he said<\/a> of the first time the Big 3 Heat practiced together.<\/p>\n\u201cThat was on the military base. It\u2019s the best training camp I\u2019ve ever been a part of. Udonis [Haslem] and Chris Bosh tried to kill each other. Dwyane and LeBron tried to kill each other. And it was unbelievable. We never put them all on the same team. We never put a starting lineup together. Juwan Howard was on that team so he was trying to kill people,\u201d\u00a0Fizdale confirmed what many had sort of known for years.<\/p>\n
That group was known for their individual talent, and so Fizdale said that they weren\u2019t worried about being able to put the ball in the hoop.\u00a0\u201cEvery day was a war,\u201d\u00a0he said,\u00a0\u201cand all we worked on was our defense. That\u2019s it. Just constantly defensive drills, so our offense was so far behind the rest of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead of staying in a hotel, Fizdale said that everyone roomed in\u00a0\u201cArmy housing,\u201d\u00a0which only added to the competitive spirit. The toughness that bred, according to him, had a lot to do with that group Heat winning two rings in four years together.\u00a0\u201cI still say it was a big part of us winning titles later, was because we had that camp,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
When we think of the great teams in NBA history, we often just think about the stars that carried them to victory. Stories like Fizdale\u2019s show that there\u2019s a lot more to becoming a champion than just having the best players. Fans of other teams are tired of hearing about \u201cHeat Culture,\u201d but this is its proof of concept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are few teams in modern times as memorable as the \u201cBig 3\u201d Miami Heat. Everything surrounding that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,11781,572,144,185,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-611871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-david-fizdale","10":"tag-dwyane-wade","11":"tag-heat","12":"tag-lebron-james","13":"tag-miami","14":"tag-miami-heat","15":"tag-miamiheat","16":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116098086046916799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}