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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
Let's not act as if LeBron walked into a losing situation. The Heat were a playoff team in 2009, and then added him and Bosh. While it sucks that his talents dropped off, hey, that's what you get for trying to orchestrate your own super team. The team LeBron started out with was plenty deep.
And let's not overstate how good Jordan's supporting cast was. They were excellent, but hardly your traditional "Big 3." Let's not forget that a big chunk of their team makeup was around solid but unspectacular players like Paxson, Cartwright, Kerr, Wennington, and Longley.
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Agreed. This is what I am trying to say. Those MJ teams were deep. There weren't a lot of true superstars, but they had a lot of solid players. Much like SA this year except those Bulls had the best player on the planet at the time.
The team LeBron inherited was deep and good, the problem was Riley leaned too heavily on the Big 3 and made little effort to improve an aging roster. It caught up with them this series. Wade and Bosh and Allen were all garbage throughout the series and the Heat had no one to step up outside of LBJ.