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Instead of waiting for alonzo sign Cris Webber. tsk tsk.

if the heat can get okafor without jeprodizing thier ability to resign wade when he becomes a free agent they should do it.

Good call on Okafor Rusty

or I think the heat could be really successful at least during the regular season with that small frontcourt lineup of Haslem, Marion, and Beasley. Then with wade in the backcourt with a quick player like chalmers?

they dont need marion or ricky davis, they need to pick up anything to put in at the 5 that can atleast play D and some boards. cmon blount? and wasnt alonzo's injury career ending last year? now hes going to be coming back to play as the only decent center on that team? okayyyyy. i love zoe but they need another big body.

Come on Mourning, hang it up...

Horrible idea guys.............if I were you, I'd attempt to trade Udonis Haslem, Stephane Lasme, Marcus Banks, and Joel Anthony to Charlotte for Raymond Felton and Nazr Mohammed. Sign and trade Dorrell Wright to Indiana for Shawne Williams.

C - Nazr Mohammed, Mark Blount
PF - Michael Beasley, James Jones
SF - Shawn Marion, Shawne Williams
SG - Dwayne Wade, Daequan Cook
PG - Raymond Felton, Mario Chalmers

It will be tough to get a center. Okafor is the only one out there. They should have gone for Camby to make up the inside presence. The Heat were good during their championship because they had 2 big bodies that defended the paint. Shaq and Alonzo were the perfect combo, starting and backup.

At least those guys are good rebounders so they shouldn't get killed on the boards. Worst case scenario is the bigger 4's and 5's getting easy shots over Haslem and Beasley but they'll just have to deal with that.

Well, there aren't that many dominant centers in the East, so they may be able to get away with it for a while, until they sign a big man during the season.
However, a lot of the risk simply depends on Beasley's attitude. As jayrpanlilio mentioned in the first post, if Beasley reacts as Webber did, when asked to fill in at center for a year, then it could end up disastrous. Hopefully, Beasley can follow the example of Amare Stoudemire and Tim Duncan - natural power forwards who have filled in at center when needed.
- JL

haslem and blount will play inside ...beasley doesnt have the muscle or tall enough to play center

Charles Barkley was closer to 6-4 1/2 and he could play inside..........Just an example, not saying Beastley is Chuck

lol good luck with Alonzo Mourning and Mark Blount. Marion will be sick of this crap soon.

If you don't have atleast one legit center for the full length of the season, you'r not going to win. Period!

Miami Heats 2010-2011 starting lineup:

PG- Chalmers
SG-Wade
SF- Beasley
PF- Bosh
C- Okafor

Still Earl Barron should be resigned isnt he 7 ft & he has improved.
The only way my Heat should sign & trade Dorell Wright is if we keep Ricky Davis , lets not 4get every time we trade a up & coming talent 2 another team they blossom.
Examples: Carron Butler, Rasual Butler & of course Kapono should have never even been thinking of toronto if Riley had just offered him more money.

Alonzo is a great player, but he's aging.

Barron is a good player, he and quinn should get more minutes...

Mark Blunt OMG he sucks **** dude can't hold on the the ball to save his life... and can't post up or anything... what a waste of salary cap space... TRADE MARK BLUNT !!!

Blount can post up.
Have you seen him play? He can post up, rebound, block, and shoot the three.

He's an ok player, but the reason the heat are hesitant about him is because he's a softy...