Onto the second round we go in the Eastern Conference. Will things get better? With Miami, Philadelphia, Boston and Indiana left, this looks like a warm up lap for the Heat before they step into the glaring spotlight of the Finals once more.
The first round has been disappointing and felt even bleak at times — which might make sense given we started off the whole thing by losing the reigning MVP in the first game of the first weekend.
The volume and pace at which games were being played in the regular season may have hidden this very fact: that there is a clear separation between the top and bottom teir of teams in these playoffs. In other words: business as usual for the NBA, more top heavy than insert your favorite porn star.
The way the second round is set up in the East doesn’t promise much better, which made me consider an alternate view.
Imagine a world where Lebron, Wade and Bosh were still running their own team, and leading them respectively into the second round in a wide open East against the aging core in Boston. Does that not seem so much more interesting than what we have presently?
All the talk about inequality and the elimination of fair competition brought on by The Decision is completely reflected in the second round, as if whatever reasons we have for despising this group are totally warranted.
I think I’ve personally moved past the stage of despising LeBron at this point, more I’ve recalibrated those negative feelings into better context. It was never a personal matter, but more about how he collapsed a perfectly structured narrative with the Cavs: hometown hero rescues a franchise and city from years of failure.
He took his career in a direction that wasn’t befitting of what his talent was suppose to conquer. To get back the respect and adulation he once garnered, he needs to find that storyline in Miami somehow.
And that’s what makes this current set-up frustrating — there doesn’t seem like a particular team in the Conference that can make the Heat earn their stripes and prove their worth.
It’s not enough to make the Finals again for the Heat, it has to happen a particular way. It’s not about getting there, but getting there the right way.
Most of the time, deserve’s got nothing to do with it.
But in the case of Lebron: that’s the only thing that matters to us.
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