MIAMI -- The San Antonio Spurs left Miami last June looking so human, Tim Duncan nearly in tears talking about how close they were to another championship.
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dont look human now. They look like a machine. Up 3-1 and shooting the ball at a
level never seen in the NBA Finals, the Spurs headed home with a chance to wrap
things up on Sunday night in Game 5. The Miami Heat, who were able to deny the
Spurs last year, have two days to figure out what can possibly be done to do it
again. "Theyre a high-oil machine and they move the ball extremely well,"
LeBron James said. "They put you in so many difficult positions. If youre not
right on time, right on target, theyre going to make you pay for it." The Spurs
won by 19 and 21 in the two games in Miami and are shooting 54.2 per cent in the
series. The NBA Finals record for a series of any length is 52.7 per cent. No
team has overcome a 3-1 deficit in the finals, and the Heat were so thoroughly
manhandled in Miami that the only reason to think they could be the first is
what they did in the past. Duncan said the memory of last seasons loss -- the
pain thats driven the Spurs through this entire season -- would "definitely come
up" before Sunday. "As I said, we know the calibre team they are, and we have a
lot of respect for what theyre able to do," Duncan said. "Theyre able to throw
it another gear and theyre going to do just that. They dont want this to be
done." Duncan probably meant "done" as in the series. Of course, it could also
mean the era. Two off days were sure to be filled by talk of the Heats uncertain
future, with James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh all eligible for free agency.
Might such a one-sided beating convince James he had to leave to find a better
roster elsewhere? Make him more resolute in his desire to stay and get the Heat
back on top? The two-time champions have more urgent concerns now. "Did we
expect to come here and lose two the way we did at home? No way," Wade said.
"But we also expect to go to San Antonio and put up a better effort and try to
come out with another win. So well get away from it (Friday), but well still
think about what we need to do to try to get another win to keep the series
alive." James simply acknowledged the obvious, that the Spurs were the better
team, when they swept his Cleveland Cavaliers in 2007 for the last of their four
NBA championships. But he wasnt supposed to be on the wrong side of the talent
differential once he bolted for Miami, where the Heat would build a Big Three
for this decade that would rival what San Antonios did last decade. But the
Spurs go so far beyond Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili now. Theres
Kawhi Leonard, who followed his career-high, 29-point night in Game 3 with 20
points and 14 rebounds Thursday and has done no worse than battled James to a
draw over the last two games. Or Boris Diaw, who wasnt even in the starting
lineup until Game 3 and had eight points, nine rebounds and nine assists in Game
4, serving as one of the catalysts for the Spurs mesmerizing ball movement.
Individual players get hot all the time. The Spurs are on a team-wide hot
streak. "I just think were playing Spurs basketball," Parker said. "Were just
moving the ball and were just playing the way weve been playing all season. Wed
like to do a good to great, the extra pass, and we preach that, and right now
were clicking." It gets a little harder to keep that going when trying for that
fourth win, the one the Spurs couldnt quite get last year, when even the real
freewheeling teams tend to tighten up a bit. "I mean, every closeout game is
very difficult, for all the obvious reasons," Spurs coach Gregg Popovich said.
Especially if James delivers as so often when the Heat faced elimination, from
his 45-point game in Boston in the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, to a
triple-double against the Spurs in Game 6 last year, followed by 37 points in
Game 7. He may need to deliver something similar, or a championship reign could
be over sooner than expected.
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