by David Zizmor

Miami (1) vs. San Antonio (3): These past two games (games three and four) both played and lost by host the Miami Heat was a surprise. It was assumed that the Heat was going to come out swinging and sure enough it was the complete opposite as the Heat were blitzed by the San Antonio Spurs 107-86 on Thursday night.

The Heat just stunk it up in game three and in game four it wasn’t even close and LeBron James (28 points) did everything in his power to keep Miami in this game but it wasn’t enough and the supporting cast didn’t come through as Chris Bosh looked terrible 12 points, Dwayne Wade did nothing ten points on three rebounds and 3-13 shooting.

There was no help for LeBron and that’s ultimately the story here, nobody from Miami showed up on their own home floor. LeBron is a great player there is no doubt about it that he’s been the best player in the last five to ten years but you cannot win an NBA Championship all on your own.

When former Bulls player Michael Jordan won those titles yeah he was the biggest part of the puzzle but keep in mind he had a cast around him, he had Horace Grant, Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman and head coach Phil Jackson. There were so many different players who contributed to those winning Bulls teams.

Were not seeing that all with this year’s Heat club in this championship, last year’s Miami team had contributions all over the place and on the other side of the ball you have to give praise to San Antonio and they have been playing fantastic basketball. Everybody kind of assumes that the Spurs Tim Duncan who is approaching 40 years old is going to get tired and because a Tony Parker and a Manu Ginobili have been around forever these guys are just going to be slowing down.

It’s true their not as fast as they used to be and they might have lost a step but these guys are fantastic. The Spurs have the best coach in the NBA with Greg Popovich who can be one of the best of all time. He’s selected the right players to play in the right amount of minutes and kept them in the game and his X’s and O’s paid off in this series.

The Spurs succeed when their out on the floor and their smart what they got from a lack of a step from their ages, their still incredibly effective. You look at Duncan he didn’t have to do too much he had only ten points, 11 boards, Parker had 19 points, Kawhi Leonard was the top scorer with 20 points.

David Zizmor is covering the NBA Championship Finals for http://www.sportsradioservice.com