We see the numbers in front of us.
One-for-16 on shots to close out games.
Terrible against the top six teams in the league.
Only five wins in close games.
I'm not going to refute these stats. You can't. They're facts, and there's no way you can refute facts unless you're talking politics and the stats don't match up to your political world view. (Or you're Adrian Wojnarowski and you still say that Derrick Rose didn't want LeBron as a teammate despite Rose coming out and refuting that during an interview shown during the game on Sunday, all because it would spoil the narrative of your latest anti-LeBron piece.)
I'm not going to say they have a shot to win it all either. I covered this last week and said that they didn't. I'm a non-bandwagon Heat fan but I'm also realistic based off of the evidence that's in front of me.
But that doesn't stop the hate that has been directed towards me.
Over the summer my inbox and formspring account was flooded with readers who wished all sorts of misery on me for defending LeBron James. Then when I tried to explain that the hatred was unwarranted and that the so-called "ES ...
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