Bam Adebayo is CLUTCH!!! – NBA Gametime reacts to Adebayo scores 21 Pts as Heat beat Magic 99-96
Their 22nd Game of the Year both teams coming in with identical records in robberts leading them and scoring myami is just an incredible story just because it seems like every year we don’t talk about them and then in the playoffs they just become dominant they like it that way it it
Feels like that’s going to happen again we’re not talking about Miami at all we talked about them a lot in the summer when they were part of the Damen Lillard talks and all that sort of stuff going on with the rumors didn’t happen you know see Jimmy Butler has missed six
Straight game they just continue to roll excuse Organization no excuse culture next man up literally and also is this them versus the world and they’re going to play defense they’re gonna be in better shape than most teams they G to play hard and it’s they look at it as if
Somebody’s out we called you a number you should be ready to play we’re not saying how skilled you’re not going to be Jimmy Butler but you need to come in and be ready to play Miami Heat basketball you’re going to defend you’re going to defend and you’re going to play
The game the right way on the offensive end think about this sometimes the best trades are the one that don’t happen look at what they would have gave up to get damiel Lillard and now Jimmy Butler’s missing games Dam’s missed some games where would they be look at this
Rookie he’s third in the rookie ladder right now he would have been gone D now now you’re talking about Dame little who’s about to turn 34 this kid is a young man you then you would have lost Tyler hero so think about it it was a blessing in disguise that that trade did
Not go through this a good basketball team if can just stay afloat without Jimmy and they can figure out something the rumor is they’re trying to pull Donovan Mitchell away from Cleveland if they add a athlete and a score like Donovan Mitchell to that basketball team
I’m not saying they can win the East but I’m gonna say this everybody else in the East gonna be afraid to play him because they’ve seen what Miami can do and I want say last thing they really believe that stuff when they say our culture I’ve talked to Coach SPO when they’ve
Been losing and you look him in the eye he don’t Flinch he believes it and I’m telling you man if you believe it when the playoff time comes they really believe they can go to another level and why not they’ve done it year in and year out and not only that everybody else
Believes it what they do is there’s training camp but it’s what they do in the Summers before training camp that get them where they are ready they develop all year long and the coaches don’t have them they have their players their player Le far as getting together
Getting in shape everybody but say this it’s easy to get them to come back and hang out in Miami in off season am I right or wrong Smith I mean people going to Miami anyway but but I will tell you it ain’t easy oh no the work ain’t
Everybody can’t play in Miami now it’s not for everybody but it’s a lot easier when you say hey guys come on back down in Miami for two weeks and we going to get some work in and then we get to work in we we on the beach we’re doing this
We’re doing that in some of the other cities man come on I in the summertime it’s hot everywhere though yeah but it ain’t Miami hey man it’s hot in Columbus Georgia but I don’t want to be in Columbus i’ rather be in Miami and upset uh B is it fair to say
He’s having the best season of his career you know I think so I mean I mean the reason why I love him is this offense has went to another level you know I mean and it’s been getting better and better and better and obviously I think without Jimmy he has to be that
First option but there’s no drop off in his defense and Sam better said the best he’s available he plays night in and night out and you just don’t he is when you start to talk about guys as the Miami Heat lifers UD and go down bam is
In that category right now start if he can play some more years he is all heat lifer he’s a heat lifer Eric sprouster coming off again that huge contract 8 years $120 million and I heard I heard this on a podcast I wish I could remember what podcast it was to give
Them credit but they talked about a draft if you had a draft for coaches and you had your team you’re starting your team and you wanted one coach to start your team in the league today be number one because if you watch him how he goes about his work right he’s he’s very
Methodical he understands what he’s doing he knows how to talk to all kind of players right the relationships and the culture that he’s built and this is what Miami Heat does better than any team they pick they do a great job of picking guys mentally who fit their culture
Think about this if they pick you very rarely do they have to get rid of guys if they bring you in they’ve done their research you fit that culture and they would tell you they would look you it’s the only organization in the league that say this everybody can’t play for us we
Don’t want everybody so you got to have a certain mentality to play for us and Smith has said it it ain’t always about Talent it’s about this yeah I I think the one thing is you know just watching everybody they draft or pick up all of them compete everybody come out and
Compete H has this young kid I mean has some games where he played well offensively and but every night it’s like he’s in the mix boxing out hard rebounding running I like all the young players and they all get better let’s me it they don’t develop that in Miami
They’re like that when they draft him that’s what’s good about it they do their homework this kid you said that you loved him ever since he was a sophomore cuz he I saw a story on him High School hardest worker hardest player College hardest worker hardest player that’s why Miami drafted him
Because his his bio says first thing he’s a hard worker second he’s mentally tough and then third he’s talented that’s REM he got I have to ask you this sorry to get off on the tangent of Bill where’s all this if you played four years you don’t you know you don’t draft
A guy four years what does that what do that mean okay this he’s only what 22 23 so he don’t have no more potential Calvin Booth explained it to me like this he said the reason you look at a guy that’s two years younger just think of it like
This that Talent those two years that he grows it normally takes a year or two to learn how to play in the NBA so if you take a guy that’s 19 where those two years of development now he’s 21 look how many more years you take a guy
That’s 21 22 now he’s 23 24 so they look at it from that standpoint just look at all the time and more time he got the growth and if you’re a player you want to come in younger why those two you get the free agency younger you get that
Second contract younger and it quite possibly put you in line to get a third byed Apple so the younger you come in but if I’m drafting I want this kid but think about but if I’m drafting 15 a lore I’m G to look at guys who’ve been
In college three or four years why they come in their adults they’re more ready to play they’re more mature their game is more ready because they’ve been in the gym for 4 years working on their game they’re older so again my strategy would be if I’m drafting top top of the
Draft I may look young but if I’m drafting 15 or in the 20s I’m looking at guys who spent four years in college remember now Dame Lillard spent four years at Weber State I’ll take him think about that now CJ McCullum was another guy that stayed four years in college
Right so again just depending on where you’re drafting Stephen and then Steve also where your team is if you’re not ready to win you take the younger guy if you’re ready to win you take the older guy but you you should be always trying
To win I I that’s me you know what I mean if you’re ready to win you’re trying to win but you’re not ready to win I understand Charlotte ain’t ready to win right now right yeah so I ain’t goingon to draft no losers no but you you know you draft a younger guy
Thinking I driving the winners you play hard but you know you draft some young guys for some winning programs all right on the flip side of things things with Orlando they kind of cooled off a bit since having that nine game winning streak last month but they’re also
Dealing with some big time injuries you know France vogner’s been out Wendell Carter Jr Joe Engles the list goes on Gary Harris yeah I mean they they they’ve had so many so many injuries but I still dowi like the way they’re competing so I look at that loser streak
For them as it’s just because of injuries they might have lost those game but it’s hard to evaluate a team you have three four five year key players out Jonathan Isaac has been out in and out a lot and I like when he was playing defensively he was guarding but
Orlando’s still in eighth place but I but what separates eth through about five it’s a lot of games man a lot of games left yeah four or five games to make up again you it’s not like the other team’s trying to lose it’s not
Like they going to lose 10 in a row and let you catch up they’re trying to win games also and then you got to go on the winning streak and this the thing Smitty every people don’t understand if you’re a winning team playing a losing team you
Hate to lose to those teams it just drives you crazy to lose to a team that’s below you so the good teams get up to play the losing teams Paulo banero is he an All-Star for you yes I mean I you know I haven’t looked at all
Everything but just off the cup I say yes it’s going to be tough it’s going be tough because of Tatum and the well Boston may get two maybe three then you look at New York you look at Bronson definitely going but it’s hard play well but it’s hard to say junior Randa don’t
Deserve a I mean and then you go to Milwaukee you got Yiannis you got D we we see I I would say got should be in the conversation he’s in that conversation he’s in that conversation even a Donovan Mitchell I mean so you only to take 12 he seems to really especially since
Has been gone too Bam’s going bam is gonna always have a represent bam is going aaging almost 23 points per game seven rebounds almost five assists Joel andb is going Tyrese Max are going they got two you naming too many people everybody you only got 12 so Boston get
Two Philly get two that’s four Cleveland getting one New York may get getting one for sure they may get two because junor getting one Halbert leading the league in both of guards he’s gone so again B Carol does he deserve it yes but dude the numbers may leave him out because
They’ dropped they’re now eighth if they was top four he’s got to you got to put a guy in team is top four but you Dro to eight the record we’re going to expand on this we’re going to take a commercial break and then after the break we’re
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Bam Adebayo is CLUTCH!!! – NBA Gametime reacts to Adebayo scores 21 Pts as Heat beat Magic 99-96
