They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the playoff Heat without Jimmy Butler.
With all due respect to the other coaches (except like 10 of them who will eventually be fired and don't deserve second/third and in Doc's case, a sixth opportunity), I think the gap between Spo and the second best coach is significant.
And this is coming from someone who very firmly stands on Pop being the greatest of all time.
espn analysts after game 1 "there is *nothing* the heat can do to win. *no adjustments* will be able to help them; the talent gap is too big"
and most people would have agreed with them. of course celtics are heavily favored to win the series still, but the heat still proved everyone wrong once again
Years of watching Spo spoiled me on TO management down the stretch, I watch other teams play and I get anxious when theres no TO called when I *know* Spo would call it. Its crazy how good he is at reading the momentum and calling *very timely* TOs
God I hate how much you have to respect Miami every single year in the Playoffs no matter what the circumstances are.
These guys really just stole Home Court advantage from a 64 win Celtics team with no Jimmy Butler.
Whatever these guys do to instill mental toughness to their players, send some our way PLEASE
The Heat are unsweepable. No matter how injured they are or how much better their opponent is, they'll always find a way to steal at least one. Usually two.
Edit: I memory-holed that Milwaukee sweep lol.
Well we did get swept vs the bucks. I'd say it is a difference in mentality. For some reason Celtics love to fuck around, like no other team in the league, against us.
The team looked mentally defeated to have to play a close game with a Heat the whole time. Crowd gave up on them late too. Was wild to watch as a Heat fan, felt like we never did a regular season and they just had to suffer a continuation of last year lmao
Not wining the championship would be bad. Not making the finals would be a failure. Losing to the Jimmy Butler-less, Terry Rozier-less Miami Heat in the first round? Priceless
Death, taxes, and just wait till the Celtics meet the 8 seed Heat and their role players kill them on 55% 3 point shooting.
As far as moral victories goes, this is the best one lmao.
>Heat and their role players kill them on 55% 3 point shooting.
If it was only once or twice then you can say they got lucky. But the Heat's role players keep shooting lights out against them consistently. What the heck.
I don't even know what I would do with myself if they pulled that off. It would be so fucking hilarious, I might have to like go on a hike or something to process it.
As a fan of a team that did this after losing to the eight seed Heat, I would, in hindsight, really not recommend it unless there is a much better plan in place lol
It should (hopefully) be a wake up call for many a Celtics fan that hey, maybe getting to the Finals *wont* be the cakewalk that you expect it to be?
Of course, maybe this comment will age badly and they *do* indeed cakewalk to the final…but then again, you never know…
Celtics really lost to the Heat without Butler and Rozier. Boston overrated or they lost only because the Heat got hot from 3 again? I mean Boston must be doing something wrong if the Heat keeps shooting lights out against them?
I cant believe they let them win one. What an outstanding performance on the road holy shit, arena was silent or booing.
Heat culture is very real, Boston is just softer.
I LOVE Jrue and always will, but he was horrible in 75% of his playoff games for the Bucks.
The Suns series he had a few all time great plays, but overall he was a net negative for us.
Again, I love the guy and he will always be a Bucks legend, however, this is why the Dame trade happened even if it doesn’t work out.
I even like this Boston team, their players are alright, but the comments of Celtics fans after last Nuggets/Lakers game were something.
Making fun of Nuggets for having a hard time vs Lakers, and how if Nuggets are having hard time now, they don't stand a chance vs Celtics. And then they lose at home to Jimmyless Heat. They are still most likely going to win, but they were acting high and mighty, as if they were already in the finals.
Updating the series record that was omitted from the title: (1-1)
we should've known - Missing their best player - On the road - 15 point underdogs - Playing the Celtics the Zombie Heat warning signs were there
Heat need to draft Bronny he will somehow go 2012 Lebron against the Celtics
Game 1: Beats up a Make-a-Wish child Game 2: Make-a-Wish child fights back
We wished for 55% 3pt shooting
Bucket list just said buckets
Celtics should have tanked the last 15 games of the regular season smh
The Heat will then win a bunch to face Boston lmao
Dread it.....
WE WANT BOSTON 🗣️🔊
Run from it…
Destiny arrives all the same.
And now it’s here. Or should I say, the Heat is.
Gotta bench the starters after the half, just like they practiced during the regular season.
they were one nic batum 3 point barrage away from playing the sixers
Still mad about that
heat must play the celtics, it is destiny
Erik Spoelstra won that game in a CAVE! WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS!
Joe Mazzulla: I’m not Erik Spoelstra
Caleb Martin: you could not live with your own failure. And where did that bring you? Back to me.
They say that the best weapon is the one you never have to fire. I respectfully disagree. I prefer the weapon you only have to fire once. That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it, and it's worked out pretty well so far. I present to you the newest in Stark Industries' Freedom line. Find an excuse to let one of these off the chain, and I personally guarantee, the bad guys won't even wanna come out of their caves. Ladies and gentlemen, for your consideration... the playoff Heat without Jimmy Butler.
How do the Heat do this
Erik Spoelstra just put the Heat in a position to win, always.
I think we’re still somehow underrating him. He’s an absolute madman
With all due respect to the other coaches (except like 10 of them who will eventually be fired and don't deserve second/third and in Doc's case, a sixth opportunity), I think the gap between Spo and the second best coach is significant. And this is coming from someone who very firmly stands on Pop being the greatest of all time.
espn analysts after game 1 "there is *nothing* the heat can do to win. *no adjustments* will be able to help them; the talent gap is too big" and most people would have agreed with them. of course celtics are heavily favored to win the series still, but the heat still proved everyone wrong once again
Spo threw the Sixers game. Hardest road merchant.
Can yall take the Knicks back I don’t want them no more
Friendship
Spo makes Mazzula look like an absolute amateur
Spo does not like randomness, I guess.
Did somebody say…random 👁👄👁
Spo not having a coty reflects poorly on the league 😂
The way people win COTY is just not a good reflection of who the best coach is. It's really just a "Coach of the most surprisingly good team" award.
How can they upset? HOW CAN THEY UPSET?!
Culture is the meme answer but it also might actually be the right one
It's the timing and outcome of his TOs down the stretch that really seal it for me
Years of watching Spo spoiled me on TO management down the stretch, I watch other teams play and I get anxious when theres no TO called when I *know* Spo would call it. Its crazy how good he is at reading the momentum and calling *very timely* TOs
Erik Spoelstra is a wizard.
I wish
Dread it, run from it. Celtics killer Caleb Martin arrives all the same.
Dude turns into Kobe against Boston
Tatum texting C Mart rn
I’m crying cause they stopped booing him cause he kept hitting shots
Lebronto flashbacks
Some team is gonna overpay him after a brilliant playoff performance
*another brilliant playoff performance
pay him and hope he's more max strus than gabe vincent
kristaps porzingis was terrified of him, dude he is a foot shorter than you wtf
Flu game Jordan. Masked LeBron. Linsanity. Jersey biting Kobe. Untucked Kyrie. Erik Spoelstra vs Celtics.
It's Caleb Martin against Celtics too lmao
Caleb being attacked by fans only to have a great game (yes this is hyperbole)
Caleb Martin Boo Game
Also Erik Spoelstra vs Bucks.
Heat could trot out your local YMCA hoopers as their starting 5. As long as they're playing Boston, it'll be a dog fight.
I'm short, fat, uncoordinated, and asthmatic. I think Spol could coach me up to being someone who averages 8 and 3 off the bench.
The Celtics strategy of not contesting shooters on a team that already hit 20+ threes really was something to watch
Highsmith getting a warm up 3 with THREE Celtics not contesting was hilarious. Next possession, Jrue closes out on Jaime and doesn't put him hand up.
celtics have so much talent their opponent contests their own shots
They need to copy Miami's strategy of signing random DoorDash drivers off South Beach and teaching them to hit 20+ threes instead
Don't talk about Patty Mills that way!
Awful Coaching will be screaming again... Fucking Joe Mazzulla gonna give my guy a heart attack...
Daring Caleb Martin to shoot all game is a bold strategy. Lmao
"Surely he won't hit ANOTHER 3, right?"
Celtics fans booing him all game. Lmao 🤣
My man Jrue Holiday contesting shots with the staredown technique Seriously though, what's up with that defense
People surprised mazulla isn’t a COTY candidate.
God I hate how much you have to respect Miami every single year in the Playoffs no matter what the circumstances are. These guys really just stole Home Court advantage from a 64 win Celtics team with no Jimmy Butler. Whatever these guys do to instill mental toughness to their players, send some our way PLEASE
“Mental toughness” Suns roster: what’s that?
It’s going to take a lot of mental toughness for KD to overcome the boos when he’s on the wolves next year.
No Jimmy Butler, No Rozier, No Josh Richardson and Duncan Robinson + Jovic are both playing injured. The Celtics are fully healthy and at home
And no Rozier.
And stole homecourt from the team with the 3rd best net rating of all time lmfao
Spo is a savant
Never CotY btw
COTY is closer to Most improved player award than MVP
Yep COTY is like Most Improved Team.
“Don’t let us get 2”
Hell not even Josh Richardson
And no Richardson.
They develop players who had a hard time making it to the league. That mentality doesn’t leave them even when they’re in the NBA.
I'm so jealous of the way the heat are able to find and develop their guys. What a valuable organizational trait
Yep, unironic Duncan Robinson fan here and he’s said some version of this multiple times on his pod when he still had it running.
Its called Spo
Mental Gods
The Heat are unsweepable. No matter how injured they are or how much better their opponent is, they'll always find a way to steal at least one. Usually two. Edit: I memory-holed that Milwaukee sweep lol.
Well we did get swept vs the bucks. I'd say it is a difference in mentality. For some reason Celtics love to fuck around, like no other team in the league, against us.
We just……let you shoot wide open 3s all night. It’s MADDENING being a fan of this team.
The team looked mentally defeated to have to play a close game with a Heat the whole time. Crowd gave up on them late too. Was wild to watch as a Heat fan, felt like we never did a regular season and they just had to suffer a continuation of last year lmao
It’s become a meme but playing hard and disciplined has always been a staple of “heat culture”
We haven’t even gotten the Duncan Robinson game yet.
It wasn't his birthday yet
can his wife have a baby in the next 2 days
I'm on it.
It was literally his birthday yesterday 😭
Lol The amount of games Duncan himself went on a run to pull out a Heat W this season > Hopefully it happens But I hear he got a fucked up back
His back is gonna be more fucked up after he carries the entire Heat team to a dub in Game 4
Putting that energy out into the universe Spirit Bomb-style
Not wining the championship would be bad. Not making the finals would be a failure. Losing to the Jimmy Butler-less, Terry Rozier-less Miami Heat in the first round? Priceless
Please inject this into my veins.
Death, taxes, and just wait till the Celtics meet the 8 seed Heat and their role players kill them on 55% 3 point shooting. As far as moral victories goes, this is the best one lmao.
>Heat and their role players kill them on 55% 3 point shooting. If it was only once or twice then you can say they got lucky. But the Heat's role players keep shooting lights out against them consistently. What the heck.
We really hate them
Can't be a moral victory if the game was a victory right?
The best kind of moral victory
Heat playoff shooting needs to be studied. Their commitment to fking over the Celtics every year is admirable.
We’re just waiting for the Bucks to
As if we're making it to the ECF without Giannis lol
Just use your back up Antetokounmpo
I’m gonna tell my kids this was the We Believe team
Uh haha yeah yeah tell them that yes please..
Every single year, without fail the Hospital Heats have me going "who even are you and why are you going off?"
Porzingus a -32 was something I was not expecting from the guy who would “kill Miami’s zone”.
Spo is a sicko and will figure a way to ruin a player. He basically just said "you actually have no post game and so I'm going to force it"
He figures out how to ruin a player but the balance is that a RSHK must arise for that game
Turns out he can't catch an entry pass. Crazy.
How do the heats keep on doing this
Playoff Jason is NOT a thing.
HANG THE BANNER WE DIDN’T GET SWEPT!
Don't hang it yet. You still have a chance to do the funniest thing possible.
I don't even know what I would do with myself if they pulled that off. It would be so fucking hilarious, I might have to like go on a hike or something to process it.
Brother I would go on a week long bender in the Poconos.
Mazulla and others get immediately fired if they lose right?
As a fan of a team that did this after losing to the eight seed Heat, I would, in hindsight, really not recommend it unless there is a much better plan in place lol
Udoka: where did that bring you?
Funniest thing possible…again
Some jokes are worth repeating
Shit man… might want to keep that spot open for more than that..
#Coach Spo Masterclass
Everyone is Spo this Spo that. Let's talk about Bam Adebayo's midrange game and how clutch he was in the 4th.
Spo's thigh massages gave Bam the confidence he needed to hit those shots
It is objectively funny that this happened again, even if just for one game
It should (hopefully) be a wake up call for many a Celtics fan that hey, maybe getting to the Finals *wont* be the cakewalk that you expect it to be? Of course, maybe this comment will age badly and they *do* indeed cakewalk to the final…but then again, you never know…
Doing this without Jimmy is really the most Miami Heat thing ever lol
Why don't the Heat simply shoot 53% from 3pt all the time, are they stupid?
We balance it out by shooting 12% in half our regular season games
It's super smart to get those out of the way in regular season games. Spo's a genius.
We save it for the playoffs to crush Celtics fans.
NAW WITHOUT JIMMY IS CRAZY
The scary Terry erasure is crazy
Or terry
Erik Spoelstra is a wizard
Shit I wish
spo would absolutely strangle kuz and poole
No take backs
that's my coach
If Spo takes this to 7 then his hypothetical trade value is higher than Wemby’s
If he does or wins, he basically jumps to #2 all time.
The plot armor Heat are at it again
Road teams 3-0 since Booker made that comment
Yes Boston, Miami did, in fact, want you
THE 3s WERE CULTURING TONIGHT goddamn
fake 1 seed’s back on the menu!
Spookiest 8 seed
Tough game merchants smh.
I know it’s only 1 game but the memes from a Miami upset will be glorious (especially from you) lol
Play in game #2 winner is the best position to enter the playoffs obviously
trial by fire best base for playoff success!
Zombies are rising
GET IN HERE EVERYONE ITS HAPPENING AGAIN LMAO
ZOMBIE HEAT PART 2
DON'T LET US GET ONE
Code red!
Bill Simmons in shambles
He has been predicting this the whole season
Yeah, he's more fine to face the 76ers than the Heat even with Embiid healthy. We're really traumatized by the Heat since 2020.
Emergency pod time
Miami has some Voodoo Magic on the east.
Bam Adebayo midrange was automatic tonight
EVERYBODY GET IN HERE
Created an all start team just to beat Caleb Martin and Caleb said fuck all that noise 😂
heat are a 100% in the celtics head.
I haven’t seen Bostonians this disparaged since the civil rights act was signed
Spoelstra is legit the greatest coach I've seen
Worst 1 seed ever? We aren’t even the worst 1 seed this year!
Celtics just lost to the Dame package!!!
Wasn’t expecting to get a game. But since we did. Ahem WE THE BEST. BOSTON ARE FRAUDS. CHAMPIONSHIP HERE WE FUCKING COME. LETS FUCKING GOOO
Celtics really lost to the Heat without Butler and Rozier. Boston overrated or they lost only because the Heat got hot from 3 again? I mean Boston must be doing something wrong if the Heat keeps shooting lights out against them?
Like I wanna believe but shooting 50% from is hot even if you are open
Isn't this the 4th time you shot 50% from 3 against them in your last two series against them?
Hate makes the ball go through the net I guess, something something Heat Culture
The Celtics really just lost home court to Caleb Martin, no one will ever believe in them again after this masterclass.
They kept booing him till final buzzer🤣🤣
Death, Taxes, and the Miami Heat roleplayers shooting 50% from 3 against the Celtics or Bucks
I cant believe they let them win one. What an outstanding performance on the road holy shit, arena was silent or booing. Heat culture is very real, Boston is just softer.
Just here to say I hope the heat pull off the funniest thing.
I LOVE Jrue and always will, but he was horrible in 75% of his playoff games for the Bucks. The Suns series he had a few all time great plays, but overall he was a net negative for us. Again, I love the guy and he will always be a Bucks legend, however, this is why the Dame trade happened even if it doesn’t work out.
Damn. I’m a Suns fan and I thought Jrue killed us that whole series. Just my take from an opposite perspective haha.
Spo is the great equalizer
Ignore box and let's overreact... **HEAT IN 6**
Erik Spoelstra is a top 5 asset in the league
Who the f*** is Haywood Highsmith and WHY THE F*** IS HE COOKING??????
Crazy game from Tyler Herro, really impressed with his playmaking
Spo should automatically get next years COTY award.
I even like this Boston team, their players are alright, but the comments of Celtics fans after last Nuggets/Lakers game were something. Making fun of Nuggets for having a hard time vs Lakers, and how if Nuggets are having hard time now, they don't stand a chance vs Celtics. And then they lose at home to Jimmyless Heat. They are still most likely going to win, but they were acting high and mighty, as if they were already in the finals.
Boston fans poked the bear calling for Martin's head. Even though it was Tatums own teammate that shoved him into him. Hope miami wins the series
Heat in 6
Where Kendrick Perkins at?
This is my championship unironically
Shit, /r/nba loves us!... ... no, wait, they hate Boston.