Do you remember the group of punk kids in grade-school gym class who outsmarted the gym teacher by fixing the dodgeball teams? The teacher would line students up against the wall and count off by twos to decide teams. So, the hardest-throwing kids in the class would line up, every other, in order to create, as they called themselves, ‘the ultimate team.’ The end result was often ugly — more kids of the opposing team attended the nurse’s office the next period than social studies.

 How sweet would it have been if the ultimate team got beat, if the big guns got out-gunned? I now know exactly how it would feel because I’ve watched the Miami Heat lose four games thus far in the 2010-11 NBA season.

 Last summer LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade — the three blockbuster free-agents of the off-season thought to outsmart the NBA—lined up every other from each other to form the ultimate team.

 Ten games into the season and this ‘ultimate team’ falls short of great. At 6-4, the Heat suffered losses to the Boston Celtics twice, the New Orleans Hornets and the Utah Jazz.

 As I watched SportsCenter highlights of the Jazz’s second-half, 19-point comeback win over the Heat on Nov. 19, I couldn’t help but laugh. I root against the Heat because the big three demoted the competitiveness of the NBA. The league is already unbalanced in terms of competition — bringing two more all-stars to Miami means more uneven distribution of talent. With the signing of James to the Heat, the Cleveland Cavaliers are stripped of a championship run. With the departure of Bosh from Toronto, the Raptors drop from a second-place team to a second-to-last-place team in the Eastern Atlantic Division.

 As an NBA orphan-fan (a fan without a favorite team) I will put all of my cheering energy in 2010-11 into rooting against the Heat.

 I foresee the Heat turning things around in 2010-11 and winning the majority of the rest of their games, their division, conference, and possibly an NBA title. The team has too much talent not to win.

 The Heat would have to try not to win to not win.

 But until the time that they start winning, for every loss the Heat suffer I will jump for joy.