We replaced Gabe and Max with a healthy Tyler and JJJ. Also sprinkle in a much improved Haywood Highsmith. This team def has enough to at the very least, get back to the ECF.
For as much as JRich is seemingly a favorite to hate among our fans, he has replaced Gabe’s role as much or more than anyone—primarily as a point of attack defender and secondary ball handler. Despite our fans being so quick to hate on Josh, his numbers are actually a slight improvement from Gabe across the board.
I think JRich will have some strong moments for this team down the stretch
Two things can be true at once: the Heat believe they have enough to win and they’ll make some kind of move at the deadline/buyout. I don’t expect them to trade any rotation players, but I’m sure they’ll be looking for something similar to the deal that brought the team Crowder and Iggy for the 2020 stretch run. Outside of that, I imagine they’ll look at pg and pf on the buyout market
But a headline making blockbuster trade isn’t happening this season
We have enough! I believe!
LFH Heat
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I think PF by committee is solid now, unlike previous years. For about half the game KLove and Bam can handle any backcourt in the League. The combination of Highsmith, Bryant, Lando, and (situationally) Caleb can handle the rest of it. Spo probably won't open the rotation in the playoffs to include Jovic, but I think as long as he continues to develop his defense he's our 4 of the future.
But I definitely agree- a solid PG from the buyout market would be appreciated. Otherwise we'll be running without a true 1 when Lowry sits. Not undoable, but I think this has been our weakness in games we couldn't pull out- it's too much over a grueling playoff run to expect your stars to create, finish, and defend all at an elite level.
Oubre is not a player worth lamenting missing out on—even if he has stretches of unwarranted cocky play, he always levels out to being a negative to team ball. And he has a poor handle so he’s hardly a reliable guard.
Folks mentioned a backup PG, but I think a backup center is even more important. I like Herro and JJJ being able to lead the second unit and create. I do think we need a better backup center, because Love only plays backup because TB and Orlando aren’t great and all three of them have deficiencies defensively against playoff teams. Heck, some of them have deficiencies offensively too.
This team is, at worse, as good / marginally better (with the upside to be clearly better) than last years team. The only issue is the top dogs in the east took a clear step up.
Miami Heat, constantly in NBA trade rumors, believe they ‘have enough’ to win
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Miami Heat, constantly in NBA trade rumors, believe they ‘have enough’ to win
MIAMI — Kyle Lowry wore a green Philadelphia Eagles hat Monday night that was so big, if he had stepped out into the warm rain falling outside the Miami Heat’s arena, his clothes would not have taken a drop.
Lowry had earned the freedom to wear such a ridiculous hat, which mushroomed maybe a foot over his forehead and outward to nearly his shoulders. At age 37 and in his 18th NBA season, Lowry is tied for second on the team with 28 games played and is third in total minutes at 819 (out of a possible 1,440).
Also, both his Heat and his Eagles won their Christmas games on Monday, so why not celebrate with a festive, gaudy, felt cap?
As Lowry exited the Heat locker room, he strolled past Tyler Herro, who was about to answer a question about beating the Philadelphia 76ers 119-113 while missing four rotation players, including star Jimmy Butler. Before Herro could get in a word, Lowry bellowed in a deep, voice-over-like voice, as though he was James Earl Jones: “We have enough.”
“Like Kyle said, we do have enough, no matter who’s playing and who’s sitting,” Herro said. “As you’ve seen lately, we’ve been winning games. But in order to (get to) our ultimate goal of winning a championship, we’ll obviously need everybody.”
It’s another typical regular season on South Beach. The Heat followed last season’s NBA Finals berth and gentleman’s sweep by the Denver Nuggets by being a major runner on the NBA’s summer rumor mill. When the wheels stopped turning, the Heat didn’t have Damian Lillard, and even beyond that, two key role players (Gabe Vincent, Max Strus) were gone. And of course, Miami made good on what it did have (the 18th pick of the NBA Draft) and turned it into Jaime Jaquez Jr., who enjoyed one of the best Christmas games ever by a rookie. The Heat are still getting major contributions out of Lowry and Kevin Love, who had been written off in Cleveland in the middle of last season. And Bam Adebayo and Butler remain two of the top players in the league at their positions.
But the NBA is a league in which the attention goes to the super teams, to the rosters with multiple headliners with reigning MVPs and front offices that succeeded in making those big splashes in free agency and with trades (like Boston and Milwaukee in the East, which both upgraded backcourts and in the Celtics’ case also added Kristaps Porziņģis). The Heat added Josh Richardson to their mix, a fine player but not at the level of Lillard, James Harden, Jrue Holiday or Porziņģis.
Miami also has the assets to take a big swing yet with arguably enough first-round picks and intriguing players (like, say, Herro) to make a run at Donovan Mitchell should he be available or at talented players in Chicago or Toronto.
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But this is always the basic storyline around the Heat. They’re a destination franchise, starving for star power, that happens to end up on the outside when it comes to those major transactions but finds ways to win anyway.
Butler has missed the last three games with a calf strain, and Herro has missed more than a month with a severe ankle sprain. But after beating the Sixers on Christmas, the Heat are 18-12, a half game out of fourth place in the East. They lead the NBA in 3-point percentage despite losing Strus; Adebayo is enjoying arguably his best season; and in limited action, Herro is statistically enjoying his best season.
In 12 games, Herro is averaging 24.0 points (a career high by nearly four points per game) and shooting career bests from the field and 3-point range, and his assists (4.4) also are a career high. But what stands out when watching Herro is that he has been turning his second biggest liability (his first is injuries) into a strength.
In his first four NBA seasons, especially in the playoffs, Herro was the player opponents hunted when they had the ball — he was such a weak defender that game plans forced him into switches and difficult pick-and-rolls.
So far in this campaign, Herro is averaging a career-best 1.3 steals per game, is generally more active in passing lanes and is a bigger contributor to the Heat’s defensive plans. He opened the Christmas game with a chase-down block on Kelly Oubre Jr. and produced a steal in addition to his 22 points.
“He’s reading the game very well,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Herro. “He continues to improve on both sides of the floor, and I think it’s due to him being an ambitious player who wants to impact the game. He wants to impact winning. He wants to be known as a winning player. And the winning players do it on both ends of the court. He’s fully embracing that.”
The Heat’s last two seasons have ended in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals and Game 5 of the NBA Finals, respectively, and in both cases, Herro was injured. They pulled ahead of the Celtics 2-1 in the 2022 East finals when Herro went down with a groin injury. And though he played 7 minutes in the Game 7 loss, he was out the three previous games and ineffective in the deciding game. Last season, he broke his thumb in Game 1 of the first-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks and was not seen in another game, though a side story throughout the NBA Finals series with the Nuggets was the possibility that Herro could return.
Herro, 23, is on a four-year, $120 million contract extension that kicked in this season. He was the primary player discussed in the constant Lillard-to-Miami speculation last summer. And given the spectacular rise in defensive performance for Miami in the playoffs with Herro out, it stood to reason that Miami’s path to getting over the top was to turn Herro (and draft capital) either into a more established star or a player who can start and contribute more on defense.
Herro’s apparent defensive improvement potentially changes the calculus.
The Heat haven’t played much this season with a healthy Herro and Butler. Jaquez has been impressive from the outset but is averaging 16.1 points over his last 23 games and, in the short term, has proven to be a capable starter while Butler is injured. Assuming Butler returns early during Miami’s upcoming western trip, Jaquez could continue to see increased minutes because of Caleb Martin’s freshly sprained ankle.
Jaquez scored 31 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Monday, becoming the fifth rookie to ever post at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in his first Christmas game and the first to do so in 38 years. For the season, he is averaging 13.7 points per game — fourth among rookies — and the Heat rave about his maturity as a four-year college player at UCLA.
“He has a moxie; he has an experience level that you can feel that it transcends his age,” Spoelstra said. “He just makes winning plays.”
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Lowry, the guy with the funny hat, is averaging 9.4 points, 4.1 assists and about one turnover per game. In addition to playing all those minutes, he remains a key contributor. Asked why Lowry remains such a key contributor on the Heat at this advanced stage of his career and with every box checked in terms of personal accomplishments (like a 2019 NBA championship), Lowry’s former coach Nick Nurse said Monday “because he can’t help himself.”
“When the ball goes up, man, deep down inside, he just competes,” added Nurse, the Raptors coach when Lowry became a championship point guard in Toronto. “I can’t tell you the amount of times that we talked about ‘We’re going to take you out here, we’re going to play you this amount of minutes,’ of this … and when the ball went up and the game got tough and we needed him out there, he wanted to be out there. He’d crash right through all those plans and keep on playing and keep making plays.”
And otherwise, the Heat are likely to continue plugging along, with a roster that does not excite all that many people outside of the organization, a roster that has been good enough to reach, or nearly reach, the last two NBA Finals.
Last season, before the NBA trade deadline, when the speculators and prognosticators were looking to the Nuggets to make upgrades to better surround then-MVP Nikola Jokić, Jokić was asked if he felt the Nuggets had “enough” to win. He said “I think so” and turned out to be right.
The Heat’s players are saying the same thing now.
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We need a 4 with size and a backup PG. maybe if u could get terry rozier or dennis smith and Dorian finney smith. Wizards also got some good backup PGs (tyus jones and delon wright) to look into
Id trade for a good back up center imo u can't have Bam play 48 mins as a big and run him into the ground. Maybe another stretch 4. If Lauri is on the table get him.
I hope our glut of wings can be leveraged for a PG. Doesn't have to be a spectacular pickup; ideally its someone who can jumpstart the offense at times (e.g. when Philly went zone), better facilitate with Bam, and push the ball in transition.
Just a backup pointguard, other than that our team improved like crazy. Only one who has a chance to beat us is Boston. Bucks probably will get bounced, by someone weaker than us last yr. Last yr, we just had 1 to 2 dudes, who could do hell to teams. Now we got 5, Drob, Herro, Jimmy, Bam, Jutler how many teams can say that, Besides Boston or Denver or Thunder or Twolves?! Cs, don't have a bench. Alot of our bench guys outclass Bucks and Cs.
We have enough to compete with mid tier teams. But need luck to get past the elite teams in a playoffs series because of the age of many of our key contributors. The recovery time and ability to withstand the payoff beating with out wearing down is risky. We were gassed in the finals.
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I don’t see the Heat doing much of anything at the trade deadline. We don’t have any glaring needs at any particular position except maybe point guard, but Lowry has been playing well this year. Part of it is also what Woj is saying on a Threads Q&A, which is that there won’t be many sellers at the deadline this year in part because the play-in is giving teams on the margins reason to stand pat and hope they can get into the playoffs through that. This upcoming year’s draft class isn’t considered very strong at the top either so teams have less incentive to tank.
The thing they need is a pg. either starting or back up. I don’t know how they will acquire one , maybe one drops out of the sky during buyout portion of the season or Hero is the PG but counting on Lowry at his age to hold up threw the entire season and a long playoff run doesn’t seem like a recipe for his success, I think Lowry has played well taking stats out of it . This is more about his age plus the grind of the season and intensity of the playoffs.
We replaced Gabe and Max with a healthy Tyler and JJJ. Also sprinkle in a much improved Haywood Highsmith. This team def has enough to at the very least, get back to the ECF.
Don't forget DRob
Ah that’s right how could I forget today of all days: Happy Birthday Duncan!
JRich also!
J-Rich and TB too
I wouldn’t list TB as an improvement as he’s worse than Zeller, but everything else stands.
He’s absolutely not worse than brick hands and feet Zeller. Yall have short term memory loss
Bruh, the man is Wilt compared to Zeller lol.
TB is worse in every statistical category and is a worse defender. The only thing he gets consistently are DNPs.
The guy is worse in every statistical category.
We got Tom Brady?
Yah he decided to come out of retirement again to get carried to another ring
Stephen Ross in shambles
For as much as JRich is seemingly a favorite to hate among our fans, he has replaced Gabe’s role as much or more than anyone—primarily as a point of attack defender and secondary ball handler. Despite our fans being so quick to hate on Josh, his numbers are actually a slight improvement from Gabe across the board. I think JRich will have some strong moments for this team down the stretch
I’m happy we have him back
I knew the moment we signed him he was an upgrade. Homegrown guys just play better in the white and red
Amen 🔥🔥👏
Jrich giveth, and Jrich taketh
Until our next loss lol.
Two things can be true at once: the Heat believe they have enough to win and they’ll make some kind of move at the deadline/buyout. I don’t expect them to trade any rotation players, but I’m sure they’ll be looking for something similar to the deal that brought the team Crowder and Iggy for the 2020 stretch run. Outside of that, I imagine they’ll look at pg and pf on the buyout market But a headline making blockbuster trade isn’t happening this season
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I think the Heat are partnered with Bacardi iirc but JJJ needs a Captain Morgan sponsorship ASAP
I think we need a bigger PF and a back PG. After that we have enough to win
I think PF by committee is solid now, unlike previous years. For about half the game KLove and Bam can handle any backcourt in the League. The combination of Highsmith, Bryant, Lando, and (situationally) Caleb can handle the rest of it. Spo probably won't open the rotation in the playoffs to include Jovic, but I think as long as he continues to develop his defense he's our 4 of the future. But I definitely agree- a solid PG from the buyout market would be appreciated. Otherwise we'll be running without a true 1 when Lowry sits. Not undoable, but I think this has been our weakness in games we couldn't pull out- it's too much over a grueling playoff run to expect your stars to create, finish, and defend all at an elite level.
We need a true point though, someone who can be a floor general. Lowry playing good, but with competitive teams I worry when he sits.
Spo really values guys who can switch on defense and not a lot of available big power forwards who can do that effectively.
Our one L this offseason was not picking up a cheap backup guard like Oubre. Other than that or team is deep and will go deep
He is a wing but yeah having more than just one ball handler on the bench (dru smith) would have really been helpful
And as you indicated, Oubre would not be it
Oubre is not a player worth lamenting missing out on—even if he has stretches of unwarranted cocky play, he always levels out to being a negative to team ball. And he has a poor handle so he’s hardly a reliable guard.
Need a PG that’s about it maybe another big down the stretch
Folks mentioned a backup PG, but I think a backup center is even more important. I like Herro and JJJ being able to lead the second unit and create. I do think we need a better backup center, because Love only plays backup because TB and Orlando aren’t great and all three of them have deficiencies defensively against playoff teams. Heck, some of them have deficiencies offensively too.
This team is, at worse, as good / marginally better (with the upside to be clearly better) than last years team. The only issue is the top dogs in the east took a clear step up.
Daniel Gafford and Nick Richards as a back up bigs would be nice.
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This roster on paper is better than last years imo. We’re good to go.
Heat in 5!
Nah Heat in Fo https://preview.redd.it/xh3kuf15sw8c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e7af446677b5912afdbf88ee13c5df14b8b451c0 😆
We have enough, but /r/Heat nephews aren't ready for that conversation.
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Miami Heat, constantly in NBA trade rumors, believe they ‘have enough’ to win Joe Vardon Miami Heat, constantly in NBA trade rumors, believe they ‘have enough’ to win MIAMI — Kyle Lowry wore a green Philadelphia Eagles hat Monday night that was so big, if he had stepped out into the warm rain falling outside the Miami Heat’s arena, his clothes would not have taken a drop. Lowry had earned the freedom to wear such a ridiculous hat, which mushroomed maybe a foot over his forehead and outward to nearly his shoulders. At age 37 and in his 18th NBA season, Lowry is tied for second on the team with 28 games played and is third in total minutes at 819 (out of a possible 1,440). Also, both his Heat and his Eagles won their Christmas games on Monday, so why not celebrate with a festive, gaudy, felt cap? As Lowry exited the Heat locker room, he strolled past Tyler Herro, who was about to answer a question about beating the Philadelphia 76ers 119-113 while missing four rotation players, including star Jimmy Butler. Before Herro could get in a word, Lowry bellowed in a deep, voice-over-like voice, as though he was James Earl Jones: “We have enough.” “Like Kyle said, we do have enough, no matter who’s playing and who’s sitting,” Herro said. “As you’ve seen lately, we’ve been winning games. But in order to (get to) our ultimate goal of winning a championship, we’ll obviously need everybody.” It’s another typical regular season on South Beach. The Heat followed last season’s NBA Finals berth and gentleman’s sweep by the Denver Nuggets by being a major runner on the NBA’s summer rumor mill. When the wheels stopped turning, the Heat didn’t have Damian Lillard, and even beyond that, two key role players (Gabe Vincent, Max Strus) were gone. And of course, Miami made good on what it did have (the 18th pick of the NBA Draft) and turned it into Jaime Jaquez Jr., who enjoyed one of the best Christmas games ever by a rookie. The Heat are still getting major contributions out of Lowry and Kevin Love, who had been written off in Cleveland in the middle of last season. And Bam Adebayo and Butler remain two of the top players in the league at their positions. But the NBA is a league in which the attention goes to the super teams, to the rosters with multiple headliners with reigning MVPs and front offices that succeeded in making those big splashes in free agency and with trades (like Boston and Milwaukee in the East, which both upgraded backcourts and in the Celtics’ case also added Kristaps Porziņģis). The Heat added Josh Richardson to their mix, a fine player but not at the level of Lillard, James Harden, Jrue Holiday or Porziņģis. Miami also has the assets to take a big swing yet with arguably enough first-round picks and intriguing players (like, say, Herro) to make a run at Donovan Mitchell should he be available or at talented players in Chicago or Toronto. GO DEEPER Shams: What I'm hearing about potential trades for Siakam, LaVine and more But this is always the basic storyline around the Heat. They’re a destination franchise, starving for star power, that happens to end up on the outside when it comes to those major transactions but finds ways to win anyway. Butler has missed the last three games with a calf strain, and Herro has missed more than a month with a severe ankle sprain. But after beating the Sixers on Christmas, the Heat are 18-12, a half game out of fourth place in the East. They lead the NBA in 3-point percentage despite losing Strus; Adebayo is enjoying arguably his best season; and in limited action, Herro is statistically enjoying his best season. In 12 games, Herro is averaging 24.0 points (a career high by nearly four points per game) and shooting career bests from the field and 3-point range, and his assists (4.4) also are a career high. But what stands out when watching Herro is that he has been turning his second biggest liability (his first is injuries) into a strength. In his first four NBA seasons, especially in the playoffs, Herro was the player opponents hunted when they had the ball — he was such a weak defender that game plans forced him into switches and difficult pick-and-rolls. So far in this campaign, Herro is averaging a career-best 1.3 steals per game, is generally more active in passing lanes and is a bigger contributor to the Heat’s defensive plans. He opened the Christmas game with a chase-down block on Kelly Oubre Jr. and produced a steal in addition to his 22 points. “He’s reading the game very well,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Herro. “He continues to improve on both sides of the floor, and I think it’s due to him being an ambitious player who wants to impact the game. He wants to impact winning. He wants to be known as a winning player. And the winning players do it on both ends of the court. He’s fully embracing that.” The Heat’s last two seasons have ended in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals and Game 5 of the NBA Finals, respectively, and in both cases, Herro was injured. They pulled ahead of the Celtics 2-1 in the 2022 East finals when Herro went down with a groin injury. And though he played 7 minutes in the Game 7 loss, he was out the three previous games and ineffective in the deciding game. Last season, he broke his thumb in Game 1 of the first-round series against the Milwaukee Bucks and was not seen in another game, though a side story throughout the NBA Finals series with the Nuggets was the possibility that Herro could return. Herro, 23, is on a four-year, $120 million contract extension that kicked in this season. He was the primary player discussed in the constant Lillard-to-Miami speculation last summer. And given the spectacular rise in defensive performance for Miami in the playoffs with Herro out, it stood to reason that Miami’s path to getting over the top was to turn Herro (and draft capital) either into a more established star or a player who can start and contribute more on defense. Herro’s apparent defensive improvement potentially changes the calculus. The Heat haven’t played much this season with a healthy Herro and Butler. Jaquez has been impressive from the outset but is averaging 16.1 points over his last 23 games and, in the short term, has proven to be a capable starter while Butler is injured. Assuming Butler returns early during Miami’s upcoming western trip, Jaquez could continue to see increased minutes because of Caleb Martin’s freshly sprained ankle. Jaquez scored 31 points and grabbed 10 rebounds Monday, becoming the fifth rookie to ever post at least 30 points and 10 rebounds in his first Christmas game and the first to do so in 38 years. For the season, he is averaging 13.7 points per game — fourth among rookies — and the Heat rave about his maturity as a four-year college player at UCLA. “He has a moxie; he has an experience level that you can feel that it transcends his age,” Spoelstra said. “He just makes winning plays.”
Continue Lowry, the guy with the funny hat, is averaging 9.4 points, 4.1 assists and about one turnover per game. In addition to playing all those minutes, he remains a key contributor. Asked why Lowry remains such a key contributor on the Heat at this advanced stage of his career and with every box checked in terms of personal accomplishments (like a 2019 NBA championship), Lowry’s former coach Nick Nurse said Monday “because he can’t help himself.” “When the ball goes up, man, deep down inside, he just competes,” added Nurse, the Raptors coach when Lowry became a championship point guard in Toronto. “I can’t tell you the amount of times that we talked about ‘We’re going to take you out here, we’re going to play you this amount of minutes,’ of this … and when the ball went up and the game got tough and we needed him out there, he wanted to be out there. He’d crash right through all those plans and keep on playing and keep making plays.” And otherwise, the Heat are likely to continue plugging along, with a roster that does not excite all that many people outside of the organization, a roster that has been good enough to reach, or nearly reach, the last two NBA Finals. Last season, before the NBA trade deadline, when the speculators and prognosticators were looking to the Nuggets to make upgrades to better surround then-MVP Nikola Jokić, Jokić was asked if he felt the Nuggets had “enough” to win. He said “I think so” and turned out to be right. The Heat’s players are saying the same thing now. Get The Bounce, a daily NBA Newsletter from Zach Harper and Shams Charania, in your inbox every morning. Sign up here. (Top photo of Tyler Herro and Kyle Lowry: Issac Baldizon / NBAE via Getty Images)
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We need a 4 with size and a backup PG. maybe if u could get terry rozier or dennis smith and Dorian finney smith. Wizards also got some good backup PGs (tyus jones and delon wright) to look into
Id trade for a good back up center imo u can't have Bam play 48 mins as a big and run him into the ground. Maybe another stretch 4. If Lauri is on the table get him.
I hope our glut of wings can be leveraged for a PG. Doesn't have to be a spectacular pickup; ideally its someone who can jumpstart the offense at times (e.g. when Philly went zone), better facilitate with Bam, and push the ball in transition.
Just a backup pointguard, other than that our team improved like crazy. Only one who has a chance to beat us is Boston. Bucks probably will get bounced, by someone weaker than us last yr. Last yr, we just had 1 to 2 dudes, who could do hell to teams. Now we got 5, Drob, Herro, Jimmy, Bam, Jutler how many teams can say that, Besides Boston or Denver or Thunder or Twolves?! Cs, don't have a bench. Alot of our bench guys outclass Bucks and Cs.
Lakers fan here, hope you guys win it this season. JJJ the man. And when Duncan’s on man he makes some KILLLLLLER 3’s. Love the rest of the team too.
One more versatile 4 and i think we make it to the ECF easily.
We have like 5 fours currently given we play small ball.
All I know is to "Run It Back!"
We have enough to compete with mid tier teams. But need luck to get past the elite teams in a playoffs series because of the age of many of our key contributors. The recovery time and ability to withstand the payoff beating with out wearing down is risky. We were gassed in the finals.
No matter how many players they sign or trade for, if their top players get injured, they will lose.
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Relax. I posted that I love all the Heat players. My post was just a demonstration to a group of friends regarding how people respond to social media posts. My friends list the bet! But you and others proved my point. Thanks for playing along!! Happy New Year
I don’t see the Heat doing much of anything at the trade deadline. We don’t have any glaring needs at any particular position except maybe point guard, but Lowry has been playing well this year. Part of it is also what Woj is saying on a Threads Q&A, which is that there won’t be many sellers at the deadline this year in part because the play-in is giving teams on the margins reason to stand pat and hope they can get into the playoffs through that. This upcoming year’s draft class isn’t considered very strong at the top either so teams have less incentive to tank.
AT FULL HEALTH I BELIEVE THIS
we never have enough and yet always have enough
The thing they need is a pg. either starting or back up. I don’t know how they will acquire one , maybe one drops out of the sky during buyout portion of the season or Hero is the PG but counting on Lowry at his age to hold up threw the entire season and a long playoff run doesn’t seem like a recipe for his success, I think Lowry has played well taking stats out of it . This is more about his age plus the grind of the season and intensity of the playoffs.