Big O & Ira Winderman – What Challenges are Ahead for The #MiamiHeat? 022024
This is the Big O show this is the Big O show alrighty how you doing Ira how’s the travels you know what I enjoying the non-travel because it picks right back up after the All-Star break the heat won’t be home again till March 2nd off to New Orleans Sacramento Portland
Denver and what’ll be a challenging trip so it’s been a nice little bit nice little rest bit most of the heat guys getting the week off bam allstar game ha dun contest so they’ll be rested but there really are challenges ahead well let me let me you know before I get to
The allar game stuff which wasn’t anything big but the challenges and I’m very intrigued about this Heat team and the Finish now because Ira Ira I need to see the team I saw the last two games so the challenge for Eric spola and again they have the perfect Superstar
For this because Jimmy’s not a m me guy he’s not I got to get my 30 shots off he’s more than willing to facilitate defend help he loves watching other people Excel so I don’t think that’s much that much of a challenge and it looks like Jimmy’s now maybe turned it
On and he’s going to try um I need to see because one of my complaints with the heat the last couple of years is you’re a two-point team in a three-point world well I saw a three-point team the last two games Ira so talk to me about the
Challenge of playing that basketball for me the last two games except we’ve spoken and nauseum on our acur Penbrook P report about Jimmy Tyler and B being able to play together and you can say it all you want and you can wish it into existence but they won the last two games without
Jimmy Butler they won the last two games without Josh Richardson and Terry Ros so Tyler hero could be more of Tyler hero so Bam gets a little more free reign on what he wants to do so Duncan Robinson gets featured more as a three-point shooter because there’s a role for him
So again it’s not about how much talent you have it’s about how the talent meshes right what we haven’t seen this season honestly Big O when you think about last year’s playoff run Tyler goes out first half of the first game we didn’t see it in last year’s playoff run
It is crazy that we are four years into this cycle with bam and Jimmy and Tyler and we still don’t know how it works together when all three of them start so on one hand you want to see this the final seven weeks of the season on the
Other hand you also are in go time you have to win because if you haven’t checked the standings they’re in seventh place they’re in a playing place they have to win games while they’re learning on the fly so it’s interesting we always talk about the heat trying to develop
While trying to win now they tra the try try to develop chemistry while also understanding the wind column is everything they are tied with Orlando for number seven number eight the heat could face this path in the postseason first round of the play in for the number seven seed Heat at
Orlando Magic’s pretty good especially at home if the Heat lose that game Heat against probably at home the winner of Atlanta Chicago hey they lost to Atlanta in the play in last year they Trail Chicago in the second half for the right and you could all matchup you want to
Avoid because Big O I would argue with you Milwaukee Philly Nicks Cleveland I feel absolutely fine about that but if you’re gonna ask me about the Heat against the Celtics with the Celtics having revenge in mind having added porzingis having added holiday you don’t want no number eight seed this year so
There’s a lot of work to be done yes nice takeoff Point beat Milwaukee beat Philadelphia but you have to keep it going and you have to make it work with Jimmy Butler yeah no I know you have to but again you can that’s where I have some hope because Jimmy is the right
Star to make it work and and facilitate and all of that by the way if you’re GNA become more of a three-point team Jimmy’s been shooting the three a little bit better this year no and he knows he has to but here here’s here’s the question I’ve been getting a lot since
Dunk and Robinson has had this really nice Resurgence in your starting lineup you agree with me bigo you’re not taking Jimmy Butler out of the starting lineup correct of course not okay you’re not taking Tyler here out of the starting lineup because you know the Pol you know
The backstory there come on bigo he earned his way in he’s played well and you didn’t give up a first round pick for Terry Roser not to start him I have no problem there no no if those three are your starting Wings you can’t start Duncan Robinson you can’t play the same
Game you played the last two games there’s not a starting role there so what Eric spoler has to do is manipulators rotations there is one way for this to work and that’s if you start Jimmy Butler with power forward in a league without a lot of power forwards
I’ll give you a perfect example you’re gonna play a Friday game against New Orleans so you’re going up against Jonas valent chunis and of course you’re gonna have bam on him but bigo there’s no reason that Jimmy Butler can’t guard Zion Williamson as you’re starting four for sure plays you’re starting four then
You can start Duncan at a three Tyler at the two Rosier at the one and get your best lineup on the floor God bless Nico y yogic God bless Caleb Martin and Haywood heith for what they can do but I can give you an alignment if Jimmy is
Willing but bigo at 34 35 years old do you think Jimmy wants to take that pounding from the start every single game as a power forward or do you believe Eric spoler needs to push him in that direction to get his best possible team on the floor as long as possible I
Think Eric has to do what he has to do and and and if you’re Jimmy Butler you want to win a title well then you know do what the coach needs you to do and you can do it you’re not severely overmatched anyways you know at that at
If if if we’re talking about a really Elite power forward okay then that’ll be a problem for him but there aren’t a lot of those anyways in the league so yeah you’re right I think why not try it at this point see the only difference
Between you and me is I don’t have that sympathy for Ty hero and when you say earn I’m sorry Tyler herro hasn’t earned jack yet in this league he hasn’t earned jack for the heat he never stays healthy he never stays in the lineup he’s not reliable so to me Tyler
Hero has an earned diddly squat okay everybody’s still waiting for the kid with a scowl with the from from the bubble you know so for me I’d rather put him on the bench and keep wh why not Terry Rosier why Terry Rosier is a given what is Terry Rosier proven nothing
Nothing but I think Terry Rosier is willing to play some defense and he can run the offense and that’s exactly what he is not Tyler is stuck in the middle and he’s really not a Defender either and so then that also hurts you so I
Like him to come off the bench and give you life with the second group that’s where I think Tyler would actually you know what I’m I’m going to disagree a little like we often do with the Acura p p report for this reason Terry Rosier is
Not going to be there when they resume play he’s still out with the knee strain at least one more week so you’re probably going to wind up starting bam maybe Caleb one of the guys the power forward Jimmy the three Duncan at the two Tyler at the one I would tell you
This big O if Jimmy Tyler and Duncan work I would stay with it and I’d tell Terry Rosier you know what you came into mid-season you’re in a playoff race for the first time in five years but we’re going to let this roll because we
Realized just like Big O said at the top of this hit you need that three-point shooting in today’s NBA now against bigger teams you start this trip you go to New Orleans you go to Sacramento they’re playing Harrison Barnes at the four you’re fine you go to you go to
Portland they don’t give a crap who cares who they’re playing what about y yeah he’s he’s doing all right he is at spot moments and then I’ll tell you this then you get to Denver at the end of this trip and you saw what happened with their size when they had
Joic and Aaron Gordon killed them in the finals that’s what you need a true four or at least the size of a four maybe you play yic on yic so you can play adabo on Gordon and you do start bigger in those games so yes there are spots along the
Way he started yovic against the Bucks because they had Brook Lopez and yanis you have to go bigger you’re not telling Caleb Martin to guard Giannis or to guard Lopez so I get that so you know what be flexible with the pieces you can be flexible with but like you said
Understand three-point shooting matters understand this is a scoring League no you don’t need to score 21 points but you need to score a little bit more than what you have because the defense really has started to come around and by the way y has been performing the kid
Looks good bro but walk he didn’t look just good he looked fantastic against Philadelphia that’s what you get with a 20-year-old you get 24 points and you get four points because he’s still growing this is crazy because I’m writing the story I I posted this story this morning at sunset.com yic is still
Months from being allowed to legally drink in Florida so you got to remember how young he is he’s coming along he says yeah it’s crazy either I start or I don’t play but he understands the process as well I think he’s looking more and more like a keeper I’m glad
They didn’t throw him away when they made the deal for Rosier I’m glad they didn’t cast him aside and trading for dlan Wright instead of getting him on the buy Market Blazers are hating life right now they screwed up big time you know what one of the things I really
Want to do when I go to the blers game after I talked to you next week in Portland I want to ask Joe Cronin flat out did you refuse to take the Heat’s calls I know he’s not going to answer and probably look at me like who the
Hell are you but I need to know that because then he blew it if he took the heat calls and he made a decision that hey I like this deal better that’s fine but man can you imagine Big O the other way I love Damon Lillard don’t kid yourself even with the Milwaukee
Struggles but imagine if the Miami Heat now didn’t have any future first round picks didn’t have haime hakz didn’t have Nicole iic and we’re so all in the moment with 35-year-old Damen Lillard and 35y old Jimmy Butler there would be no future here no I know I know that’s
Why I don’t have a problem with turning the page and and going young because I like what they have in the youth and I I love what their front office is doing they can find people now drafted or undrafted they’re doing it all the damn
Time now you know what I’m saying so I I I think this is they’ve had better draft picks but what I’m saying is lately they’ve been doing the best job drafting lately you know they’ve been consistently Drafting and finding and who knows ales Williams might be the latest guy and what they’re
Doing up there in sou Falls and developing guys up there that they’re so loaded with talent in the developmental program they couldn’t even get Jamal Kane office two-way deal to a standard deal because they’re working through all these other guys so it does say something about what they’re doing again
I am all in for development as long as you don’t start complaining that they’re not in the East finals every year you can’t always have it both ways you can’t have it both ways but Le you know the other thing you want to do is kind of
Keep yourself a little bit more liquid so you can then find that other Star right flexibility and maybe next time when you might have to offer a hakz and offer yic it won’t be for a 35y old it’ll be for a 28y old so you’ll have
That future there as well I agree with that I I totally I totally uh want it that way all right we will three years down the road trade HZ and yovic for Luca donic and we’ll deal with it but that’s three years down the road what’
You think of uh Allstar I was happy for hakz um by the way I thought mclung got screwed on the first dunk uh he should have gotten a better score from them I didn’t expect him to win but I love that he got an experience to be a part of the
Whole thing hang out with some of the big names do that deal you know do the dunk with Shaq and all that uh uh to me that’s that was important for hakz and super smart by the league hey bro this is one of the top rookies let’s get his
Ass involved in this weekend one way or another I didn’t expect him to win the dunk cont no and he showed how charismatic he is and how he appealed to the Latino market and he played that up with his Mexican heritage so I really thought that was a couple of good things
Right there the kid gets it the kid didn’t go in there disappointed if he didn’t win you could see he relished every single moment out out there now the issue I have is this this is the NBA Slam dung championship and two years in a row a g-league player one who’s not
Even in the NBA right now so big go I would say this if Matt mcclun could win you might as well just open it up to all the street Ballers and we’ll just get the best human beings out there dunking on that stage the NBA has just lost its
Footing with all-star weekend they regained some of it with Sabrina against St and that was fun maybe we’ll see more of that that was good yeah but but also I mean even the skills competition I don’t know if you got to watch or not they didn’t even know what the freaking
Rules were they didn’t know what was going on they were making left turns and they supposed to go right turns this is a tough time for the NBA sometimes you just realize you reach a point of critical mass when you’ve done all you could do and it’s time to move on to
Something else well your problem with the NBA is if you’re not taking the regular season serious we’re gonna get to the all-star now would you and please enough if they have to pay them more if it takes money to incentivize then they’re not proud of their game Big O the winning players of
The allstar game each got $100,000 if that’s not enough for them then no amount is going to be enough anyway it’s a game whose time sort of has come and gone or just accept it for what it is it’s a no Defense Shooting exhibition it’s sort of a a Three-Point
Shootout in competitive form and you just accept it and move on don’t be this kogin old men that oh in my day they used to well in your day it used to be a different day right now 20 of 30 teams in the NBA with the playin Advanced to
The postseason so you have a lot of players protecting themselves for the games that matter more so right now that’s the way it is yeah it’s sad unfortunately especially when you watch hockey and they give you an amazing effort every single night and they care about the regular season what do you got
Going on the sunset Al so Heat fans can check you out well I did my story about Nicole yich and how it’s been start or nothing and it’s going to be start or nothing the rest of the way maybe even some g-league time but he’s established
A foothold and it was so important that game in Milwaukee to show what he could do and for Doc Rivers to take note of him so I think that’s a really important factor in today’s paper at your doorstep I broke down the Eastern Conference playoff race and you know what the
Schedule is tough right now they’re projected by a bunch of analytics and metrics to finish number seven they have to find a way to get ahead of Philly or get ah ahead of Indiana and that will require this and every game matters approach so they have five back-to-back
Sets left you know what Jimmy you know what everyone else play both games you’ve told us all season through the first 52 games or so 54 55 games that hey you’re waiting for go time go time is now you have two months until the playoffs you could use that extra week
Before the you know when the plane is going on we’ll see how serious they are right now but we also know they did it the hard way last year so in the back of their minds they’re saying to themselves h we could do it again that’s going to
Be really hard for Eric spoler to turn it around and of course now we’re waiting for Delon Wright to show up perfect play with the perfect time not saying he’s gonna play ahead of rir not saying he’s gonna play ahead of Richardson but those guys are out and
Because it’s go time you need someone now and all of a sudden you can guard quick point guards on other teams two thumbs up for that yeah oh you know definitely they they have improved the point guard position drastically they’ve got two capable bodies where they had one that wasn’t capable of doing
Practically anything so hell of a move by the heat to improve themselves to get to the uh playoffs and hopefully make some noise follow him on Twitter at Ira heatbeat subscribe to the South Florida Sun Sentinel as always thank you Ira we will catch up later on in the week or
Catch up with you from Sacramento with the cadon next week thanks bigo thank you sir there you go IRA winderman and our Acura pemro Pines Miami Heat and MBA report this is the big old show this is the big old show
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