Heat @ Knicks. January 27th. 3 PM EST.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Maybe he should demand the ball instead of being a meek ass bish.

Crawl back in your hole

Imagine Joel Embiid just sitting back and being cool with not getting the ball when he's rolling. Keep making excuses for Bam all you want but at some point you'll have to acknowledge he ain't that dude.

You’re very smart!!

[powerball1373]

Crawl back in your hole

Imagine Joel Embiid just sitting back and being cool with not getting the ball when he's rolling. Keep making excuses for Bam all you want but at some point you'll have to acknowledge he ain't that dude.

You’re very smart!!

That's what I thought lol. Truth hurts, my guy.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Oh no, people think we’re still a heavily oriented switch defense and think it’s due to Bams limitations or something (funny) and haven’t realized we run far more drop defense now which has helped with Bams career high rebound numbers.

Like I said, here for the **** and giggles, i crack up at some of these takes

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Imagine Joel Embiid just sitting back and being cool with not getting the ball when he's rolling. Keep making excuses for Bam all you want but at some point you'll have to acknowledge he ain't that dude.

You’re very smart!!

That's what I thought lol. Truth hurts, my guy.

“YeA tHaTs wUT I ThOuGHt” you gotta be like 15

You got me there buddy!!

[jele]

Loved that the announcers pointed out Bam isn’t getting touches tonight, 2 straight dunks 1 being a poster to start the half and the answer was to freeze him out until late in the 4th when the game was over

On a team lacking so much talent as it is it probably isn’t the best decision to erase your 2nd best player

Yeah wide open untouched alley oop dunks. Other than that.. jumpers from the FT line. Does he think he is DeRozan?

[powerball1373]

You’re very smart!!

That's what I thought lol. Truth hurts, my guy.

“YeA tHaTs wUT I ThOuGHt” you gotta be like 15

You got me there buddy!!

Bam wanting the ball and 3ammy wanting the smoke

[powerball1373]

We need Bam to want the ball as much as he wants dem big ole girls!

[KingDavid]

Loved that the announcers pointed out Bam isn’t getting touches tonight, 2 straight dunks 1 being a poster to start the half and the answer was to freeze him out until late in the 4th when the game was over

On a team lacking so much talent as it is it probably isn’t the best decision to erase your 2nd best player

It was the scheme. Knicks IMMEDIATELY doubled him off the catch after those two dunks and that was that. Bam can't handle double teams and I mean that in the best way possible. If we're gonna feed Bam more, then we need to run WAY MORE pick and rolls/pops where he can punish the double teams.

If Bam were capable of handling doubles, we wouldn't have been able to draft him. Straight up.

Bam can pass out of doubles, he’s a great passer. The team can’t react to doubles though and it’s actually crazy to me. I was going to post about it when Jimmy got doubled in the 3rd at some point and we just freak tf out lol. Literally cut middle or find an open gap and they’ll find you.

That being said, they definitely swarm him when he touches. The issue was the touches weren’t there

Oh nah, I strictly meant scoring. My bad for not making that clear. But you're likely right. We went away from getting him the ball after that. No one was cutting though.

I've pooped on Herro enough, he wasn't the only problem.

[Bourne85]

That Scary trade was a sneaky tax saving move. To those with an untrained eye it could be difficult to ascertain. But you can’t pass that by me Pat you sly dog. Saving Mickey his money while tricking the fans that this is a win now move. Gotta love it

[KingDavid]

That's what I thought lol. Truth hurts, my guy.

“YeA tHaTs wUT I ThOuGHt” you gotta be like 15

You got me there buddy!!

Bam wanting the ball and 3ammy wanting the smoke

Both of you come back down and try to relax. We're all upset right now.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Loved that the announcers pointed out Bam isn’t getting touches tonight, 2 straight dunks 1 being a poster to start the half and the answer was to freeze him out until late in the 4th when the game was over

On a team lacking so much talent as it is it probably isn’t the best decision to erase your 2nd best player

Yeah wide open untouched alley oop dunks. Other than that.. jumpers from the FT line. Does he think he is DeRozan?

Were you trying to make a point of something here?

[3ammy3uck3ts]

That's what I thought lol. Truth hurts, my guy.

“YeA tHaTs wUT I ThOuGHt” you gotta be like 15

You got me there buddy!!

Bam wanting the ball and 3ammy wanting the smoke

You’re not that guy, I promise you

[3ammy3uck3ts]

“YeA tHaTs wUT I ThOuGHt” you gotta be like 15

You got me there buddy!!

Bam wanting the ball and 3ammy wanting the smoke

Both of you come back down and try to relax. We're all upset right now.

I’m good brother! I’m laughing at it!

[3ammy3uck3ts]

That Scary trade was a sneaky tax saving move. To those with an untrained eye it could be difficult to ascertain. But you can’t pass that by me Pat you sly dog. Saving Mickey his money while tricking the fans that this is a win now move. Gotta love it

Terry will get better as he gets more comfortable and gets his jump shot feeling good again, but even if he didn’t he’s already an upgrade over Lowry. Tax savings or not

[Shewasfly]

Loved that the announcers pointed out Bam isn’t getting touches tonight, 2 straight dunks 1 being a poster to start the half and the answer was to freeze him out until late in the 4th when the game was over

On a team lacking so much talent as it is it probably isn’t the best decision to erase your 2nd best player

It was the scheme. Knicks IMMEDIATELY doubled him off the catch after those two dunks and that was that. Bam can't handle double teams and I mean that in the best way possible. If we're gonna feed Bam more, then we need to run WAY MORE pick and rolls/pops where he can punish the double teams.

If Bam were capable of handling doubles, we wouldn't have been able to draft him. Straight up.

But Bam has the ball in his hands a lot, which is not a bad thing because he's typically a good decision maker. By the eye test, he actually gets the ball in similar areas as Giannis and other star bigs, despite him not really being a star. He chooses to hand back off to the perimeter rather than attack or even put up an open mid range shot. His attack off the dribble has improved but I think we can all agree it isn't a dependable source of offense for him, especially when the defense is set. That's why his bag is a diet of fadeaway jumpers in the paint and not slashes to the rim or layups.

If Bam could even just turn and hit that mid range jumper OUTSIDE the paint that the defense gives him every single time, there'd have to be an adjustment and that would clear up the paint more. It wouldn't solve everything, we still do need another starting caliber big, but it'd help a whole lot for the offense. We saw Jimmy do whatever he wanted when he put his mind to it tonight, which is why all the criticism he gets is laughable. He is still by far our best player and its not even close. He had no help tonight.

[powerball1373]

“YeA tHaTs wUT I ThOuGHt” you gotta be like 15

You got me there buddy!!

Bam wanting the ball and 3ammy wanting the smoke

You’re not that guy, I promise you

[SerialChiller]

We need a big physical two guard who can defend and a damn backup PG. Sigh

And a PF who can shoot, rebound, and defend, and is also at least 6'8 min. Good luck finding all that haha, we're screwed...

You don't need a PF that has all that if Bam could shoot or was taller. Bam is actually a big part of our size problems. He's not good enough offensively to be the tweener he is because he can't stretch the floor. And he's not tall enough to cure a lot of the size issues we have either. We also play the switching style defense we play in order to play to his strengths as a defender.

That leaves us looking for 7 footers who can do it all and they are as you hinted at, not in high supply. Its Kelly O and a handful of others, even less if you want to talk about the ones that are actually attainable.

I completely agree. I love Bam as a player, he is good I'm not one of his haters here. But he's just an awkward C to build a team around being so undersized. But the Heat probably actually seeked out a C like him when they drafted him. He's what Spo wants for his dumb small ball. Spo probably doesn't even want a big PF like we all want if we even could find one. He didn't even really play Kelly O consistently when we had him. But our team is kind of fundamentally flawed fit wise right from the get go because our 2 best players are both so unorthodox. We have Bam who's undersized at C and more of a switch defender instead of rim protector. Then we have Butler as our star who isn't much of a threat from 3 compared to most stars so that's 2 non outside shooters on the floor right there when the whole league is about 3s now. Building around those two abnormalities for players in those positions and roles is tough, and Spo's schemes further complicate it.

[MHeat0279]

We are not playing defense, that is the source of all this.

[AirP.]

We are not playing defense, that is the source of all this.

This team is soft, outside if Bam, Butler, Jaquez Jr and role players Highsmith and Love, everyone else is soft and you can expect to be overpowered by players of the same height.

This is the same team that has this court?

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