 What's the word, y'all? Before the season started, I dropped the video title something like, I'm afraid for these two teams. And in that video, I talked about the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat potentially being left behind by their competition. And we over a quarter of the way through the season and that video range true right now. The Miami Heat are 12 and 15 and the Bulls are 11 and 14. Shout out to my Bulls though. This video is not about y'all, you know what I'm saying? Currently on the win streak. But instead I wanna talk heavily about the Miami Heat because this season has been extremely confusing for me. Before we do that, let's talk about our sponsor, PrizePix. Hit the link in the description down at the PrizePix app and use CokeKinney because they're matching all the pods up to $100 for new players. PrizePix is daily fantasy that's just you versus the numbers. 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And the Heat have been a team that I've been watching, but reluctant to like have an opinion on, because bro, they have had the injury bug more than so many teams in basketball. So much so that like, Yadonis Haslam got real life play in that back-to-back against the boss of Celtics. I know it went viral, Jason Tate and blowing past Yadonis Haslam. They needed Yadonis Haslam to play a game earlier. They played against the Washington Wizards and like they has eight people. And two of those people ain't even Drew Smith. I didn't know until that point. Or Orlando, so I don't know his name to this date. So they have been in and out of the line-ups. Jimmy Butler's missed a game here. Missed a game there. Tyler Heros out with this and that. Victor Lodipo is just coming back from his injuries. So I'm watching these games like, I'mma hold my opinions. I'mma hold my opinions. It's the Miami Heat. They always figure out a way. The season feels different. And I mean different, not that I think that they're gonna continue to be a sub 500 team. They gonna miss the playoffs or even if they gonna be a lower team. But like in the form of contention. You know, this is a team that was built to be a contender. Jimmy's got all the money in the world. They paid Cal-Lauri Bama-De-Bio's to the contact, Tyler Heros got his bag, Duncan Robbs has got his bag. They paid their players because they thought that this core was gonna be good enough to compete for a championship. And last year, they almost did. Jimmy Butler took a shot in transition. I don't look back on that shot. Well, okay, you could probably look back on that shot and say it wasn't the best shot, but they were this close to being in the finals. But this team is different than that one. They have lost some of that depth. They've lost some of that productivity and you can tell every single day. I watched this game against the Spurs because it was the first game of the day. And I was blown away at how bad it really looked. And you know what, you know how bad it is because yesterday or two days ago they played against the Clippers, right? You know, I follow some people in He-Twitter or whatever. And in that Clippers game, Bama-De-Bio and Jimmy Butler ran a pick and roll and He-Twitter was on fire because they've been together for what? Three seasons, four seasons now? And they hadn't run a pick and roll. They did it twice in that game and I kept seeing the clips. Oh my God, this is about to happen. They might be finally using Jimmy as a pick and roll handler with Bam. And they didn't do it one time this game. The very next game. I didn't see it one time. Maybe I was in the bathroom and I didn't see it one single time. And the possessions that it did happen in the Clippers, I think it was literally two, led to points. And it didn't happen at all today. But it's deeper than that. The reason they're self-500 is not because Jimmy and Bam don't run enough pick and roll. It's a lot deeper than that. It's partially because the lack of depth within the organization. Today specifically, you got Jimmy Butler giving you 30. You had Tyler Hero giving you 23 on 50% shooting, 68% from three. Bam was not as aggressive today as he had been in the last couple of weeks, but you got a good Jimmy game and a good Tyler Hero game and a good shooting splits him from Kyle Lowry, against possibly the worst team in all the basketball team that was just on an 11 game. The first team that hit a double digit loser streak on the season, that alone should be enough. And they were actually missing some people today. You know what I'm saying? The Spurs were missing people today. That should be enough to beat the Spurs. But you look past that start of five, you're like, oh snap, Max screws play 15 minutes and he scored four points. I don't think he touched the floor in the second half. That's something we can talk about in a second. Victor Lodipo is coming back from his injuries. He played 20 some minutes. He tried to close out the game. He fouled out. DeWayne Detman is one of the worst backup bigs in basketball for a team that needs size. They desperately need size in this team. So you have to play DeWayne Detman. He shot one for eight from three, or one for eight from the field and 0 for three from three. And I'm pretty sure one of those three points was a complete air ball. Like it's ugly. And Duncan Robinson's got paid a lot of money and he only can play eight minutes a game and be a negative out there. They have no depth. They're second worst in basketball when it comes to bench production. And I think the only team worse than them and I'm talking just strictly points is the Portland Trailblazers. They making it work because a lot of the people off their bench are like dirty work players just as when his logo will end up with eight points, eight rebounds or four assists. So, you know, they lack a little bit of that, but at least they're making it work. The Miami Heat are not making it work right now. It can't always be just here, bro. It can't always just be bam or it can't always be just Jimmy. And that made me look into like their lineup stats. And if you look at this, these are the top lineups in basketball when it comes to point differential, countering points per possession scored versus points per possession given up. And the number one lineup is Maxie, Thibault, Harris, Tucker, and Embiid. It's pretty interesting. As you can see down here, the fourth best lineup given point differential is this Miami Heat lineup of Cal-Larry, Max Scruce, Caleb Martin, Jimmy Butler, and Bam Adebayo. They're in the 99th percentile when it comes to points per possession. And the defense ain't as good in the 50th percentile, but if you're gonna be this good, I mean, I'm assuming that they probably won't be if you do more than 120-cent possession. I'm just saying there's something here on the offensive side with this five that could be working if they play more. And what do you notice about that five? It's no Tyler Hero. The team, when Tyler Hero has started, and this is, again, I know this could be taken out of context saying that Tyler Hero's the problem because he started, he's not the problem. He's part of the problem, just like everybody else on the roster, but the lack of bench production is one of the problems. And this is one of your best lineups, makes me think that Tyler Hero maybe should be coming off the bench a little bit more. And again, some of this stuff probably is not sustained. I'm talking about the 99th percentile when it comes to point score, poor possession with this one. And that's saying a lot because the Miami Heat and the half court aren't very good. They also don't run the fast break. So the offense in completely right now is broken. When I say they don't run the fast break, I'm not joking. They are dead last in the frequency of a fast break, whether that be off transition and their 28th off live rebounds, they do not get out and push the pace. And I gotta be honest with you, even if they did turn the season around, it's hard for the way it looks currently constructed for me to ever really believe that they can be in that championship contention. I don't understand how Kyle Lawry is playing as many minutes as he has. Shout out to him. Congratulations, like he deserves a medal for the amount of minutes he's putting on his body this late in his career. But if he keeps at this pace and they do make the playoffs and they do try to make this legendary push to the finals, I can't say I believe that his body's gonna hold up. And I can say the same about a couple different people on their roster. And like I said, I do believe there's a world where they do go on a run. It's the Miami Heat. I've given them the benefit of the doubt. It's one thing I mentioned when I was doing my Eastern Conference rankings, I always give the Miami Heat the benefit of the doubt because they show us time in and time out that when it's time to win games, they find a way to do it. But right now they dug themselves into a nice little hole here and it's not looking great. So much so that I'm seeing people again that I follow within he Twitter, that's like, you know what, I've seen enough. And that's seeing a lot. The Charles Barkley went on TV and said it's time for the Miami Heat to blow it up. And again, that will be kind of crazy in my opinion. I still believe that there's something that can be done, but they got a lot of negative contracts in my opinion. And it's like, how do we turn what we have right now into a team that can win it all? Because I promise you, if you trade for Jay Crowder, that don't fix a lot of the problems. It makes you better for sure. It makes you better, but that don't fix all the problems. If you trade for Kyle Kuzma, that makes you better, but that doesn't fix all of the problems. So what can we do to keep this core of Jimmy, of Bam and Hero, because I mean, you gave Hero that money. I mean, yeah, yeah, keep him around at this point. How do we maximize it? Because Jimmy's timeline is unknown because he's getting better with time. I mean, some of the games they recently won is literally Jimmy putting on that backpack. I say, hey, I got us. Whether it be the first game back versus the Celtics or the game that I guess the Clippers where he hit a couple of possessors down the stretch where he let them to victory. He does that. Tonight, I would have loved to see him get the ball down the stretch. He did not touch the ball. But I don't know what his timeline is. How long can he keep up this elite level play? You got Bam who's young. You got Hero who's young. But what can we do to maximize the Jimmy Butler greatness? And I think that's something that Pat Riley and their front office have to figure out because if you can't maximize that and you want to just continue to run with this roster, there's a lot of teams out there that will be interested in current Jimmy Butler. That's all I'm saying. I'm always down for a blow up though. Oh, I love a team to blow it up. And I'm not saying that he should again, but oh, I just love to look at a superstar get traded, look at the value of that trade and then go back three years later. But like, dang, they gave up a lot to get Paul George. You know that type of stuff. I love it. They gave up a lot to get Vucovic on it, stuff like that. Some of them are funner than others for sure. All right, other things around the association. I tweeted earlier today that Cam Thomas is a hilarious basketball pleaser. He's not a hilarious basketball player. He's a hilarious NBA player because he's got the archetype that you see at the YMCA, that you see a lifetime, the dude that want to take all of the shots. And today he was a buck. You know what I'm saying? They ended up winning this game where they sought every single starter. And I felt bad for the Indiana Pacer fans that went there to go see KD or Kairi because obviously KD and Kairi are a show and they ended up with this game. But it ended up being a good game. But like, if you wanted to see KD and ended up with a Cam Thomas game, I would be kind of hot. But Cam is the only dude that's like high mid-range value and a guy that doesn't play. You know what I'm saying? Usually we talk about people that take a majority of their shots to mid-range. We talk about the book. We talk about KD. We talk about DeMar DeRosen. We talk about Chris Paul when he's hitting. Like we talk about some of the all-star Cali players. You don't see people in the tier of Cam Thomas that's taking shots like that. And this might feel that I might, you know what I'm saying, offensive people when I say this. When I watch Cam Thomas, you know he reminds me of, he reminds me of Antonio Blakeney. He's better. He's a better version. But like I watched Antonio Blakeney in Chicago for two seasons. This is that. We're like, I ain't gonna get a lot of minutes but when I do get my minutes, I'm gonna get my shots off. And they're gonna be heavily contested. And they might fall. They failed today for Cam, but throughout the season, they have not failed. Watch Denver versus Utah. And I mentioned in my ad that Aaron Gordon didn't get his over. He missed all of his three-point shots. I'm not mad at you, Aaron. But they subbed into this game. Yolkic, Gordon and Murray together. It was like a mass sub. And on the broadcast, they said, all right, the big three is back. I was like, oh snap. Aaron Gordon is getting put into a big three conversation. And it makes sense in the context of their organization. He's having one of the best seasons of his career, if not the best season of his career. 42% from three is something he's never even been close to in his lifetime. And that's included in him being a bad corner shooter. He's shooting 21% from the corners and anything non-corner related, he's shooting 52%. Now, I'm gonna remind you through the first like two weeks of the season, he could have hit a goddamn shot. So you'd start off with terrible shooting and then he got hot, hot, hot. And now he cannot miss. So you know what? Call it a big three if you want to forget it. I'm here for it. And they ended up winning. Nicole Yolkic is insane. And Jamal Murray's got his confidence back at the game a couple of days ago. And today he came into this game with his chest out and he's playing the best basketball sets, the injury, which is perfect. You know what else is perfect? The record of Steph Curry and Clay Thompson both putting up 30. What is it 14 and no or something like that? They have not lost the game where both Clay and Steph have put up 30. And the entirety of them being together was a crazy stat. The NBA Finals rematch didn't live up to the hype. They had moments in it where it was exciting but for the most part, the goal to stay where it's dominated night in, night out. Jonathan Camingo, when he's given the minutes, he's consistently show like, hey, I can play at this level. He got the crazy dunk on Tatum in this game, which was really fun. And James Wiseman got sit back to the G. So that's kind of something. All right, that's raps. I'm gonna try my hardest now that I'm back. I don't think I have any trips into all-star weekend. I'm gonna try my absolute hardest to try to get y'all content here every single day. The problem is when I leave, these videos are so like reactionary that if I'm in Atlanta, I can't really film for this channel. I can film for my other channels. I can film six days in advance for it, but these are so reactionary because the NBA's changing every single day. And I felt bad going away for three days and not having any content for y'all. So my apologies, you know what I'm saying? Money calls, I had to go, you know what I'm saying? I'm under contract. But we back and I don't have to go anywhere to all-star. So I'm gonna try to keep myself accountable. Tweet at me if I don't upload because y'all can hold me accountable too.