Miami Heat have a chip on their shoulder
After losing LeBron James to the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Miami Heat responded by bringing back the rest of their team sans sharp-shooter Ray Allen.
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Many are doubting the Heat this year and Udonis Haslem, who is a Miami native and has spent his entire career with the Heat, says the team now has a chip on their shoulder.
“We’ve got more of a chip on our shoulder,” Haslem said via Alex Kennedy of Basketball Insiders. “We’ve got more of a chip on our shoulder than any team in the league, I’ll tell you that… We’ve got a lot of guys here who’ve been doubted.”
Haslem believes the team has the right mentality to succeed this season.
“I think mentally, we have the right approach,” Haslem said. “We’re going to be physical, we’re going to defend and we’re going to work our butts off. The basketball stuff will come, with time together on the floor, practice and time together off the floor building that symbiotic relationship. Those things will come, but mentally we’re approaching everything the right way.”
The Heat are going to need Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to look more like the players they were a few years ago than they have lately if the Heat want to make a serious run in the Eastern Conference.
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