15 mins of Heat! The Miami Heat are back on the court today against the New Orleans Pelicans! We review details that continue to come out of the firing of Michael Malone. The question rises... Does any player on the Heat roster have any or enough pull to get Spo canned?
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00:00I'm your Miami Heat. They are back on the hardwood tonight in the place that Rays Leroy
00:06Hoard, New Orleans. That's right. Taking on the Pelicans tonight in what is sure to be
00:16an unforgettable matchup with everybody the Pelicans are putting out there. Can I just
00:22say this? Still nervous. Really? For what, dude? The team? I mean, the heater, they are where
00:31they are. Yeah. Nothing changes. That's true. The Hawks won yesterday. I'm pretty sure that
00:41all but solidifies where everybody's at right now. See that move by Trey Young yesterday
00:45though. He had this one ankle snatcher yesterday. Very impressive. Tell you what, these French
00:56are pretty good at basketball. But they didn't do well in the Olympics, did they? They put
01:04in the final. Did they? Yeah. America beat them. America beat Serbia and then they beat
01:09France. Very close game. Okay. Very close game. Yeah. I remember it was that was the final
01:14the one with Steph had did. Yeah. Night night. Okay. Yeah. He sent them. He said he's like,
01:22shh, croissant. Shhh. Wait. That was the Frenchiest word you can think of right off the top.
01:30Shhh, croissant.
01:32Because as an eater, the two don't go together.
01:42Because if somebody put a hot croissant in front of me, I'm wide awake.
01:46Oh, yeah. Oh, that's a good breakfast. That's a, that is a good breakfast meal. Uh, yeah,
01:54the Hawks win yesterday, Chicago. Uh, I mean, even if the heat, they would need Chicago to lose
02:01the last two. Chicago has, I believe Washington. Doesn't it suck when all the teams that you're
02:08chasing have an easier schedule than you? Well, they don't right now. I mean, like it's everybody
02:16plays the same crappy teams. The only team that will take on a decent team is Atlanta,
02:21but Atlanta has Atlanta is taking on Orlando to finish the season, but Orlando has nothing
02:25to play for. Right. So, I mean, unless they want to play for like a winning record, like
02:31if that matters to them, I don't know. At this point, if you can't move and this is why I
02:38always say to you that every year is on a curve because you're going to look at, here's what
02:48they're going to, I'm going to tell you what they're going to say in the West. There's going
02:52to be some teams with winning records that don't make, don't even make the play in or don't
02:58make the playoffs. And they're going to say in 10 of the last 15 years, this record would
03:04have been top five. Right. Every year works on the curve. Yeah. I don't know what to tell
03:10you about that. So when we look at records, you can't really put the record, doesn't really
03:17put it in perspective. You have to see how the season went. Hey, Senor Gato, shut up.
03:22I heard him. Really? Who hears a cat? He never talks. It's weird. How much noise can a cat
03:30make to disturb us? I don't know. He was just like, he just comes up. I'll never hear from
03:37you. Usually he's on that chair in the corner. He just never leaves. He just has a take about
03:43the heat. Senor Gato has a take. He's bums. That sounds like a cat that lost some money on
03:51heat. I'm now an outside cat. The, uh, the West is still, uh, stacked, but golden state
04:05moved back into the top six with Memphis losing yesterday to the timber wolves. Um, but gold
04:12state still has to win their last two. Uh, I can't believe this, but we got a root for
04:17Joe Cronin tonight. It's a bit of a weird situation. This is weird. Crow. Oh, man. It's
04:27gross, dude. It's gross. We need him. That's so crazy. Golden state is a 14 and a half point
04:34favorite in Portland tonight. Nobody's been as good. This man is winning right now. Got an
04:43extension the other day. Now heat fans are rooting for him. It's a, it's tough. It's
04:47tough sledding for us right now. Uh, but if the warriors win out, if they win their last
04:53two, they'll be out of the play in, but they do have, I mean, the trailblazers haven't
04:58been an embarrassment and, uh, and then they got the Clippers to end. I guess it'll
05:03depend if the Clippers have everything locked up for them, for their standpoint, they
05:06got the Kings tonight. Um, so that'll depend, but they are rolling the Clippers. They
05:11won six. So if golden state goes one and one, you know, Memphis can win the last two and
05:17sneak past them. So it's still not out of the realm of possibility that playing Jimmy
05:21will be a thing again. Yep. Well, uh, we'll keep an eye on that one for sure. But, uh,
05:29as of everybody who's clinched, uh, you get the rockets, the Lakers are a top six team.
05:35They'll probably finish top three. Yep. They only have to win. They had to win two of
05:39their last three and they won the first one. So they have to win one out of two to secure
05:45the three C. Yeah, they should be good there. And then Denver, uh, of course, coming off
05:49their win, when they fired Michael Malone, which, uh, man, everybody just seemed miserable
05:54over there. That was the thing. Every, all these reports that come out, I mean, not surprising.
05:58You don't do it out of nowhere, but that's the word is that all the players were miserable
06:01there with them. They, they were sick of them. They were sick away. He treated, you know,
06:05the stars so differently from the others. So it wore thin. It's kind of crazy though, man. Like
06:12I know Pat Riley says this about winning where, you know, you get to the winning and then it
06:16almost becomes, it becomes harder to be happier about stuff. Um, but it's just crazy to me that all
06:24these guys win titles and then they're just on the outs. Yep. I think part of it is this
06:32when you have success doing something right, because you hadn't won, you didn't realize
06:44the work or the effort or the, the coaching style that you had during that course of the
06:52year. I'm more than sure from the beginning of his tenure till now, he's been pretty consistent
07:01with who he was, who he is in Mike Malone, how he coaches, how, you know, he plays his players
07:08or whatever. And sometimes as a player, you got to appreciate the fact that you were winning
07:18and forget about your own personal, how I feel. Because if we do everything to accommodate
07:26the players, to make them feel better, probably not going to win, but they feel good. And I don't
07:33care about that. Like, yeah, you think about this. Think about how many people had a problem
07:41with Bill Belichick, but they would always follow it up with, I've never been more prepared
07:47to play football. And it's just part of the deal.
07:52But even they hit, you know, once, I mean, obviously after two dynasties, they, you know,
07:58Tim and Tom Brady, Tom Brady's just like, I'm sick of this guy. Never gives me props. And
08:02he wore thin with him. But in basketball, it just seems like it goes, like, even quicker.
08:07It burns so quick.
08:10Your star player could get up one morning and say, I've had enough. And the star player
08:16can make a demand to get out of there and quit playing. And so you got to do something to
08:23accommodate them. Right? I get it. I understand all of that. But
08:31the reason why that guy is your coach is because he can get the most out of you.
08:39And whatever those methods are, if you can't appreciate that, if you have a guy that comes
08:44in, that's going to be nice to you and not hold you accountable, are you going to be the
08:50best version of yourself?
08:51That's why I think sometimes McDaniel needs a little bit of red ass behind him. And I'm
09:00going to be honest, a lot of coaches who are up front like Mike McDaniel is are terrors
09:08at practice.
09:09Do you think that Tyler Hero or Bam Adebayo has the squeeze? Do they have the juice to
09:14go to Mickey and Pat and be like, I won't spill out?
09:17Nope. Nope.
09:20Not saying that they do. I'm just asking if they have no chance because this organization
09:26is built differently. And guess what? They probably won't even have a guy who would suggest that
09:38on the team.
09:39Well, I mean, the back of the day, the word was that LeBron wanted to do that. We're not
09:44going to be coached by Riley. And D-Wade told him, don't be stupid. Like, what do you want
09:48Pat Riley to coach us? Really?
09:51Wait, D-Wade, I've heard stories. You don't want that smoke.
09:55He had him. He had him for the championship years. He's like, we don't want that. And then
10:01Terrible idea.
10:05But see, see how, you know, LeBron had somebody that could say, hey, man, stop with this foolishness.
10:15Right? And break it down for him. And he respected that. And they moved on. Right? Who's going
10:22to tell Joker what to do?
10:25Horse.
10:27Right. That's what I'm saying.
10:29Or his brothers.
10:29So, should Mike Malone have
10:33kind of
10:35went about it in a certain way?
10:37Or when players say
10:39you treat the superstars differently,
10:42I said, you know, they feeding you too.
10:45They feeding you.
10:47So, if you want the seventh or eighth guy
10:49on the rotation and you win a championship,
10:52some team going to come give you
10:53more money because of the star
10:55that you played with.
10:56So, let's not sit here and act
10:58and get your feelings hurt
11:00as if you don't benefit
11:01from the superstar
11:03getting special treatment.
11:05I saw a stat yesterday.
11:07I haven't checked this,
11:07but I just saw it percolating yesterday.
11:09Speaking of guys eating off of stars.
11:12I saw a stat yesterday.
11:14Circular choice.
11:15You probably should check this,
11:16but I won't.
11:17I'm just going to let it rip.
11:18That Caleb Martin,
11:19since being traded
11:20to the Dallas Mavericks,
11:22has made
11:22two three-pointers.
11:24I saw him make one of the night.
11:29It must have been his second one.
11:31You know why?
11:32Here's why.
11:33Because he shoots the ball
11:3510 feet,
11:377 inches.
11:40Do you see how flat
11:42he shoots a shot?
11:45How do any of them go in?
11:46It is a strange shot.
11:49And then he'll do like,
11:50he does like a Bruce Lee kick
11:51with it too.
11:52But he's so athletic.
11:55I'm,
11:56for a guy that can jump
11:58and defend
11:59and whatever,
11:59it's amazing to me
12:01that his jump shot
12:02is a
12:03bullet.
12:05He's shooting 18%
12:07since joining the Mavericks.
12:09Jeez.
12:1018%.
12:11So, he just quit shooting the three.
12:12I mean,
12:16it looks like he missed
12:17a lot of time.
12:18But, yeah,
12:19like even through,
12:20let's call it a dozen
12:22to 14 games.
12:2312 games.
12:24Yeah,
12:24he's made two threes.
12:25That's,
12:26whoo.
12:26Can Caleb
12:27and his brother,
12:29like,
12:30one of them
12:31get like a
12:32red bun?
12:34So,
12:35we know which ones.
12:36Because they had the same
12:37exact haircut.
12:39They switched teams.
12:41So,
12:41that's a Morris twins thing.
12:42Morris,
12:43they had the same tattoos.
12:45Did,
12:45by any chance,
12:46did like,
12:47so,
12:48Caleb's brother,
12:49who's Cody?
12:50Cody.
12:50Cody got traded also.
12:52Where's Cody?
12:54He's a son.
12:54I had no idea
12:55he was a Phoenix Sun.
12:57He's on the Suns?
12:58That's so right.
13:00So,
13:00when I saw
13:01Caleb last night
13:04or a couple of nights ago
13:05when they played
13:06the Lakers,
13:08I was thinking myself,
13:10I don't know which
13:12Martin this is.
13:13And then they said it.
13:16It says,
13:17a judge should allow
13:18Caleb Martin
13:19to murder his agent.
13:20Oh,
13:20yeah,
13:21you mean because he left
13:22Miami with
13:2215 million less guaranteed?
13:26Oh,
13:26man.
13:27Since,
13:28oh,
13:28this is,
13:29oh,
13:29God,
13:29someone's going on
13:30with the Martin.
13:31And since joining
13:32the Suns 12 games
13:33ago as well,
13:35he's also only
13:36played 12 games.
13:37He's also only
13:38played 12 games
13:39and also only
13:40made two threes.
13:41He's shooting 12%
13:42from the three.
13:43That's crazy.