15 mins of Heat! It was a weird night at the Kaseya Center with reports of a trade made by the Phoenix Suns and the Charlotte Hornets which seemed to be made for the Suns to go after Jimmy Butler. Jimmy didn't come out to the court till late in warmup. Kel'el Ware cracks the starting lineup.
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00:28Miami heat yesterday, losers to Joe Cronin's Portland trail with a sock Cronin yesterday.
00:35Leroy, I was like, Ooh, he was there.
00:40He was there.
00:41He was there sitting his, uh, his stupid bald ass right on the heat's a bench during, during
00:47a pregame warmups, you know, basking in his own filth.
00:52He won't be this, this mess that Cronin made burning the Miami heat franchise to the ground.
00:58He's like, I ruined it by not getting you Damian Lillard.
01:01And now I'm going to be here for Jimmy Butler's last home game.
01:05We should have traded Jimmy Butler for Damian Lillard.
01:08Damn.
01:09I mean, maybe.
01:10No, you wouldn't.
01:11First of all, under no circumstances would Tobin have done that and no way furthermore,
01:19that was back when you thought you were building around Jimmy.
01:25But here's the thing that eats at me with Jimmy.
01:31He is the only star on a team that picks and chooses when to be a star.
01:40And if you're going to be a star on a team, can you do that?
01:47Because we've had this conversation a couple of years now where you've said to me, just
01:51wait till the playoffs, just wait till January.
01:54And I'm like, can the star of your team pick and choose when to be a star?
02:02Because everybody in that building is depending on you to be that star.
02:07They're paying you to be that star, not to pick and choose when to be it.
02:14Well, the new star is Kalel Ware, who had an incredible dunk in the first quarter yesterday.
02:22This was Jason Jackson yesterday on the Miami Heat audio experience.
02:25Oh, here he comes.
02:26Right hand hammer off the beautiful feed by Duncan for Kalel Ware.
02:33My goodness.
02:34To have that much power to spring when he's tried so far, he is astonishing.
02:40Yeah, he got up to it.
02:43That was, whew.
02:44He's very athletic for a seven footer.
02:46Yeah, he's very athletic.
02:48Very athletic.
02:49Very impressive.
02:50I'm really curious to see how he deals with, because you got Lopez Wednesday, tomorrow.
03:01Yep, tomorrow.
03:02Tomorrow.
03:03You got Lopez tomorrow, and then you got Giannis.
03:11And they are two different animals there.
03:14Lopez will kind of have you out on the perimeter and try to clean up the paint.
03:21So I'll be curious to see how they mix this up.
03:22It'll be an interesting matchup for sure.
03:25You know, it'll definitely be an interesting matchup, but especially, you know, you basically
03:30can have Bam focus on Giannis for a matchup like this with Kalel doing it.
03:37It didn't go great yesterday.
03:38I mean, to be honest with you, I mean, Bam started off, I mean, offensively, he looked
03:43decent.
03:44You know, he had his jump shot going yesterday, but I mean, they got real.
03:48I know that the Blazers were Aiden.
03:51Yeah, dude.
03:52I mean, Ron Rothstein.
03:53Apparently, I didn't see it on the broadcast, but I saw Barry Jackson tweet out that Ron
03:58Rothstein called the team soft Aiden's out here.
04:01You know, he's not known as a dominant B. No, no, definitely not.
04:07You know, a skilled guy, but like, maybe one of the slowest motors in the league.
04:10Right.
04:11You know, like, that's the thing that he's known for.
04:13So look, if you've been wanting this and you're Bam out of bio, you've been, I understand
04:20that Kalel had some mishaps with maybe misjudging when to jump and when to block and all that
04:25type of stuff.
04:26But you got to go be a piranha on that perimeter now, man.
04:28Like, this is what you, this is what you've been waiting for.
04:31So it's all things that here's what I would say.
04:36If he had been playing since the beginning of the year, we would already be past this.
04:44And now there's some on the job training that's required that you have to get a physical feel
04:51for to understand, you know, when to go and help, when to guard the rim, how to get your
04:59footing against somebody like Aiden, how to handle somebody like Giannis or Lopez.
05:05You're only going to learn how to do this.
05:07You can watch as much film as you want on an opponent.
05:12But having that opponent stand in front of you is a whole different story.
05:17I don't care that you know what he could or couldn't do.
05:21So I think now that he's getting some consistent minutes, we're kind of witnessing his growth
05:31on the fly because there is no, yeah, it's crazy.
05:36You've gone from, you know, again, 18 minutes, maybe 20, and then he's gotten what, like,
05:41I think he got 39 yesterday, 34, 39 back-to-back games.
05:46So yeah, it's definitely, you're right.
05:47Like there's going to be, and look, they, they kept playing hard.
05:51They did make a nice run there in the fourth quarter.
05:54Duncan Robinson, dude.
05:55I mean, like, what can you say about him?
05:57He's been fantastic, especially these last couple of games.
05:59You just like Jimmy Butler circumstances aside, no Tyler Hero.
06:06I get it.
06:07Like there's a lot of, there are things going against you, but man, the Blazers are terrible
06:10and you've got all lost on your home floor to the Blazers and the, and the Utah jazz
06:14in the last month.
06:15These are truly.
06:16I would say, I would say this.
06:19They have a bad record, but please don't ever forget they got NBA players too.
06:28So they got 15 guys that are in the top 1% of that line, that league in the world.
06:35So, and the thing about basketball, I don't care how good or bad your record is.
06:41If you get hot, you could beat anybody.
06:46They didn't miss for a stretch.
06:48I know.
06:49It was crazy.
06:50So that's, that's the NBA though.
06:52Those are NBA players.
06:53We've watched the, some of the most random guys shoot threes and make 90 of a hundred.
07:01We've seen that board in the locker room.
07:03He made 90 of a hundred.
07:06Yes.
07:07He didn't have Tyler yesterday.
07:08He was out with a tight groin birthday celebration day after his birthday, he was in South beach
07:15for his birthday.
07:16I have eyewitnesses, his wife and friends were out there.
07:22But I mean, that doesn't have anything to do with what you should do for your birthday.
07:25He said he's going to be good to go on Thursday.
07:27I think they kind of took liberties and like probably could have gone, but it's the blazers.
07:32Let's see.
07:33You know, Tyler hasn't missed a game all year, but spoke, listen, spoke after whenever the
07:37guy is missing.
07:38If you want to talk about how important Tyler hero is and what a year he's having Leroy,
07:44let's do a fake spo, a spo.
07:47You didn't have such and such tonight.
07:50How do you guys think you handled that?
07:52Well, look, anytime you lose 24 points, um, you gotta kind of make that up, but he's more
07:59than that.
08:00He is more than that.
08:01He is the guy who, and who don't, you're ruining the bid.
08:04What does he always say when somebody is missing?
08:06We have enough.
08:07Exactly.
08:08Dude.
08:09Exactly.
08:10But to show you how growth of Tyler hero now, all of a sudden he goes, well, we didn't have
08:17him yet.
08:18It's a problem not to have him.
08:19You know, you go with who you have, but how do you think the offense, since it was the
08:22first time this season without Tyler, that is really tough to, uh, to evaluate without
08:27Tyler.
08:28Um, and just our overall, uh, intention, intentionality was not at its highest level.
08:38Mm.
08:39Mm.
08:40Mm.
08:41Mm.
08:42I have to look that one up.
08:44Intentionality.
08:45He can't just be adding stuff on the end of words to make it sound, it's a big word for
08:53me.
08:54That's a big word for me, dog.
08:55So like, yeah, this is, here, here's the problem.
09:00I'm going to do a Tobin here.
09:05Listen to the way he talked about Tyler being out and let's go back in the way back machine
09:13to how we talk about when Jimmy was out.
09:18And if you play some of that, you'll understand where the frustration started building for
09:24sure.
09:25Because his attitude about when Jimmy missed games is totally different.
09:30Like he basically Tyler's out, he would have never done that.
09:37Nope.
09:38Nope.
09:39And, uh, this was him yesterday.
09:40I was asked about Jimmy a little bit from Ira and, uh, you know, he's, he's like, I'm
09:45not going to give you what you, I was like, we'll take over and do a little bit more.
09:50Um, Jimmy's effort tonight seemed a bit languid.
09:53Um, he wasn't there on the floor at the finish.
09:56How are you working through this level of Jimmy that you've gotten since his return?
10:00It is, uh, I know what you're, you're trying to get out of me.
10:03You're not, you're not going to get anything worthwhile.
10:07Um, it was, uh, it was not a, a, a very inspiring, you know, first three quarters, um, you know,
10:17by the whole group.
10:18Uh, so it's tough to like pinpoint one person, uh, in that, you know, by while subbing, um,
10:27getting deeper into the rotation, just nothing really seemed to, to take hold until we got
10:31to that last group.
10:33That was probably the most inspiring group.
10:36Um, and I believe Pell got that steel.
10:39That was an opportunity to get it to five and that was like, you know, finally the building
10:43was, was, uh, moving and shaking a little bit and that was because of what the guys
10:48were doing on the floor.
10:49Yeah.
10:50That building was dead yesterday.
10:52Oof.
10:53It was, it was, uh, it had no juice.
10:56I didn't see our boy though, by the way, Leroy, I saw, I guess who I saw yesterday.
11:01Just a little friend.
11:02We like to call R T D. He was at the game.
11:06I saw Robbie.
11:07Robbie had great seats.
11:08Robbie had great seats, him and SDI.
11:10I saw them.
11:11Uh, they were right behind the basket, like a few rows back behind the basket.
11:18We all have friends that we see at places in the world.
11:31And the first question that comes to mind for me is the hell does he do for work?
11:38Right?
11:39Like we know SDI is SDI, right?
11:44I have no idea what he does.
11:46Me neither.
11:47Right?
11:49Robbie.
11:50Robbie doesn't, you know, his thing.
11:51Right.
11:52But SDI could be some kind of crypto mogul.
11:56We don't know.
11:57Right.
11:58We have no idea.
11:59Right.
12:00Right.
12:01Well, if he had a poom schedule, he must be rolling in as Robbie would say, well, shout
12:07out to the boys.
12:08Uh, good.
12:09Yeah.
12:10Shout out.
12:11Um, and then as soon as I went back to my seats, it's about when the game derailed.
12:14I was like, so here's, I'm watching the game, Tobin's comments are always game adjacent.
12:31So they're not about the score.
12:36They're usually not about who's playing well.
12:41It's about who's there.
12:43What are they doing?
12:44And the big plays.
12:45That's right.
12:47So you might get a woo, that dunk by Khalil and then followed up by, Oh, Jimmy's name's
12:56on the phone.
12:58The sun's just made a trade.
12:59I'm wondering what's going on right now.
13:01I'm looking down, I'll send more when I get it right.
13:08This is what we get.
13:09It was a very tense.
13:10It was a very tense pregame.
13:11I'm like, Oh, is this good?
13:13I really, it was like, is Jimmy coming out for, I thought when that sunscreen went down,
13:16I'm like, is he coming out for, is he going to play?
13:19And now it's like, well, is he going to travel?
13:22I don't know, man.
13:23It kind of felt like when Pella Larson subbed out for Jimmy Butler in that third quarter,
13:27I was, I'm like, I kind of feel like that's the last time we've ever seen Jimmy Butler
13:30on this court.
13:32The problem is, the problem, the problem is, is that we're asking a lot of people to do
13:44a lot to cover this up and they can't, right?
13:53Like we know what Jimmy looks like when he's engaged and we know what Jimmy looks like
13:59when he's not.
14:00And it doesn't matter what Spo says, what Jimmy says, what Pat says, what anybody in
14:06the organization says.
14:08We've seen enough of Jimmy Butler and it doesn't look right to the point where it's wearing
14:15on the other guys.
14:18And I don't know how you fix that because if he travels, you're going to keep putting
14:24him out there to start, right?
14:28And you're going to have this play over and over and over again.