charlie42s
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The real reason the Heat lost is Mario Chalmers. He should of just played for SA
The Spurs would not have signed him.
The real reason the Heat lost is Mario Chalmers. He should of just played for SA
Lebron got cramps and had to be carried out like he was in the jungles of Da Nang.
Magic played a whole series with a torn hamstring.
"Lebron is really tough, you just don't realize it. And he's better than MJ ever was cause he weighs [B[35[/B] lbs more."
Tempting karma like that is bad idea.
Im with ya Gordon, the Heat dont lose back to back. They play best after a loss. Miami wins Game 2 and wins in 6
Game 4 of the 1997 NBA Finals.
It would later be learned that a Bulls team assistant had mistakenly replaced the players’ Gatorade with GatorLode, a heavy drink used for building carbs. “It was like eating baked potatoes,” explained trainer Chip Schaeffer. Down the stretch, Chicago’s players complained of stomach cramps and Jordan even asked to sit for a time, something he never did at a key moment.
Circumstances out of the players’ control? Check.
Cramping? Check.
Asking out of an NBA Finals game? Check.
Just as LeBron couldn’t do anything about the lack of air conditioning in San Antonio, Jordan couldn’t control for the team assistant. The results and effect were the same.
Michael Jordan left an NBA Finals game due to cramps, too | ProBasketballTalk
Typically the SPURS tend to coast and sleepwalk in game 2s.
I don't think that will happen now thanks to this storyline.
This has to be pissing San Antonio off like nothing else.
It is one of the greatest locker room bulletin board material for them in ages.
If anything can fire up the usually robotic Spurs, this storyline will do it.
It is a complete and utter lack of respect for the Spurs.
The media is essentially telling a 62-20 team they couldn't win on their own merits..
Miami is doing themselves a dis-service by allowing this to simmer.
They would be better off changing the chatter....and hoping to catch SA napping in game 2.
Yep, Sportsman. The electrolytes are so named because most of them operate in the biochemical milieu of the body as charged ions. Calcium is directly involved in muscle contraction/relaxation and potassium is involved in cellular homeostasis with the Sodium/Potassium transport pump. Magnesium is used in many enzymatic pathways as cofactors. All of the elcetrolytes create osmotic presure that holds or eliminates water when it becomes to low or in excess.
The tripping point for extreme cramps is deficiencies in electrolyte balance in conjuction with low water AND exterior heat. Guys with more muscle mass generate higher internal muscular temps. LBJ is a highly muscular guy. So he will be more susceptible to heat-induced cramps. When he seized up, there was no way he could continue. The mortis quality of his muscles would create great pain and near paralysis in his skeletal muscles which are structurally different than cardiac and smooth muscle. He would not be able to walk and running would be impossible
So the treatment and thus the prevention is fluids and electrolytes, stretching, and ice especially when an unplanned situation that occurred last night happens. I have worked with athletes here in Phoenix who routinely play in the heat and that is the regiment we used constantly. It works in nearly every case.
As I stated earlier last night, the Miami medical staff dropped the ball on this one both pre-game and during the rising temperatures. They should have had better nutrition as a matter of precaution and team appraoch pre-game (not just because they knew it would get hot which they didn't) and Spoelstra should have been rotating guys quicker and the cold sports drinks and ice should have been copiously flowing the minute it got hot and the word came down the AC was inoperative.