Grading Miami Heats Final 15-Man Roster: After a tumultuous offseason and a handful of interesting preseason battles, the Miami Heat have their final 15. The roster the four-time defending Eastern Conference champions will enter 2014-15 with is set. And while a fifth straight Finals berth is likely out of reach for this group, this is a team with the pedigree and the talent to potentially make some noise in a conference that’s still lagging behind its counterpart to the West. Miami’s mix of young and old, raw and seasoned, is interesting—if incongruous. If everything breaks right, this could be a very good basketball team. It’s not impossible to imagine a 50-win campaign. If Shabazz Napier develops into a sound starter, Dwyane Wade fights off Father Time for another year, Chris Bosh flourishes in his return to an alpha-dog role, Josh McRoberts continues his ascent, Luol Deng bounces back from a down year to All-Star form and Chris Andersen keeps marching on—well, that would be a hard squad to beat. That said, there’s not a sure thing in that bunch, and a sub-40-win season seems as likely as not for an organization that’s accustomed to setting its sights on loftier goals. This is what happens when a team loses LeBron James. Better to have loved and lost—then watched them find new Love—than never to have loved at all. Were going to have those growing pains all year, Wade told the Sun Sentinel’s Ira Winderman. But were going to do it together, and thats the only way were going to be successful. What follows is a position-by-position breakdown of the 2014-15 Heat, with an eye on what each group can do to nudge Miami back in the direction of the league’s elite. Begin Slideshow #NBA #NBASoutheast #MiamiHeat #LuolDeng #fantasybasketball
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:19:36 +0000
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