Gregg Popovich hints Miami Heat were overconfident

All LeBron James and the Miami Heat needed to do was defeat the aging San Antonio Spurs during the 2013-14 NBA Finals and they’d live in basketball infamy.

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A series win would have completed the rare three-peat and would have etched the Miami Heat into basketball history. But of course, that’s not how things went down as the San Antonio Spurs stepped on the throat of the Miami Heat, crushing their chance to be mentioned in the same breath as the early-2000 Los Angeles Lakers or mid-1990’s Bulls.

So why did the Miami Heat struggle? Well, the San Antonio Spurs play certainly had something to do with it but Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich hinted the Miami Heat may have been a little too big for their own britches.

“When they won Game 2,” he said, “they probably didn’t handle that win real well. They were probably thinking that we got lucky in Game 1, with the air conditioning issue, and they thought they were just going to do it again. As two-time defending champs, it was natural. This had become their place in the world.”

Many felt the San Antonio Spurs were likely just happy to be in the NBA Finals and their window was likely to close after the season. That wasn’t the case though as it appears the Spurs’ window remains wide open while the Miami Heat, who are now without LeBron James, are doing everything they can to keep their window from shutting.

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Gregg Popovich hints Miami Heat were overconfident in NBA Finals

By Bryan Rose | Sep 18, 2014

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