Boston Celtics. New Orleans Hornets. Utah Jazz.
There are the three teams that have beaten Miami Heat at this early stage in the season. What do they have in common? A top class point guard.
Celtics' Rajon Rondo is currently leading the NBA in assists and has had a superb start to the season. He's not a big scorer, but he excels at getting his team-mates involved. Rondo torched the Heat's defence and had 17 assists on the night.
Hornets win could be attributed to the huge game from big-man Emeka Okafor dominating that little bitch (yes, a highly technical phrase) Chris Bosh in the post. But Chris Paul did a fantastic job too. Again, big on the assists dishing out 19, and Heat didn't have an answer.
46 points from power forward Paul Millsap was the big story in the Heat-Jazz game. But Deron Williams came up big too, adding 21 points and 14 assists.
So what we can see is the Heat can't deal with the combination of a great point guard and a big-man playing well. And they flat out got destroyed by the Celtics.
Not strictly British basketball, I know, but if you want a tenuous link, British forward Pops Mensah-Bonsu plays for New Orleans Hornets, although admittedly he didn't see any minutes against the Heat.
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