How the Miami Heat Can Take the East Back From the Boston Celtics | Miami HEAT Podcast

How the Miami Heat Can Take the East Back From the Boston Celtics | Miami HEAT Podcast

the NBA season is over and a new Champion wears the crown but how does Boston success affect the heat does Miami adjust their future in response to the Celtics title and can Heat fans take any comfort in having lost to the eventual Champion we break it all down today’s episode of Locked on heat you are locked on heat your daily Miami Heat podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day you are locked on heat your everyday podcast on the Miami Heat whether you’re tuning in on YouTube Odyssey are your favorite podcast app thanks for making locked on heat your first listen every day Monday to Friday I’m West Goldberg editor at all you can heat.com here with David rill both of us credential heat media members and today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel make every moment more right now new customers get $200 in bonus Bets with any winning $5 bet that’s $250 in bonus Bets with any any winning $5 bet visit fanduel.com lockon to get started there’s this stat going around that I want to talk to you about David that during the Jimmy Butler era they he’d have been eliminated in the playoffs by the eventual NBA champs in four of those five years and by a finals participant in five out of the five years of course this season the heat lost in the first round of the Boston Celtics who on Tuesday or on Monday night wrapped up the season by beating the Mavericks in five games to win the championship what do you make of that stat and does losing to the eventual winners mean anything later on in the show we will talk about how the heat can go about beating Boston and not being the losers but in fact being the winners how they need to rebuild this summer we’ll also talk about whether or not the Boston Celtics celebrating Miami is an insult or a compliment but as to that first part does it mean anything uh uh to lose to the winners basically every year it’s kind of sad to be brought up like I I pathetic in that in that sense that’s what you know and I I think uh Anthony Chang might have been the first one to point that out on Twitter after immediately after the game ended and look the this year it probably feels less important than it has in the past I think in the previous Four Seasons you can look at the fact that well even before that no CU there’s the Milwaukee one as well kind I know it’s kind of a jumbled answer but look Miami’s been to the finals twice so they lost to two eventual Champions because they lost in the finals both times they also lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in the first round but they got swept they got Lo obviously they had a gentleman sweep this season with Boston too so it’s kind of a pathetic statistic to point out but I think there is some real realization to the fact that Miami has been a damn good team over the last five years and that they have been extremely competitive so if you’re looking at this from a Heat fans perspective I wouldn’t necessarily put up a banner the way that other teams have in the we’ve made fun of other teams we made fun of we made fun of the Boston Celtics fans just last year for winning three quarters out of every game they lost or whatever yeah two years static was yeah exactly Banner yeah exactly oh almost made a 03 comeback you know that kind of banner it’s like you know those those kinds of things you don’t really want to hang your hand on them but I think it speaks to a larger point and you’ve been pretty consistent about Miami’s Legacy in terms of maybe they’re just the the the constant fly in every Eastern Conference opponent’s soup and that has to mean something that should mean something it’s the Hallmark of this team that they can’t just be beat and that they’re going to challenge the New Yorks and the Boston and the Milwaukee and everybody else that thinks of themselves as a prime time competitor in the meantime Miami whether they’re in the playin where they’re in the fifth seed or wherever they are in the Eastern Conference standings they’re going to go and do what they do best which is challenge you punch you in the face a little bit be physical and probably find a way to win unfortunately it just didn’t work out for them this year so I I think you can look at Miami’s success over the last five seasons with jimmyy out of the helm and be proud of that even though Miami has fallen short and I know some fans are already spinning it like oh that tells me these fans are saying that we just aren’t good enough well that’s one way of looking at it but there you can also extrapolate that outwards to well 29 other teams weren’t good enough either nobody hardly any team wins the championship we’ve had seven different Champions over the last seven seasons or something like that it’s been like very there’s a lot more parody now it’s been unusual of course with the pandemic and the shut down the bubble and and The Following season with Milwaukee winning but even before that Toronto winning a flukish championship then you had the Lakers in the bubble and you had Milwaukee the season afterwards I mean it’s just it’s been very difficult for teams to repeat even Denver as good a team as Denver was and and they looked unbeatable for large stretches of the season they didn’t even make the NBA finals and so for Miami to have had the success that they had over the last couple years I think that is definitely an indicator that they’ve been one of the better teams in the league over the last five seasons so there’s a specific thing that in terms of the question what does it mean that they have basically lost to the eventual championship in the eventual champion in five of The Last Five Years there’s a spec there’s a specific thing in what that means and why that is and then there’s sort of a bigger picture thing and I’ll talk about the specific things first there’s three specific things number one it’s a little bit of a coincidence okay that you got the Celtics in the first round and the the Bucks in the first round in two different years and you got beat by them in two down years for the franchise those were two down years for the franchise no doubt about it for different reasons we can get into it but they were down years that’s a little bit of a coincidence but you kind of put yourself in position for that coincidence by being good enough to be in the playoffs every year for the last 5 years and that does mean something in terms of a level of consistency with this team and then of course what’s not a coincidence is getting to the Eastern Conference Finals twice getting to the NBA or three times getting to the NBA finals twice during that stretch as well that’s not a coincidence that means the team was just good I do think the stat also reflects that the team wasn’t good enough and we that’s that’s it you know I think they were good enough to get to the finals but never good enough to win the championship and and so those are the specific things in terms of what that statistic means that’s what that statistic represents in terms of the large the bigger picture thing it is about the I do think that the legacy of this team is they were just the ultimate boss battle for the NBA for years Jimmy Butler at the head of it he almost is like this cartoonish video game Boss in so many ways with the with the with the crazy off the court Antics and the emo and the the dreadlocks and all this stuff and then the the Declarations and the yeah the the arrogance with him and and I don’t even mean that in a bad way just like this the Supreme level of confidence that puts fear into opponents quite literally put fear and shook the ground underneath which the Boston Celtics stood and they finally got over it they finally got over that boss battle not really this year because they didn’t have to face Jimmy Butler but they ultimately got what they needed to get and that was a championship and you think about the the Denver Nuggets they had to go through Jimmy Butler the Lakers had to go through Jimmy Butler you know uh bent over the stanson like everybody had to go through the Miami Heat a exposer Jimmy Butler bam atab bio Pat Riley all these games are cartoonish video game Boss like play uh figures and everybody had to get through them and I think that that’s the legacy of this Heat team I don’t I think the I’ve told you this I think the window is closed there’s ways to reopen it but this version of the team the window is closed and if they’re not able to reopen that window this summer then I do think that the legacy of this of the Jimmy Butler era is going to be like you said the fly in the soup like I said the ultimate video game Boss Battle and that’s okay you know there are levels underneath winning the entire thing obviously we want to win the whole Championship the goal is to win the championship but my other point here too is just because you got close doesn’t mean you’re going to get past it does you’re going to get over the threshold getting close is not a guarantee of of progress to the point where you get over the threshold the heat in the 90s got close over and over and over again and never got over that threshold into being ultimate Champions this happens we’ve seen teams over several teams like this over the years get close the the grit and grind Memphis Grizzlies never we’re always there we’re always the boss battle in the Western Conference never won the championship and and the Oklahoma City Thunder yeah during those years it’s it’s it guarantees you nothing and that means that the front office has a lot of work to do but right now that that to me is the legacy of this team it’s a tough one to SW I hey look you know I’ve made the point before I I can’t and maybe it’s just kind of a larger issue with me in terms of where I am at my point in my own life and I I just cannot get hung up on the idea that a team and their measurement for Success has to be a championship it’s so impossible to get there the best team doesn’t necessarily get there however you measure it and we can look at years past and it doesn’t necessarily indicate like this might be one of the few seasons where the quote unquote best team that has been consistently the best team throughout the regular season and in the playoffs actually won the title right and I personally still can’t swallow that easily considering the fact that well they didn’t go through the the ultimate boss the one way you put it you know they didn’t go through Jimmy Butler I’m not saying that there has to be any kind of ridiculous asterisk or anything like that but ni who who knows how it would have played out they were not tested in the Eastern Conference but they did go through Jimmy Butler just not this year and I do think that some of what they did drove the Celtics to success and to your point they were it would I I’m with there’s no an title we I texted you this like I I I mean we were talking about this beforehand like I I still think Miami could have beat the Celtics I I really do believe that if they were healthy yes of course because something might have happened and that’s the nature of basketball is that as much as we love to see how it plays out and we can measure it statistically and have everything else like I don’t want to sound like an old head complaining about analytics this and analytics it’s not that but there’s always X factors that take place and and I think Jimmy has been to your point and what we’re discussing here an ultimate X Factor kind of undefinable in its own way because he shouldn’t be this good and the the teams shouldn’t be this good and yet somehow they wind up finding themselves in a position where they can knock off these teams that are quote unquote better I guess my point is too and I think we’re saying the same thing yeah yeah you know what I’ll just put it this way I if the heat never win a championship with Jimmy Butler on the roster will and will will people look back on this era disappoint and say I had a or not maybe not disappointed you could be disappointed I think that’s that’s fine but like would you look back at it and be like wow I had a really bad time those five years no that no matter what you say that wasn’t a bad time these last four five years were not a bad time they were wildly entertaining for a variety of different reasons this is still no doubt one of the best eras in Heat basketball if it ends this summer because Jimmy Butler doesn’t get the contractor he wants and demands a trade then it’ll be Rocky and it’ll be ugly on the way out but it won’t change the the magic of the last five years because of everything you said it wasn’t supposed to happen and yet it did that said think think about think about sorry think about the the Alonzo Morning Tim Hardaway era yeah same lack of success even less successful when you look at it barely making Eastern Conference Finals Etc always finding the Knicks in their path the same way Miami was always in the path and and and and yet how many Heat fans were defined by that era you know because they remember the Alonzo Morning Hardway combination as what put this team on the map they didn’t result in any kind of actual tangible success either but think about this and we don’t know this because they are not active on Twitter they’re not active on YouTube but think about a generation of young fans in South Florida that love Jimmy Butler and Tyler herro and Bam bio and all their warts and all their faults and everything else but look at this last five years and identify with this Heat team as that’s my Heat team and that’s something that I think it’s hard for us as older fans and even most of the people listening to the show as older fans I would imagine there aren’t a lot of we’ve talked to people at our at our watch parties I’ve talked to people at Heat games that Jimmy Butler is their all-time favorite player Tyler hero they ride or die with him bam matab bio is their Alonzo Morning right yes and in such it’s such a great point that you make this is their generation and yet I’ve and I’ve made this point before five years is a really long time for a core to stick together in the NBA no matter the circumstance right and so and so and for a team to stick to together for 5 years without ever actually winning the championship is almost even more rare because front offices these days find any reason almost to break up a team if you’re not accomplishing something in two or three years and so yeah there’s five years is a long time especially if you’re a younger fan and and don’t remember maybe the big three era vividly or anything like that so um that said now that the East runs through Boston officially what can the heat do to try to knock off the Champs next season we’ll get to that plus the party plans next on lock down heat today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel summertime means baseball the NBA Finals is over but there’s so much more the WNBA and so many other sporting events and you can bet on all of it 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new to us on YouTube hit that subscribe button you can also follow us on your favorite podcast app find us on Instagram at lockon heat so the big question question going around NBA media at least right now is whether or not this Celtics Championship will get another Celtics championship and whether or not we’re seeing the beginnings of what could be a dynasty and I think it’s a fair question considering how statistically dominant Boston was the fact that they’ve got Jaylen Brown and soon uh Tatum under contract long term and Dereck white and Drew holiday in that whole group so obviously a formidable opponent won the championship basically wire to wire won the season best team in the regular season best team in the playoffs won the the championship in five games they were dominant and the only reason I bring this up is not to twist the knife but it’s that’s that’s the boss battle now whatever we think about their path through the East and whatever they did it they they wear the crown they’ve got the belt and if the heat want to get back to the finals they’re going to have to go through Boston they are the team to beat they’ve earned that how do they do it because they got clobbered in the first round partly because they were hurt I do disagree with you I don’t think that they were even close to being as good as the Celtics this year but that we don’t need to debate that that’s not important what’s important here is what they can do this offseason to get to a level where they’re able to push the Celtics next year if indeed That Remains the goal and I do think that it does is getting back to the finals so what do you think like what is what do this what do the Heat and this is not whether or not it’s realistic or not I just think if you’re thinking from a front office perspective it’s like all right we got to plan this out we just watch we watched the Celtics team win with a five out offense switching everything mismatches all over the floor all these what what can we do to beat that team so what do you think where do you start I think it’s a Readjustment of the window I think that’s the big thing it’s you have to look at it not I don’t know whether Boston is a dynasty because if you’re looking at Drew holiday’s age and Chris that binga’s overall health and we’ve already seen what the Tatum Brown combination can do on their own in theory you know at least with that core and it’s has has been enough they won a title this year because of the strength of all those other surrounding players as well as their own individual strengths but if you’re looking at it from the Miami Heat perspective and you’re seeing this rer and we’ve pointed this out many times before I mean on paper they’re not good enough and I don’t know that the acquisition of any one player is going to make them good enough to beat this Bost of Celtics team so to me I think it’s about adjusting that timeline taking a step back so you could take a step forward now now again this is not my personal wish I’ve gone on record of saying what my personal wishes are I’m fine running it back I’m fine till the wheels come off but as far as what the heat are probably looking to do I would think that unless they view unless they’re as dumb and optimistic about this Heat team as I am and see the health of Terry Rosier and and and Jimmy Butler and see that core and there’s a real realistic chance like I mean that that was the purpose of acquiring Tor rir was like we need somebody who applies Rim pressure and could provide some big shots and who isn’t scared of the Boston Celtics bam we got it and maybe it’ll be enough wasn’t enough because he wasn’t healthy and who knows what his health is gonna be like last year maybe they’re wrong in that evaluation but maybe there’s some optimistic dumb hope about this roster but if they there isn’t that dumb hope and they don’t believe it’s going to be a CH Championship Contender this year again I don’t think there’s any one player that is going to take him to that point I mean a lot of people have suggested oh building up around the edges getting that one or two role player like Pingus or something like again I don’t know that’s a realistic possibility if you can trade hero for I don’t know well before we get to the specific trades and stuff like that I do think like let’s talk schematically because I do think that there’s a port I I think this front office would have loved to see this team healthy and what they could have done against the Boston Celtics they didn’t get that opport opportunity so it’s a lot harder to analyze your own team and how far away you are from Boston right cuz even if you had been healthy and lost to Boston you’d at least known okay this is us healthy we lost to Boston it looked like this and now we can quantify how far away we are from beating Boston a little bit they don’t even have that right the heat like this is the season that never happened to me like they were never healthy ever for more than 24 hours and like the whole season I just I throw it away I can’t make anything of that season to me very little but so many people are looking at it as an excuse to kind of blow up this team or to say they’re really well behind well that’s fine I mean if you if you look at if you look at Jimmy Butler being 35 and and all these things that’s fair to me that’s hey if you say the window is closed and I do think the window is closed just because of Jimmy Butler’s Age and what I what I know him to be counting on a player who has never been healthy to be healthy isn’t a strategy right that that doesn’t make sense that’s like counting on kristofh porzingis to be your number one star and just hoping he stays healthy didn’t work luckily the Celtics had four other players who were better than Kristof porzingis and healthier than christops porzingis where they didn’t even need christops porzingis to win the championship so that’s how you build around shaky health is that guy’s a bonus not the thing that we rely on and so I in terms of schematically I look at what worked against Boston this year the Denver Nuggets had the best uh they had the most success against the Celtics this season and I would have loved to see the nuggets in the finals against the Celtics and seeing how that played out that was my finals pick before the year I had Denver over Boston and I still feel like that probably would have played out that way because there’s such a mismatch nightmare for the Celtics so if you’re looking at trying to beat the Celtics you got to replicate a little bit of what the Nuggets do now finding a nikic is impossible there’s only one of those guys but I do think positional size across the board uh a pass first offense which myami technically does have they could execute it at a higher level but they are an unselfish pass first team generally speaking um and then blocking the rim like what is is is joic isn’t the most impactful Defender the one thing he is is among is humongous the guy’s enormous and that matters when you’re playing the Celtics because I know we always talk about their five out offense in all the threes but they generate those threes with the drive and kick stuff getting to the rim sure getting to the rim and kicking out they don’t necessarily take as many shots at The Rim as maybe a lot of people would like but the results speak for themselves they’re Champions it worked and now and they K but if you can cut off the drive before it happens then it neuters the kickout and now they’re not generating the open looks that they were hoping to get so can if you’re the heat I think you need to start with a big body in the middle who can cut off those driving lanes and then you become and then you play up your mismatches everywhere else on the court and then obviously you got to try to hit the hit a certain water level from a three-point let’s take a step back before we start getting into that kind of nitty-gritty because I think that’s leading into some other topics that we’re looking to address later this week too but I don’t want to talk about specific players when you’re talking about the Heat roster though as it’s currently comprised and knowing what we do about potential free agents on this team and where they might leave is this roster close enough as currently comprised with Tyler with Terry with Jimmy at his age whatever to knock off Miami I’m sorry to knock off Boston next season no and what no so can they make moves on the fringes that can get them there or do they have to well that’s what I’m saying though do they is it worth exploring that on this on this show or is it re more realistic to say it’s time as you’ve said many times before to realize that the window is closed and let’s take a step back so we can take a step forward it it I don’t I don’t think it’s that black and white and I I I I appreciate the the the radio topic I do but it’s it’s hard for me to answer it just because is what does that step back look like right are we talking about trading Jimmy Butler for the third pick top pick in a mediocre draft where you’re not gonna get a superstar no that doesn’t sound great trading Jimmy and again this is not a personal wish but this is the reality here you have to assemble a roster we’re talking about Jimmy Butler five years ago for all the heroics that we saw last season and the season before that and three seasons before that in the Orlando bubble can we count on this version of of Jimmy Butler appearing playoff jimmmy being this good this dominant next year the Year beyond that no you can’t so guess my point is I would be you’re not going to trade Jimmy Butler unless he asks to be traded and I guess you could do a chestnut Checker as well we’re going to make him ass not get traded even though we want to trade him because we’re we’re not going to give him the contract extension in that way he’s the bad guy and we’re not and maybe the Heat play it that way who knows but you got to try no like you do got to at least give it a shot and by the way you you explore the options you make your phone calls and if it looks like those things aren’t going to be out there for you then maybe you do take that step back I don’t think that you could enter the offseason because the offseason starts now and it’s why we’re doing this show and doing this segment with uh we’re definitely going to do this and we’re definitely going to do that and we’re going to definitely do that thing over there I think it’s we got to make our phone calls we got to do our research we got to figure out what’s viable we got to see what’s really happening we got to see whether or not Donovan Mitchell does ask out we got to see all this stuff and then kind of do I get to break out the flowchart again like it’s it’s it’s all like that flowchart thing you know it it is crazy but to your point if you can’t if those moves aren’t on the table then yeah I do think if you’re the heat you got to say what does a step back look like and what does reconstituting the window look like because Jimmy Butler’s 35 Jason Tatum’s 27 and Jaylen Brown’s 20 or uh Tatum’s 26 and brown are 27 something like that whatever it is like yeah you know their window is wide open and and and how do we how do we keep up but it’s not going to be easy uh coming up is the Celtics decision to celebrate in Miami an insult or is it a compliment we’ll finish up this conversation talk about that next today’s episode is brought to you by eBay Motors passion drive and patience the formula for winning championships is also what keeps your ride or die alive eBay Motors has everything you need to maintain your vehicle and level it up to Peak Performance superchargers roof racks exhaust kits LED headlights and more whether you’re into speed power or style eBay Motors has you covered with over 122 million parts for your number one Rider die you’ll always find exactly what you’re looking for and with eBay guaranteed fit your part 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communities tab on YouTube We also did one on Twitter so you can find both of those posts reply to those with your questions again we’ll try to get to as many of those as we can who’s who’s the next Superstar you could get at the number 15th pick I think that’s the big question right there who’s that kid from Kentucky Rob Dillingham no the other one Reed Shepard Reed Shepard that’s my guy he’s not really he my guy don’t they already have a re sheeper on the roster I’m just saying he’s the next Superstar that’s that’s an interesting question there like if Tyler hero were in this year’s draft where would he go as he was as a rookie or right now as he was when he was drafted oh he’d probably be in like the five to eight range probably in the Dillingham range right like yeah but he’s better than you know he’s better than people expected in that draft slot anyway um so the Boston Celtics that was revealed had a we’re recording this on Tuesday about 5 hours and 20 minutes after their flight from Boston to Miami they decided that they were going to fly to Miami at noon on Tuesday to celebrate their Championship win in our proud city as opposed to cele celebrating their Championship win in their proud City what do you think of this is it I you you proposed the question a little bit so I in in our pre-show kind of prep for this you said is it an insult that they wanted to celebrate in Miami I was kind of looking at it is is a compliment that they would want to celebrate in Miami why did you come up with insult you know I I don’t know that we’ve ever seen this before I’m trying to recall especially if you win it at home like I I know maybe right if you win it on the road you just you party wherever you are right or maybe you go if you win it in the Mavericks Southwest maybe yeah maybe go yeah is it 2011 like Mark Hub been buying bottles right with Dirk at Liv Etc like that was that was the uh where you are that was the image that everybody got stuck at everybody’s craw but they’re at home so one I don’t know what the delay is and maybe there’s some explan some explainer out there as to why the parade is taking so long or maybe it’s just the parade good point the parade is on Friday because they want to party in Miami for a week all this Celtics team wanted to do was be in Miami for a week after they won the championship as opposed to spending time in their home City for three days so they’re they’re yeah so they’re trying to squeeze in three days of party in Miami and then go back to Boston like I I you know what I I do find it insulting I do find insulting maybe you’re right maybe there’s a compliment maybe it’s a compliment to Miami and the party you see it as them rubbing it in the Heat’s face is that the ins hell yeah hell yeah come on yeah hell yeah you think the Celtics actually thought you know what we want to do when we win the championship is rub it in the Heat’s face you thought the Celtics organiz Celtics fans is one thing but they’re not in charge of these plans the Celtics organization and their players decided that they thought about this before game five of the finals against the Mavericks the one if we win this game the one thing that we really want to do the thing that’s on our mind is to rub it in the Miami Heats organization face that we won the championship they Heat players they heat the the the city of Miami their fans absolutely no I don’t I don’t think so I don’t think so he could have picked La he could have picked anywhere it’s summer it’s summer everywhere like first of all too bad they didn’t win the goddamn Championship last week but when the monsoon was sweeping through South Florida because it would have really ruined their plans I don’t know how much longer we’ll have Sunshine right now it’s hot as hell out here but maybe there’ll be another rainstorm and they’ll be forced to stay in goddamn sad little hotel rooms that’s my hope I’m sure their hotel rooms are not going to be that sad I’m just pretty sad if it’s just rained in and there’s forc to say import you can import things fine whatever I guess technically I’m sure they could they probably could get things brought to them but the point is you know what like Miami again for this vaunted reputation like especially during the summer we’re all kind of hanging by a very very very you know thin thread in terms of like whether or not we’re allowed to actually go and enjoy this city or we’re at the mercy of Mother Nature and her tempestuous ways because it’s going to be it could be potentially bad over the next three days and then and then the whole idea of like oh going to Miami and celebrating Etc it’s all for not is this I think no I really you really believe this this is not just a podcast but you think that the the Celtics wanted to rub it in the Miami Heat’s face that they won the championship you really think that was the motivating factor toor it’s not just that there nothing to there’s nothing to do with Boston you’re getting drunk for three days they don’t have B in Boston like you got everything else you got the these players want they don’t have live fine I guess yeah gu they don’t have that they don’t you can’t drink a you know boiler Mak it somewhere with Patty and Sean and Sean Jr like come on you can’t go have fun somewhere it’s some Pub you know I mean I guess it’s a quick flight it’s a faster flight to Miami than it is to La you can make it there and back it’s a faster flight they’re gonna everybody’s in Vegas already this summer anyway players go there they don’t need to go to Vegas I guess they could have gone to New York if they really wanted to party and that’s a shorter flight yeah But it’s summmer players want to go to Mi I look at it as a compliment I say yeah yeah you got the you got your 18th Banner you’re the franchise that’s been around for 200 years whatever you did Bill Russell you beat a bunch of plumbers and firemen and I get it and all that stuff and yet and yet all of your history all of the stuff that you guys say about how why your city is the best sports city and all this stuff the city of Champions all this stuff that you all the stuff that you say at the end of the day you don’t even want to be there you don’t even want to be there even when even when you are heroes you are absolute heroes in those streets nobody could touch you you won the finals you did the thing you Rose the 18th Banner you broke the Lakers Rec you broke the tie with the Lakers you did the thing you are absolute Heroes and you said let’s get the hell out of Dodge let’s go to Miami where we’re not Heroes and yet we love it so much down there we would rather be there than be home where we are heroes that to me is a compliment and a reflection of how awesome Miami is and why all these players want to play here in the first place I think as compl I hope every Uber driver snubs them and plays the worst music and whatever no the best thing is uh what do you what the Uber driver will be like what do you do uh oh I play basketball and uh and there is that possib there’ll be and oh uh Sports uh do you like Messi do you like l Messi no actually I just won an NBA champion oh Messi won the championship Messi won the championship yeah that’s what they talk about the Panthers you’ve been watching the Panthers a lot yeah they know that about that uh go go anything else on this before we get out of here no I guess not maybe it’s just sour grapes on my part it’s entirely possible I still think it’s a bit uh go Panthers tonight game five if the Panthers series reflects anything like the Celtics series you know what I’m not even going to say it I’m not going to jinx it I got my hat go check out lock on Panthers Rondo does a great job over there check that out uh and check us out we’ll still be here five days a week throughout the offseason even though the NBA season is over keep it dialed into US YouTube Spotify Odyssey wherever you get your podcast anywhere you watch them 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