Bench Presses: Where A Big 3 Does Not Make A Team

The Miami Heat stacked up in the offseason adding two of the best players in the NBA and Chris Bosh. But with all that money spent, they had to make a bench out of multitudes of oft-injured players and really old veterans (like Juwan Howard). The Big Three (LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Bosh) combined averaged 70.9 points, which is absolutely sick. But this shows that the bench really is not providing much of a lift for the team. In fact, one of the biggest flaws with this team is not the chemistry between the Big Three, which they had started after serving on the US team together. It was the bench. There is no true star off the bench, unless you really think that Mike Bibby is that great right now. When James, Wade and/or Bosh is in the game, this team looks amazing. But their bench has some work to do.