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takeaways from the game, we wanted to tell you

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all about something that we're just really excited about.

2:55

On April 5th, we

2:57

are going to be holding our watch party for

3:00

the Heat's game in Houston. The

3:02

watch party is not going to be in Houston. The Heat will be in Houston.

3:04

We'll still be here. It's going to be

3:07

at the Taurus in Coconut Grove. That's

3:10

where we're going to be doing it. So we've been talking about doing

3:13

a watch party on the show. We

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were really encouraged by the response from our listeners

3:18

and our viewers who said that they'd be interested

3:20

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able to put this together. So we're

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really hoping as many of you

3:29

guys come by as possible, have a drink,

3:31

have something to eat. We're really

3:34

excited to meet you. David, I know you're excited about

3:36

this too. Yeah, no, Taurus is a

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Coconut Grove staple, like a South Florida staple in terms

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of like old bars, classic bars.

3:43

And it's been refurbished, new

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ownership, a new management, and

3:48

it's just a great location.

3:51

They've got drink specials for all of our guests

3:53

too. And we can't wait just to see people.

3:56

Again, as you mentioned, the excitement. Yes,

3:58

a watch party. Everybody's responding so positively

4:00

and favorably. I know we did this

4:02

a couple of years ago and

4:05

it was great to meet people. I'm looking forward to

4:07

seeing all those people and some, and then some bring

4:10

your friends, even

4:12

if they don't listen to the show, bring your friends,

4:14

bring your, your partners, bring anybody you want. And

4:16

we, we just would love to talk heat

4:18

basketball, watch the game together. And hopefully it'll

4:21

be another heat win on the road against a

4:23

very surprisingly good Houston Rockets team that has bounced

4:25

back. I think they've won or did nine other

4:27

the last 10. They've been really, really good of

4:29

late. The green has been fantastic.

4:31

So it should be a great game. You know,

4:34

when your rocket friends bring them by too, we

4:36

can have some trash talk. It'll be fun. You

4:38

know, we'll, oh, yeah. So

4:41

just really excited about it. We're going to, we're going

4:43

to promote it, provide more details as we get closer

4:45

again, but it is April 5th. Miami

4:47

heat at Houston will be at the Torus

4:49

and coconut Grove, but all right. Let's

4:52

get to the game from tonight. The heat beat the Cavs 121 to 84. This

4:55

one was over pretty early on,

4:57

David. It was kind of over. It

5:00

felt like it was over by halftime, but you can never

5:02

be too careful in today's NBA, but then by midway to

5:04

the third quarter, the heat went up by 40 points. And

5:07

at that point, yeah, we knew it was over. The Cavs

5:09

did not look like they wanted to be there. Um,

5:12

that was maybe my biggest takeaway of why

5:14

this was such a dominant

5:17

one-sided w game, but also

5:19

credit to Jimmy Butler and Bam out of

5:21

bio for setting the tone early on, uh,

5:23

Jimmy was playing with pace. He

5:25

goes out to take his first quarter rest.

5:27

Bam just takes the baton right from where

5:29

Jimmy left off and he's, he's getting to

5:31

the basket, he's playing great defensively, doing all

5:33

the Bam things. Um, and we get

5:36

a nice, boring, drama

5:38

free win for what feels like the first time

5:40

this season, uh, what was your takeaway? Do it

5:42

with my hands. Yeah. It was, uh, I think

5:44

that was good. That sums it up

5:46

pretty well because you know, they welcomed Evan Mobley back

5:48

into the rotation and I, he had missed a lot

5:50

of time due to injury and he

5:53

comes back into the game and, and he just,

5:55

they looked off like they didn't know how to

5:57

run their usual pick and roll. He

5:59

didn't, he seemed like a little bit out of place. He

6:01

wasn't quite the effective player

6:03

that he has been before he went

6:05

down with injury and Miami to your

6:07

point, just capitalize on everything. Well, you

6:09

know, Cleveland look a step slow. Miami

6:11

look a steps quicker than normal, even

6:13

certainly than the way they played against

6:16

the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday, but they just

6:18

took advantage of a really

6:20

good Cavs team who's third in the Eastern

6:22

conference and Miami just never stopped and never

6:24

let go when the Cavs try to cut

6:26

it within single digits or

6:28

anything like that. He responded again,

6:31

as you said, it was a blowout by the

6:33

end of the second quarter. And they just doubled

6:35

up on that. Great shooting, great all around team

6:38

play, everybody sharing the ball. It was a very

6:40

fun and free environment at the can say

6:42

a center. Everybody was really excited about it. And you can

6:44

see these heat players like even they

6:46

were not quite sure what to do with themselves

6:48

because they rarely are in these kinds of situations,

6:50

but yeah, the two blowout of some of the

6:52

rare blowouts that they have this season, two of

6:54

them have been against the Cavaliers. So I think

6:57

that's worth noting as well. It

6:59

is. And I do want to touch on that here in a

7:01

second, but you mentioned like they didn't even the heat didn't really

7:03

know what to do with this blowout. You could tell them like

7:05

they're like, all right, guys, we're up by 40 points now, but

7:08

like foot on the gas, whatever you do the rope.

7:10

Eric Spolstar calls a timeout when the Cavs like cut

7:12

into the lead and turn it into like a 32

7:14

point game instead of a 40 point game. It's both

7:16

like, all right, enough of that. I'm going to pretend

7:18

to coach for a little bit like guys like, you

7:20

know, keep playing more basketball, whatever he said to the

7:22

guys in the middle. But

7:25

it's always pretty funny to kind of watch them. And

7:27

then, of course, Jimmy basically sits out the whole fourth

7:29

quarter. Bam doesn't play a whole lot down the stretch.

7:31

And so those guys get a

7:33

well deserved break at the end of this game. Jimmy

7:36

played 24 and a half minutes. Bam played just under

7:38

28 minutes total. Like I

7:40

said, very well deserved because they brought it, you

7:42

know, and we talk about that all the time. It's,

7:44

you know, no Duncan Robinson, no Tyler, you

7:46

know, Kevin Love, just no Jaime Aca's junior,

7:48

just a ton of guys missing. And

7:51

the easiest way to make up for

7:53

the guys missing are not the guys at the end of

7:55

the bench stepping up. It's for the Stars to play even

7:57

better because that's what they're capable of doing. And

8:00

I love the way that Jimmy Butler came out in

8:02

this game. He was playing with pace in semi-trans... Like,

8:04

that's when you know, like, there's certain, like, things that

8:06

Jimmy Butler does where you're like, oh, okay, he's sort

8:08

of bringing it tonight. And when he,

8:10

instead of just walking the ball up and letting basically everybody

8:12

catch up to him, and then he can just sort of

8:15

ISO or post up and do the kind of stuff that

8:17

he's comfortable doing, when he kind of pushes

8:19

the pace a little bit, hits that quick first step

8:21

in semi-transition, doesn't wait for the defense to catch up,

8:23

doesn't wait for his own teammates to catch up, he's

8:25

like, you know what, I got Darius Garland in front of me, I'm

8:27

just gonna take him off the dribble. You know,

8:29

and he should do that every night, quite frankly, but

8:31

he doesn't. But when he does do it, he's

8:34

able to set the tone. And that's what

8:36

happened in this one. And so Miami gets out to

8:38

an early lead, and it just

8:40

felt like Cleveland was like, well, we

8:42

don't have it tonight after about like eight minutes. They were

8:44

just like, yeah, it's just not our night, I guess, you

8:46

know, and they just played Tristan Thompson for the entire second

8:48

half. And that was it. And it was... And so,

8:50

I don't know, again, Cleveland looked like

8:53

they'd rather be next door at Ultra than playing this

8:55

basketball game tonight. I don't know what was

8:57

going on with them. But they're at three and

8:59

seven in their last 10. They're in a slump, probably

9:01

in the worst time of the year for them. Like

9:04

you mentioned, they're having a hard time working guys back down to

9:06

Mitchell, obviously missing for them is a big deal. We don't really

9:08

know when he's gonna come back for them. But

9:11

Miami did the thing they had to do.

9:13

They stepped on their throats, they didn't let them come back

9:15

in this game, and it was a much-needed win. You mentioned

9:17

the fact that they've now blown out Cleveland twice this year.

9:20

This is a bigger reason to me, David, to

9:22

get out of the playing tournament. Because if you can

9:24

get a date with the Cavaliers in the first round,

9:27

right, we already know the problems of playing like Boston and

9:29

Milwaukee. Those are the two best teams in the Eastern Conference

9:31

right now. But if you can get out of

9:34

the first round... If you can get out of the play-in and face

9:36

Cleveland in the first round, I mean,

9:38

how many people would actually be picking the

9:40

Cavs based on where these teams are at

9:42

at this stage of the season, right? Like that, I feel

9:44

like most people would be picking the Heat. That's not really

9:46

the point. I just say like, if you're the Heat, more

9:48

motivation to get out of the playing tournament, knowing that this

9:51

Cavs team that you've had success against could be on

9:53

the other side of it. I

10:00

understand. I just, I'm

10:02

a little wary of saying, bring on

10:05

the Cavaliers because this was really a,

10:07

a poor version of that Cavaliers

10:10

team. And of course there's no guarantee and

10:12

I guess you could make that same argument

10:14

about Miami. But I think it

10:16

also, moreover, I think it just shows that

10:18

when Miami plays their style of play the

10:21

way they did tonight, this is a team

10:23

that's capable of beating anybody rather than just looking

10:25

forward to any opponent. Like I, any one particular

10:27

opponent. And I think the Heat would say the

10:30

same thing. This is the best version of themselves.

10:32

It shows a version of them that is capable

10:34

of contending, that is capable of beating the Boston

10:36

Celtics or the Milwaukee Bucks or any of the

10:38

top teams in the Eastern Conference. And it's more

10:41

about Miami, in my opinion, about

10:43

getting them to play this style

10:45

of basketball, of Jimmy Butler playing

10:47

with pace, of BAM being aggressive, of

10:49

everybody stepping up in their own way of

10:51

getting contributions from role players rather than saying,

10:54

you know what, we can do this against Cleveland

10:56

and maybe only against Cleveland. Yeah.

11:00

And it's also worth noting too, that this was the first

11:02

game that the Heat have played the Cavs in and had

11:04

BAM out of bio. This was BAM's first time playing the

11:06

Cavs all year. So, no, you're right about

11:08

that. I do think that there is something to

11:10

be said though of, it's very

11:12

clear that it's Boston and Milwaukee at the

11:15

top. And then after that, like

11:17

the drop off between those teams in

11:19

Cleveland is pretty substantial. I

11:21

would even say like, if

11:24

you're asking me who the better team is right now, I think the Knicks are a better

11:26

team than the Cavs despite the record. I think the

11:28

Orlando Magic are better than the Cavs despite

11:30

the record. And yeah, the injuries

11:32

are a big deal, but they're a team very similar to the

11:34

Heat that have just been sort of dealing with injuries all season

11:36

long. And so if you can get them in the first

11:39

round while some of those injuries are still happening or fresh, then,

11:41

you know, it bodes well. And also

11:43

they're just not as good as Milwaukee

11:46

or Boston, even when they are healthy. So there's that

11:48

too. But let's talk more about

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Well David, it's another Miami Heat win which means

14:21

it's time for the tastiest segment of Locked On

14:23

Heat. It's time to get in the kitchen and

14:25

whip up some credit cookies. Who is

14:28

getting credit cookies for tonight's performance? You

14:31

know, it almost puts us in a really

14:33

tough place because so many players had

14:35

contributions across the board. This isn't like a

14:37

typical clutch win for Miami where somebody kind

14:39

of steps up or you get a couple

14:41

of guys stepping up. There were some top

14:43

performances but you got such a number

14:46

of players in this blowout win

14:48

putting up points, putting up statistics, getting

14:50

good contributions. But I think there were

14:52

four players in particular who really

14:55

stood out in tonight's game. You mentioned before,

14:57

it starts with Jimmy Butler, the Charlotte serves

14:59

a drink, he had a really good game,

15:01

impactful at his limited playing time. Bam and

15:04

Abbio looking very aggressive. I take three cookies

15:06

apiece for them. And then two

15:08

for Heywood Highsmith who was fantastic off

15:10

the bench, brought defense, brought energy, he

15:13

was cutting off ball and he was

15:15

perfect from three point range. I think

15:17

that deserves two cookies and also one

15:20

last credit cookie for Nikola Jovic. He

15:22

looked really, actually I'm sorry, my math is

15:24

off. Two cookies for Nikola Jovic. So two

15:26

for Nikola, two for Heywood and three apiece

15:28

for Jimmy and Bam. Let's

15:31

start with Nikola Jovic there because we already talked about Jimmy

15:33

and Bam like you said. So again,

15:36

that third quarter was kind of interesting because it felt

15:38

like the Miami Heat were okay, what do we do?

15:40

We're up really big. We don't want to blow this.

15:42

This would be an absolute disaster. We've lost three straight

15:44

at home. We don't want it to happen again. This

15:46

would be the worst loss of the season if we

15:48

somehow find a way to blow this. We have found

15:50

ways to blow games like this before this year or

15:52

at least blow these leads and then kind of eke

15:54

out with a win. Like what do we

15:56

do? And even though they

15:59

were up as much as the... they were up after

16:01

halftime, it still felt like, okay, second half,

16:04

the whole other half basketball, who's going

16:06

to provide the spark? Jimmy had the spark, Bana, the

16:08

spark in the first half. Is it going to be

16:10

one of those guys? No. Well, not

16:12

really. They were a little bit, but it was also Nico

16:14

Leovic who hit back to back threes in

16:17

the third quarter, um, had a

16:19

great, uh, defensive possession on Marcus

16:21

Morris, who was doing exactly

16:24

what you thought Marcus Morris would do with

16:26

his team down 30. I'm going

16:28

to will us back into this game by going like four

16:30

for 18 from, from the

16:32

field or something like Marcus. Where's like, give

16:35

me the Cape. I got us guys. I'm

16:37

going to bring us back. And it didn't

16:39

work, but he tried. He started jab stepping

16:41

against Nico from like 20 feet out. Nico

16:43

just stood in front of him, had his hands

16:45

out, good defensive posture and didn't

16:48

bite for any of the jabs. Didn't bite for any of

16:50

the pump dakes. Just kept his position

16:52

stayed between his man in the basket forced

16:54

an air ball for Marcus Morris. So, uh, I,

16:57

I loved everything that we saw from Nico those

16:59

back to back threes, the defensive stop, all sort

17:01

of in that early part of the third quarter.

17:03

I thought was the spark Miami needed to just

17:05

basically keep the thing going. Who

17:07

would have thought that at this point of season with

17:10

Miami being so inconsistent and up and down and dealing

17:12

with injuries and everything else. I got it considering where

17:14

he was at the start of the season that

17:16

we'd be talking about in the cola Yobich

17:18

in terms of his defensive presence. And yet

17:20

it's very, very real. If there's any takeaway

17:22

from this season, I think it's the fact

17:25

that Nicole Yobich has established himself as a

17:27

legitimate starter. And I think I'm

17:29

starting to lean to the idea that he will

17:31

be the starter moving into the playoffs. I know

17:33

Spo always has some odd design and maybe he'll

17:35

do a little tinker. Maybe he'll put in Caleb,

17:38

who knows? But I think the cola has shown

17:40

that he is a solid

17:43

starter level player in the NBA, which is

17:45

a huge leap from where he was. Like

17:47

we had high expectations, but those

17:49

were dashed pretty quickly. When despite whatever he

17:51

had shown during the feeble world cup over

17:53

the off season, it didn't necessarily translate or

17:55

carry over, particularly on defensive end and in

17:58

the rebounding category, which were the things. that

18:00

he needed to improve on the most. And I think he

18:02

would go so far as to tell you that that exactly

18:04

was the case. He's worked on it. He told us in

18:06

our recent interview, he's put on the way, he's put on

18:08

the muscle, he's done the work and you can see it.

18:11

Like in the first quarter, second quarter,

18:13

he had some really good defensive possessions

18:15

where he was switching on one possession

18:17

particularly. He took on Coro, he took

18:19

on Darius Garland, moved his feet well.

18:21

Like I'm not, he's definitely not a

18:23

defensive stopper or anything like that, but

18:25

he cannot be exploited as easily as

18:27

he had been earlier in his career.

18:29

And I think it shows real growth from

18:32

him. So that is really promising.

18:34

And if you could just continue to tie

18:36

that together with the potential that he has

18:38

offensively, the three point shot, pushing the pace,

18:40

the rebounding which has significantly improved as well.

18:42

I think he could be a really high

18:44

level player. Not the poke holes

18:46

in your argument because I agree with everything that you

18:49

said, but he did have zero rebounds today. I

18:52

didn't have a rebound today. But I

18:55

do agree with you. And the three point shooting

18:57

is so interesting with him too. He's shooting over

18:59

40% from three, kind of quietly. I don't, when

19:01

you talk about like today's NBA, if

19:03

you can have a guy who is 6'10", who

19:06

can push the pace and make

19:08

threes at a 40% clip or

19:11

better, that is a luxury to have.

19:13

I mean, I think every team

19:15

is basically looking for a guy like that, right? And

19:18

defensively he is getting better. You're right. We

19:20

don't have to go full blown like, don't

19:23

try Nico, don't try him. It's like, you

19:25

can try him. It'll probably be fine. But

19:28

he's a good defense. He's not the weak point

19:31

that he was. And obviously his size

19:33

is really helpful, right? The length and stuff. So

19:35

even when he does get beat, he's able to

19:37

catch up in a way that smaller guys, like

19:40

even like a Tyler Hero, because he's a guard,

19:42

can't, right? And so I think that's obviously helpful.

19:46

The other part with making threes tonight

19:49

is Cleveland, I guess having seen

19:51

the film from that

19:53

Pelicans loss, that bad heat performance where they, it

19:55

looked like it was the first time they ever

19:57

saw a 3-2 zone. And

20:00

and and so they just couldn't score and

20:03

they just kept selling for threes and they kept missing them

20:05

and that was the opposite Tonight right

20:07

like they got the threes Against

20:09

Cleveland zone Cleveland brought the zone out I

20:11

guess assuming that they could get a similar success to what

20:13

the Pelicans had the other night and Nikko

20:15

and a bunch of those other guys started hitting their threes

20:18

in a way that they didn't against New Orleans and you

20:20

know Sometimes the the the analysis is that easy. Did you

20:22

make threes or did you not make the threes and

20:24

tonight? They made the reason it was a big part of that. Um,

20:27

the other guy you mentioned was Heywood Highsmith I do

20:29

think it's at least worth Talking

20:32

about him a little bit more here. I just it's

20:35

weird. I don't know where he fits in when this Rotation

20:38

is healthy. I still like even tonight 18

20:41

points on seven of ten shooting four for

20:43

four from three point range had had a

20:46

steal in this game Did pick

20:48

up five five? Oh, no, that wasn't him. That was Thomas

20:50

Bryant who had five fouls Sorry reading the box score wrong,

20:52

but I thought he's really good defensively and

20:54

when he's hitting those threes He becomes

20:56

a legit two-way factor. It's just the three-point

20:58

shot for him is so Streaky

21:01

that he doesn't really

21:03

get a chance to kind of see it through

21:05

right? He basically it's like, okay if there's

21:08

a bunch of guys that I know you and the rotation injured

21:10

you're just gonna go out there and get to do all these

21:12

things and if we have a healthy rotation Sorry,

21:15

we just don't we don't know if your threes are gonna go in

21:17

tonight Cuz you're just not gonna see the floor but credit to him

21:19

for making the most of the opportunity Especially these last couple nights when

21:21

they he'd have been really banged up Yeah,

21:23

that first three pointer that he hit You know

21:25

as we've said so often like it kind of

21:27

sets the tone for him like mentally and in

21:30

terms of his confidence It was when they had

21:32

first seen that zone and it was a possession

21:34

where they just couldn't seem to generate any movement

21:36

whatsoever They kept moving the ball to no avail.

21:38

They couldn't just penetrate the zone They didn't know

21:40

what to do with it shot clock

21:42

expiring winds up in Haywood's hands and you're going Okay Well,

21:45

you know that who knows what's gonna happen with this

21:47

it could be an air ball Instead

21:49

he drills it and then from that point you can

21:51

see his confidence rising I really liked his off ball

21:53

movement in addition to the fourth three-pointer So to hit

21:55

him with four four, but he also he was constantly

21:57

under the basket just like the forgotten man out there

21:59

And he's got that little timing with a hook shot

22:01

there and kind of like a push shot where he's

22:03

like along the baseline And either

22:06

Jimmy or Bambu whoever has the ball at the

22:08

top Could see him as he's kind of trailing

22:10

along the baseline and nobody really keeps up with

22:12

him Nobody really tracks him and he gets lost

22:14

in the shuffle there And he winds up having

22:16

an open look over at the basket try finishing

22:18

with a dunk that unfortunately caroms off But you

22:20

know, it was a really good night for him

22:23

and you know, hey would He's always

22:25

gonna bring it with a defensive effort despite his

22:27

size limitations and everything else like that So you

22:29

just hope that the offense is consistent enough where

22:31

he's not gonna be a negative out there You

22:34

know because of his difference is always gonna be at

22:36

a high level But if he's not scoring if he's

22:38

turning the ball over if he looks kind of like

22:40

lacking confidence Then it's not there's no point really in

22:43

having him out on the floor But tonight was the

22:45

best version of hey would and you

22:47

hope that you can see those kind of

22:49

contributions at least I know regularly during the

22:51

playoffs Absolutely. Um, and

22:53

one of the guys that was hurt in

22:55

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22:57

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23:00

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on Instagram. Before we get to these

25:43

questions, Duncan Robinson missed the last two

25:45

games with what the team is calling

25:48

left facet syndrome. I

25:51

Googled it, David. Yeah.

25:53

Doesn't it sound great? Um, so,

25:57

you know, he, he got, he saw the specialist,

26:00

some scans done, all these things, and this is what

26:02

they came up with. And essentially what

26:04

it boils down to is it's supposed

26:06

to be very painful throughout

26:08

the lower body. It could be impacting his legs and

26:11

all these things, which obviously for a basketball player and a

26:13

shooter is problematic. I

26:17

don't... it's a pain management thing, you

26:19

know. I started looking up like, you know, treatments

26:22

and stuff. It's just a lot of like those

26:24

big steroid shots and things like that, and the

26:26

PC, the PRP shots and those kinds

26:28

of things. Similar to what Tyler Hero is

26:30

dealing with, but now Miami between Hero and

26:32

Duncan Robinson are down there

26:34

two best shooters, and you

26:37

know, there's games like this where it doesn't matter a whole

26:39

lot, then there's games like the one against the Pelicans where

26:41

it matters a whole lot, right? And I think

26:43

I'll go out on a limb and say it's probably gonna matter

26:45

a whole lot more often than not. So

26:48

doesn't sound great for either of Miami's

26:51

sharp shooters, scores, shooting guards,

26:53

but this is not what you wanted to see from

26:55

Duncan Robinson. He had to leave that one game early, couldn't

26:57

come back in the second half, and he's missed the last

26:59

two because of this, and we don't know. There's still no

27:01

timetable for his return. Yeah,

27:04

the good thing is that Miami catches a

27:06

slight break in terms of their schedule. They have

27:08

two games at home. They take on the

27:10

Golden State Warriors on Tuesday, and then they don't

27:13

play again until Friday. So that's kind of

27:15

a nice space there of only two games and

27:17

five nights while he's rehabbing and getting treatment in

27:20

the home. So hopefully he

27:22

can bounce back from that. Like, at

27:25

this point, there's no real validity to

27:27

just kind of dissecting it or anything like that. We

27:29

don't know what's going to happen with him. I don't

27:31

think he knows what's going to happen. He just continues

27:33

to have to, he has to continue to fight through

27:35

it or, you know, it might just be to the

27:37

point where it takes him out. And as far

27:39

as the heat are concerned, well, we've just

27:41

been through this so many times before and as cliche

27:43

as it sounds, and I know that you hate the

27:45

expression, but you know, it really is next man up.

27:47

I don't know who's gonna fight. I

27:50

don't know who can step up for what Duncan has

27:52

provided this. They've been asking Patty Mills to do it

27:54

and that's been very hit or miss. And

27:56

that's putting it nice. It has not worked out. So

27:58

L'onrite has not stepped up. You need

28:00

to get back one of Duncan

28:03

or Tyler and look of course that will also

28:05

benefit by the addition of Kevin Love once he

28:07

returns as well because he's another great three-point spacer

28:09

when those shots are hitting so, you

28:11

know It's just you're gonna have to

28:13

find a way of beating a punch. I don't know that Miami

28:17

Can't beat opponents Consistently in

28:19

a four-game series without

28:21

either Tyler or Duncan on the floor and I

28:23

know that they can't There's

28:25

no way. I mean Patty

28:27

Mills the long rightly that's not getting it done Like Cole

28:30

Switer is a nice three-point shooter and

28:32

he could fill in and eat up some minutes here in

28:34

the regular season But two-way guys aren't even allowed to play

28:37

in playoff games So that's not even really an option is

28:40

and it's not a great option to begin with because the guys barely

28:42

played this season so I Their

28:45

seasons over if they don't have one of these guys

28:47

back now I don't mean to be too dramatic, but

28:50

I think that's just being realistic like you need one

28:52

of our careers And so we don't

28:54

know but we can't get lucky guys get a win

28:56

like Yeah, you might have like an offensive

28:58

explosion like the way you did tonight But you

29:00

know, that's that's not something

29:02

you want to rely on consistently You want to have them

29:04

out there because of the threat that they pose because of

29:07

their ability to space the floor, etc I

29:09

mean having two of those three would be great

29:11

having at least You know either

29:13

Tyler and Kevin Love we were dunking into Kevin Love

29:16

like you need to have him out in the floor

29:18

You just wish him all the best because he was having such a

29:21

great season. You don't want to show any kind of rust. I Don't

29:24

know, you know if it's just a pain management and

29:26

a pain tolerance again You don't want to put it,

29:28

you know his integrity into question or anything like that

29:30

obviously But you hope that maybe he can

29:32

find his way back sooner rather than later and and

29:35

hopefully he just continues to get to work In

29:37

order to be able to maintain it and adjust and

29:39

hopefully doesn't creep up It's just the suddenness of what

29:41

really threw me off because what the game before was

29:43

one of the best games of his career Where he

29:46

had like 30 points and it was really really Incredible

29:48

with his play making that balance of scoring and everything

29:50

else like that and the next game is that and

29:53

And well, maybe there was one game in between there where

29:55

he had left in the first no But it's more than

29:57

just pain management, too. It is like it basically the

30:00

reason why you have to get the scans done and again,

30:03

I did like a Google search on this. So

30:05

this is my understanding. I'm not a medical professional.

30:09

But it's you know, the tightness and the uncomfortableness,

30:11

it mimics a lot of other sort of back

30:13

injuries too. And so that's that's what

30:15

this basically comes down to. So if this guy's

30:17

tight from like his lower back down to his

30:19

knees, he ain't gonna play well. You

30:22

know, so it's right. So they

30:25

get the treatment. Hopefully, he's gonna come back again, don't not

30:27

trying to be dramatic until he's gonna be out for the

30:29

season. But it's just sort of those one of those things

30:31

where you don't know how long is gonna be out. You

30:34

just get the treatment and just wait until your body responds

30:36

the way that you hope it responds. But let's

30:38

move on to some questions. This one comes from EJ

30:40

Bruxy. Is this the most confusing team in history? David,

30:43

what do you think? No, no,

30:45

no, no, no, it's more. 2016

30:47

for 2016 by far the 41. Yeah,

30:51

I mean, nothing nothing beats 10

30:53

and 31 and 31 and 10 like that. I

30:58

mean, it was crazy. It

31:00

was the biggest swing. I don't I

31:02

feel like I pretty much understand that they sucked for

31:04

the beginning of the season and then they were good

31:06

for the second half of the season. Like I pretty

31:09

much got that figured out. Like it's so easy. It's

31:11

like, how do you go from being one of the

31:13

lottery bound team to being elite at beating like the

31:15

gold warriors in their peak, you know, the guys

31:17

who were the only one waiting. Yeah, that's two

31:20

words. We're in basketball,

31:22

baby. Real hoopers. No.

31:27

That might be you know, it'd be fun as if

31:29

we did like a draft of most confusing heat teams.

31:32

We could do that on another show where we could just like draft

31:34

like most whatever heat teams. It's

31:38

the last four seasons and then in 2016, I think

31:40

right at the top or maybe in the 2017. I

31:44

would put. Oh, that was a good one. Yeah.

31:48

Because you didn't really know what was going on. That was more like

31:50

some behind the scenes stuff, too. But I

31:52

would say this year's team is I don't know. It

31:55

feels like it's it's confusing, but also you

31:57

look at the injuries in the 33 different lineups.

32:00

And you're like, yeah, this is pretty easily explainable. I just think

32:02

it's confusing when we're in it day to day and trying to

32:04

figure out, okay, you could beat New Orleans and you could beat,

32:06

but then you lose against New Orleans and then

32:08

you beat Cleveland. That part is confusing, but

32:10

like bigger picture zoom out. It's like,

32:13

Oh, like all the good players on the team were

32:15

hurt for most of the year. Yeah. No wonder that

32:17

they struggled a little bit. Um, Brian

32:19

writes in does the huge disparity between the last two games

32:22

say more about the heat or the teams that they were

32:24

playing sort of related to the last question, got

32:26

it, got theme here going. What do you think? I,

32:29

I kind of tend to think it was more reflective

32:31

of the opponent rather than anything else, like the

32:34

pelicans played a really good game plan. They had

32:36

been playing well of late. And

32:38

I think they were motivated by the comments

32:40

from Jimmy Butler, the ejection, the kind of

32:42

the heated, the heated nature of the previous

32:44

matchup and everything else like that. So I

32:47

think they were looking at Friday's matchup and

32:49

going, okay. All right. You, you, you

32:51

punked us at home. Now we're going to go do

32:53

the same with you. So they were clearly motivated and

32:56

they punched Miami in the face and then they,

32:58

there was no looking back from that point forward

33:00

conversely, Cleveland and a bad stretch going through their

33:02

injuries and everything else like that. And I know

33:04

that's not necessarily an excuse, but they kind of

33:06

rolled over, uh, a little

33:09

bit more quickly and unexpectedly than you might've

33:11

expected. And, and so, uh, Miami

33:13

took advantage of that, which is what they're supposed to

33:15

do. So I, again, I think it's more, I would

33:17

say, if you're looking at whether or not this is

33:20

just reflective of who Miami is rather than the opponents,

33:22

I would say it's probably 80, 20, the opponents just

33:24

having a very different mindset between the two. Yeah.

33:27

I don't think they hear you're going to go out and start blowing out

33:29

the top three seeds by 40 points every

33:31

night. Yeah. So, uh, I'm

33:33

with you. I think you nailed it. Uh, the

33:35

calves, I just, again, I've never seen a team

33:38

not want to play basketball more during

33:40

an NBA season than that calves team tonight. They just

33:42

did not care and, uh, credit to Miami for doing

33:44

what they had to do. Uh, but

33:46

the pelicans came in, like you said, a strong team. They took

33:48

care of business and, uh, and Cleveland

33:50

did basically whatever the opposite of that is. Um,

33:53

but I guess they're doing retro right now. Yeah.

33:56

Calf fans are like in shambles after this

33:58

huge blowout. It should be. That was embarrassing. If

34:00

I was the Caps fan, I would be absolutely embarrassed.

34:03

This is more embarrassing than sending out

34:05

a hit note on LeBron James

34:07

in Comic Sans. This

34:10

is the most embarrassing thing. You know what

34:12

they should do? They should find a trade

34:14

partner for Donovan Mitchell. I don't know what

34:17

that team might be. I

34:19

don't know. I think they should just even forfeit

34:22

the playoffs, trade Donovan now, or get it

34:24

to season two. Do

34:27

you think they take Heywood Highsmith for Donovan Mitchell? I

34:30

don't know. They scored more points than Donovan. They throw it first.

34:32

I mean, Heywood's defense though. You'd be missing his defense. I don't

34:34

know. I don't really know where my aim is. They get a

34:37

good two-way player. He's

34:39

younger. I don't know. They've got to throw in

34:41

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34:43

throw in some big things. Draft collateral to go

34:45

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34:47

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34:49

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