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The Heat are going to be just fine. In essence this is still their preseason since Wade was injured the whole preseason and they never had time to work together. It's going to take some time for all 3 guys to mesh and the regular season doesn't mean shit anyways, and as flawed as they are they will still make the postseason just feasting on the bad teams in the NBA. What the Heat does in the postseason is how they should be graded.
For the most part this is going to be an up and down season while they learn to play together. Their biggest needs are at center and point guard, and right now they can't make any trades until the deadline passes for trading players that just signed as free agents this past offseason. Even then I can't see them getting much since they don't have any draft picks to trade for the next several seasons. I can see them filling the point guard role later in the season when some veterans get cut or agree to buyouts. Those kind of players will be clamoring to join the Heat on minimum salary deals.
As for the center position, all I can say is just wait until next year. The Heat have a young center from the University of Texas that is going to be a BEAST in the NBA, Dexter Pittman. At one point at UT he was over 400 lbs, but he has slimmed down to around 290 and is still losing weight, and he is playing very well in the NBA's development league. With a year of seasoning and conditioning Pittman will be a beast of a center, mark my words...
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