Too much talent taken to South Beach?

    

Well, first of all my name's Jack, and i love everything about basketball. I'm 13 from Ireland and play local basketball with Fr Mathews. Been following the NBA for the past few years and I've seen some great players and some great situations.

     So this first post will be about a topic everyone is very familiar with at this stage, and that's the great trio been formed in South Beach. I honestly did not see this coming. I mean when I heard Chris Bosh had packed up for Miami, I was kind of disappointed, mostly for the fact that he left Toronto stranded with possibly one of the worst rosters in the League, but also because I'm not sure he'll be able to play on a team where he's not always the go-to guy on offense. However, I feel he had to make the move, as the Raptors didn't even seem a bit keen on picking up some free agents, and Bosh would have wasted his prime in Canada.

     So we had Bosh and Wade on the same team. Good combo, a team definetly able to get somewhere in the League. Then came The Decision. When Lebron announced we would be taking an hour from ESPN just to announce he was "taking his talents to South Beach", I lost a lot of respect for that man. Some would argue that he did what he had to do to seize his best possible chance of winning a championship. This situaton in Miami clearly gives the King does give him a great opportuniy, but nothing is guaraunteed. In my view, he would have been better off moving to the Chi to play alongside Derrick Rose. Or maybe even staying in Ohio with the Cavs. But choosing to move to the Heat basically messes up the League altogether. Many say he took the easy way out, in that he doesn't have to carry a team all on his own, he has help from a 5 time All Star and former NBA Finals MVP. It just isn't fair is it?

     This isn't the first time someone has deserted their loving team in a desperate bid for a ring. Karl Malone left his beloved Utah Jazz to join Kobe and Shaq in Los Angeles in the 2003-04 season. The Mailman couldn't deliver in his last season due to injury, and he says that injury could be a problem for the new look Heat. After all, besdies Bosh, Wade and Lebron, who is the Heat's best player? Mike Miller? Eddie House? I mean, their good, but if one of the big 3 falls, I don't think Miami have anyone to step in to the starting line-up.

     Fatigue could also be a problem for the the Florida-based team. With the starting 5 (House/Chalmers, Wade, Lebron, Bosh, Big Z) seeing a lot of minutes due to, shall we say, lack of talent on the bench, this will definelty leave them tired by the time Christmas comes around, never mind the post-season.

Let's just hope they can fulfil their expectations, otherwise there will be some angry subjects in Lebron's new kingdom.