5/22/11: Chris Bosh Drops 34 As Miami Beats Chicago

Carlos Boozer: “The Miami Heat have two great players.”

Chris Bosh: “SIGNATURE CHRIS BOSH SCREAM!”

 

You know what they say… actions speak louder than words, and last night, Chris Bosh’s actions indicated that the Miami Heat have three great players.  His 34 points on 13-18 were not only the game high, but the series high, and Carlos Boozer was forced to ADMIT (Skywalker, if you’re reading this, that one is for you!): “I always have respect for [Bosh].”

I’m sorry, but LOL.  Way to flip-flop there, Carlos.  I was going to let you off easy because you also had one of your most productive games of the postseason (26/17 on 8-19), but you’ve made the urge to clown you irresistable…

…so, Booz, I must admit that I actually agree with you: the Miami Heat have two great players… and one who falls just short of such acclaim.  However, two great players is one more than the Chicago Bulls have… and they don’t have any others that I would say border on achieving that level, either.  You’re a step below Chris Bosh, Carlos, and you should praise the basketball gods for Derrick Rose and Taj Gibson, because without their dominance down the stretch in game one, everyone would be talking about how you’ve been owned twice in three games.  Chris Bosh already had a 30-point game in this series, a game in which Carlos Boozer went for what has become his usual 14 points on blah for blah from the field.  No one gave a sh!t because he was yet to do it in a winning effort, but Chris Bosh had already given Boozer and the Bulls the business once, and now he’s averaging 25 PPG for the series (in which his team leads 2-1 with game four at home).  Chicago’s in a bit of trouble here, and Boozer is already on the wrong end of CB’s little coming out party in the “what have you done for me lately?” world of the NBA.  I figure Miami will go on to win this series in six or seven, and if Bosh throws in another good game or two, Carlos is going to be the goat… and I don’t mean Greatest Of All-Time, either.

While clowning on Carlos Boozer has been fun, I do think people are overreacting to this 34-point night.  Is this reeeeally the “game of Bosh’s life?”  I’ll agree that it’s the game of his season, and his best performance in a game of this magnitude, but the game of his life?  Is 30/5 against Carlos Boozer reeeeally better than 39/15 against Dwight Howard’s Magic?  The ’07/08 Craptosaurs did lose that game (and that series), but sh!t, their second best player was arguably TJ Ford; what the f@ck do you expect?  I hate the way things have become as far as how individual performances are ranked–it’s like a dude can’t possibly have had an amazing game unless his team won.  I like this quote from Dwyane Wade: ”A lot of people don’t understand how difficult it’s been to make the adjustment, to play with two other players who dominate the ball so much. Some games he gets it. Some games he doesn’t. So to find a flow, to find a rhythm, sometimes it’s tough. But Chris is a professional. He’s stuck with it and he’s been able to explode and have big games.”

No knee-jerk reaction there.  Bosh is a really good player who had a really good game.  He does that sh!t from time to time.  However, he’s the third-best player on his team, so he doesn’t do it every night.  Pretty simple sh!t that gets blown way out of proportion every time he has a statistically-unusual game, good or bad.

I suppose I don’t really have anything more to say about this game… to be honest, not a single thing jumped out at me during the game that I felt the need to write about.  Even this Chris Bosh stuff didn’t really leave me feeling inspired, but I had to say something, right?  Here’s a link to the box score… I’ll let each reader do their own numbers breakdown. 

Oh, and, uh… this is just funny:

Who do you think looks goofier when they get over-excited, Lebron or Chris Bosh?  I can’t honestly say that either of the two have much celebratory swag.  They should hire Shawn Kemp for lessons; he could probably use the money.

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