POSTGAME REACTION: Miami Heat vs. Utah Jazz, 3/2/24.

POSTGAME REACTION: Miami Heat vs. Utah Jazz, 3/2/24.

That’s right thanks so much guys it’s always great to have bam here in the winter Circle but I’m going to hand it off to Autumn who’s going to be handling this interview bam hi hi hardfought win how were you able to pull it off um we got stops down

The stretch me and Jimmy made big plays in the fourth and uh we had all the all the kids supporting us so that’s why we got the W yeah how important is it to win at home W really important just just cuz of the fans they get to enjoy seeing

Us have success and uh being able to come in this building and here rocking like this it’s a great experience for all of us yeah everybody was super excited you’ve now won six of the last seven what’s working we’re playing together basketball the ball is flying everywhere

And uh we’re getting stops on the defensive end thank you thank you congratulations thank you thank you thank you thanks so much Autumn that was a wonderful job and a great win for the heat they’ve now won six of seven thanks Jacks I’m Nico here

With niik yic hi guys how you doing and Nico my first question for you is first off I just want to say congrats on the win and you guys faed a lot of adversity today whether it’s before the game when you found out CB and Tyler and J Rich

Would be out or during the game you guys were down at the half you know the Jazz are 20 and0 coming into this game when leading at the half how did you guys fight through that and come out with a W uh I mean you know we stayed together

You know we know we got a lot of guys who are out and uh we just rally around each other and uh like coach SP said you know these fans and these people in this building uh deserve to see us win and that’s why we rally around and we end up

Winning and Nico you’ve been playing some very impactful basketball how has your experience been playing in these really big moments yeah I mean I’m thankful for the minutes that I get you know and the most important thing is of course to win and uh I think we’re on a

Pace to be uh one of our top seates this year and I think we we will game two of this mini home stand is on Tuesday against Detroit how do you guys hope to build off of this win going into that game I mean uh we just got to be better

In the first half you know this this first half was not great and uh I think as long as we are locked in from the start and do the things we need to do we know that coaching staff is going to be do a great job preparing us and we’ll be

Good thanks for your time Nico thank back to you Jacks for as much as Jimmy did with his scoring it seemed like this was really a hustle and grit kind of game especially with what Caleb and Haywood gave you to provide that energy in the third and

Then the guys taking it from there so you always say look past the box score is this one of those games maybe to do that uh yes and you know Utah is a unique team I mean they play really physical offensively uh I think Wills has put together an offensive system

That really just fits their personnel uh and they drive hard they cut hard uh they um screen hard and then they finish off possessions where at least three guys are going to the class you know hard so as much as you can try to show

It on film you can talk about it um there’s no way to really prepare for it until you actually feel it and I think that’s what caught us uh in that first half um you know the 19 Second Chance points but a lot of those were were you

Know driving situations that L led to um different guys on different people and then they just you know Were pummeling Us in the paint um but in the second half there was a better disposition um much more to how we’ve been playing the last 3 weeks uh and then that

Stretch um you know when we had Caleb and and heith in there they were basically just running a two-man press running around uh creating Havoc uh and and that was that that ignition that kind of propelled us into that fourth quarter of energy and and um and inspiration and

Then bam and Jimmy you know really took over from there uh you know when bam and Jimmy uh you know play with that competitive Spirit um and they’re connected from a competitive standpoint you know our our guys feel like we can beat uh anyone that we can conquer you

Know whatever we need to conquer um and they were at their best on both ends of the Court um Caleb you know as a messed up you know hand knocked in the in the mouth you know every play he makes is uh is you know just a collision here a

Collision there um he inspires everybody in our locker room uh and he’s just a gamer you know he just makes big plays at the right times um and it inspires other guys to do the same when Jimmy’s getting so many um and Hae got a couple too when he’s getting those really deep

Post seals how much of that is play calling from the sidelines versus this instinctual stuff on his part and if it’s the latter how do you sort of Train everybody to watch for those little instinctual moments when he’s going to seal somebody yeah it it’s happened look

Look we’ve been doing this now for several months uh you know and it was interrupted a little bit when he was out uh but the the connection with K Love and and Jimmy you know those were a lot of the habits that we were building

Haime started to to get a feel for that um and then when Jimmy was out we were doing similar things with haime some of that was uh intense you know early on and play call stuff uh and then you know by this point it’s happening more instinctually and and

Organically and and that’s you know the better way uh but that takes weeks and months you know to develop that kind of um cohesiveness uh and to be able to get it there efficiently where you’re not just burning clock you know um you know we have some good postentry path and that’s

An underrated skill Nico is great at it haim’s good at it bam obviously we know what he he can do and K’s El lead at it um and so other guys are starting to recognize those situations uh earlier and uh and also Bam’s post-ups uh as

Well no Jimmy obviously got a bunch at the rim and at the free throw line but he continues to take and make more threes how much have you guys continue to stay on him to take those and have you seen opponents maybe make small adjustment that’s a loaded question he

Knows how I feel if I say too much then he’ll like you know he’s the ultimate contrarian he’s a great shooter why not like it’s a little Papa shot for him I think put him in a Three-Point Contest next year allow him just to shoot that

Shot I’ll put my money on him am I allowed to do that oh all right I won’t go there don’t put him in Three-Point Contest uh big picture uh now you guys are 10 and three over the last 13 what do you like about just the way your guys

Have responded since that losing streak in January yeah I think there’s a better understanding of what wins for us we compete and defend we create the karma we need if we don’t we pay the price I think in the first half we were you know trying to get uh a little bit

Caught up in in the the scoring and trying to outscore them and and then we fin found ourselves down four uh but when we really locked down and and the defend with physicality and Force and and discipline and with a mind you know we we can accomplish some things um and I

Think there’s a collective understanding of that and more importantly a commitment to that it’s not easy this this league is hard I mean the offenses now are super Dynamic the speed space and Pace uh makes it challenging for every single team so you the the biggest

Thing you have to wrap your mind around is doing tough things um and that doesn’t even guarantee anything it just gives you a better chance at it thanks coach all right thank you first can you take us through the play when you got hurt and what happened yeah man Duncan set me up

Uh uh I got blindsided um but you know those plays happened went to the back got some treatment and then uh finished the game treatment on why my body any particular body part no can’t tell you that not yet lower body injury I don’t know what M right now what do to say

About this team and just the the 10 to 13 wins the way you’re playing what what to you when you look at this in the totality the last 13 what’s turned it uh our identity on defense we’re really getting stops really getting teams in the mud and we’re letting that be our

Offense you know we feel like when you playing transition and taking the ball out every game kind of viral for the spin move on Collins you describe that uh you know I feel like uh like is becoming one of the p at this point uh definitely been in the Arsenal um but

That’s from the of always going middle and getting to the fade obviously you and Jimmy had big nights but how much did Caleb got to change the game on both ends of the Clos man I mean hitting big shots and uh those moments of of Truth obviously but

You know for me it’s always the defensive side you know him being active him getting those chase down blocks where you think there’s no chance and you just see Caleb flying and get um those are the plays that help us win those are the plays that we need the the

Little plays that you know a lot of people think go on notice uh but for us you know those are winning plays Jimmy said as you had the 37 it seemed like this was a real sort of Gritten hustle kind of game we saw what Caleb and Haywood

Did with the press in the third quarter to change things was was this as much as anything sort of a gritty victory for you guys yes I think we we play better whenever the the games are close not saying that these games to go whether they’re

At home or away but I feel like whenever you know we get in the so we get stops we score whenever we need to and I feel like that’s how playoff basketball is played majority of the times but more than anything I’m glad that um we won on our home

Floor you know Jimmy obviously three for three from deep I know it’s been sort of an emphasis for you this season but can you just kind of talk about seeing the results happen especially kind of shooting more from Deep it’s actually hasn’t been a a emphasis if I wanted to

Shoot all threes I actually could and I think that I would shoot a really good percentage I just like running into the paint and um running into people and seeing who’s going to fall down first uh when I attack I think that we are at our

Best I get to get my Shooters involved I get to get my teammates involved and I get to to pass first I get to be a playmaker and that’s how I want to play the game of basketball all

The Miami Heat defeated the Utah Jazz on Saturday by a score of 126-120. Hear from Bam Adebayo, Niko Jovic, Erik Spoelstra, and Jimmy Butler on the win!