1 Video View·Nov 4, 2023 #MiamiHeat #Heat #NBA The Miami Heat did some good things Wednesday in building a 16-point loss, but fell apart down the stretch against a Brooklyn team missing 3 starters and a rotation player. Tyler Herro's 30, Bam Adebayo's strong all-around game and a better effort from Jimmy Butler... all not enough. So what now? Ethan, Greg and Sean assess the fallout.
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you can follow at Greg sander the Miami
Heat lose 109 to 105 to the Brooklyn
Nets the heat are now one and4 on the
season their only win was a win against
rebuilding Detroit tonight they blew a
16-point
lead and just made some mystifying
decisions down the stretch of this game
and the whole injury excuse cannot be
used because they were the healthier
team today we'll get to that and more as
we go forward but first do want to tell
you about the rock gamer of the night
The RK gamer of the
night I don't even know where to go with
this guys so I'm gonna take
suggestions
uh you know I kind of feel like we
should give it to Tyler herro because he
scored 30 points on 12 of 23 from the
floor bamat bio had 21 and
14 but they lost the
game I'm looking at this Net's bench and
I'm like Trenton Watford Armani Brooks
combined for 28 points Lonnie Walker had
17 points they got on a game that they
didn't have the Nets did not have three
starters and a rotation player they had
45 points from th those three guys 21
from Mel Bridges 217 and five so by
default I'm I'm gon to go with just the
net Subs here um because that should not
happen tonight so we'll we'll share it
between Armani Brooks Trenton wadford
and Lonnie Walker again combining for 28
45 points tonight um Greg I'll go to you
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play um Greg thoughts on tonight I
mentioned you mentioned the rocky Sports
gamer of the night and the crazy thing
is if you look at a box score if you
were a box score Watcher and you just
look at Tyler herob bamat bio and Jimmy
Butler you think that they would have
played well enough just statistically
where the heat would have get a get a
victory in the circumstance if you just
look at that in a vacuum that's
concerning that's not um something that
I think Heat fans are accustomed to
usually if two of those three guys are
are playing well you're finishing games
and and then just the context of them
having a 16-point lead blowing it on
your home
floor on the heels of playing against a
pretty bad Detroit Piston or what
projects to be a pretty bad Detroit
Piston team
and almost coughing that game up now you
play this Brooklyn Nets team that some
can maybe make a playoff run but let's
be serious they're in a transition year
they're not a a group that anybody fears
to any degree they're a team that's
probably going to look to be trading
players at the deadline and and looking
to gain assets or do whatever transition
teams do and you lose to them and to me
it's disconcerting because they look out
of sorts they look like they were taking
turns
late and then when you you look at the
box score and you see bam had 21 and 14
and Jimmy had 20 and seven and Tyler had
30 how the hell is that not enough to
get it done it tells me that there's
something that transcends the numbers
here that's not going right I don't know
exactly what it is maybe the coach Sean
Rochester will but this is a bad bad way
to start this home stand I said that the
20 game evaluation Mark is I understand
that line of thinking and it's been in
place for a very long time this is the
one year I think if this kind of home
stand goes south you got to think about
doing something
quicker and Sean that's where I'm at
with this because it's easy to say Don't
Panic heat teams have started slow
before some of the best heat teams had
slow starts and some of them with h of
Fame players had slow
starts but you're coming over the
hangover of the off season and a game
like this you can't blame it on this guy
being out they don't have Caleb Martin
Josh Richardson Haywood heith working
themselves back in although Haywood was
good tonight and probably should have
played more down the stretch that's
something I want to get into with both
of
you but the other team was missing three
starters you're on your home floor there
should be a little desperation at this
point of the season and you were in
control of the game that's the other
thing this is a repeat of what happened
in the opening night against Detroit the
only difference is they got one
defensive stop at the end of the game
and this time yes there was one call
that perhaps could have been overturned
I'm not blaming it on that either uh you
had the team with more of your core guys
than this other team that came in one
and
two and again didn't have its starting
center didn't have its best perimeter
shooter in cam
Johnson uh and and also didn't have
Dennis Smith Jr who was who's a guy that
they're counting on to be a defensive uh
point guard for them coming off the
bench cam Thomas who they've relied on
for scoring this year was awful uh four
of 19 from the floor two of seven from
three one assist because he doesn't look
to pass to anybody I don't even know how
they lost this game
Sean and you forgot Spencer Den witty
who also didn't play tonight who would
be our uh I mean we would make make
trophies or statues of him if he was our
point guard right now look I mean we've
talked about this I think the problem
right now is there are so many holes in
the ship that we're plugging one and
there's you know water coming in from
other places you can look at the offense
Alex talked about this yesterday we were
so riing on the mid-range um around 45%
of our attempts going into this game
tonight it was a little lower we leaned
a little bit more into threes probably
too much into threes I thought we would
dominate inside and I I think bam had a
fairly good game but without claing in
there you got to dominate inside and we
just didn't do that turning the ball
over the Nets coming into the game had
the 30th best rate of turning people
over we turn the ball over way more than
we should have okay especially early I
think we had 12 at halftime it lets
those teams back into the game because
you're you're not giving yourself a
chance to even get shots up the second
thing then is defensively so now you
know your offense isn't great and we
kind of expected that but defense is
what we've known you know over the
course of 20 years to be great at they
consistently would get to the paint get
to the rim get get baskets there and if
they weren't getting that they were
knocking down threes you talked about
the guys off the bench how many threes
did they get from I mean Brooks had five
Walker had one Watford had one and then
the starters had another nine in the
starting lineup like it's just
unacceptable there's so many things that
and unfortunately it's on Eric sp's
birthday like he's not going to have a
happy birthday tonight he's going to be
trying to figure out how to plug all
these damn holes like it's just so many
things right now I don't even know what
to point to because there's nothing that
I would say is like the one thing in
previous Seasons you could say if we
just shot the ball better from outside
like that was an indicator right now
there are so many things that I think
are problems I don't even know what you
address first and Eric wasn't in a
particularly good mood before the game
actually uh when he said he didn't want
to talk about injuries uh he was very
short with reporters we had Alex and
Brady down there today Brady was in
there for that people took it as a shot
at Jimmy I don't believe it was a shot
at Jimmy in any way it was uh it just
seemed like frustration in general uh
with the way things have gone in the
early season and so this was kind of a
to me a get right home stand like you're
playing against a team tonight that is a
team that you really should just beat
you should handle you're the defending
Eastern Conference champions we could
talk about them not upgrading in the off
season there's enough on this team to
take care of the Nets tonight and again
they controlled the game and when we get
to the play of the night it's going to
be hard to pick one because every single
guy who was on the floor for the heat
down the stretch
made mistakes and they made them like
sequentially it was like one and then
the next and then the next it was like
okay my turn to do this I want to before
we get to that I want to focus on some
of the things that seemed to be going
well Greg earlier in the game that there
were some like like green shoots here
and that's why this is so disappointing
that they let this thing get away spoler
first makes the decision to start haime
haak as he does not shoot the ball
particularly well Kevin Love was not
available tonight so hak has played
opportunity for him hak did not shoot
well but I thought he did kind of what
SPO wanted him to do which is he forced
the action a little bit the pace was
better early in the game Jimmy was more
engaged than he's been in the in the
previous uh two games uh for sure that
he played and you know I I I you know I
you take a look at some of the others
bam okay I thought had a lot of
effective moments uh throughout the game
getting to his turnaround the drop step
creating space for himself and Tyler
scored efficiently tonight there were
times that I was like Tyler should have
maybe looked at somebody who was wide
open calling for the ball like Duncan
there were a couple of times that that
happened but again Tyler was giving you
offense you know with efficient numbers
Haywood heith comes back makes an
immediate impact and you can see where
they've missed him and missed you know
him as an additional Wing who can guard
uh pulled up and made a 28-footer there
were good things that happened tonight
right even I thought Kyle had some
pretty decent moment Thomas Bryant was
active so it's not like it's all awful
and then all of a sudden it is and the
Nets look like the more poised team down
the stretch and that's I that I don't
understand why do the heat look so
disconnected when it matters the only
time that it's looked like they they've
been connected was when they were
already down like 20 points uh you know
to Milwaukee and there was you know just
and SPO just threw a lineup out there
and it worked um but again there was no
pressure at that point of the game why
does a team that went to the Eastern
Conference Finals went to the finals uh
the past two seasons look like they
don't know each other down the
stretch so do you want to talk about in
basketball terms against the Brooklyn
Nets tonight or do you want me to just
cut the and get right to the chase
go to it they look like a team that's
tired of being around each other they
look like a tired that's they they they
look like a team that is tired of one
another maybe not because they dislike
one another but because sometimes groups
just run their course and I hate to say
that this early in the season I'll
probably get clipped for this and people
will come back and laugh at me and you
know what that's fine I'm just saying
that
tonight on November the 1 when they
played the Brooklyn Nets at home there's
just a degree of
disconnected play down the stretch there
and then the the games that have taken
place already where it just looks like
the
team I I I don't know I don't know that
they have enough and I hate to say that
it's just a situation where with the
percent of cap that Duncan Robinson and
Kyle Lowry take up to what what
production they bring they're they're
not playing connected enough to offset
that in my in you know by my standard I
I think that there's probably something
to having Caleb back there's something
to having the entire rotation like I
understand all of those factors but they
don't have a lead guard they don't have
a guy that can get them settled late in
games unless they're just gonna go Jimmy
herro ball so there's just something
there that's
missing Sean you had something to add to
that yeah Greg and I talked about this
before we started it seems at times like
the ball it's not flowing together and
that's what you're talking about right
if you're visually looking for a team
that likes to play together you see the
ball moving and action and cutting and
things like that I really want to see
tomorrow Cooper one of those guys that
has access to Second Spectrum when the
ball touches one side of the floor
whether you're playing Middle School
basketball or NBA basketball generally
speaking you're not getting a high
percentage shot how many times
especially late one pass one shot that
Jimmy shot that was late a three that he
kind of caught the ball high and it
looked very awkward Josh had one too
when the ball goes side to side where it
touches the paint usually you have
better shots and I want to see the data
on that hopefully tomorrow I'll
obviously tag it if we can find it but
it's just not productive basketball the
way that things are working out and I
cannot think that spola is very happy
with how the offense looks all right
we're GNA talk now about the play of the
night and I'm going to give you guys
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lan.com that's the play that you need to
make there were plays that the heat
needed to make tonight and they didn't
make them on four or five consecutive
possessions which is the one that stands
out the most to you guys was it Jimmy
deciding to take a three when he was off
balance sort of looking the wrong way
during during a game that I I thought he
was more engaged than in all the other
games was it that Tyler layup thing that
happened on a game he scored 30 was it
that shot that bam had that
that I don't did that even graze the rim
was it any of the stuff that Jay Rich
did down the stretch he was in there
instead of I thought maybe High Smith
should have been playing some of those
minutes or was it something Kyle did
because I can't remember Kyle settling
them even one time as things were
falling apart wh which which of them had
the play of the night for you Greg
because I thought all five of them kind
of defined this loss in the last few
minutes I'm gonna go with eight 38
left Trenton wadford made a 24 foot
threp pointer from the left corner to
put the Nets up
8986 was assisted by Royce O'Neal I
don't even have the guts tonight to pick
one of the plays that you threw up there
and lob thank you for lobing me multiple
options I think we need Trenton wadford
needs to get called out on this podcast
because he was was the random scrub heat
killer of the
night Sean I you going with Trenton
Watford who I was not even familiar with
his game as Shaq would say in those
memes that you get on Twitter uh or or
is it somebody on the heat that did
something late that stands out I thought
the Jimmy steel was GNA be the play of
the night I think Greg I sent that one
to you right like it looked like they
were getting that thing back under
control uh which one do you
choose are we going for a positive play
or a negative play can we have a
positive play on a night that they
dropped to one and four losing to a team
at home without three starters and a
rotation player how about this positive
play the the offensive rebound bam
grabbed in traffic with one hand then
got the n one after it yes my favorite
play of the night the negative one that
you didn't introduce when we closed out
to whoever the shooter was in the right
corner Lowry didn't box out on the
backside and got an and one on Mel
Bridges and I think the game was tied at
that point that was the turning point in
my mind it's sad that we have so much
evidence of bad play within a matter of
like four minutes in the fourth quarter
it's ter it went so South things were so
good Ethan like this was a turn around
game and it's so it shows you how
quickly things change in the
NBA but something needs to change
quickly the other direction now I I
think that's where we're all at I mean
the three of us are three of the more
optimistic people in our heat group at
the
network and and I just think we've all
got bad vibes off what's started this
season they've got one win and it's
against a team that's going to win 25
games that win was more challenging than
it should have been they go into Boston
and their best player looks like he
doesn't want to be there against
Minnesota their best player doesn't
play and that game got out of control in
ways it shouldn't have late they they
were within a Duncan Robinson 3 of tying
it and then there was a 161 one run the
other direction Milwaukee was not
competitive let let's I mean the fourth
quarter again was a scramble the buckser
still learning each other a little bit
they kept the starters in credit to the
hero J Rich uh yic group that made an
impact late but I mean come on I I don't
think we ever thought made it look
closer than it was it made it look
closer than it was and then you're home
against the team and again you have
control against this team and then you
completely fall apart and I think there
some hard questions are going to start
to get asked here
and and you know you you were talking
about some of them on playback Greg but
you know we talk about a closing lineup
right and I think we all thought okay
maybe Josh Richardson can be in a
closing lineup but then you sort of
remembering some of the decision- making
from his previous stint yeah and that
cropped up tonight they don't get enough
from the point guard position they just
don't and I you know it's it's not even
like Kyle being bad it's just there's
not enough good like there's and and I
was saying on playback tonight when they
were bading we were a little bit more
optimistic I'm like it almost feels like
they just got that one piece to settle
everybody down you know somebody who
could be impactful from that spot it
doesn't have to be an elite player but
like our guy Gad cardana was on there
saying like even a Spencer Den witty on
the heat like it feels like that would
make a dramatic difference and everybody
could kind of settle into their roles
but I don't know that that trade is
coming and that's concerning also
because you know you you have again
you're like okay this is the guy who's
supposed to settle you down but he the
ball's not in Kyle's hands to settle
anybody down at the end of it and when
we're kind of celebrating like Jimmy
giving a b performance tonight it's not
good it's it's just not enough I I loved
what I've seen from bam so far this
season um you know again a couple of
mistakes late but overall i' I've liked
what I've seen from him and Tyler has
shown growth in a number of different
areas but it's it's not and I'm not
going to blame this on him it's it's not
leading to anything right now and they
have a lot of playable players but they
don't seem to have a lot of playable
players that look like again they're
connected uh in basketball terms or even
passionate together on the court and
that's that's an issue right it's not
heat likee and and and and I think
because we saw them kind of you know
drift through the whole regular season
last year and come within three minutes
of missing the Playoffs entirely
you were hopeful that they would prove
people wrong here early in the year jump
out of the gate and it just hasn't
happened all right one more thing we
want to get to tonight and then I think
it's going to lead to a a good disco
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tonight Kevin Love sat um not expected
to be anything serious going forward of
course Jimmy Butler was on the injury
Port uh with a knee issue that he's had
before but I thought he looked active
tonight I didn't think that he looked
limited by the knee in any way Caleb
Martin continues to be out with the knee
he had been making progress then he
played he hasn't played since Heywood
heith returned early he was supposed to
be reevaluated in two weeks we didn't
even get to two weeks he was back on the
floor and that's where I want to go with
this with you guys tonight um I think
Haywood heis Smith is going to end up
being a starter for this team and I
don't think it's G to take too long and
I was surprised and I was your thoughts
on this Sean that he didn't play down
the stretch tonight because I I thought
he was good and they couldn't box out
that was a huge problem late in the game
there were we didn't even get to some of
these Jimmy was not boxing out late in
the game Kyle was in the wrong position
as he tends to be but again I don't
blame him for this one because it's
always these switches but he was there
was he didn't box out bridges on on a
key play late in the game he and Jimmy
both um I thought having heith out there
just for all the little things that he
was doing earlier I might have had him
out there instead of Kyle or Josh either
one honestly did you think he should
have played down the stretch
yeah I mean especially late when you're
going to have the ball in Jimmy bam and
Tyler's hands most of the time the the
idea behind Kyle Lowry I hate to say his
his job because it doesn't seem to be
his job actually right now is to settle
the offense and the other three guys are
going to be the ones doing that so you
know I I don't know if Haywood would
have been the solution but he seems to
be calm he seems to be in control of his
role he shot the ball fairly well
tonight
um I I agree with you about starting I
think he's going to be maybe the
long-term solution um but then what do
you do with love I mean he can't close
either right so he's going to play small
minutes here and there in the in the
middle of the second and third quarters
I mean it's it's going to be an
interesting equation to see how SPO
figures out those two plus haime
plus yic I guess we'll throw him out
there not that I agree with that but who
is going to who's going to form this
rotation Greg should he have played the
stretch I mean I I think maybe in the
place of Josh if I was going to go
anywhere there I I also think Kyle like
they're I'm done with him finishing
games I'm sorry there's just not enough
there uh so ultimately maybe Josh sticks
and and Haywood heith comes in for him I
think they're easing him back into a
degree I think you're going to see
Haywood heith eventually start I think
that the more they lose the more spoler
is going to get pretty Cutthroat about
making those changes you could see Josh
and Haywood heith all of a sudden start
spos done that before where he's flipped
stuff up so I wouldn't be surprised if
they start looking at that kind of stuff
just because like what else are they
going to do right like they they to keep
trotting out the same lineup I think is
a little bit crazy and heith will start
closing I think that tonight they just
went in a different direction um but I
think ultimately what you're going to to
SPO trust Haywood heith in a way where
he's going to get consistent minutes if
he's healthy he's going to play yeah it
looks like SPO was trying to find a jolt
from someone tonight and that I think
played into the hakz starting because
you know the one thing about haime is he
may Force the action sometimes it's
clear already like he has a certain
confidence in himself and I did think he
forced some shots early but I also
thought he competed defensively uh
tonight he made some good
reads there needs to be some stuff
cleaned up obviously he's a rookie
playing in what his fourth or fifth game
at this point but I understood the
reasoning behind it and putting him out
there instead of SE yovic who might have
sort of settled into things more and
looks like he's trying to kind of pick
his spots and figure out where he fits
haime doesn't care it doesn't seem and I
I say that as a compliment like it just
he just goes that's it and it also seems
like they have confidence in him because
they kept passing him the ball even when
he was missing okay and even when they
had some some looks
but I think ultimately looking at love
looking at hakz looking at yic looking
at their other options it's going to end
up being high Smith at the four it be
and and I think a couple reasons one you
can trust him two he's clearly improved
there's no question I mean with a shot a
and the other thing is if they ever do
have their full compliment of players
the idea of bringing heith Richardson
and Morton All Off the Bench does not
make a lot of sense you've got three
guys with somewhat overlapping skill
sets three good Defenders and I did
think tonight one of the things spoler
did was he ran that lineup twice with
Kyle and four plus Defenders bam uh bam
Jimmy uh was high Smith and Josh right I
think that was the group they were
talking about and they ran that group TS
they had more success one time than the
other time but I think spoler has a
roster where he he doesn't have to have
more than sort of one subpar defender on
the floor at a time
in most cases but to bring three wing
Defenders off the bench together when
the starting lineup is challenged in
that
way I think SPO is gonna lean if he's if
he's gonna continue to start Kyle which
I don't necessarily agree with but if
he's gonna continue to start Kyle I
think he's got to start and he wants to
keep Caleb when Caleb comes back in a
role where he can be more of a featured
scorer and sort of be a swis army knife
Off the Bench then it makes sense to
start Haywood I I just and I I think
that I don't think I'm saying something
that spoler doesn't realize because I I
think that's the direction that this is
going to go you know with Haywood you're
going to get effort and he's gonna be in
the right place and at this point you
just need guys you can trust Sean that's
that's the way I view
it yeah and to that closing point it's
basically your three main guys and then
whoever between Josh Haywood and Caleb
two of those three that are playing the
best and if I guess if you needed
shooting if you were trailing when you
were closing and you needed Duncan out
there right he could be an option
it's very situationally dependent but I
like the versatility of that group with
their defensive you know uh inclination
the way that they can switch they can
play multiple positions you got a lot of
guys that can handle it's a good closing
group but you also got to get the good
stuff out of those top three guys too
and tonight you didn't because we just
went through a list of how you know like
the fumbling plays and bad shots those
are the guys that got to take you to the
Finish
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because we've done a couple of these
episodes but now at 1 and4 Washington's
coming in for the first game of this
inseason tournament which I still don't
understand on Friday night but I thought
this was a home stand that honestly to
feel good you had to sweep it honestly
like you had to sweep it or at least put
yourself in position where the Laker
game on Monday night if you didn't end
up sweeping okay maybe you would lose to
the Lakers if LeBron or ad has one of
those nights but at least you come out
of this thing two and one and you know
now it's crazy to say a must-win game uh
when we just hit the beginning of
November but if they lose to Washington
on the way Washington looks if they lose
to Washington on Friday night oh boy um
where's your Panic meter at this point
Greg Panic meter is at a
3.05 out of
10 but ascending in Fast and I say that
because you're right this home stand is
it and I also just it's not about the
fact that they lose it's how they look
when they lose it's how like tonight in
particular there's a part of like seeing
that bam Tyler and Jimmy had their
individual moments but it doesn't
collectively lead to a win that's
concerning to me and to see other things
go right and to see them pull together
you know a coherent night on the boards
in comparison to Brooklyn and still come
up short to lose leads they've done it
to Detroit they've done it to Brooklyn
now the good teams they just felt like
they didn't have quite enough coming off
that off season there's a lot of context
in the involved here but it doesn't
equal Good Vibes and I think that
there's one thing that you can't find in
a box score and right now that's what's
missing from this Heat team
Vibes Sean higher than 3.05 out of 10
that was crazy
you got to pick an area code that's how
this works you got to pick an area code
so so give give me an area code
9.54 954 I'm sounding all alarms that's
where I live that's where I'm at right
now Greg that's where I was going Sean
you don't live in 215 anymore do you I
do live in 215 yeah tough tough tough uh
for the late night economy around here
lately with the Los James but um no i'
say I'm somewhere in the three or four
it's it's one of those things where if
you can't take care of Washington the
worst defense in the league if our
offense can't shine against them we are
in trouble uh then I will really start
sounding alarms but they got to do
something you got to figure it out in
the locker room first and then you know
the front office should be looking for
options elsewhere if that can't get
solved all right I gotta pick an area
code all right 305 um I feel like this
Price is Right highest going over you
know closest without going over uh too
much and I am going to go over 305
actually I'm not going to get quite to
786 or 954 I think I'll leave those two
alone I don't know about 561 I I you
might you might convince me on 561 but
for right now I'll just say 407 how
about we do that so I'll give you I'll
give you an Orlando area code I'm
concerned honestly I am concerned I I I
know everyone's gonna say Ethan you've
covered this damn team since like
prehistoric era and all this you've seen
this story before youve seen us start 11
and 30 and go 30 and 11 and you've seen
them one game over 500 and the coach
gets fired and they end up winning the
championship in 06 and seeing him nine
and eight and the first year with LeBron
and they got to the finals you know
before LeBron stopped playing uh and so
yeah we've seen all this before we've
seen them only four games over 500 and
then Chris Bosch goes out for the season
and somehow you know they were win a
game in Eastern Conference Championship
in 2016 so yes we have seen this before
but it comes off a really frustrating
disappointing
summer and they needed to get off to a
good start they just did and and now now
there's some a lot of toxicity in the
fan base you just hope that there's not
going to be any toxicity in the locker
room the the leaders of this team bam
out of Bio we didn't get a chance to
talk about this today maybe we will
tomorrow on the off day he's captain of
this team now and you know this is his
first test as Captain you know when I
talked to Bam about the possibility of
being Captain uh at training camp and he
said well there's only a couple options
here and he kind of smiled and I said do
you want the responsibility if they give
it to you and he says I'll take it and I
was like but you're a nice guy sometimes
it's not so easy for a nice guy to get
in people's faces UD is a nice guy but
UD had a streak we all know where he
could be not so nice guy if he if if
that was required it's the first test of
the BAM out of Bio era in that sense in
terms of being the leader of this team
got to find a way to pull these guys
together and get them on the same page
Eris Boler has pieces to work with but
he's got to have hearts and Minds too
the pieces are not enough and when it's
stuff started to fall apart tonight
nobody pulled them together it just was
and it it wasn't one guy I don't want to
pin it on one guy all five that were on
the floor in the last few minutes of
this game cough that thing up all of
them all of them Tyler was Tyler and Bam
were their best players tonight I
thought overall um and Jimmy was better
than he's been but everybody who was on
the floor at the end of that
game played a role in this and it's it's
ugly start to the season all right
thanks to Sean thanks to Greg we will
try to be more optimistic in the future
we got at least 77 more of these
postgame podcast to do uh we'll see how
many we go beyond that have a good night
everybody thank you for listening to the
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