What will it take for the Miami Heat to make the NBA play-in tournament? It seems like the fanbase doesn't want a video tribute for Jimmy Butler after the nasty nature of the breakup
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00:00The streak has been snapped
00:03Bobby he did it maybe kind of kinda
00:07We'll see. We got a big game coming up against the Golden State Warriors. Hey Vlad, so I get into it with Tobin all the time
00:16for this reason right
00:19if you beat
00:21this amount of teams below you and
00:24And lose to all the teams above that right don't you kind of fit right in the middle there?
00:31You mean as to what you are?
00:34Yeah, you're mediocre. I would even say we've been mediocre as a reason. No, you didn't know mediocre below mediocre
00:41It has been bad, but is there a chance just out of playing I mean
00:49They're not that far off but
00:52You would basically need to win what is there 15 games left
01:0030 and 41. Come on, baby. Here we go. So there's 11 games left
01:05You got to win all the games just to get the even yeah, 41 and 41 Wow
01:11No, no, no mine
01:13That would be disgusting and ruin all ping-pong chances. I don't like that very much
01:17I mean look, do you believe the team went to playing games? Not at all
01:22I don't think they can win two games in a row. They've never won two playing games. They've never won any playing games
01:30Every year they've been
01:33Yeah, but they've never been nine and nine or ten, right?
01:35Right, so they would have to win two playing games in order to get to the playoffs, right?
01:41No, they I'm saying Vlad they've never won two
01:45Yeah, cuz they've been seven or eight and they always lost the first game right that's what I'm saying, but now
01:51That's what I'm just saying. You could reach seven and eight and just have to win one
01:54They gotta win two to get in, you know, what sucks about that?
01:59Because all that does is ruin your ping-pong ball chances. Yeah
02:04Currently, we are ranked 10th in the East
02:06And it looks like unless the Raptors going to run will probably remain somewhere around there
02:11The Bulls are right above us at 31 and 41 and the magic right above them at 33 and 38
02:18So it's interesting to see how the Miami he will close this season
02:24I want to be put out of my misery as fans as
02:29Fans and I'm asked you to guys just cuz um, I it's a blind spot for me
02:37Are
02:40You happy when your team makes any type of playoffs
02:45even though their record is horrible and and and I I don't
02:50My thought behind it is is as long as you get there every year is on a curve
02:56So some years 55 wins is the number one seed and in other years is the four seat. I
03:03can't like
03:06You don't know what that's gonna be like from year to year
03:09that being said
03:12Your team right now is what 11 games under?
03:16Yeah
03:18if they were to get in the playing and
03:22Then even win
03:25two playing games
03:29Is that
03:30Like how do you feel about that it depends on the it depends on the state of the team now if this was a young team
03:38That was you you feel that well, it is
03:41Kind of a young team. You don't have a lot of guys over 30, but you've got guys who've been
03:47playing in important games
03:50At least for the past five six years right? Yeah, I'm you have Tyler. This is not right
03:55This is not what they're used to
03:57So that's if this was a younger team, but put it this way there was no BAM and Tyler
04:01This was like Nico Khalil where yeah, then you wouldn't want them
04:05Yeah, you wouldn't want them to get the experience and then be like, okay cool. Now they've got the experience
04:10They know what it takes
04:12next year to have improvement, but this
04:15but so so I don't really I don't really know how to
04:20You know
04:21Receive this information being that the team has struggled for most of the year
04:27and if they should happen to
04:30You know win two playoff games get to playoffs is
04:34How as a fan do you feel about that? Are you of the?
04:39You know if you are the thought process just get there anything can happen
04:44or
04:46Are you like this is a lost cause let's just
04:51Cooper flag
04:53Because I know as an athlete I ain't never going out there to take Noel
04:57Yeah, it's the optimist and the pessimist, you know as far as it's all rolled up in one
05:02No, because I don't know. I don't know. What is the best if you're a fan you want to see your team win?
05:08Right, because I'm a fan of the heat. I can say for sure. I'm a fan of the heat. I
05:14know this is not a team that can compete for a title and
05:18I know I
05:20I'm about 99% sure they can't even make it out of the East
05:24Therefore I look at the West and I know we can't beat them. Can I just tell you?
05:30Your percentages are low
05:33You think there's a hundred percent chance I
05:37mean
05:38Have you seen him play and I'm just
05:41Tisha see and I'm gonna put the last game as much as I said
05:47This is what the heat have needed for the last couple years is to know you have these two dudes that can get you buckets
05:55I'm gonna say, you know that
05:58That's kind of what you were hoping to get when Wiggins got here a month or so ago
06:05however, I
06:08Think
06:11There's something not right with the combinations
06:16That they play like for the last 20 years
06:22Whenever the heat threw somebody in there it always seemed to work out, right?
06:27They give you valuable minutes. They increase their in fact
06:30Go look at all the other teams that have picked the talent off in a Miami Heat to understand, you know
06:39where the heat are and
06:42this is the first time where I feel like
06:47They really don't know who to play with who
06:52Right to the point where I would just say stop worrying about the second unit, right?
06:59put your best five out there and
07:02then
07:03Go from there because you're trying to win games and your best five
07:08whoever that may be
07:10gonna need to play in a majority of minutes because
07:14You trying to figure out what combination works is
07:19Kind of not working
07:21right, so I don't know how to I
07:24Don't know how to go about the rest of the year. I just know that from a player's perspective. I
07:31Don't care what my situation is. I want to go out there and compete and I want to win
07:37A
07:38Date South brings up a good point that I'll get to quickly before I tell you what has distracted me this morning
07:43Dates houses people need to understand there is no quick fix for this team. There's no whale out there
07:50Take the two draft picks this year and I say that that is a struggle that we're dealing with
07:56Well, this is a this is one of the more younger
07:59heat teams
08:01That they've had in a while
08:03And and my problem with this is you can't treat the young talent
08:10Like you did in years past when you had all of the veterans around that could perform
08:16You needed this is one of the last the last couple years you have needed the young talent
08:23to be more productive and
08:27My thing is why prolong it if I'm gonna be 30 and 41 right now
08:33I'm gonna have my young guys
08:35Taking a lumps so that I don't have to have this linger into next year
08:40So while we sit in here talking about Kalel and we talk about his development and whatever
08:45I don't think I think he's 30 games behind
08:49Because they play games with him early on when
08:53Sure, you might have to coach him up a little bit more. Sure. You might have to give him a break
08:57Sure, you might have to get him in the gym do it on the fly because guess what?
09:02I'm tired of guys getting to
09:04the third and fourth year
09:06Have a big year and now you can't keep them because somebody else come in and pay him a whole bunch of money
09:12you got to get something out of these guys at a younger age and
09:17Develop them on the fly like you ain't look. I don't care how hard Kalel's working
09:24You know, you don't see they say you don't see how hard he works in the gym
09:28You don't see how hard he works at the practice facility. Okay, but guess what?
09:32He ain't playing against the the other NBA players and that's gonna get him the most
09:39reps the best reps
09:41so go ahead on throw him out there if
09:44He looked tired if either then you come to him and say now you see what kind of shape we need to be in
09:50Right and you coach him up on the fly. All these other teams are doing that
09:55Right when you look at hey, when you look at other teams that have a lot of young players, they take in a lumps
10:03Yeah, I am as you see Chloe had a bit of a dip for a couple games with these past three games
10:08He's averaged double-digit points rebounds. He had a good game yesterday blocks. He's he's also a good passer. They get five assists yesterday. So
10:16You got to take those lumps
10:18Yeah
10:18I wish honestly some of those guys that we see in the G League that you know
10:22Like Josh Christopher when the season is like it is now
10:26I would like to see those players a little bit more active
10:29Like you said because when else when else is it gonna happen, you know, what else like you you can't get here
10:35And here's what I realized when I was playing
10:42That
10:44There ain't nothing that can prepare could prepare me for Sunday except Sunday
10:49Right the intensity
10:52the physicality
10:54Right, there was nothing that prepared me more
10:58for those situations
11:01other than playing on Sunday and
11:03I don't care how hard a player works in the gym or against other people. I
11:11have a
11:12feeling that the game
11:14situations and being in the game and trying to regulate your breathing and trying to write not get too fired up and stay in the
11:21moment and knowing what to do
11:23The only way you can get through all that so you can comfortably play a game at your best level is by playing the game
11:32So
11:34yeah, I wish I
11:36Wish that they would especially in a year like this
11:41right this team earlier in the year with all the injuries and the dim the
11:46In
11:47Dealing with Jimmy and all this stuff
11:50That would have been a perfect time to just think a lot out there and say all right big fella
11:55Go get take your lumps
11:57And coach him up on the sideline. I would have his own little personal guy every time he came off the floor coaching him up
12:06So that when we get to next year or when we get to a point where?
12:11Okay. Now we're competing Kahlil has been through some of this stuff
12:16You
12:18Why is Lynn calling me right now
12:22Strange I think he knows what we're doing at this point
12:25You're careful life is a while cap for life is suggesting crazy things. He is he's also along the lines of look
12:33Leroy is touching on
12:35Yet another error made by our exposure this season
12:38I'm you know, maybe a little bit too critical when I say he's washed but it does make you question sometimes of like
12:44Some of the decisions he makes is like, okay, I I don't know
12:48I don't I'll trust your vision coach, but it's it's been questionable this season to say the least. I just you can't
12:57You can't have a majority of
13:0225 to 20 year old players on your team and
13:06Not think that they're gonna have to be the reason why you win
13:10Like we relying on all the veterans
13:13Right, and let's be clear
13:16some of these young kids coming out now have different skill sets and
13:19Are talented and are sometimes more talented than the guys you rely on and you say?
13:25Oh because I know where he's gonna be and I can depend on him on both sides of the floor
13:30Well, no, you can't cuz y'all can't score points