Chris Bosh is many things, but a go to guy is not one of them. Sure he’ll lead your team to the playoffs in a pretty bad Eastern Conference outside of the top four teams. He’s the type of player that on a somewhat good team, he could be your second option, unless he’s a third wheel like he is on the Miami Heat.
Since the start of the season, I’ve picked on Chris Bosh. He’s just that awkward kid that you see at school that no one really cares for, and when he does get involved people love him for the day then again, forget about him. Don’t forget the spiraling gay rumors about him either, those have been flying around a lot lately. The one thing you can point out about Bosh though is that he cares about the game, maybe a little too much, but you won’t see him denying that it “wasn’t his time”, instead Bosh was telling the media after Game 6 of the Finals that he and his team “didn’t work hard enough”. He admitted that there was more that they could have done to play better, and didn’t just say that they lost the game. That takes guts, which quite frankly I didn’t think Chris Bosh had any.
You see his two teammates, the best of friends, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, were talking about how it just wasn’t “their time” to win a championship and that the big man upstairs had other plans for these finals. You’re kidding me, right? These two egomaniacs could clearly not admit that they messed up, that their minds were clearly not in it, or that Dallas had out worked them or out played them, no, this is what God wanted for them. I have never seen such a gutless way to say a team lost than with what those two had to say, especially when James could hardly score any points in the fourth quarter.
That’s not the point here, the point is that Chris Bosh showed that although he will never probably be the best player on that Miami team, that he has the right mentality about playing the game. Don’t get me wrong, I still think Bosh is just a third wheel, and I don’t like his persona one bit, especially with all the crying, but he proved that he could be respected somewhere down the road at least. One thing Chris Bosh does have to take into consideration now is his own words and work this summer. He can’t continue to be a shooter, no, the Heat are at their best when Bosh is down in the low post. Maybe he’ll be a different player for Miami next year, because just to be another shooter on this team is pointless.
The Heat still have tons of aspirations for a title, clearly they have a winning core, now they just need to surround it with a better all around team than three point shooters, and old post players. Maybe next year you could actually see the Heat raising a banner, or collapsing once again, it’s all about their mentality. Chris Bosh has the right mindset though, I’ll give him that.