Chris Bosh tightens up (Getty Images)

Miami’s collective backs aren’t against the wall. The team isn’t a loss away from elimination as it enters Thursday’s Game 4, it’s just in a bit of trouble. If the Heat do better to nail their open perimeter looks, while clamping down on a Spurs team that is bound to regress to the mean on their own three-point attempts, Miami could walk out of San Antonio’s AT&T Center on Thursday with the home-court advantage back in its grasp, and three games to earn two wins and back to back NBA titles.

As a result, the Heat don’t have to play a desperate brand of ball in Game 4, but it also has to be mindful of the fact that this is the team’s 102nd game of the season, and that the teachable moments are done with. The Heat have to run with the horses they’ve got, and with Dwyane Wade dragging a leg, fellow All-Star Chris Bosh can’t continue to blow chance after chance on connecting on good looks from the field.

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This is why the Miami Heat have to stop giving Chris Bosh chance after chance.

Patrick Ewing and John Starks take in a playoff game as half of Louis CK looks on (Getty Images)

Basketball Hall of Famer and longtime Wizards, Magic and Rockets assistant coach Patrick Ewing is back in the NBA, working as the newly-minted associate head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats. Ewing will run the team alongside head coach Steve Clifford as team owner Michael Jordan continues a long and frustrating rebuilding project with the long-suffering squad. The former Knick center, who was out of the NBA last season, has for just as long coveted a head coaching gig at this level, but he seems to have overcome his particular low point in this realm from last summer, when he turned a job with the D-League’s Erie BayHawks last season so as not to slum as a minor league coach.

All seemed to be going fine for Patrick, until news hit about Jason Kidd’s surprising candidacy and then hiring as Brooklyn Nets head coach. Kidd, who had retired from the game just days before moving up the Nets’ list, has absolutely no coaching experience, and now he’ll be running a team that plays in the city that Ewing once routinely drove into the playoffs. Ewing, and son Patrick Ewing Jr. (a former New Orleans Pelican and NBA hopeful), were more than a little taken aback.

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Here’s what the younger Ewing wrote on Twitter on Wednesday and Thursday:

Jason Kidd, during a frustrating final playoff run in May (Getty Images)

Jason Kidd, with that marvelous basketball IQ of his, may one day turn out to be the greatest head coach in NBA history. This isn’t the reason, though, that he’s the absolute best choice for the Brooklyn Nets.

Kidd, who was hired on Wednesday just days after ending his playing career, is the perfect hire for the Nets because he’s the most Brooklyn Nets-y hire the Brooklyn Nets could possibly hope to hire. Outside of signing on Magic Johnson or Justin Bieber’s giant hat to lead the team, Kidd was the biggest name the Nets could go for. And in a remarkable 11-month stint since finishing up the team’s final season in New Jersey, Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and general manager Billy King have put together a lineup full of massive contracts featuring the biggest names that were available at their particular times.

Of course, they’ll go nowhere, but that isn’t the point. The point is the press conference on Thursday, or the flashing bulbs that will await Kidd’s first home game on basic cable TV next fall. Even if Kidd turns out to be the second coming of Red Auerbach – who ran a 143-82 record coaching with two teams before taking over the Boston Celtics – the focus right now is hiring a big name that can please Mssrs. Prokhorov and King, two basketball minds that have proven to have the patience of a Le Sueur pea over their respective NBA careers.