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[Music] Welcome to 5 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 in to 5 on the floor live here on the Five Reason's YouTube channel. Make sure you hit like, subscribe and turn the notifications on. This will go to the podcast feed after. We appreciate everybody subscribing. Get to the details of all this in a second. I do want to mention off the floor. That's our Discord server, $2.99 per month. You get all the latest Miami Heat content in the season and this seems relevant right now in the off season as well. We've got channels for that too, transaction channels, draft channels and the like, so check it out. It's off the floor. It's the new Discord, even if the heat disappoint, we do not. All right, the Miami Heat lose game one in Boston, 114 to 94. I would like to say it was closer than that. It really wasn't. Miami gets off to a terrible start. It looked like a football score early. It was like 14 nothing. They fight back in the game at certain times, then it gets completely away from them in the third quarter and then in the fourth. Essentially, Delaun Wright led a comeback and they got it under the point spread for a little bit. They dipped under the 14.5 and then it went right back to 20. We're going to recap it with everybody here. We will get into some of the comments. If you're listening on the podcast feed, that's where that comes from. That's the YouTube channel. If you want to catch it there first, we do try to get the comments here on the screen and try to read a few of them if there is time to do so. But overall thought on this, I mean, the heat are overmatched in this series. We knew that. None of us ran away from that. None of us picked them in this series, but to have an opportunity to win this series, the guys who are making the most have to play the best. And you got a pretty good performance from Bam in some areas today. And let's just say it flat out. Tyler was awful. I don't think we should sugarcoat this from the very beginning. Like we get into the reasons why he was awful. Obviously, he played a role in them getting to this game because he played well in the play in game, at least the second half of it. But the numbers, I mean, he was 4 of 13, 3 of 9 from 3, 11 points, 4 rebounds, 4 assists. He was actually 2 of 10 at one point. He had some open shots that he didn't make seem like they understood that if they just were physical with him, that they might get turnovers. He was just pretty much out of sorts the entire day. And, you know, look, you're not going to beat this team if, you know, a guy that, you know, is making that percentage of your cap. When you already don't have Jimmy, you don't have Roseer. We've talked about the lack of creation that entails. And Duncan Robinson is just a shell of himself right now. He doesn't even look like he belongs out there. He did make a couple of shots today, but it's not the same player we saw the whole season. So it falls on Tyler and look, he's wanted that kind of pressure. He's wanted to be considered one of these three level scores in the league. And I'll just go to you first on it, Brady. Like, how did they take him out of it? Or did he take it out himself? Because, look, I'm not saying they were going to beat a team that went ultimately made 22 threes. Okay, 22 of 49. The Celtics made more threes than twos. They had 22 threes and 17 twos today. They just played that inside out game to perfection. And that was 22 threes with Tatum making only one of them. If you take Tatum out of the equation, they were 21 and 41 from three because he was one of eight. But what did they do to Tyler? You use the good word when you said physical because I feel like that's kind of the game plan there when you're talking about what Boston has on the floor, Miami has on the floor like that. The thing, the schematics out of Miami is like to be physical in the back court with their ball in this. It's trying to just find ways to get them out of that. Those pull ups had those easy ways off the screen out of those two on ones. And that's what they did with Tyler. I mean, they have a lot of good perimeter defenders and they chase on the screen. They kept them in front of them. And we talked about it on playback. I brought it up. There was two years ago where we talked to Tyler. There was a game seven between Boston and Milwaukee. And they had a heat practice before that game. And we were talking to guys like, Oh, like, we're talking to watch parties and who you're rooting for. And this and that and Tyler was like, like, I definitely know who I'd rather play. And it's because there's so much more advantages against a team like Milwaukee where there's clear spots in the floor. There's easy pull ups. There's dead spots. There's not a lot of advantages on this team that he could find. I'm just like, he's calling for a screen and they're switching, you know, drew holiday on to him. He calls another one, then it's a bigger wing. And when he then he's operating in drop and it's kind of they're playing at the level and they're not letting him get to those pull ups where he's kind of having to play. Get the ball out quick. So it then it turns into a point where I think we start talking adjustments and I know we've kind of went back and forth in this a little bit but it becomes a point now. Where he almost has to be a little more off ball where they kind of have to utilize some more into his spot up range because that that's the only counter really at this point. You cannot just keep running him into the ground on ball and thinking something could have changed. Nothing is going to change here. They're still going to be physical. They're still going to take away his shots on the floor. They have to do that. The issue is they don't have a lot of on ball guys. If you're putting Tyler off the ball, that's the issue you're sitting in right now. So that's the stuff they're going to have to kind of balance, I guess, over the next two days and figure out, but 100% they are not going to beat this Boston Celtics team without Jenny without Terry and having no offense and production from Tyler and Duncan. That's your offensive production. And if it's not them scoring, it's them facilitating and putting you in a position to get better shot. So they need those guys. So now it just goes back to the drawing board and try to figure it out. But off ball. That feels like the only way right now. You can. But how did they get them off ball, Alex? When they don't have Rosie, or they don't even have Hyle at this point, like they're not putting the ball in Yovitch's hands to make plays. We talked about that as a possibility before this game. Essentially, they're just treating hero as their lead guy. I mean, that's kind of, we'll get into Hawkez in a second because we all agreed, I think, that he had the best composure for this game. He kind of had the best attitude for this particular game. But I don't think Spo is going to get away from Tyler. I don't think he's going to get away from Tyler on ball until Terry comes back. And at this stage, there's just no way to count on Terry coming back. I mean, he's not playing games one or two. And I don't know for sure that he's going to play in game three. So what? So what do you do with Tyler now? Yeah, the Terry thing would, of course, be helpful. And even the game three thing feels kind of like optimistic. Right. That has been thrown out there. But besides that, I don't think going off ball for Tyler means he has a smaller usage. I'm 100% with Brady on this. I think that what he's saying is like he's not. Tyler is not creating advantages with the on ball play. So you got to find different ways to get him going. And I think him coming off a screen is an easier way for him to get an advantage than to just, you know, like do it one on one where it becomes very predictable. Like it's either the pull up the floater or the pocket pass the BAM. None of those things are really available for him. And so he just kind of swings and then gets taken out of the play by a great guard defender, whether it's Derek or Drew, like those guys are great. I think he's got to force the issue more and I'm not saying take bad shots. I think he's got to be constantly running around there and putting the pressure on them to stay on point with chasing him off ball and not making mistakes. And I think like Brady was saying that you've got a better chance of creating a two on one or whatever a four on three, whatever situation it is with him coming off ball, then with him just trying to create it by himself. It doesn't mean it should be 100% off ball, but I would definitely lean more off ball than on ball. It's not going to fix everything, but I just think you've got to you've got to throw different ways of doing it. And I think that includes like maybe, you know, you've been shedding up from time to time. So I think they can do more with him as a set up guy. I think, you know, and I'm sure we're going to talk about it because I know you guys both hit it on playback, which of course, as I say, playback.tv/5, or down with the app to come watch games with us. Love needs to play a little bit more. And I think if at the very least you can play him next to BAM when they're throwing out the porzingis horrid lineups, I think they've got to do that. I don't think, again, one thing is going to change the direction of the series, right? But like there's room for adjustments here. That's what a game one is for us to collect that. I'm sure you're going to hear Spose say that now. And I think like you're going to have to try to get a little bit more out of some of your guys. If love and yo, but you know our guys who can be used, you know, as sort of offensive hubs to create for others, especially with the way that they like to cut, you know, have one of them spacing on the floor. I think you can create stuff out of that. I think you have to find a way to not be too predictable and, you know, kind of change the look of your office. I don't think they did enough for that tonight. Shout out. I may who we're going to talk about, but outside of him, like they just, they were not able to generate good shots. They were on the floor a lot in the first quarter, like on offense, like on the floor. And I don't mean like in a good way, like trying to get a loose ball like it's just losing footing. Dribbling to nowhere, not knowing how to handle doubles, which is anything like that. But we will get into the game or the night here. But before we do, I want to, since you brought up the love point, let's just go to it now. We are all in agreement on this. Okay. And we have been for a while. I don't understand the limitation of his minutes. I just don't get it. Okay, he played five minutes in the first half, five, five. He had seven points and three rebounds, I believe in those minutes. He was three of three from the floor. I just, I don't, I don't get it. He played eight minutes in the second half. He didn't have quite the same contribution. But look, in a series like this against a team like this, okay, I want to put a guy on the floor who knows what the fuck he's doing. Sorry, like that, that's it. Like he knows how to handle these kind of situations. He's been in these playoff series before. And honestly, physically, he hasn't lost that much. I mean, he's not obviously Minnesota, Kevin love. He's not Cleveland, Kevin love. But he's been a terrific player for them over the since, particularly since he came back this last time from the injury and he got a little bit of time off. And I, I, there should not, I know that people can say, well, they made the little comeback run, that garbage comeback run second half without either love or yo-vitch on the floor. No, to me, in this series, bam yo-vitch. Okay, bam love, love yo-vitch, bam yo-vitch. Okay, let's just, that's what this should be. Okay, first thing in terms of defensive rebounding, all the rest of this, but it's just, it's just basketball IQ being able to handle these kind of these scenarios, calming guys down, making the right play, making the outlet pass. Kevin love needs to be playing 20 plus minutes in this series. I am not saying again that that's going to change. I agree with Alice. Nothing's going to change the trajectory of this thing. They're not winning this series. We didn't believe so beforehand. But if you're going to make this thing competitive in some way, okay, you don't need to evaluate Kevin love. He should be back next year if he wants to be. But he's got to be on the floor more often. That's just, that's just where I'm at with it. And I, you know, we, again, people say we don't criticize. So I don't understand the rationale for that. Again, I'm not with the team in Boston. That's the decision. I'm the gamer of the night because I didn't spend the $900 and then one way ticket to get up there. But when he comes, if he hasn't played more by Game 3, it is a question I'll ask because I just don't, I just do not understand why he didn't play more. All right, let's get to it. Let's get to the gamer of the night for day. 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What disappoints me about this is, man, I wish the heat were healthy for a series against Boston because I just think this guy would have been an absolute X factor. Like, he would have bleep bleep bleep bleep up, okay, off the bench against Boston because you see what he did as a starter today when he's pushed into this role. And I thought he had the right mentality for this game. He was not stopping. He was not perfect. Okay. But, I mean, like, he just made a decision. Like, I'm going to make an impact here one way or the other. And there was no hesitation like we saw from some of the other players. And I just, I, for a playoff debut, you know, 36 minutes, eight of 16 from the floor, 16 points, four rebounds, four assists. But he is clearly a guy, I think, as we go forward with this team. I do not know if he's going to be a star. Okay. But he is definitely going to be a core rotation player, you know, possible starter for playoff heat teams in the future. I just, I loved what I saw from him today. You can always get better, but it seems like he has adjusted a little bit to the scanner report. Yeah, that was the three that was nowhere close. And again, there's going to be some stuff in a series like this. But Brady, I thought I thought he, if they all, if they all adopted his demeanor, this thing would have been closer. I mean, it's the guy's first playoff game. And the fact that he was kind of being the tone setter in a lot of ways like a bam deserves credit because I feel like when they went down big early, he was kind of the one that was just hitting tough shots, keeping them in it, keeping the offense in somewhat of a bailout mentality. But Jaime, as you said, like he would not stop. Like he, he had 16 points. He did not get to the free throw line, I believe, and he did not hit a three like it was like pure just buckets inside the arc. And it's what you need. When we say baby Jamie and stepping into his role, it was kind of, I said it before the series, he has to miss batch on he just has to like there's. As I talked about before, Tyler cannot find many advantages. Jaime on paper can find advantages because it's his game. He could, he could just put us back to the basket, go one on one, work the footwork work the pump fakes work the little turnaround jumper. And he did that in this game. He had kind of good advantages with that turnaround jumper. He found stuff going to the rim. And he, he's kind of the one guy that's generating paint touches like off drives. Like, like not paint, paint touches off catches like BAM or in these different spots. Like he's one that is driving high usage and getting into the paint, at least getting them into certain spots because the offense as we know has been ugly. So, so it's real credit to him because this is making something out of absolutely nothing. Like the fact that he's able to do this in this type of offense without without a lot of spacing. We talked so much this season about the two men game of Jaime and Duncan. The main reason was like Jaime is best with spacing. When he has a ton of spacing around him, he can really operate. So the fact that he could do that in this environment. It just says a lot about him. It just says a lot about the, about his offensive growth this season. And look, defensively, I thought he competed. Like, I feel like he is a decent matchup for this team, not that he's going to be perfect defensively, not that he's going to generate a ton of stops, but he's big enough. He could switch. He could guard a lot of players on this in this Boston team. That's all you can ask for. You just want to limit as many mismatches as possible. And he could somewhat do that. So, I think he's really is built for this type of series. I think he's going to continue to be somebody they lean on. They need as we talked about putting Tyler off the ball at times. He's pretty much your option. He's your option to go on the ball. Like he's your guy that could kind of set that stuff up. The other guys, Nicole, the obit, but as we've seen, they're, they still are not running a ton of stuff through him. I think they're trying to lean on his spot up shooting right now, just because they lacked that as well. And he's looked good in that range. I think yo, which was, this is, this was all the young guys. This is, this was, this was, this was, I mean, in the Colio, which they scored 14 points in the third quarter. The two of the two of the points came in the last 30 seconds for Bam had a little flip shot. The 12 points prior in that entire quarter was Jaime Hawkes and the Colio, which they scored all 12 points in that quarter up to that point. This was all them. Like the yo, which getting the ball off the off the rim, running the floor playing in the, in the open floor kind of getting those to work. He was driving. He was attacking. He did not look scared. He did not look like he had it like any fear in his body going at the rim. And we said before, they, they're not going to beat this Boston team playing in the half court on either end of the floor. You can, you have to try. And I know you, it's scary to speed things up against the team with the way they're shooting. But that's your only advantage right now. Like you have to do what you did in that fourth quarter. Try and make things ugly, which is as hard as it possibly, as much as they say, make things ugly. It's so hard to do that against the team. But play faster. Just try and you could say, we could say here, as long as we're complaining, the thing we're complaining about in future games is that how bad their transition offense is. We'll live with that. We'll talk about it like that, that you'll take that at this point. You have to lean on what you have on your roster. Right now they have a bunch of young guys that need to play fast and play in the open break. So just keep leaning on Jaime and Jovitch. We say that when you look at role players, they have to be able to play off of your stars. Okay. The heat star is not there. There are other two core guys. One of them is someone who they don't really go to for high volume again BAM today was 10 of 18 24.6 rebounds. Like you said, he had a stretch where he kind of, he kept him afloat. He didn't make superstar impact on the game though. I mean, he was, he was okay. That's kind of where I would put it. And hero was bad. And so I think what you have now is you've got like Hawkes and Jovitch. It's like, okay, you can't really play off your stars. That's what we talked about coming into this. It's like, all right, what else can you show? And that really is all the only reason that I wanted them to get out of the play in at this point once Jimmy got hurt. See what the two of these guys can offer. I thought they both had moments. Hawkes had more of them. That's why we made in the gamer of the night. And I think that's promising here as we go forward. And I think as you look at it again, they're evaluating like who's going to step up in these situations. The playoffs tell, I think we believe all year that as long as he got through the rookie wall, that Jaime would be a good playoff player. Like he has the demeanor for it. He has the attitude for it. He has the game for it, frankly. And Jovitch, we've seen him in those World Cup games and how much that stuff means to him. So I didn't think we thought either of them would shrink it. I don't think either of them did. And honestly, to me, that's the only positive takeaway from today. The other one, we should mention him here before we go forward. And I recommend you check out the last podcast we put up, which we put up right before the game. So some of you didn't catch it. It's on the back end of a podcast I did with Greg about what this series means. I got a few minutes with Delon Wright after the game, after playing game of the other night to talk about how he's kind of fought through to start playing and what that was like. And he knew how many DNPs he had. He had nine, seven DNPs at one stage. And he said it was because he wasn't in heat shape. He thought he was before he got here. He wasn't, you know, especially when they put him at the top of the zone with high Smith, and then he had to work his way into heat shape. And now he kind of understands it. And he said, that's his belief why he's been getting the minutes over patty mills. But I think we need to mention him at least like. We can talk about cosmetic and he just got them closer to the spread and all that. It was five of five from three. I mean, he had 17 points at 26 minutes. So Alex, I'll ask this question. Like, we see this stuff happen and blowouts all the time and guys just go off. But there's been an elevation to his game lately with this team as he's worked his way into shape and kind of understood his role. And he told me this is really the first time or only time in his career, other than when he played off Luca briefly in Dallas that he's been his offensive role has pretty much been off the ball catch and shoot. Well, I mean, he made five threes. Is there any argument to be made for him just playing more in this series or are we just saying it was garbage time? I mean, it could be both things, right? Like it was a fake comeback for sure. I don't think you take any solace with that comeback, but it was fun, right? Like I was there on playback and I don't think any of us were having fun watching be down 35 or whatever it was. So for him to kind of look like TMac or Reggie Miller there, just hitting a bunch of threes in very little time was pretty fun. You know, wasn't expecting that. But I do think he played well throughout the game and is obviously, like I've said before, I think he's played well. Most of the times, he's actually gotten a chance to play for the heat. And I think he is a big part. You could tell I suppose already increased his role obviously because of guys out, but I think also because of the way he's played. I think he's somebody who if you're really just trying to lean into the defensive identity, which I'm going to get into here because that's what I'm honestly, I think I'm more upset about the defense than the offense. But if you're going to lean into the defensive identity here, I think the lawn is a big part of that. And of course, him like making these threes is very encouraging to see like at one point, it was Heywood who was making a lot of threes. So there's like, you know, there's, there's three point shooting variants evolved with guys who are, you know, career like, okay, three point shooters at best. I'm not expecting him to be knocked down now. But I do think if I'm being wrong, I like, I like his aesthetically. I would like some more than Heywood's and I thought today, you know, besides that more importantly, Heywood was just very hesitant on the offensive side. Not that you want him doing too much or putting up a bunch of shots. But I do think there was a couple moments in the game was like, just take the open one, right? Like they're not creating good looks. Anyway, I'm glad that he tries to make the right play and move the ball. I think the lawn was just, you know, was just firing out there and whatever I think that is less important than their defense as a team. And I think they started off that game hot the Celtics did not all of it was because of defensive mistakes from the heat or anything. They started really hot. I think it was 12 or 14, too. And the heat started to kind of bring it back there with, you know, some kind of questionable offensive process kind of a lot of one on one stuff and, you know, shout out band for getting those early buckets there. Just kind of break the ice. Again, not great process, but they just needed the buckets at that point. What I want to get to here is the defense after they were kind of able to bring it back. That stretch right there to me was the best stretch of defense that played throughout the entire game. And I didn't see it come back. It was like a mini version, a miniature version of what they did versus the Sixers. It was just a much shorter period of time. Like I think they did it for a longer period of time in the Sixers game where they just flashed like great defense. I think they flashed like a couple of minutes of great defense in that, you know, was it late in that first quarter or early in the second, whenever it was outside of that, it was not good. I thought they were panicking and scrambling for most of that game when the game was still in hand like there was a point there where they brought it back and it's like, oh, you know, down 14 or whatever at the half like it could be worse. People are going to point to three point shooting. And we have to talk about it right they shot 22 of 46 from three. The Celtics did and the heat could not buy a three pointer to start that game finished 12 of 36 33% not great right. People are a lot of people I think are going to point to the shooting and be like, oh, well, you know, they're not always going to shoot that great. And I understand that they're not going to be shooting 49.3 and also 59% from the mid range all series long. It's not going to happen. The problem is how you let it get there in the first place. There was so many wide open threes given up, I think because of like, you know, miscommunication or somebody made a mistake. And I think they got in a really nice rhythm early on, you know, with that, the nice start they had. And then they keep seeing wide open threes. They know that you're going to double, you know, they were doubling out of his own at one point. And then it's just swing swing easy swing for Tatum and they're going to find a wide open three that stretch early where housing hit like three in a row and BAM is out there rotating to the three point line out of his own. That is not supposed to happen. Like, you're going to have to live and die with Tatum Brown, Porzingis, and Derek White, of course, making tough shots. And I think just sending sending early doubles, sending early help. I don't think that's the move here. Like, I understand, and I know we all clamored first foe to throw everything he's got. That's not what we meant. I think you're just making it easy for them by by if they're going to keep seeing those early doubles and early help. There's, you know, there's an easy solution to it. You just swing swing and it's wide open. I think you have to let Tatum and Brown create for themselves. You know, you put pressure on them with your good defenders. If they get a bad switch, you send the help at the right time. I think they're doing it too early and I think they end up scrambling as a result. They get in a rhythm and then they start making these really tough ones once they start feeling good about themselves because these are all human beings. Like, you start seeing some of them go through. You already think you have a huge advantage on this team on paper. Like, they're not scared of the heat in the state they're in right now. But you see some of them go in and it's like, okay, here we go. The rim is open. It's looking like a damn ocean out there. They have Porzingis talking on the sideline there. All smiley. Like, they're all in a great mood. They're like, yeah, these guys are nothing. And I think you're giving them these open looks and like easy solutions. That's not the way to muck it up. Like, they beat you at your own game with points off turnovers and turnovers. So you didn't do that part. You get out rebounded by 10. You give up a 115 half court offensive rating, which is 89th percentile. That's the stuff you can't do. The only thing you could point at is that the Celtics shot seven of 16 at the rim, which is really nice to see. Right? Like, you can point to that and be like, if they can keep. Right? Like, if they can keep the Celtics away from the rim without taking just completely wide open jump shots, then you've got something. If they get to stay sharp in their defensive game plan and not make mistakes and over help and scramble and all of that stuff. That there might be a path, but they've got to play such a damn like picture perfect game plan and execute it to a tee just to be competitive in this series. And they absolutely, absolutely did not do that tonight. Like, just to finish it off here. I know I'm rambling at this point. Seven of 18 for Tatum. You know, that's not good, but 10 to three assist or turnovers. How often have you seen that in the heat? It's supposed to be the other way around. It's supposed to be a lot of turnovers. Well, they had 27 assists overall tonight. You mentioned the variance. The heat's variance shooters today with the exception of the lawn. All bombed. Hey, what was over for Caleb was over four. Bam took the two threes, but I mean, you guys know how I feel about that. And Hawke is who did everything else. Well, most other things well was over too. But again, the Caleb Highsmith. You know, the over eight there, like that's, you know, again, we've seen both of them have gone through these stretches this year where you know they're there on fire for like two weeks, and then it goes the other direction and it's just both of them have. The form is such that it just goes like it just seems like, you know, Caleb, I don't know how Caleb's going to shoot it now. Like it's every time he's kicking out a different leg. He's shooting at a different point of his release. I don't know. It's coming from everywhere. And and Highsmith pretty much pretty much the same tonight. But you're right. I mean, look, the defense. It's funny, because we talk about with the Celtics, Brady that and we'll get to the play of the night here in a second. We talk about with the Celtics. All right. Well, the way to beat them is to kind of get them to the fourth quarter when they're shooting a ton of threes and then they go cold from three, right? Because I've heard Warren Horse talking about this on ESPN and other places and on his podcast. Then they go cold from three and then that's your opportunity, right? But if they're just shots are going to be that white. They're probably not going to go cold and that that was really the thing tonight. And again, you take Tatum out of the equation. There are other guys were 21 of 41 from three. I mean, we're zingas, four of eight holiday who's not a great three point shooter on volume to a four. Derek White, four of eight, Jalen Brown, three of five, Sam Houser got it was he opened four of six. Al Horford, two of five, Prichard, two of five. So you're talking about other than Tatum, there are other seven guys who played. They only played eight. All had at least two threes and all shot at least 40% from three. All of them. This was not like a help off one guy problem. It was a help off everybody problem. And I, you know, they give up threes. They give up threes. We talk about that all the time, but the percentages came down this year. A little bit in terms of what was shot against them. What do you do? And then we'll get to the play of the night here in a second and we'll get to the injury board. What do you do? Do you just keep letting them shoot threes? Like, is that, is that thing? And they get cold eventually? Well, they're going to still shoot threes. That's what they do. That's what Miami allows. But it's about allowing the right ones. Like, the issue is Alex talked about it when we did our preview where he said like they don't have another guy. They don't have a guy to help off of like this isn't previous Celtic rosters like that's that's kind of the problem we're hitting right now is when we're talking about this like they don't have a guy that gets okay we can help off it. But the big thing and he was just hitting on it, you cannot double in the zone. Like that that's just number one. You just said it like the reason they have so it's not one guy hurting them and it's everybody shooting 40% is because it's whoever's in the weak side corner. Whoever's on the weak side and who's the one pass away guy like it's just it could be anybody. It's just who's ever sitting there because they they get in their position. Tatum has a guy on his back. He waits. He waits like four seconds. Miami brings that top guy on the zone down the double swing swing into three. You have to live with those matchups. You just do. You have to live. You have good enough defenders on the team that you're going to play. Hey, with 36 minutes a night. You have to live with these one on one shots. And look, if they start hitting a bunch of midrange shots at an incredible level and they start attacking, at least you're playing the numbers game a little bit. And it's not just a crazy number of threes that are going your way where maybe you could survive some runs because you're playing in that way. Like that's almost the point you're hitting. But you have to balance the defensive coverages. You have to kind of mix things up as we've talked about in the past. Porzingis is the big thing because you don't have as many cards to pull at this point when Porzingis is on the floor because if they're in the zone, they'll put them in the middle and you can kind of spray out. You cannot just kind of sit and, you know, put Kevin love of Porzingis and play and drop because that pick and pop will just pick you apart. So there's a bunch of things that can kind of hurt you in that way. But there's a lot of things I think that they have 48 plus hours to make adjustments down for game two and there are there are a decent amount of kind of adjustments they can make. But the last thing I'll say is going back to my point before about playing faster and playing the open floor. The reason you need to do it more than ever is you are not going to get to the line. You are absolutely not going to get to the free line. Look, Boston's probably not really going to get to the line a ton either the way they're shooting threes. If they're just going to send the outside all night, it's probably neither team is getting to the line. But Miami's not, as we talked about it before the series, I asked you, I was like, not counting BAM, who's who's the guy that's going to get to the line five times a night in this series. And there's not that guy, they don't have anybody to do it. They ended up getting what six, six times in this game and four, then we're BAM and two of them were over. So you have this position now where if you're not going to be able to slow the game down like to have in the past with Jimmy in these series where he could kind of just muck things up offensively just by slowing the pace down and making them in about the ball after free throws. You have to play faster. You have to kind of play in that way. And the real advantage to playing faster would be if some way you could consistently turn this team over. That's the issue. If you could find ways to turn them over, but with the style that they were playing tonight, it's going to be hard to if they're just swinging. Did they have a live ball turnover the whole game? I feel like Delano almost got one. I don't know that they did, actually. And I don't know how you look. This team doesn't play well in transition to begin with. But I don't know how you get into transition without a live ball turnover. Like the heat aren't going to run off of makes, right? So, I mean, even though they have more of a running group and they said that they wanted to, they don't make good decisions on the break. And so they need the live ball turnover to have at least numbers advantages. And they didn't get any of those today. And again, I think it plays into a lot of what Alex was talking about, just the strange helping off the doubling. I don't know. We did talk about a kitchen sink philosophy for Spov, but I don't know what was at the sink because there was a lot of garbage out there today. And I get it. He's going to have to do different things throughout the series. But some of the things we wanted to do unclog it, right? Draino, something like that, because it looked to me like, you don't, I mean, again, you didn't put the ball in the ovens, just hands as much as we thought. Love not playing enough. And all of these things may be a lot of talk about nothing without Jimmy and without Terry. And you're, you know, you might, you were going to be underdogs, even with them. But the things that were tried today with the exception of just throwing Delon right out there in the fourth quarter and letting him cook, I mean, there really wasn't a whole lot else that that went right today. All right. Let's get to the play of the night. And this one might be a struggle. 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They got 10 guys, like, I mean, like 10 guys, but all five touched it at least twice and band it. Okay, I don't know. You got a play of the night? The either of you? I got nothing. The jail of a jail of brown at the end? Like, what do we do it here? Like, I don't, you know, I mean, the long five three sequence was the best. The long five threes, that's it. That's it. And the reason that's the play of the game, right? To summarize it, the reason it's the play of the game is the only way you're going to steal games in the series is if weird stuff happens. Like, you have to have some unpredictable things happen, like the long right hitting five threes. And I'm not saying that's going to be the case in the next few games. Like, that's going to be again, but that type of stuff has to happen in these games when you're under band. So, I mean, that that's, I don't know who the next guy is that's going to do something like that. Like, is it going to be. Hey, would that kind of catches fire at some point? I mean, the guy, even the guy, I know we talked about him a little bit, but the swing player is Kayla. He is like, if he can, because he's, we have, when we talk about players, there's the defensive players, there's the catch and shoot players. There's everybody kind of has a role in this team when we look at this roster right now. Kayla's the guy that you don't know what he is. Like, on any given night, like he can be randomly hit spot ups, he could randomly turn into an attack player, you could randomly turn into a transition player. And he could start defending like crazy at certain points. So it's like, he's the guy that could swing things. They need him to be the weird player that just that just weirdly gets hot. Like, that's what you kind of lean on right now, it feels like. So we're going to be having a lot of conversations after the series. We talked about it before the series that some guys could make their names here to a certain degree and some could kind of play their way out. After game one, it's just one game. It's a lot right to me. And it's not just because it's a night. It's because what we've seen in the last couple of weeks, to me, if he wants a minimum contract next year to come back to the heat, you bring him back. That's where I'm at with it. And that may actually play into other decisions because Hey, what's bad shooting night tonight? I still think that there is a desire in the organization to bring him back and a number they're comfortable with. So if Josh Richardson, who I haven't talked about in a long time, is going to opt in, which I believe he will, coming off the injury, stay with the heat. Well, forget Thomas Brian, because I'm talking more about the back with a wing situation here, but yes, the money that they'll have available below the second. Correct. Okay. No, I know you're getting technical. I mean, I understand that. But what I'm getting at here is more you get Josh. Three sign where he's at, right, that minimum deal. Because yeah, they're going to bring love back too. So that plays at the Thomas Brian thing. They should bring love back to. Honestly, that would be my first thing I do. Are you coming back? Yes. Okay, we're good. I admit that's your midnight signing. Oh, God, he fans going to be so pissed about that. Kevin's going to take the bread to that when he doesn't deserve it. Bring back Josh. Right. You bring him back. Hey, would I think you bring it back to lawn. Talk as this popped. I think, I think the Caleb writings on the wall right now, right? Like, isn't that where that's why I'm saying this? I mean, you're looking at all these wings. I just can't see if he, if he opts in, it's one thing. If he opts in, I still think he's going to opt out. And again, we have plenty of time to discuss this in the future, but I just want to hit on it since Brady mentioned it. He has to distinguish himself in the series. Like, he's got it. He's got to make you feel like they have to keep that guy. And there was nothing today that told you that. And that's, I think that is, even though they're, you know, they're undermanned and they're overwhelmed and all the rest of the stuff and we didn't believe they were going to win the series. There are certain things to watch and Caleb was one of them. You didn't get Eastern Conference Finals MVP or near MVP Caleb today. You, you kind of just got a guy. And, and that, that doesn't make him the biggest culprit today. I think the defense was the biggest culprit and I put Tyler to and the fact that the Celtics are just really good, but Caleb didn't make an impact today and he's got to make one the rest of the series before they go forward. Yes, I got a message here on the Ethan Save the topic for other podcasts. We have months for it. No, we've already decided. We're literally going to do. What do we say? We're going to do a different podcast every day on every free agent. We're going to go all the way down to the beat of them guys. Then we're going to do a different podcast every day on every draft prospect. The player review, where we can candidate. All the player review was great. We're going to grade everything. You're not, you're not getting rid of us. Don't we throw an all time draft in there. All right, we've done that, but we can bring that back, right? We could, then we're going to draft numbers of five reasons sports that we're going to draft commenters. We're going to do all that kind of craft the Olympics, the draft free agency. Get ready, y'all. This is this is all great. All right, unless they come back series and five, right? Heat and five. Don't let them get one, Ethan. Don't let them get the next one. Don't let them get one. Don't let the lawn back on the court. So don't let them get one. All right, we appreciate it. Thanks to Brady. Thanks to Alex. Thanks to our sponsors, Rocky Sports, Eric Rubenstein dot com and also insurance by Lynette dot com. We will have podcasts over the next couple of days. Coach Tony is going to join us. One of those two days. We might just talk about fan stuff with him because he got he got heated with Kendrick Perkins and Michael Wilbon going off on heat fans. Make sure you guys arrive early to game three so that, you know, you don't get called out again by ESPN. All right, thanks to everybody. Yeah, he's he's prompting me discord $2.99 for months sign up for off the floor. Love y'all. Something's up one. Oh, say goodbye to your credit card rewards, greedy corporate mega stores led by Walmart and Target are pushing for a law in Congress to take away your hard earned cash back and travel points to line their pockets. The Durbin Marshall credit card bill would enact harmful credit card routing mandates that would end credit card rewards as we know it. 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