5 Keys: Heat @ Cavs 11/22/23

what's up guys Sean Rochester five reason Sports bringing you my five keys for game 15 Heat at Cavs November 22nd Thanksgiving Eve uh before I do that Finish Line get yourself $10 off a $100 purchase you can do that by clicking on the link that's in the description get yourself $10 off for your holiday shopping at the Finish Line when you buy $100 in the store all right my five Keys tonight he at Cavs they're on the second night of a back toback they picked up a big win in the uh inseason tournament last night in Phil Philadelphia kind of a surprising uh result especially with Donovan Mitchell being out but they got good contributions and were able to eat them out by I believe three points it was a close game um so the Cavs you know even if Donovan Mitchell doesn't play you cannot just take them lightly they have a good team they haven't necessarily lived up to maybe where they thought they would be um but they're they're definitely talented um obviously some familiar faces with Max stru and and some guys that we've you know they've basically been the same team for the last few years uh after they got the the Mitchell trade so looking at the first key I think the story of this game is going to be told at The Rim we've talked about Rim pressure we've talked about Rim attempts uh when spoler is talking in his press conference and it seems to have at least helped the offense it's definitely not made us a Powerhouse by any means but the uh the increase in terms of uh Rim attempts have definitely been a good thing and we'll talk about the balance in a second but we know the Cavs length it's been a it's a something that's been talked about for years with Mobley uh with Jared Allen they just have a long team and sometimes gives us trouble with Jimmy or Bam um this year you know it seems like bam is not afraid of those types of guys he sort of like Knocked Down the Walls that used to prevent him from being uh an effective offensive player but when you're looking at the Cavs uh fourth in Rim attempts and then second best at defending the rim so you know Miami can't be afraid to go in there and it doesn't necessarily mean you need to get Rim attempts because those are going to lead to fouls those are going to lead to um free throw attempts they're going to lead to offensive rebounds and obviously it leads to defensive collapse then you get them in rotation you can spray out to Shooters you get those types of things so you can't be afraid to shoot in there um they're not going to block every shot but you also can't fall in love with the fact that well they're big let's shoot mid-range let's shoot threes and we'll talk about that when we get to the balance I think it's also an opportunity for bam to show against these two really good Defenders and and two Defenders that are different in a lot of ways but Allen and Moy are tough and um it's just going to be one of those things where the Heat have to find ways to put pressure on the rim second key I've talked about this over and over and over I'm going to continue it's probably going to be a key every game is this balance that I've been preaching I'm I've been citing this 30% Rim 35% mid-range 35% 3 doesn't have to be perfectly on that last game it almost fell perfectly on it and you saw the result the offense was as good as it's been all season really in a long long time but the Cavs allow um very few threes seventh lowest frequency in the league and they allow the ninth highest in the mid-range as I talked about before if you're afraid of those two big guys you may pull up and you get those short mid-range or long mid-range shots um because you're afraid of going at the basket we can't fall in love with those you got to keep that balance you got to find ways to get things at the rim and get to the free throw line and then also draw and kick spray out to your Shooters and create shots that way I think any motion any movement side to side ball movement lots of action you're going to get those guys moving and you really give yourself a better chance in terms of uh you know having good offense Tonight third key injury list you know at the time of recording this in the early afternoon we still don't know about Donovan Mitchell and some of these other guys we know Kevin Love is going to be out we know Tyler hero is going to be out um it's been announced that uh thas Brian is going to take Love's minutes I thought maybe Orlando Robinson might get a little burned but maybe he still could but uh we'll see what the Cavs do if they roll out the same starting five it's going to be interesting to see how do you match up with the second big you can put bam on Allen you can put him on Moy but who guards the other person Jimmy can go there but that's taxing you can put Haywood there but then I think Haywood is probably the best matchup for Garland and if Mitchell plays now you have another problem on the perimeter so weird matchups I don't know if it's a team you want to Zone a lot especially with the way that they kind of increased their shooting ability uh but you know SPO knows best fourth one the matchups we got Duncan versus Drew this is what we've been looking for heat Twitter has been battling over this I want to see Max streu do more I've been waiting for it we've been talking about all these analytical things Duncan's hot streu had a good game last night both of them can kind of roller coaster we know from game to game they can be hot they can be cold but it's going to be interesting to see and I hopefully get to see them matched up against each other from time to time maybe not the entire time I'm also interested to see if Jimmy can try to Target and get Mr streu in a switch and really go at him hopefully he doesn't give him that uh the bird like they used to do before the game but uh hopefully mismatch hunting can do a good thing maybe bing bang ni Yang getting some switches and things like that uh and getting those big guys away from the paint Fifth and final key is going to be about rebounding if we don't rebound the ball well against a big team like this we're not going to win when the heat uh get 65% or more of their defensive rebounds they are eight and four on the season obviously a good indicator when you rebound well you usually win at least compete on the glass they don't necessarily have to dominate that's probably a hard task for our undersized team but keep their Bigs off the glass hold them to one shot don't give them offensive rebounding Second Chances and uh you know The Bigs off the bench especially with love out Thomas Bryant Orlando Robinson really has a team effort you got to rebound the ball well should be a good game tonight between the Cavs and the heat check it out five reasons Sports will'll have you covered all night long on five reasons Sports and Five Reasons YouTube thanks