Christmas Day | Miami Heat 119-113 Philadelphia 76ers: Quick Takes
It’s gold for five on the floor on the Five Reasons YouTube channel after the Miami Heat beat the Philadelphia 76ers 119 to 113 on Christmas Day Eric spoler is now 9 and0 on Christmas the Heat win without Jimmy Butler Haywood heith Josh Richardson and then Caleb Martin for
Most of this game of course Philadelphia did not have Joel embiid on the other side but the key stories tonight one what they did to Tyrese Maxi who was four of 20 from the field also haime Hopkins 31 points 10 rebounds in his first Christmas Day game babio also had
It double double Tyler hero had some struggles in this game there were some good pack patches but a lot of turnovers late ended up eight of 24 from the field but but Alex I me with Alex too can follow the tra of the legan I mean again
The big story today to me what everybody’s going to take from this is the Miami got an absolute steal in the first round nothing is too big for Hae Haws I’ve said it over and over reminds me of Dwayne Wade as a rookie like just again no moment is too big and every
Time we think okay this is where he’s gotten to sort of the ceiling this season he blows that away the next week I thought they did a good job on Maxi having to use guys like RJ Hampton and Jamal Kane but your overall takeaway from tonight it’s hard to not start off
With hockets like it’s it’s hard to not start there just cuz like you said every time you think you you’ve got them figured out it’s like no actually uh he’s going to keep outdoing your expectations and every time he’s asked to come in and step up and do more which
Is where a lot of times I feel like the wards start showing up with guys who aren’t used to the you know the bigger role the higher usage that’s not really been the case with hakin like he had a couple of bad you know bad for his
Standards um games when Tyler first came back but I don’t I never really was too concerned about him I I like we we talked about it on the five on the FL episode that um he might have less of these games when the team is fully healthy and there’s just less shots um
To go around but when a guy is out in this situ ation like you feel great about a rookie being able to come in and be an actual fact simile of Jimmy Butler that’s an insane thing to say like we we would say that about Caleb and I feel
Hakin is actually more that like he’s giving you the scoring he’s giving you the playmaking he’s giving you the defense and getting to the free throw line looking like a veteran out there he looks like he’s been doing this for years and it’s insane the level you can
Do this at on a night toight basis and then you start talking about Duncan and like those two guys are they’re reason that this team feels fresh this season and the reason that they can have nice like this where maybe the defense isn’t absolutely on point I thought it was
Good good enough to win but their offense has just been better this season and I think Hawkin and Duncan are the two biggest reasons and those two guys that maybe been your most consistent players all season well I’m glad you mentioned Duncan because he has been their best clutch player I don’t think
There’s any question about it he makes to two threes late in the game today also he wasn’t out there for that third quarter run where Philadelphia raced a 21-point lead so that was was not on him I thought SP did a really good job of managing things tonight considering how
Short-handed he was and again no embiid it’s a different game but when you do that to Tyrese Maxi who’s been giving people 30 35 40 points on a pretty consistent basis this season MBI wasn’t out there Maxi wanted to take over this game he couldn’t they did a good job on
Him but again the story tonight hakz big shots from Duncan enough plays from bam and yes Tyler did some things although I think this is one he likely want to forget as we go forward but the heat go out on the west coast 18 and 12 tough road trip coming up but you’ll
Take it Ethan scolnick and Alex too here at Casa Center Merry Christmas
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Players for players,heat better than sixers.Theres no way!!
Great job, guys. MERRY CHRISTMAS.
man i thought the same thing he is the first person who compares him to wade as far as being so mature and ahead of his game wow good comparison
We’re going to start having the conversation early about jjj in the starting lineup just imo
JJJ keep playing like this Herro gone this team not championship caliber yet . Duncs and Caleb will be included just have to find the right move . Jimmy said it this team mid have to make a move soon .