Lot of people said The Heat will walk to the finals. I always disagreed and thought it would take at least 6 games, so no piece of cake.
Pacers are a solid team, full of good but not superstar players and are a close consistent bunch. Very under-rated. Larry Bird, Frank Vogel and others have done a splendid job.
Nonetheless, I did think Miami would get through and they still can of course but I think not having Bosh has truly proven to all those that doubted him, that it really is the BIG 3 rather than the Big 2! Chris has been severely missed!
In any case, here's a little interesting stat for you.
In the play offs, when the first 2 games have been split, the team that has won the all important Game 3 has gone on to win the series something like 75% of the time (I don't recall the exact percentage, might be 72% or 77% but it's around 3/4th! So teams and players psychologically know about this of course and know that a failured in game 3 is usually fatal and that historically makes their chances 1/4. Are Heat capable of turning this around? Yes. Are they in real trouble of being eliminated? certainly!
I still wish we could've had Spurs vs. OKC in final. Those 2 are truly the best!