But with Jones back, the Heat would have Jones and Bowen to deal with Iverson. The Heat would have a better perimeter game. That would open things up immensely, the Sixers would have their hands full, and all this talk of a trip to the Finals would be proved vastly premature. The Sixers kind of ran away from the rest of us early and gained some ground, and now everyone else is getting back into the picture. As for us, we've got our work cut out for us.
Nothing is guaranteed.
We've got to hope Eddie Jones will recover from his injury. Remember, by the playoffs, assuming everyone's ready to go, we'd only have five games in which all of our guys had played together. It's a tall order. The Sixers said they didn't anticipate that Mourning would return, although they hoped he would. Still, they went out and got Mutombo to defend quality teams with formidable opposing centers.