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I guess I'll just go to their website at current.tech. [PHONE RINGING] [MUSIC PLAYING] [MUSIC PLAYING] Welcome to Five on the Floor, a daily insider show on the Miami Heat and the NBA, featuring Ethan Skolnick, Greg Selvander, and Alex Toledo, plus others from the Five Reason Sports Network. All right, welcome to Five on the Floor Live edition on the YouTube channel. I'll also catch it afterwards on the podcast Feeds. We recommend that you subscribe everywhere so you don't miss any of our content, particularly with the play-in or the playoffs coming up. Today's floor plan. I got Greg Selvander. You can follow me at Greg Selvander. I got Alex Selvito. You can follow the at-tropical blanket. I got Brady Hawk. You can follow that Brady Hawk 954. I'm kidding. Still 305. You should change it at this point. We know where your heart is, Brady. And it's right here with me in the 954. Anyway, the floor plan we're going to discuss tonight. The Miami Heat gets a 41 wins on the season. They win a game that really shouldn't have been in doubt at any point, but was a little bit in the first half. And of course, they lost to this team the last time. So we don't take anything for granted around here. This was not a 60-point win like against Joe Cronin, but this was a 12-point win. Delon Wright gets his revenge. 119 to 107 against the Washington Wizards. We'll get to the star of the game, as we always do, or as we call it, the gamer of the night, the play of the night, and also the injury port as we go forward. But I do want to just reflect on the significance of this because we shouldn't let this pass. And we looked this up before the episode started, and it will take some of your comments here. And if you hear that on the podcast feed, again, you join us live, and you get a chance to ask us questions here. Also, of course, you can join off the floor. That's our Discord for $2.99 a month. And you get to ask us questions there all day long. And we're already being told, "Shut up and pod." That's by one of the people who was with us on playback. They're not actually being nasty to us. That's what we said. They just tell us to shut up and pod. That's all we got to do around here. But the significance of this is 41 wins. And we should not look past this because, Greg, the Washington Wizards have been below 505 of the last six years. Sacramento didn't make the playoffs for 15 years. The Knicks went through a tremendous rut of losing seasons. Detroit can't even see a winning season from where they're at. And this has been years. And the Miami Heat now have had only five losing seasons. Five. That Riley took over in 1995. Five. That is, we're now 29 years later. They've had five losing seasons. And this ultimately will be a winning season. I don't think I'm jinxing it too much to say. Miami will win at least one of its last eight. This isn't the season everybody wanted. I think a lot of people thought this could be a 50 win year. I said 47. They still are kind of in a range of that. At this point, they go six and two down the stretch. But again, just to be competitive every year. It is significant, isn't it? I mean, and again, this is not carrying water, but it matters. It does because at least you know, when you head into seasons, like you saw a list list. The Washington Wizards just looked. That entire crowd was out to lunch. Half of it was Heat fans any damn way and it was barely full. And that's a franchise that can't get it together. And you see that the Heat are, you know, basically the opposite of that. So just, you know, high level when we kind of zoom out from the game for five seconds. It's just it's significant that you can go that long and be that successful, be that competitive. Everyone has to remember the goal here is to compete for championships is to win championships, absolutely. But you want to be able to compete. And the first step to that is being above 500 team, being a playoff team, the heat of, you know, been very consistent in that way. And tonight was a night that, you know, I personally love seeing the three-point shooting come back. They shot 39% tonight. So that starts to make me feel like, okay, they're getting ready for playoff time. It's not a great opponent, but I'll take the result all day. Yeah, and Eric Spelser said before the year, we want to be one of those teams. We believe that we're one of those teams. I don't know that they're one of those teams because when he talks about it in that context, he's not talking about one of those teams that'll finish over 500. He's talking about one of the teams that can compete for a championship. And I do think that you hit on it there because this has gotten, as one more team, Ladonio says, just left the arena, truly taken over by Heat fans, LOL. And that is kind of the point here. Like, again, you go to Washington, I've covered many games there. That's a heat home game as has Orlando bid for years, as has Atlanta bid for years, as has Brooklyn bid for years. And some other franchise than that is because of the consistent winning. I mean, people don't want to attach themselves to losers. We talk about even in our market, okay? The Marlins have started 0 and 4. Everybody's given up already. Four games into 162 game season. The Panthers have made the playoffs four straight years now, which is a tremendous achievement because five straight years actually, but four under Zito as the general manager, considering that before Zito, they made it six times in their history. Dating all the way back to 1993. So, and again, the Dolphins, we don't even want to talk about the Dolphins. So what the Heat have accomplished is significant again, even if they haven't played like a contender for most of the season. But let's get into the specifics of this game. Alex, ring it up because one guy stood above the rest today. We'll talk about him. And now on five on the floor, it's time for the gamer of the night, sponsored by Rock Esports Center, the place to eat, drink, and play all day. Host your next birthday party with them, located at 15305 South Dixie Highway in Palmetto Bay. They've got a 5500 square foot state of the art center equipped with all the high-end power. Play all day passes available for just 25 bucks, but if you mention five reasons, it's just $20. So mention five reasons or five RSN. You get to play all day for $20. And now the gamer of the night. There's only one choice here in there, Alex. 27 points, 11 of 19 from the floor. That's six of eight from two, five of 11 from three. We'll get into that a little bit more. I'm sure four rebounds to assist. Not a big assist tonight. Actually, I've actually picked this guy as a prop today for change. It worked. It worked out. He's rather in his shape, right, Alex? Terry Rosier? Absolutely, man. I think he's gotten comfortable over the past little while here, and you've seen these types of games come every now and then. Like, obviously, there was that one versus Cleveland where he hit the two shots to basically win the game. And that's the game. And I think just his game is showing out more, like some of that hornets, Terry, that we were kind of asking for when he got here, and maybe was deferring a little bit too much for our liking. But he is more than willing to take over in the spots where he needs to. And tonight, man, offensively, easily the best player. Anyways, offensively, throughout the night, I thought he just kind of kept them going. And it was a point where Jimmy, I thought, just wasn't doing much throughout the game. Like, he had a nice start to the game. But Terry was the one who just over and over again, when things weren't going, right, which is go over there and give you an isolation bucket. And that was part of what you were looking forward to, right? It was like the self-created scoring. The shooting has kind of come out a little bit more than it did when he first got here. We've already seen the pick and roll stuff with Bam. Like, and also with the shooting, like the catch and shoot has gotten better too. He seems a little bit more in rhythm there. And you're kind of starting to see all the different aspects of his game that you wanted to see. And this happening right before the playoffs, right? Like these types of games versus the blazers and the wizards, perfect games to get going, get your confidence up. They have to win these games because of the standings. And honestly, he's been a huge, just a huge part of it. And like, just imagining a world where they did it. And again, I'm not trying to hate O'Kyle here, right? But if they didn't trade Kyle Lowry for Terry Rosier right now, I know Kyle has always stepped up when guys were out and salute to him for that. But I think it would be really, really tough right now without what Terry's giving you, because there's no Tyler. And they've needed somebody else to step up there, considering that Jimmy has just been so up and down in this regular season. And Bam had a great game too. I thought he was really solid. But Terry was the guy on office that just kept getting them out of tough situations and keeping them away from an unnecessary clutch game versus the wizards. Yeah, almost wasn't a necessary clutch game. Brady, you've talked about the types of threes that he's taking now. Can you elaborate on that a little? Yeah, I mean, I feel like when he first came here, it was a lot of the contested pull-up type threes that were kind of mixed in. And I know we talked about it before. I mean, more than the efficiency, more than the points, more than the amount of threes he hit tonight, I think the fact that he took 11 threes matters probably more than anything. Because we talked about, he had to fix his shot profile. Like there was too many things that were kind of all over the place where he had eliminated some of those long twos that were kind of step back, tough long twos. And he's going to shoot a couple of those, because that's his game. He's just a rhythm, tough bucket getter. So he's going to take them. But he had to mix in a lot more threes, especially without Tyler. And we've seen him do that consistently. And then this last game against Portland is Alex mentioned. It was a lot more off the catch. All I talked about it before. It was like all six threes of his. He didn't take one single dribble, which is such a different field than what we saw when he first got here, that he's kind of finding his flow within the offense. And at this part of the season, they're trying to get, you know, they're setting up those spot threes. They're working him off pin downs. They're working off different spots, using him, you know, fading into the corner at different times. Like they want to get him their shots, because they know Jimmy's usage about to go up. They know Tyler's going to be returning here eventually. So he's not going to be able to just play this on ball game all day in this isolation bag. He's going to get into it when they need him to, but it's not going to be the entire game. So his ability to kind of mix it up a little bit and kind of, you know, have the on ball ability, but also be able to bury kind of some of these spot ups. It's kind of the important thing here. And then some of the, I think some of the spot ups, I mean, some of the pull ups in the mid range, he's been taking over these last like three or four games or so is important just because remember that first week or two where he was just like not taking those. Like he was passing, he was forcing it to BAM, and BAM's kind of looking around like, okay, I have two guys on me because they know you're not shooting, and it gets to a certain point where he just had to take some of those shots so they would start respecting it and start pulling over a little bit more kind of like what we saw with the Tyler BAM picker role. So we're seeing that a little bit more. I think Terry and BAM's connection is kind of growing. And Ethan, we talked about it on the playback earlier, where we were talking about rotations of the playoffs where we said certain mixtures, how do they stagger? I think they're hitting the point where when Tyler returns and you kind of stagger certain guys, Tyler and Jimmy are gonna be glued and Terry and BAM are going to be glued more often than not. That's kind of the way I see it. I think they're hitting the point in the season now where Terry and BAM are kind of the guys that are gonna want to play off each other. And look, they've started running Terry BAM pick and pop. So that's the point they're at. Like they're just trying stuff at this point because BAM's been shooting more. So I think that'll be an interesting thing to see because they're gonna keep Terry and Tyler to let them anchor certain lineups as guards. But I think the interesting point is I think they're gonna lead with BAM to Terry more than maybe we originally thought. - See, that's completely opposite because we always thought in a lot of ways BAM and Tyler were stapled together because of the picker role that they were running and that we'd see a lot of Terry and Jimmy together so that Terry could kind of take some of that burden off of Jimmy, but you may be right about this. But I do think, Greg, that the Terry emergence here does set a chain reaction on some other things because now that you know it's in there with him and he's willing to show it, I mean, Tyler's usage I don't think if and when he comes back I always throw the if and there. It just can't be anywhere near where it was and it's not a Jimmy thing at this point. It's also a Rosier thing. And I also think, and we've talked about this a lot, but Rosier and Duncan just fit together as a backward I believe. And I know Duncan didn't have a big shooting night when we're getting to him a little bit more. I mean, it was two of seven from three, didn't produce much more. It's just good to see him out there to be honest and creating some of the spacing. And again, just being comfortable, Kate Duncan's back. And I feel like there's, I feel like with this team like it helps them relax. Okay, well, we've got our shooter back. We can run the actions we used to run. Doesn't have to hit five, six threes as first game back or do a lot of the things that we've seen him do in terms of his floor game. But, you know, this is trending towards, we're gonna have some really interesting conversations when and if Tyler is back because Rosier has sucked up a lot of that usage. I think they wanted him to do that and he's done it more efficiently of late than he did earlier. I'm not saying he's better at all of it than Tyler. There's certain things Tyler is better than him and certain things he's better than Tyler. But there is some duplication there. And I do think it changes the equation, doesn't it? I mean, I'm the fact that we're seeing the Terry Rosier and they traded for. - I think that we're, we've now reached the point where Tyler, hero, is most likely to come off the bench and they're gonna try to figure it out from there. And I wouldn't have said that a few weeks ago. So like that's a complete change in complexion there. I think it's good for the team. It doesn't mean that he'll have a diminished role or be limited. If he's healthy enough to play, they'll figure out a way to get him involved. I just think it's gonna start off the bench. I think Duncan and Terry have solidified themselves as a good offensive unit at least. And they provide enough aggressive play, enough off ball movement and enough shooting around your best players. So to me, that's the way that they're gonna go right now. And Tyler will have to figure things out coming off the bench, which isn't easy in the midst of a playoff run. So we say when and if it's a big if of when Tyler, hero, you know, if he returns. - Yeah. And we're gonna talk about those games as they're coming up, but there's really three that jump out at you at the schedule. There's Philadelphia, which knows they're getting NBA back now. They may not lose a lot the rest of the season. Of course, the big huge game in Indiana and also the game against the Knicks on Tuesday night, which Alex Brady and I will be at, which would have a pretty damn good atmosphere. No matter who the Knicks have in the lineup for that one. All right, Alex, let's get to the play of the night. We'll talk off of that and then continue here. - And now it's time for the insurance by the net play of the night sponsored by insurance by Lynette.com and A aggressive insurance agency. You can reach out to our friend Lynette at 954-581-8800. That's 954-581-8800, or insurance by Lynette.com. That's insurance by Lynette.com. With two N's and two T's, your best play for auto insurance, homeowners insurance, condo insurance, life insurance, or a retirement program, reach out to Lynette@insurance by Lynette.com. - All right, I'm gonna get to the tweet here in a second because a certain, well, I'm not gonna say it, the DJ Khaled look alike has decided to jump in on one of my tweets. - Oh, oh. - We'll talk about that in a second. Before we do, we gotta play on the night. Greg, you were suggesting the Terry III with two seconds left before the half? - I feel like that was, I mean, that was a pretty clutch shot. Alex, you got one? - What about that first quarter one where he had Marvin Bagley touching Earth before? That was beautiful with the change in direction and whatnot. So the theme of the night is Terry Rogier balled out. I think that that's that. I'm more interested now you're saying that there's a tweet going around. Let's hear that live. - Let's go for it here. So I tweeted during the game, and you guys tell me if you think this was an unreasonable tweet based on the fact that one butler was scoring and it wasn't the one who's being paid $45 million by the Miami Heat was somebody named Jared Butler for the Washington Wizards at the time. So I tweeted out during the game, it's time for the Heat to start caring about this game. They were down at the time by the way, particularly their store. Does he, does, does Ernie have like, is there like a bat signal? It's like a butt signal, right? Like was it, we're gonna call it that? Like the butler signal? I probably shouldn't have framed it that way, but it's like a little light that goes above his apartment or above his, his courtside seat, where he, he quote tweeted me with four, the emojis of the four laughs. Gotta love the flip flopping, which by the way, this is funny coming from this particular account, considering like, do you, what should I do with accounting of all the flip flopping that goes on from this particular account? Played the exact same way last game, only shot the ball four times, one by 60, not a single tweet or mention. So first thing, I didn't even say their star, and I guess he's assuming who I'm speaking of there. It's fairly clear. The fact that we can identify who the star is means that, yes, that's the guy who needs to get going. Like it, I didn't need to say Jimmy butler. I say the star and all of a sudden, like I said, the butt signal goes up and all of a sudden, Ernie has to jump in on this. I can tell you that others kind of jumped, I'm not that I need defending here because I don't think, I don't think there's any way to counter this. Their star needs to play better in some of these games. Like what are we talking about here? Like, again, as I said on playback, I'm not disparaging anything Jimmy butler's done here for the past four years, lifting this franchise back up from the white side dark ages, okay, I get it. He's been tremendous. He basically, and I did say, as Stott's saying here in the chat that I said, Jimmy would end up with 17 points. What did he end up with? 17 points, okay? We're not undermining anything that Jimmy has done. I'm just saying, and I've said it over and over. I'm gonna keep saying it. Like, there's been too many games he's sleepwalked this year. That's all. Like, I don't have a problem with the games he's missed, but when he plays, you wanna see your best player play with energy because this team feeds off of his energy. And it hasn't happened often enough. And by the way, I'm not the only one who believes this, okay? - Nope. - People inside the building believe that at this point. And if he turns it on in the playoffs, all will be not, it has to be forgiven, but all will be forgotten. - Correct. - But right now, okay, that's where we're at. And 21 Alex, who went after me on the playback on this, who may actually be Ernie, said, has Jimmy earned that? He has, he's also earning a lot of money to lead this team. They look to him for energy. When he doesn't bring it, they don't bring it. That's the consistent pattern this year. And whether it's Washington or Milwaukee, or Boston, we've talked about it after many games this year, that we get out of the game and we kinda wonder what the hell happened, where was Jimmy's head at tonight? And for about the first half, am I wrong about this? Greg, was he good in the first half? - Not particularly engaged, but I think that he did show signs in the second half that made it feel like he cared a little bit more still, no steals, that's my metric that I always watch. I'm gonna use accounting stat and get real simple about it. But still, there were moments there at the end where he helped put him away. There were some clutch plays. He made some good passes. But it isn't the Jimmy Butler game of, you know, you just, there's the sound bites floating around about how do I become the greatest player in the world, all of a sudden, like Chris Haynes and stuff. Like you just, you have to understand what comes with that is some noise. And so this is the noise that comes with it. Doesn't mean he's not gonna turn it on. I think that he's highly capable of turning it on. And it's like, - I just remember it. - We're losing one by one here tonight. We've already lost Brady. Okay, Alex, jump in. And I, it is, was my tweet. (laughing) - Yes. - It's, it's apparently already his hack. Those are some of, they know a hacker over there in Jimmy's camp, 'cause I don't know what's going on. I'm assuming I'm next, but until, until I get hacked and out of here, I agree with you. Like I just think it's hard for him to sustain, you know, sustain throughout a game without Jimmy giving you those efforts in like a more stable way. I feel like he gives you spurts. In the regular season, a lot of times you'll see in the first quarter, he comes out, you know, looking pretty good. And then after those first few minutes, you just kind of don't hear from him again. I feel like tonight was kind of similar. I thought he started the game decently and didn't really play that well again until later in the second half. And you know, it was very much needed, right? And very much appreciated. But yeah, that's just the case. And honestly, all I could think about after you started talking about how, you know, Ernie said that you're flip-flopping. And it just made me laugh. And I'm like picturing now like a Photoshop with the both of you wearing like flip-flops. - Mike just went, he got you too. - I don't know what's going on today, man. - They got Brady's camera and they got Greg frozen up. They got your mic. We're gonna take a brief break here. Actually, we planned this beforehand. And then we'll come back after it with the injury report. - This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. What's the first thing you do if you had an extra hour in your day? Go for a run, take a nap, maybe check the stats of the latest Miami Heat game. I've got a better idea. A lot of us spend our lives wishing we had more time. The question is time for what? If time was unlimited, how would you use it? The best way to squeeze that special thing into your schedule is to know what's important to you and make it a priority. Therapy can help you find what matters to you so you can do more of it. I've benefited from therapy. 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Parker, engineering your success. - You have one unheard message. (buzzer) - Hi, I was calling current the influencer marketing platform, but I think I just got redirected to a bunch of people listening to a podcast. Well, anyways, I was calling current because I was told they could help get my brand set up on TikTok Shop, and even build out an affiliate program of content creators promoting my brand, and even have those content creators go on live streams and promote my product there. Wow, I could really use current. (laughs) I also heard that the brands they work with are making millions in sales. I guess I'll just go to their website at current.tech. (buzzer) - All right, let's dial it up, the latest injury report, other than my bruised ego. And now it's time for the official five on the floor injury report, sponsored by our friend, Eric Rubenstein, the personal injury attorney. Born, raised in Lauderdale, Florida, lives in Miami, went to St. Thomas. 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I just think, Spo is just, he's rolling with Thomas Bryant in these games that he can, getting Kevin back acclimated to everything and then going to have Kevin available for this final push. Duncan didn't appear to be any issues tonight. So that's a positive. Tyler, really no update. I would think that a home game against the Knicks would probably be a tough spot to throw him back into, but who knows? The Heat don't usually make decisions based on the opponent when it comes to this stuff. It's when the guy is ready. So who knows? We might see Tyler on the floor on Tuesday night. I'm not guaranteeing it, but I'm also not ruling it out. As Brady, the camera tries to pop in here. Brady, have a good night, relax, happy Easter. You're good. We got your Rosie or comments. Just go fight with Ernie on the timeline. But as Tyler said, we could see him Tuesday. Other than that, Caleb Morton, this latest injury. What is this now? Is this a foot? Again, like a foot. - He was nursing it in the last game. And I think if this was a playoff game, he would play. So no, I don't think anyone should be concerned. But in the meantime, by the way, he would ice with play well again tonight. I think we should note that only two of six or three, but 29 minutes, 10 points for rebounds and is kind of settling into that role. Let's take a couple of the comments here from some folks before we get out of here. Let's see if anybody has Jimmy's pacing himself by playing in moments. Perhaps Tony, again, I understand the overall philosophy of him getting ready for the playoffs. I haven't flip flopped on that. What I've said this year is there are times and it seems like his team needs him to hit the accelerator and he has it. And they're not in a position right now with eight games left where he can wait. He just can't. And there are different rules that apply to your superstar that has applied to others on the team. We're not focusing on Caleb's energy at every moment, even though he always tends to bring that. He doesn't bring the skill level that Jimmy brings. But with Jimmy, it is about energy. We see it mostly on defense and I, like I said, there are some like his buddy who are obsessed with shot attempts. I'm not obsessed with shot attempts. We talk about the other stats. If he wants to listen to us here, you'll hear it. It's the steals, it's the deflections, the activity on defense, the free throw attempts. That's the stuff that I think they feed off of. It's not necessary, we're not asking him to chuck 25 shots, but he just wants to be contrary and changes mine every day and they call me a flip flapper. S.R.O.R. here comes in here, he's streaming playback. FYI, Jimmy will turn it on. He doesn't need to in these types of games. Perhaps he didn't need to against Portland. He was a plus 42 in 25 minutes. We did acknowledge that at the time, apparently that that got missed. And then 21 Alex is asking, don't you think Jimmy has deflated that Tyler is not available? I can't get guys' heads on that. Again, we've had a discussion. Greg, we've talked about it. There was a feeling there was going to be a high level change this off season. It didn't happen. How that has affected somebody the entire year. We won't find out until later. Right, so I don't know. That's a question we get asked a lot. I don't know. A lot of people would like Tyler to be available. Tyler would like to be available. Yeah, he definitely would like him to be available right about now. Right, exactly. So that's, that's right. And this one comes in from Lauren Lewis. It's not the big picture right now, but doesn't SPO need a lot more 50 win seasons? I really don't, he's not going to get one, obviously this year. The most they can win is 49. They're over under before the year. By the way, it was 44 and a half. I had him at 47. They're probably are going to clear the 44 and a half. I would hope so at this stage. Now that they've, they've got the 41, they just need to go four and four. Brady's asking for answering questions. How do you fix the camera? I'm not the one to ask about that. I'm not, I'm not the one to ask. I'm the last one to ask. Flipping around, apparently my flip flappers. So just flip the camera around and that'll work. He's not going to win 50 this year. I don't think he cares about that or coach of the year awards at all. It doesn't, it doesn't matter. He, his legacy is set. His salary is set, it's, it's, it's not about winning 50 games for him anymore. Sometimes I wish it was because I, these regular seasons, if they drove them a little harder during the regular season, not quite fat like, but a little bit more, I think we'd have more enjoyable podcasts, but it's just not what they care about, right? Alice, you want to close tonight? You can close. Go ahead. - Sure, why not? Look, honestly, I thought today, like it wasn't, there was nothing inspiring from today other than Terry, just kind of playing his game and looking like street voluntary out there at times. It's, he's had a nice little layer of like just offensive chaos in a good way that I've appreciated. And like I said before, they've really much like very much needed, especially with Tyler and the other guys that they've missed. But, you know, I do think when it comes to hitting 50% your mid-range shots hitting at about 40% of your threes, like that's not the type of stuff that he typically do. I mean, the mid-range stuff has been kind of up and down this season, it was better last season. So it was good to see them just having a day where like their, their jumpers are falling down. It's not like the wizards provide a ton of, you know, defensive resistance, but them going out there and taking care of business, like you said earlier, you can't, you can't take that stuff for granted. 'Cause like, I was talking about it with Brady before the Blazers game, and I was so wrong. So I'll say it on here too, like I was worried that they were gonna lose their Blazers game. Not 'cause I thought the Blazers were good or anything, 'cause God, that team without the guys that they were missing that night, probably the worst team I've seen all season. But yeah, I just had- - It was. - Based on the heats track record at times that they lose one of those two games you're supposed to win, probably the PTSD from the last Wizards game. But it's good to see them take care of business here because, you know, we talked earlier about how there's their schedule to end the season. It's kind of easy coming down. Most of that stuff is out of the way. Like now, the only like quote-unquote easy games you might have left are the two Raptors games to end the season and the Hawks who are still playing without Trey on. Other than that, like you've got the Knicks coming up, the Sixers without him beat still, but that's a competitive team. You've got the Mavs coming up. I feel like I'm missing another one here. But regardless, like the, oh, and the Pacers, I don't know if I said that, but like you've got in most of those easier games out of the way and now it's really like crunch time because I think like, I know they don't care about seating, but are they really going to like not care about it and put themselves in a position where they have to go through the most rigorous run just to get back to the finals? And it's like, what do you do this all season for this maintenance plan? If you're going to go into this and be like, oh well, let's take the toughest road possible. It's like, is that the best plan? So I mean, if they can win some of these big games and put themselves in a position to play, frankly, a worse team in the first round, still good teams, right? Whether it's New York or Cleveland, like they just, they've got to do it. They've got to care. - The Indiana game is the tell for me. If they care about this, they'll play with high energy and spulsion will shorten the rotation and they'll play the guys. - I think another playoff a hurtful against the Knicks on Tuesday, by the way. - So win one, we'll see. But every time, again, every time we talk about, okay, Jimmy's going to bring it. That's not the game he does. So I'm curious to see what happens on Tuesday. I will just say here, I know I said I gave you the last word, but I'm looking under my tweet, which I tweeted, by the way, with the heat losing this game. And I'll tell you, the fans agree with me at that point. I just, is Butler playing or what was time for that? About six weeks ago, I can't say it enough. If Jimmy doesn't morph into playoff, Jimmy, when the time comes, his regular season will come off way worse. I mean, that's, you know, I think, honestly, I think the fans are further on this than I am, okay? I think they are, they just want to see, they know what he can be. They just want to see him be 85% of that most of the time. Nobody's telling him to take 25 shots. All right, thanks Greg, thanks to Alex, thanks to Brady, somewhere in the nether world. What was I supposed to say? Am I supposed to close with? Oh, Discord, off the floor, $2.99 per month. Link right here in the acting lettering, didn't know I didn't, in the description on the top of the Twitter feed and all that good stuff. Thanks, everybody, it was with us all night. We appreciate it. We'll be back on Playback tomorrow, have a go. - After the end of a good fight, you deserve a nice cold reward. The devil is the mark of a fighter. You've earned this rich golden lager with a crisp, refreshing taste, because you know the bigger the fighter, the better the reward. You put in the hours, the energy, the tough labor. 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