10, which made him absent for more than half a season, which also made the all-powerful shark never return.
However, the Heat finished fourth in the East in the regular season, and actually fifth.
In the first round of the playoffs, they faced the Bulls, the opponents they faced last season. Just last season, O 'Neill and Hussa scored 27 points 16 rebounds and 5 blocks against this opponent. In the new season, they can barely score 18+8, and the offensive pressure is all in Wade's hands. It is no accident that the Heat was eliminated.
Forrest Gump replied.
The first is the retirement of many veterans in the team. At that time, the team building situation of the Heat was very aging. Except for Wade in the third grade and O 'Neill who is still at the peak, almost all the other members are veterans on the verge of retirement, such as "Glove" Payton, "Fat Toutuo" Walker and Mourning. They joined the Heat together for the last chance to win the championship. After winning the championship in 2006, these veterans also realized their long-cherished wish, retired at the end of the season and chose to retire one after another. But it also seriously broke the lineup structure of the Heat. After all, players like Mourning, Peyton and Walker are all important rotation players of the Heat, and their retirement has caused the Heat heavy losses.
As we all know, although the Heat won the championship in 2006, the record of the Heat plummeted in 2007. Why? Buckley recently expressed his opinion on the program. He said, "The players are old!"
Buckley explained that in 2007, most of the Heat players were old, and they had reached the end of their careers, and they all won the championship. The rest of the time they just want to enjoy the happiness brought by basketball, but after 2006, injuries kept tormenting the Heat, and seriously injured O 'Neill suddenly fell down a lot. As a result, Wade was the only remaining strength of the Heat, and Wade was still young at that time. These factors add up to explain why the heat in 2007 dropped so badly.
Personally, the root cause is that O 'Neill's level has dropped too fast. Although O 'Neill is no longer the giant of three consecutive FMVP after leaving the Lakers, he was still the first center in the league in 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons, and both of them were selected as the best team for some time. However, O 'Neill, who was still a player last season, was not selected by the three teams in 2006-07. Even James was selected by the three teams last season, which shows how much O 'Neill has fallen, so the Heat has this.
One more thing, as Buckley said, veterans who go to the Heat all want to hug O 'Neal's thigh at the end of their careers and win a championship. Now that the goal has been achieved, there is naturally no motivation.
Finally Wade got hurt. If Wade is healthy, maybe the above two points will have a stable hardware decoding for the Heat, but Wade's injury in the middle and late season is really a bolt from the blue for the Heat. Wade, as the absolute core of the Heat, the new FMVP was undoubtedly unsolvable. However, in the game against the Rockets in February, Wade was accidentally injured by Battier and his shoulder was hit hard. At that time, Wade had to leave the meeting in a wheelchair. His expression was very painful and he even shed tears. Without the soul of the team, the morale of the Heat was naturally low, and with O 'Neill unable to support it, Miami could not escape the fate of Waterloo.
The main problems are injuries and players' age. O 'Neill retired due to injury in the middle of the season (only played 40 games in the whole season). Even with Wade's support, the team still lingered on the edge of the playoffs and even fell out of the quarter-finals. After the All-Star Game, Wade retired from the fire line because of dislocated shoulder, and it didn't help to be criticized for being senile. O 'Neill, who was no longer dominating the basket in the past, was also ordered to substitute.
1. Injured. In 2007, O 'Neal was injured and Wade was injured (remember the game against the Rockets. When he fell on the fast break layup, his elbow hit Battier's head, and Battier was kicked off and dislocated his shoulder. Later, he made an emergency comeback to prevent being swept by the bulls.
2. aging. In those days, all the people who went to the Heat were old people, Peyton, who was not close to retirement. Especially O 'Neill is one year older.
The desire for the champion has declined. The one above said that the veterans who went to the Heat all wanted to hug O 'Neill's thigh and win a championship at the end of their careers. Now that the goal has been achieved, there is naturally no motivation.
All the above are my personal opinions. Welcome to communicate.
Glad to answer your question! Personally, I think there are several reasons for the sharp drop in the Heat's performance in 2007: