XMAS!: Oklahoma City Thunder (21-5) @ Miami HEAT (18-6) - 12/25/12 - 5:30 PM ET - ABC

[SteBO]

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Location: American Airlines Arena
Time: 5:30 PM















Russell Westbrook – Thabo Sefolosha – Kevin Durant – Serge Ibaka – Kendrick Perkins






Mario Chalmers – Dwyane Wade – LeBron James – Udonis Haslem – Chris Bosh







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[justinnum1]

Don't suck

Keep the d going.

[JNoel]

More time for Joel, bring Bosh off the bench if you have to.

[justinnum1]

More time for Joel, bring Bosh off the bench if you have to.

what!?!?!?!?! lol

[JNoel]

what!?!?!?!?! lol

Joel's rebounding and defense is vastly undervalued. Imagine a bench of Bosh, Ray Allen, Cole, and Miller

[SteBO]

Sweet Jesus, why the Bosh hate all of a sudden??!!

[gotoHcarolina52]

Blow these mother****ers out!

[SteBO]

Joel's rebounding and defense is vastly undervalued. Imagine a bench of Bosh, Ray Allen, Cole, and Miller

Our offense would go to **** to start games.....

[Mr. Baller]

More time for Joel, bring Bosh off the bench if you have to.

please stop. I am begging you.

[justinnum1]

Joel's rebounding and defense is vastly undervalued. Imagine a bench of Bosh, Ray Allen, Cole, and Miller

Imagine ibaka not having to worry about guarding anyone.

This cold weather can make everyone a little crazy, but please recognize what bosh does on the court aside from scoring and rebounding. The pressure he puts on opposing centers that have to stay outside the pain to guard him.

We need bosh, even if he suffers week long menstrual cycles.

[JNoel]

Sweet Jesus, why the Bosh hate all of a sudden??!!

It's not necessarily hate, more to better the team. I've been critical of Bosh since we've signed him, who knows what the lineup is capable of.

[Mr. Baller]

It's not necessarily hate, more to better the team. I've been critical of Bosh since we've signed him, who knows what the lineup is capable of.

I will tell you what the Chalmers-Wade-Bron-Haslem-Anthony lineup is capable of... The other team putting 5 guys in the paint and laughing as we take 25 foot jumpers every single possession because we got nobody out there who can hit a shot outside of 10 feet

[SteBO]

We'll need to accept the fact that KD and likely Westbrook will get theirs. The key here is to make sure we minimize the impact Serge Ibaka could have on a game like this one. Bosh is going to need to be on his A-game, because we can't have Ibaka setting up camp fires in the paint. Also, Kevin Martin is one of the best off the ball, whether it be catch and shoot, dribble drive off screens, or off of curls. We need to have a body on him at all times. Also, we can't let Nick Collison outwork us on the offensive glass. We have to rebound. Simple as that.

You'd think Miami would get up for a game like this one but we played uninspired ball the last time we were on national TV against an elite team, so I really don't know what to think about this one. This game won't mean anything major, but I'd like to think both teams will put a little more effort than usual for this one. I guess we'll have to wait and see....

[justinnum1]

wallace

Small sample size. But just this season, Heat 5-5 when LeBron shoots 19+ times. They're 13-1 when he shoots 18 or less.

interesting

[SportsFanatic10]

i think miami will come out and play a good game. they've been playing with more intensity on defense as of late and i think they know the thunder are out for some revenge. hopefully they decide to go out there and send them a message that the champs aren't going away.