If you're familiar with the phenomenon, which is a self-fulfilling prohecy of sorts, then you might agree that the Miami Heat are destined to fail against all the NBA elite for the rest of the season. Currently they are 1-8 against the NBA’s top five teams. Essentially the hypothesis states that reality can be influenced by the expectations of others. It gets into the psyches of the players and they perform accordingly to the hype. The level of confidence is destroyed.
In this sense, the Heat players knows that everyone is talking about their lack of wins against the best teams, against plus .500 teams even, and they are then unconciously creating their own destiny via the criticisms against them.
If this is true, Chicago will win tomorrow. I will gladly take five points for the Bulls. They will probably lose as well the upcoming games to the Lakers, Spurs and Thunder. I bet Denver can even beat at home.
I would love to see this play out while the Heat scramble to pick up the pieces.
I could get rich off taking the opponents in the right scenarios then. We'll see...