The Miami Heat really thought they could make some noise in the playoffs. Goran Dragic said as much shortly following their final game against the Washington Wizards.
Initially, this sounded like a product of the sometimes irrational confidence one has come to expect from this scrappy Heat squad, never viewing themselves as the underdog. But when the Chicago Bulls went into Boston and took the first two games from the top seeded Celtics, it begged the question of just how much damage the Heat could’ve done in that situation.
While the series went sideways for the Bulls after losing Rajon Rondo for the final four games due to injury, the first two wins in Boston exposed some major flaws in the Celtics that the Heat could have capitalized on had they matched up as the eight seed.