Bosh predicted the team would win. Wade promised a different approach to his game. Spoelstra offered Spoisms about how wonderful it is to test one's character.
“I love being in the trenches with this group when they're in situations like this. You reveal your character,” Spoelstra said. “You reveal what you’re made out of when you're facing adversity.
“Everybody can be in the situation that the Spurs are in right now. It’s much more revealing when you’re in a situation like this. I love being with those guys in these situations.”
James looked around a huddle of those guys just before they took the court and implored them to “follow my lead.”
And then James delivered a stellar first quarter in which he scored 17 points, snatched six rebounds and blocked two shots. But at the end of that quarter James must have felt like John Belushi in “Animal House” after delivering the “Germans bombed Pearl Harbor” speech to his frat brothers.
No one followed.
No one seemed capable.
James finished with 31 points. The rest of the starting lineup had 32 points.
- With Heat exposed by Spurs, it’s time for Riley to rebuild roster, The Miami Herald, June 16, 2017.
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Zhang Xin is Trainer at chinadaily.com.cn. He has been with China Daily since 1988, when he graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University. Write him at: zhangxin@chinadaily.com.cn, or raise a question for potential use in a future column.
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