Wade down, Heat out?

So turns out the injury to Wade is serious and well, the Heat aren't going anywhere up in the standings soon. Shaq, who has played much better recently, simply cannot put a team on his back and Wade is one of those special players its hard to pickup the slack for--now, there are options besides surgery, but at most he will return with about ten games left in the season. While the Eastern Conference may be weak, and I use the term cautiously as I explained in a previous blog post, it doesn't mean that teams like the Knicks, Nets, Atlanta and especially Charlotte aren't smelling blood. Any of those teams--and especially the Knicks and Charlotte--will do everything they can to make it into the post season.

All you sports investors, just be careful. This doesn't mean that the Heat are pushovers. They lost to Dallas, understandably, but then came back to beat Cleveland and had the lead against the Knicks before losing it in the fourth quarter tonight. I advise a wait-and-see attitude, see how they do in the next few games before you start laying heavy action on or against them. The next two games (at Washington, home VS Detroit) will do a lot to show what this team is made of, because like the Cavaliers have shown with Lebron, one man does not make a team.

But in the Heat's case, one man is the engine that drives the rest forward and now that engine is down; sad to say, the backup Diesel may just be too old...