Hitman, the Heat might have had different decisions that they took after what happened the first season, it does not mean they lacked chemistry at all, this sort of shit gets exaggerated because of winning or losing just a few games. "Getting through on talent" is its own chemistry. They started 9-8, THAT was chemistry/coaching problems. Running to a finals afterward is not some lark, if they did not have chemistry then arguing that chemistry matters at all is ridiculous - not like the Mavericks won because of chemistry or guts after all. Their defense throttled Lebron for half a series and it was really all it took (Spurs almost did the exact same - all they really did was throttle Lebron for half a series, and then later they were 20 seconds from winning it all). Dirk was bad, Barea was bad, Terry and Marion were off and on, Kidd was a corpse except on D, and Stevenson did not have an offensive game. In this series Parker was getting throttled himself most of the time, Manu was a corpse a lot of the time, and Duncan was great because he is a much better player than Dirk or Lebron.
People cannot have it both ways, chemistry either is or is not important or existent for the same reasons all the time. The Heat had "good chemistry" the first season and writing it any other way is nonsense. They bad lucked into 33 year old Dirk, good lucked into 36 year old KG, and good lucked into 37 year old Duncan and those were the biggest differences in those series - 33 year old Duncan closes the fucking hell out of that game 6 and wins the game on his own, just pretty much open and shut. At 37 he almost did it (first 30 minutes were legendary), but died so badly they felt they could not even keep him on the floor to close the game out with it mostly in hand! All of that is way more important than "chemistry", so is getting to add a free Battier and Birdman and not rely on Joel Anthony and Juwan Howard (Allen had that big shot, but he was actually hit and miss the whole series I felt). The Heat have had the same chemistry every year, people just retroactively reinvent winning to mean more than it does in a lot of ways.
Rockets may or may not do anything. Harden creates his own shot and if Dwight is back to old Dwight form, that offense could be unstoppable. Dwight could also be in even worse form than last year, chemistry is almost certainly not going to decide anything about the team no matter what the hell people think about Dwight's attitude and lack of passion.
Afrobull, I am not going to respond to you in general because you are ridiculously uninformed, and ridiculously bad at reading & speaking. Only the Cavaliers challenged the Celtics that year. They beat the Hawks by 23, 19, 25, and 34. You are uninformed, stop ranting about what you do not remember (and probably did not watch). Well actually I will say a little more to continue beating down the door of how uninformed you are. You say the Mavericks spent years building blah blah, uh yo they lost Caron Butler who was about to turn like 1 year old with the Mavericks, they were on year 1.25/1.25 of Stevenson, they were on year 1/1 of Chandler, and they were on year .25/.25 of Peja who turned into a corpse sometime around the start of round 3. Inventing chemistry for a team that was thrown together at random and made a finals run, nice. They made a finals run fueled on threes, Dirk, and defense, and those sexy sexy Chandler+Dirk screens.
