Watching the second half now, as I had to go work on a group project at halftime.
One thing that stood out and shows the importance of Shaq, even on offense:
We tried to run "split" (IIRC, that's what it's called) where we put LeBron in the corner, Shaq in the post, and Mo on the wing with the ball, passing to Shaq. However, we had AV in Shaq's spot, and KG just pushed him out of position, almost to the three point line by the time AV got the ball, which completely threw off the play and it ended in LeBron having to bail us out.
I forget what team it was that we ran the play against, but we ran it in crunch time and and first Mo got a three and then LeBron got a dunk. Right now, we don't have anyone who can establish post position to the point where they can't get pushed out of position or denied the ball. Z can give us that against most centers, but Shaq can and has given us that position against anyone, which makes that play, which is pretty deadly, a play we can go to when we need a basket.
Granted, we didn't run it in crunch time today, but if we would have tried it in crunch time, it probably wouldn't have worked.