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Someone tweeted at me, my Twitter account, Five Reason Sports, and at the Five on the Floor account. You can always check out the Five on the Floor account. Actually, Sean Rochester runs that. I don't know if people know that. That's the five OTF underscore account. So you should be subscribed to that, not subscribe, but following that as well as Five Reason Sports, the only reason we're here is because someone named Joel Prieto tweeted, "No basketball content in and in between playoff off day is unacceptable. Can I expect something tonight at least?" So I'm going to respond. I'm going to return. Holding us accountable. Holding us accountable in a way that you don't hold spoke accountable. Yes. And you'll be mentioned. Here we go. So here's today's floor plan. We don't really have a plan. We discussed today what we were going to do. And I just can't blow smoke up for everybody's ass. That's basically where I'm at with this. I mean, we could do an episode about Xs and O's and what they can change. And I will allow... Thanks, Greg. I will allow Alex. And by the way, I have Alex Lita. You can follow the Tropical Blanket and Greg Savannah. You can follow me at Greg Savannah. I will allow Alex. I'll give you three minutes later, sometime in this episode, to exit out a way to get this thing more interesting. That's fine. Okay. But look, I mean, I think we have to accept some reality in this situation. They are overmatched. And I think what we saw, I give them credit for their fight in that first game. We address this, and we'll get to the fight specifically as we go forward. But I mean their effort in terms of getting back into that game and scrambling with different rotations and some of the things that obviously Hawkez did in particular, and then Delon Wright late and everything. We have questions about why Kevin Love didn't play more. There's basketball stuff we can do. And I give them credit, again, for getting themselves back into that thing. But I think what we saw early in the game is kind of what this is. Like, this is, you know, the heat, or they're without their two linchpins offensively, really. I mean, and I know people would say, well, it should be Tyler Hero, and that's another conversation. But the guy who can make something out of nothing on this team is Terry Rosier. And the guy who settles everything down for this team is Jimmy Butler. And they don't have either of them. And they've got Duncan Robinson. And it's hard for me to watch Duncan at this stage. Like, they've got Duncan playing at like 30%. Like, he does not look anything like, like, I mean, it looks worse than the player we saw prior to his revival at the end the last year. And it's not his fault. I mean, he's dealing with the back injuries never dealt with before. And it's not ideal for the future either. So it's just almost an impossible task. And so Greg, I kind of wanted to get into some of the narrative stuff on this series, because I'm following everything all this. I go to you. I'll give Alex this three minutes later, and it'll be just that prepare soliloquy on on X's and O's and what Spoke could do to get the thing that this back into this thing. Take notes. All right, exactly. It's of this question of them all. I'm holding you accountable to do what Lisa's goodness Spoke would do. Okay. But Greg, I mean, the stuff that's been coming out about this organization from the media over the past, I can't get over it. Like this Brian Scalabrini thing, and I recommend everybody check out the video that I did. I did a six and a half minute screed on this already. So I'll let you going on it. It's I'm so tired. Okay. And look, it's not our job to do the bidding of the Miami heat organization, but it's our job to call bullshit bullshit. All right. And I'm so tired of people who don't follow this team. Don't know anything about it. Don't have any access to it. Just say he culture and then they mock that, right? And don't know the people in it in particular. And to come out today, okay, for Brian Scalabrini, who was a bit player in Boston, I've been on his show on Sirius XM and being radio. He's on there with ISO. I've known ISO for 25 years. ISO is a troll. Okay. Good guy in real life. Okay. But he trolls he fans all the time. For him to come out today and or yesterday and then repeat it and double down on the laboratory show that Eric Spolstra, okay, who has been coaching since 2008, who has never once been accused of being like a coach who does and uses dirty tactics. Okay, by anybody credible, who is the lead assistant on the Olympic team, meaning that he coaches Jason Tatum and Drew Holiday, among others, okay, who was just named in an anonymous poll from players, although not so anonymously from Josh Hart, who wanted to go on the record, as the coach they would most want to play for. Okay, okay, to accuse that coach of calling a timeout at the end of the game to send to call a code red, like from a few good men, okay, okay, like he's Jack Nicholson, call a code red to go put a hit on Jason Tatum and use Caleb Martin with his underman. Let's just get as underman is the heater already. Let's go Caleb Martin suspended one of our starters who had a great series against Boston last year was almost Easter Crotz files of MVP. Don't send Thomas Brian. Don't don't send someone send Caleb Martin out there, ignoring, okay, that's for whatever reason, decided to use a challenge with a minute and a half left because he can only use challenges in the last two minutes. Apparently, we've talked about that over the past few years. He used the challenge, which is the reason for the timeout. And then true holiday pushed Kayla, it's right there on the video, push Caleb Martin in the back, okay, into Jason Tatum. It just, to me, it's the capper and we'll get into some of the others on a week of just ridiculous, ridiculous media bullshit from the likes of Wilbon, Perkins, and all the rest of them, who frankly, the mind, he should not speak to any of these people in any capacity ever again. Loud mouse who know nothing about what goes on in Miami, and it's so evident when you hear them speak, they just parachute in one day, say one thing, and then parachute back out and go enter the hot take cannon and shoot it off at another organization. Just absolute garbage, what he had to say, scalloprene, and anybody else who insinuated that there was any code read, how dramatic are we getting? Can people just relax for five seconds with the code read stuff from Spo? Spo is not doing that. He's one of the most like, if you talk about a guy who's going to uphold the beauty and integrity of the game of basketball, it is Eric Spolstra. What are we talking about people? So to me, it's completely ridiculous. These are people that are talking a bunch of bullshit just to hear themselves speak, I apologize for cursing, but that's just what it is. And I, you get to a point where you understand why they cover the same teams over and over again, and they're ignorant to what goes on throughout the rest of the league. It becomes really apparent come playoff time. When you get guys behind microphones and they say the kind of dumb stuff that was mentioned this week about Spolstra and code Reds and Caleb Martin. If any player, Caleb Martin is one of the few guys playing that's going to play 40 minutes. Can we at least pick a guy who's going to play spot minutes? I mean, it's just total, it's insane. That's how he goes out there. Like, what are you doing? Like, if Spo is calling a code read, I mean, he's calling the wrong number. Like, I don't, I don't understand it. And you know, look, the heat use Spo, when you come to the arena, Alex, you see this all while you're using late, but when you come to the arena, I'm sorry, when you come to the arena, a few minutes before tip, okay, there's a video about how to conduct yourself in the stands and to make it a good experience for everybody. You know, who does the voiceover of that video? Eric Spolstra, okay? Like, yeah, I know you've never seen it. Well, that's also what you're avoiding eating in the media room. But yeah, look, the idea again, that you're going to go after Spo and this, this, I think, okay, what we saw today, and we'll try to get into some basketball in this pod. All right, but like, I think what you saw today was people who know Spo rallying to his defense, and I'm not going to apologize for it. I'm sorry. Sedano did, Tim Reynolds did, I did, if you've been around Spo long enough, okay, the one thing that you know beyond everything is what a compassionate human being is. And I, I don't, I'm not going to get into specifics here. I've done it before, but I know things he's done for me, as in someone who's a business associate of his, basically in that capacity, okay, and things he's done for others that I know, and, and things he's done for his players, things he's done for people inside that organization, he is a good person first. And I, this idea, again, that he would do that, even in the heat of competition, it doesn't even make any sense. Like, I don't know why you would do that. Look, all the heat are trying to do, and I said this on the video, okay, play as hard as a fucking cat right now. That's it. Like, just play hard, just play hard and see what happens. Like, that, they know they're, they're up against it, okay, just play hard. And when you play hard, things are going to happen, especially when you're pushed in the back, especially when you push in the back, like, nobody's going to have to drew today, like, and say, okay, look, whatever, it got a little chippy at the end, right? To accuse again, and Drew is known as one of the best people in the game also, by the way, okay, I think you have to take that into some context. So, anyway, that's where I'm at with it. The other stuff that came out this week, the thing about Wilbon and Perkins going after heat fans for not being there seven o'clock on a Friday night, I mean, seriously, I live in Fort Lauderdale. If I don't lead by four, I won't be there, okay, until seven o'clock, okay, this is not happening. And that's the case. It's an arena that's built on the bay. It's very nice for aesthetic purposes. It sucks for access purposes. There are three ways you can't get into that arena. There's only one way to go, right? 597 consecutive sellouts. They get there somehow, right? They get there somehow, okay? But it's not easy. No, and if you are not, and if you can't pay a discounted rate at bay side, okay, which we get, okay, as we pay, but we have a discounted rate, you are searching for parking all over the place. Miami City planning sucks. The public transportation sucks. One of the trains you're going to take is probably going to kill three people on the way down there. It is not, sorry, well, they never sponsored us. It is not an ideal situation, okay, to get to that arena. And by the way, when you're trying to get into the arena itself, it's one of the slowest processes I've ever seen. It really is. Like the dolphin, it's better at the stadium, honestly. It's gotten since COVID, it's gotten really bad. And I'll just say that flat out. They need to fix that, okay? And then when you come in, then everybody goes to the concession stands, which I will tell you are among the slowest in the entire league. I've been around the entire league. So all of these things come together. So who gets blamed the fans? And that was bullshit. And the other thing that was bullshit, I'm sorry, is Patrick Perkins, if the heat make every shot, well, did you see this one? This is the one that that Sean went after, or Sean Rochester went after. If they make every 2.3 point shot, they're still going to get swept. No, Kendrick math. If they make every 2.3 point shot, they will likely win, okay? As would the Detroit Pistons, as would the Sacramento Kings, as would the Atlanta Hawks, as would, you know, the new, the Washington Generals. If you make every shot, you're going to win. This is what happens. And after the break, we will get into some actual analysis, okay? And I'm going to let Alex take it. This is what happens when you don't follow a team. You have nothing to say. You have nothing to say. They don't know anything about any of these players. They have basically been following three teams the entire season, maybe four, because Steven A talks about the Knicks. They talk about a Lakers team that's likely going to get swept, okay? They talk about a Warriors team that's already in Cancun. And they talk about the Celtics, and then again, the Knicks. That's it. They have not followed any other teams. They can't tell you anything about Shagielus Alexander. They can't tell you anything. They have the Nuggets. Do you think they know any of these people even know who Peyton Watson is when he's their sixth man now or seventh man now? And this is the champions. All right, it's disgusting coverage. And it is a Northeast thing. Sirius XM NBA, which I've been on is populated with New Yorkers and Bostonians. We've talked about the ring around the off season, which was anti heat on the entire thing, mostly Bostonians and New Yorkers. Okay. And ESPN is all Boston, New York and LA. That's where they're all from. Okay. We've got two people from this area in South Florida who happened to be two of my good friends who still work at ESPN. You don't see them on those shows. They were both at the game the other night, but you don't see them at those on those shows. Okay. So I just wanted to get that off my chest. After the spots, we'll talk basketball. We do have some good news today. This is the thing that may be happy while following all of their coverage prize fixes back in the state of Florida. We told you we weren't lying. We absolutely told you that this was going to happen now. It's going to be a little bit different. Okay. Same code five FIVE. Get that initial deposit matched up to $100. That is the same. Okay. 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Use the code FIVRSN. Every day we rise, challenging ourselves to work for what we believe in. At US border patrol, protecting our borders is more than a job. It's a calling. Agents answer the call, working together to keep our country and community safe. If you're ready for a new mission, join US border patrol and go beyond. Learn more at cpp.gov/careers. All right, Alex. Other than all this stuff that's going on off the court, tell me how the he make it interesting. Like I said earlier, this is the toughest question of them all. I can do as much stalling for time as I want to, and I'm still not going to come up with a solid answer. Let me know if I need to go get a soda. Am I good? A little less? You're good. You're good. I think, honestly, there's a lot of things that they can do better. That doesn't mean they're going to win the series. They're almost definitely not going to win the series. A miracle would have to happen. An actual miracle from God himself would have to happen. And I'm not getting religious here just objectively for them to win the series. That's where I'm at. Right? Like they're clearly overmatched. They're not supposed to win. I love, you know, we love that they love being backed into a corner and that they can perform well in those circumstances. You know, that's great and all, but usually that's what Jimmy Butler in the lineup, not to mention Terry's not there. Duncan is obviously not himself. That's like damn near three-fourths of your shot creation right there. Like there's a whole lot they have to make up for with the guys that they have missing. What you can't do is start off the game, first of all, how you did the other night, where whatever it was, 12-0 to start off the game. And a lot of it was the heat playing kind of, you know, bad offensive process, which is what ended up getting them their first two buckets with BAM because he was just kind of reading the match of playing one-on-one and breaking the eyes there. But that for the beginning of the game, and then, of course, throughout the rest of the game, like there was the offensive process. It's just not good. And it's easier said than done. You can't just say number one, fix the offensive process. How? Right? Without Duncan, without Terry, you know, I should say without Duncan looking like himself, without Terry, without Jimmy, how do you do that? I think, you know, you can even point to better ball and player movement. That's always the thing you can point to. How do you create better ball movement where the Celtics actually have to rotate and scramble? I think those are the real questions that, you know, Spoho has probably been staying up the past couple of days for just trying to figure out answers to. And it's like, there is no easy answer because they're playing BAM one-on-one, right? They're kind of like, you know, you don't have a lot of great three-point shooting threats. You're missing a lot of them. BAM is somebody who wants to, you know, take his mitties and if not, is a screen enroller. So it's not like he is this dynamic one-on-one player who is always going to create good shots, right? So they can afford to play one-on-one. And the Tyler thing, like, you know, Drew Holiday made it really hard for me the other day and he's got to be better. No, yeah, he's got to be better. And I think he will be. I don't think he's going to have his bad of a game in game two. But there is nothing there easy for them, right? Like there was some wide open shots that Tyler missed in that game, but most of the shots he was thinking were not like it was not great looks. And he wasn't forcing bad ones. I think he had to get up some shots. But like, he is in such a bad position, right? And I think I mentioned this on playback as well. He, every, all of us know, right? Tyler Herofans, non-Tyler Herofans, all of us know he is not a number one option, especially without a button, like other guys who can support him. They're in a really bad position and they're going to have to find creative solutions to overcome this. They're going to have to find a way to move the ball more and then on defense, I think that's the stuff that there's real upside for. Because on offense, you could go, you know, play more Kevin Love, play more Yovitch and kind of have them have the ball a little bit too, more cutting, things like that. I think you can do that if, you know, again, like I mentioned on the show, you have to play a low turnover game and you have to be turning them over. Now, how do you turn them over, right? I think you got to go back to some of that man stuff and kind of the regular help defense principles that they ran in the past, heat Celtics matchups. I think, you know, and Cooper Moorehead, who does fantastic work, mentioned this in his article, there's a reason, right, that they didn't play a lot of zone against the Celtics this year, right? It's a tough matchup to play zone against because they're playing five out now with Porzingis, which by the way, Yovitch is really upfront about this after the game, you know, saying that like having Porzingis there makes it a lot harder for them. He straight up said it was a lot easier last year because there was no, you know, five out big who can also post up a mismatch. And even though it's a, you know, he just shoots over you, it's not like a post hook or anything and not backing you down. Porzingis will take advantage of that. So there's no easy solution to switch that, right? If you're zoning, you put Porzingis in the middle of the zone and they were finding easy looks over and over again, especially when the heat were doubling out of the zone. I don't want to see that not for a single possession in this game. I don't want to see them double out of a zone like early on in a possession until like maybe somebody gets beat and they have to, right? I don't want to see that at all. I think you have to play a really, really disciplined defensive game. You can't turn the ball over. You probably play, play less zone and try not to over help early in the shot clock. And you honestly, you got to trust your defenders a little bit more. You got to trust your haywoods and your bams. You know, maybe you go to more Yovitch guarding Porzingis for this, bam guarding Tatum. Like you show that look just to throw something different out there. When your positive defenders are out there, you got to trust them. I think sometimes they, like, they lean back into their over help principles. And it's like, it doesn't create, you know, good. It's not a good solution, right? Because it's creating great looks for the Celtics. Not good looks, great looks. They're getting wide open shots, right? Like you have to prevent those wide open looks. You have to let Tatum and Brown play one on one. You have to let Porzingis play one on one at some point, like versus like their actual primary matchups, not versus mismatches. I think you got to trust your defenders, you know, play a disciplined defense where you're still helping, but you're not over helping early in the shot clock. And I think after that, you live with the results. You hope that the Celtics are complacent, have a bad shooting night, which happens with three point shooting variants. They've got a lot of great shooters, but they can have a bad shooting night. You know, if you turn them over, which is hard to do without Jimmy getting his like three playoff steals a game, right? I think that is the blueprint. Now, maybe that gets you a game. Again, maybe, maybe just maybe you can get to. But for now, you just have to worry about getting one. They're not going to win the series. Just get one. They can do better than what they didn't game. Don't let us don't let us get one. You mentioned the turnovers. They didn't have a live ball turnover in the game, I don't think. I went back and looked after we talked about it yesterday. You can't create easy opportunities. You can't get live ball turnovers. And you mentioned that the Celtics were eating off in the beginning. Well, you mentioned the three-point shooting, too. If you take Tatum's one for eight out, the other seven guys in the Celtics rotation, because they only played eight. The seven guys who played, they all made at least two threes, and none of them shot worse than 40%. Like, it wasn't like one guy. It's like, it was literally ever, and we do have to give the Celtics credit. And see, this is the thing about it, Greg, as I pivot back here, that is frustrating about this, is I don't think any of us is trying to diminish this team that the Celtics have put together. They made a very smart trade for Porzingis, worked out better than I thought it was going to work out. He's been great for them. And Drew Holliday was gifted to them, basically, by Joe Cronin. So great. You take advantage of it. Fantastic. Brad Stevens has done a hell of a job. There's no way around. And he'd have great respect for Brad Stevens, by the way. I know that I used to see any time you would be at Summer League, I would be Summer League in Vegas. Stevens was sitting with Riley. I know the age Riley thing. But since Stevens has ascended into that front office, and look, give them credit too with the Odoka situation, we know how good a coach Odoka is. We saw that this year with Houston, and obviously Missoula has grown into the role in some capacity to be able to put this thing together. We'll see if they can win a title. I still think the Nuggets win the championship. But I want to give them credit, but it's the other stuff that's got me. It's their fans, who are just being ridiculous. It's the media, it's the national media. The crumbling and big moments. Right. And it's like the Jason Tatum anointing too, because I'll just say this. He's a very good player. But he's not that guy. I'm sorry. He's not that guy in the sense of when you go into a series. If you're talking about a guy who's a top five player in the league. If the he were going to a series against Luca, I'd be scared to death of Luca. Shit, I'd be scared to death a Shay for what we saw with him this year. Scared to death a Yogic. It's even Embiid if you saw that. I mean, Tatum's really good. One way to be scared to be Tatum and BAM and SPO, then I could be scared of Tatum. Well, I know. Well, see, we're going to have to change all this. We're going to have to lead all this when he wants to come to Miami in a couple of years. But again, SPO tried to take him out, right? Like say he said Caleb Martin, not a red on a code red. Okay. You can't handle the truth, Greg. Celebrating told us the truth. You can't handle it. That's gusting. That's supposed to be dangerous, sending out trying to main people. He told Drew to push Caleb into Jason Tatum. Right, because he's going to be coaching Drew in the Olympics. So he told Drew, he said, you know, he'd go out there and you're going to take Tatum out, you know, and then you'll get more shots because that is true. Yeah, because Drew only took eight shots in the game. So he would have gotten more shots if Tatum wasn't going one of eight from three, right? So take him out. It's just it's just moronic and it's ridiculous. And I'm glad, by the way, and I'll mention this now that the game is going to be back on Valley Sports on Wednesday. So we will have that on our playback feed as we're following the game. You can listen to that in the background. You can listen to us. We appreciate everybody who was with us for the entire game. Also, we do want to mention on playback playback.tv/5RSN. We are following other games. So I know if you listen to this tonight, some of the guys are going to be watching the Nick Sixers game on there. So you may have to deal with some nicks and Sixers fans, but you can at least watch with with Matt, eternal Ray and the rest of our group on there. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Tony Ferrantino will be joining. So we'll talk to coach Tony. Honestly, I had scheduled this a week ago. We had to push it back. It's the perfect timing. Like literally, like the topics we talked about today, Tony went after what are you going after? He went after Kendrick Perkins. He will not hold back about this stuff. He is the professional voice of the Heat fan. So we'll have coach Tony on tomorrow. Eric Reid would say similar things when they'd be said in a lot nicer way than Tony would. All right, Alex, we appreciate you giving us the reasons that they may be able to get a game. Greg, you mentioned it. I'll finish here. I'll let you maybe close it here. I mean, all the things we talk about, the one guy who needs to get his shit together by Wednesday is Tyler Hero, right? Like that's the one? Yes. I mean, if you have one guy with the most stake on the team and his standing with the team, it's Tyler Hero and it starts game too. Yeah. All right. So we'll see what happens there. So I don't want to say anything we neglected it. We hit on it the other night. And obviously, he's got to be better in game too. Just no way around it. However, they get him free, whether it's off the ball or whatever, he needs to perform. And he has at times come back. We saw him doing it in the playing game, but it hasn't happened yet. You're shaking your head, Alex? Alex hates that narrative. No, no, no, it's not the narrative. It's just like just hearing you talk about like everything Tyler asked. I'm just like, Oh, man, this is just not a good game. And it's just like another like, it's a better version of game one where it's not good. But and but maybe it's not terrible. Like that's not going to do it either. He's going to get so much backlash regardless. So it just makes me realize a little bit because he was bad. He can't be that he can't continue being that bad. There's there's no Alex. What is what is what is better for him? What is better for him? Ultimately, I hate to put it in these what is better for him. It could be that he's supposed to be in, which is guys were healthy, right? It's just not right, I know or catches you. But that's not what I mean. I'm not. I'm not going to exit on with you here at the end of it. I mean, he's not a number one option. It's not even next to the nose. He's in such a position that I don't think he's going to be successful in and he's doing it against perhaps the, you know, the second best team in the league, the team with the best record and the, you know, no holes on defense. Like good luck, Tyler. What do you think would be better? This is the question I'm trying to get at. I'll let you both answer this. What is better for him in terms of perception and what he's going to hear? Is it better for him if he just gets hurt in game three? Oh God. Or more if he just can't ever break loose against this team playing healthy together. You can't get hurt again. Play healthy. Yeah, that's just not going to make anything better. It's just going to bring back the other narrative. Like I'm saying, he's, he can't win either way in the position he's in right now. But, uh, no, he's got, I feel, I feel, the thing about Tyler that I will say is he is endlessly professional about certain things and he's really just, again, we don't know these guys that well, but he's always seemed like a good person to me. And I saw him the other day after the game in the, in the locker room and there was a crowd waiting to talk to him and he had his feet in the tub and all that. So we were surrounding him. And Eric Glass, who's an assistant for the heat, of course, came in and he had his son there. And Tyler was just, the kid was a cute kid, obviously. And the kid was like, the kid was like, yeah, I said, Tyler said I haven't seen you in a while and all the rest of this. And the kid was basically like doing an interview. He was like, you know, he was essentially like, I guess, and Tyler's like, what can I do better? You know, he's like, well, you had a double, double, you know, so maybe you could hit more threes. And it's just like, I'm just watching Tyler there and I'm watching the way that he's on this with us and the pressure. Well, yeah, maybe he should be interviewing instead of us because he's, he was holding him accountable. But I, I'm watching this and I'm just like, he really, he's really treated people the right way. He's handled the situation, I think really well, what he's had to deal with. But you're right, man, right now, it's just a no wind deal. Like, I mean, unless he comes out and squirts 35 and they win, and then people are going to complain, he took too many shots. Like, it's just, it's, it's tough right now. It's tough. It's tough all over. Brian Scalabrini apologized to Eric Spolster. Stat. Have a good day, everybody. Thank you for listening to the five on the floor on the fibers and sports network. After all, someone needs to listen to my dad. Honda you want is here. So drive in the moment with the versatile Honda CR-V or a cord, all from the 2023 Kelly Blue Book's KBB.com best value brand. For a limited time, well-qualified buyers can get a 3.9% APR on a 2024 Honda Accord and a 2.9% APR on a 2024 CR-V. See dealer for financing details based on 2023 brand image words from Kelly Blue Book, visit kbb.com for more information. Looks like you need a vacation. Enter the five-hour energy, where will the tide take you sweepstakes? 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