It was a beauty. After a slow start and complaints about defense and motivation, the Heat went ahead and blew through the regular season, doing things like winning 27 GAMES IN A ROW and kill Jason Terry. Lebron James had his most efficient and best year yet (yes, this a thing that is possible), and Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh also had one of their own most efficient years. Yay efficiency!
All in all this team transformed into a new beast, and a freaking-beautiful 66-16 record is what came from it. Coach Erik Spoelstra continued to tweak and morph the offense into a well-oiled, unstoppable scoring machine, and when the team cared enough to give two piles of rhinoceros dung to playing defense, they showed that they were one of the best in the league at that too.
The additions of Ray "Jesus Shuttlesworth" Allen (who gave us this) and Chris "Birdman" Anderson (who gave us this) proved to put the offense over the top, and going into the playoffs it's going to be hard to find any team, from the East or West, who can stop the defending champs, obviously better than last season. Usually you shouldn't put too much stock into a regular season, but when a team just completely and utterly vaporizes everybody in its path for 82 games, it's kinda hard not to put crazy huge expectations on it come playoff time. And honestly, there's no reason to believe that the Heat won't achieve the same success it did last season, and without the whole Pacers fiasco and a need for a Lebron Game Six, also known The Greatest Playoff Game Played By Anyone In, Like, Ever.
So even with the 2013 playoffs upon us and a Game 1 Sunday against the hapless Milwaukee Bucks (who have that crazy guy named Brandon Jennings and that Monta Ellis guy that says he's as good as Dwyane Wade), it's hard not to miss this spectacular season already. The Lebron murder of poor Jason Terry (that prick), Ray Allen's 4-point play winner against Denver, the win streak, the destruction of OKC at Christmas, the Cleveland comeback, Lelbron, #Horsetronaut. Night in and night out the Miami Heat gave us a show, and there was hardly ever a dull moment. Hell, even the last two weeks, where no one good ever played because of Coach Spo's "maintenance programs", was fun, if not only because watching your bottom 10 players beating full NBA teams is kinda fun. Oh yeah, and Norris Cole almost had a triple double.
So Heat Nation, rise up and get ready for what could be a real "Fo-fo-fo." Even if it's not, it's still gonna be fun.
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