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Welcome to Five on the Floor, a daily insider show on the Miami heat and the
NBA featuring Ethan Skolnick, Greg Sylvander, and Alex Toledo, plus others from the Five
Reasons Sports Network.
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Five on the Floor.
I'm throwing you all off.
I'm your host, Greg Sylvander.
Tonight's floor plan, we're going to recap Jimmy Buckets and the Miami Heat getting the
victory over the Chicago Bulls, 118-116.
With me to do the recapping from Miami Heat beat.
I'll continue to say it forever and ever.
It feels weird when I'm on this side of the table.
Giancarlo Navas, y'all know him well.
Great friend of the show, friend in real life.
Thank you for joining us.
Welcome.
What a game, man.
We were texting back and forth heading into this thing, and Jimmy flipped the entire thing
on its ear.
How are you feeling after that crazy knockdown, drag out victory for the Heat?
Relieved.
Relieved that we could come and be happy today.
Relieved that they got one.
We feel like the Calvary is about to come back there.
Highsmith comes back to the lineup today.
You feel like they're at the cusp of getting healthy.
Christmas Day is around the corner.
Big matchup against the Sixers.
Relief that they got one at home that you feel like they need to get, but Jimmy shut
some dudes up today.
He had a stretch in the game where he actually took over, hit the buzzer beater.
I believe I saw Rohan Netcardi of SI tweet that that was his first buzzer beater for
the Heat, which is crazy considering how clutch he's been.
Yeah.
So relieved, happy.
I was scared at some point.
I felt a lot of emotions.
Me too.
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So I had a hundred different ways this could have gone for the A-Aggressive Play of the
Night.
But y'all know where I'm landing.
Jimmy Buckets, his former team, basically they forego the timeout G and Jimmy takes
him home.
This was not a pretty game.
This game felt like death by a thousand paper cuts, which these damn heat games have felt
like a lot lately.
But Jimmy punctuated it with this crazy shot.
You alluded to it earlier.
It is absolutely the A-Aggressive Play of the Night.
Are we going to start seeing, do you, okay, let me start here with you because we haven't
had a chance to really talk to you about this.
Do you feel Jimmy Butler has played well enough in the last three to four weeks in your opinion?
Like is he playing Jimmy Butler level basketball in your eyes?
And I don't think it's been close.
And I think it's funny because if you look at Miami's lineup data, he is the great elixir
because everybody has bad lineup data until you put them plus Jimmy Butler, then all of
a sudden lineups are plus and happy and wonderful.
And it's weird because the advanced metrics are not loving him the way that they've always
loved him. The film doesn't love him the way it's always loved him.
I feel like he's had some slippage defensively, whether that's him pacing himself or whether
that is age showing in an age 34 season coming off a pretty bad ankle injury in the
playoffs. However, that will manifest.
I don't think he's been, he's been a good player.
I don't think he's been all star good, for example.
Like I don't really think he should be in the conversation that bam, obviously the injury
took him out. But yeah, I don't think he's been in that conversation, at least in years
past. You could be like the games played games, but it's not an issue this season.
It's his actual like on court production.
But listen, in April, I think we know where that man, how that man's going to play.
It's a question of what is the ceiling of that play going to look like, because if what
he's doing right now is any indicator, I don't know if it's going to be as high as we've
been accustomed. And and that's scary, right?
Because like I'm looking at these, this is how I follow Jimmy when the numbers are
getting noisy, as Ethan calls the noisy numbers.
Check this out. I mean, like if you look back since November 24th at New York, he hasn't
had more than two steals and blocks.
I'm using counting stats, but like when he's doing that cornerback stuff where he's free
safety in the defense, pick six is doing all that kind of stuff like that's when you
start to see it. Tonight he had two steals, so he's getting closer to that.
I don't mean that to rain on the Jimmy Butler parade.
I'm happy that his arrow is trending up after tonight.
I'm happy that also our eyes here at five on the floor have not been basically lying
to us because it has been a weird year for Jimmy because they've stayed afloat and I
thought he'd be the guy that would be missing time and it ends up being Jimmy and
Tyler. The Gamer of the Night is our next segment.
It'd be easy to do, Jimmy, but that's not what we're going to do.
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And now the Gamer of the Night.
So y'all think we go in Jimmy, but we're not going to be that easy with this thing.
Gee, the floor is yours, my friend.
Who is the Gamer of the Night?
I'm just throwing this at you.
You you get to pick it and articulate why.
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Leif, let me tell you something, man.
I'm a Kyle Lowry guy and I'm not going to go Kyle Lowry.
Kevin Love with a big 22, seven, six of ten from three team high plus 19.
One turnover.
Leif, the it's not just the shooting, the pick and pop element,
just the screening and popping has helped Jimmy so much.
That's an element that they have not had since year one, really with
with Leonard and with Olenek.
And Miami has not had that kind of shot diet in their in their repertoire,
which I think has been a bit of a bit of an issue.
Now they have this kind of pick and pop.
They do a lot of Spain out of that as well.
Duncan Robinson will set the low screen and Kevin will set the high screen.
They'll do stuff out of horns where love pops and now they have a real shooter.
He has been such a godsend, not just in the half court, because I think in the half
court, he and Hawkeyes have just injected a life into them that they so desperately need.
But the hit ahead passes.
And again, that's an easy thing to say.
It gets them into easy offense.
What that does is that it lets Jimmy get those small guys deeper in the post.
Let's Hawkeyes get guys deeper in the thing.
They got so much piston action with him, with Kevin Love moving the ball
and Hawkeyes in piston was getting to the rim almost every time.
I love what Kevin has given them.
I cannot believe that they got this guy.
I mean, for nothing, for nothing.
That he was not playing in Cleveland.
And now there's conversations in Cleveland about, well, you know, are we going to keep
Jared Allen, which is, you know, Miami's like Kevin Love has been a godsend.
So I got to go.
OK, love, man, I I'm a big fan of his and whatever and everything that he's done for
them this season. He has killed it.
No Capri Sun there anymore, for sure.
In six games in December, this doesn't include tonight in 20 minutes, 12, six and
three from from from Kevin Love just to get super basic.
You mentioned all the pick and pop elements.
Him also playing with Duncan in the in those moments early,
I thought helped the offense in general.
Shout out to Duncan.
He hit his nine hundredth career three tonight.
Fastest to ever do that past buddy.
Three or five games.
It was it really?
It was three or five games, dude.
Yeah, the jersey.
How fun is that?
You know, that is great.
I did not know that.
See, that's the kind of facts and information you get here on five on the floor.
That is so much fun.
But Jaime Hawkins, dude, and also Duncan Robinson, six assists like
we could do a whole damn show about what Duncan has done
looking inward and coming back to this year as a better player.
It's it's unbelievable.
And it's unprecedented.
So I want to part of it.
He credited to kind of tie everything together.
He credited him for helping his mental.
I know. And Kevin come in last year.
You're so right like that.
It was a an emotional charge to the team.
And what's been an even bigger charge?
And you alluded to it in your last statement.
Jaime Hawkins, dog, like what are we doing here with this guy?
He sparked a run.
And I I thought it was going to be day aggressive play tonight
where he he got to play on one of the very few fast breaks of the game.
These two teams with their no transition plays in general.
If you look at the stats on cleaning the glass, it is horrid.
In transition, I don't even want to go into the raw numbers.
Tonight, Miami had a good game in transition at one seventy five
offensive rating, Chicago one hundred.
But look at that frequency, though.
That's where I know the eight point eight.
There's they're not they're not moving at all, my man.
Exactly. And so but there was one play where Jaime Hawkins did move
and he had a huge dunk.
It sparked a what turned into like 13 to two run.
The Bulls didn't score in over five minutes.
This was towards the end of the third quarter.
And obviously, Chicago changed the complexion of the game.
But Jaime was closing late.
I ask you because we talked about the closing lineups
Ethan and I did recently and we both landed or I don't know that we both landed.
It was more me that feels like ultimately the rookie
is going to get squeezed in the playoffs.
And like when we talk about closing lineups,
you'd have to be doing Dwayne level rookie stuff to stay on the court late.
Do you disagree with the idea that Jaime
probably in year one and this I'm going bigger picture with you for a reason.
I don't think our audience gets to hear you every day.
So that's why people are wondering why the heck I'm pivoting.
It's because one, we want to be a little loosey goosey like, you know,
in general, but also I want to get your perspective on the broader,
broader scope here.
So Hawkins, you think he closes come playoff time?
Short, short and so my worry with him is defensively
because I think offensively he does
because Tyler occupies some of the same spots that Jimmy does on the floor.
Jimmy wants to get to that kind of mid post area, either either slashing
or he wants to kind of get a switch and then bully a guy.
Tyler is going to get there, but off of pick and roll,
kind of that little zigzag, you know, slither dribble to get to that
kind of mid range that that little that little 12 foot pull up jumper
that that he's so good at.
So they occupy similar spots on the floor.
I, I think Hawkins is really going to have to earn it over Tyler.
And maybe, maybe, maybe he does.
I mean, because it's it's going to be Jimmy and Bam,
and then it's going to be kind of a mishmash of who's playing.
Well, Tyler's probably going to get it because he shoots.
But I think defensively, Hawkins and Tyler on the floor together
at the end of games is going to be a little bit kind of.
I don't know if Spoh is going to do that kind of right.
Because we know that Spoh is a defense first kind of guy.
And you can hide one of them.
Not the Hawkins is a bad defender, but I do think he's not there
where you want him in high leverage playoff situations,
even at the end of games.
I think sometimes you kind of see it's a foul
that he probably shouldn't commit here and there.
So I think he does get squeezed, but it might depend.
I mean, I think we'll see in the first round,
depending on where their seed lands.
I think we'll learn a lot from some of those some of those early playoff games.
Now, I'm with you there.
And I know that on December 16th to talk about playoffs is crazy.
It's just when you see this guy ascending and Spoh trusting him late in games,
I start to wonder if maybe my take was a little premature.
And so I the guy every single game,
he does something new that pops and makes me say, whoa, OK,
I didn't think he'd do that this consistently or I didn't think
he'd be this intuitive with it.
And so these are just things that I come back to this show
to once again, reinforce Jaime Hawkins Jr.
is the man I'm rocking.
The heat. Love it. Love it.
Hawkins jersey. I don't cop jerseys really these days very often,
except to like wear it to the beach and such.
And the Jaime Hawkins heat culture jersey is in effect here.
Back to this game, though, a little bit.
What the hell is it about the Chicago Bulls and Kobe White?
Shout out to Kobe White.
I think he'd be a really good fit in Miami for a number of reasons.
What is it about the Chicago Bulls team that gave the heat
fits the last two games specifically?
I mean, is it is it as easy as to just say point of attack defense?
Like, can you point to something like that?
What is it, the complacency?
What what exactly are you seeing that makes this Chicago team
a pain in the ass for two games straight for Miami?
I think it's two things.
I think one of its point of attack and they just I think
Caleb is working his way back to being that kind of defender
that I think we expect them.
And again, I think we should give patience to a guy coming back from injury
who is having more of a role on offense right now, because again,
they're missing two starters hero who's a bucket.
And obviously, Bam was giving you 20 plus a night.
So Caleb has to step up on the offensive end
because he's one of their better kind of self creators, playmaker slashers
like their best finisher on the team very quietly.
He's been very, very good as a finisher.
But yeah, like the point of attack is one issue.
Vucevic is another.
And Miami, they tried that Jimmy at the five
because Kevin was getting a little killed defensively.
And again, no, Bam, you got to play a lot of Kevin Love, Thomas
Bryan, Orlando Robinson.
That's really stretching your defense.
They kind of stopped showing love.
You'll see that the heat when they when love gets put in a pick and roll,
he wasn't really dropping early in the season.
They kind of show him high,
which means he kind of flashes up at the ball handler.
They kind of show to let the guy behind the screen recover.
They haven't done that as much lately.
Now they're just dropping him.
Yeah, they're trusting their guys to kind of fight over the screens
and everything.
But he's he's not surviving
as much as you'd like, considering all the shooting and quickness
Chicago has and Vucevic.
So they go small.
They go, OK, we're going to go Jimmy at the five.
And Vucevic is killing them.
And Jimmy, on the other end, shot like three pull ups against Vucevic
and Spohr pulled the plug.
Because if you're going to if Vucevic is going to get you in rotation
and they were they were zipping the ball around.
I mean, you saw early in that fourth quarter like it was front swarm
recover heat principle since the since the Spohr against Indiana days.
That has always been the Miami Heat principal against big men
and front swarm recover, rotate all that.
It was not working against Chicago.
Jimmy, on the other end, it was just pull up jumper and nothing was going.
Spohr pulled the plug, put Kevin in.
So I think those two things.
And then listen, DeMar DeRozan is a good basketball player.
I don't know about his playoff
sustainability, but for sure, the guy gets to the line.
He can hit shots.
And like tonight, he would be at 18, 20 points in the fourth quarter.
Like they had no answer.
Jimmy wasn't guarding him.
I thought that was it.
Caleb was guarding him.
And that's not a matchup I like for Caleb.
I think DeMar can kind of bully Caleb a bit and kind of sign that back.
Yeah. Or just like on the fakes, you know, he's just stronger than Caleb.
Caleb has to overplay the size.
Yeah. Oh, the dancing Caleb bit on one of those fakes.
I was like, come on.
But I think it kind of comes down to those two things.
And I just think without BAM, it's just hard.
Those are the two things that BAM fixes.
Point of attack is of the switching and the big men, which, you know,
you know, the BAM, you know, lock that down.
Yeah. Reminder, everyone, when we when we're getting frustrated
in these games that I did describe as death by a thousand paper
cuts early in the show, remember that BAM out of bio and Tyler Hero
are out two of the top three guys on the team.
So I think that that's an important note.
Thank you for mentioning it and bringing it back to my consciousness,
because sometimes it's easy to get really frustrated at a team
that ultimately most teams around the league, if you're saying
two out of the three best guys are out, what are you really expecting?
To that point, though,
their best player this season has been BAM.
So their best player is out because Jimmy has not been their best player
in the regular right right now, 100 percent there.
And Tyler said he was playing.
He was playing lights out as a scorer.
So I don't want to talk about his fit or whatever
with all that conversation on Twitter.
But I mean, he was playing lights out basketball.
And I'm telling you, they they'd like his scoring in the half court
right about now, especially in these kind of collapses in the fourth quarter.
So are you missing?
They're missing two huge pieces.
Are you worried with them missing those pieces
that it's too much reliance on Kyle, Kevin and Jimmy this early for this long?
Like, do you think it's sustainable?
Well, how do you think that they address that?
Do you think how concerned do you perceive them?
I know how concerned that they perceive it to me is that they're not concerned.
But like from your from an from an observer's perspective,
particularly one I respect, like, is this sustainable
with these these vets doing this night after night, particularly Kyle?
We had a conversation on Miami Heat.
We did it actually. Tiffany Meeks, my co-host.
She brought it up.
She was in the context of Kevin.
She's like, I don't know.
Kevin's doing a lot.
We kind of need him, you know, to be fresh.
You know, they want him to be kind of healthy and hitting his stride later,
not now. And I don't disagree.
I just think that like they're going to get their rest
once they get the Calvary back, there's going to be some point in February
that Kyle's going to get a couple of nights off.
Kevin's going to get a couple of nights off.
These guys are going to get this back.
I don't think the minutes.
I mean, the other night Kyle played a lot of minutes, but I think both these guys
have played like pretty reasonable minutes in this time.
And they're playing three centers late.
I mean, they're trying to save Kevin.
They're they're playing Orlando and Thomas Bryant.
You know, they're they're playing Jimmy at the five.
You know, if anybody can figure it out, it's both.
The one that's more difficult is Kyle, because they really don't have,
particularly with Tyler out.
They don't have the second ball handling guard that you trust.
Drew Smith.
I think Drew Smith's injury is like sneaky, pretty devastating
for their like regular season aspirations, which I don't think you would have
thought you're going to piss people off.
No, but they don't listen.
And I know and I wasn't like a huge fan of like what he was doing.
But it's any name that would have been there to just like Josh is not a ball
handler like I love Josh.
Like, listen, I I covered the team when Josh was around in the locker room.
That was my first year covering them.
I have an affinity to all those guys.
So I love Josh, but he's not that ball handler.
He's played very well and as a scorer and everything.
But, you know, Kyle is really right now the only guard who can handle.
And he had back spasms the other night.
Had to go out there.
Didn't have a good game against Charlotte, you know, and it showed
like that guy should not have played that night.
He was not healthy, but he has to.
So I think he's going to get some back, you know, somewhere in the season.
Obviously, you know, he's he's he's 38 years old.
And, you know, he has spotty regular season production.
I think he's been very good this season.
I think he's been like, you know, he'll never live up to the contract,
which is unfortunate.
But I think as fans and as like analysts, it's it's that's the
there's cap things and everything.
But he's played very well for them, I think.
And oh, yeah.
And do you think the availability is important because guys are hurt
all over the place?
And that's one thing I've always liked about him even back in the Toronto days.
I mean, he played through anything.
He'll play through a busted hand.
I've seen him play through injuries that he probably should have played for.
And so hopefully that they get whole and some of these guys
can get some rest on the back end of the season.
It's not exactly the same.
And so I don't want to paint it that way completely.
But there are there's connective tissue to what Kyle did the year
that they got the top seed with all of basically the whole team out
and him doing his thing kind of quarterback in the deal.
Not that he's necessarily doing it that loudly this time around,
but he's that one consistent factor.
He's like, yeah, every every single game.
And so I do think that that is something that we probably didn't expect.
And he should get a shout out for it indeed.
And since we're talking about availability, let's go to the Eric
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And now the injury report.
Injury report.
Heywood Highsmith made his return.
That was good news.
Who else came back tonight?
He was the only one back.
Tyler is probably going to be back Monday.
The next game that that's what we're looking like.
That's Minnesota.
Um, that's who they play.
Thank thank you for catching me there.
I've lost track of the schedule.
It's been a crazy.
It all melds.
I don't think people when you cover enough of these teams, everything
you don't even know.
I can't even imagine for the guys traveling.
I'm sure Anthony Chang one day wakes up and he's like, where am I?
Where am I?
Ethan can tell you.
Ethan's done it longer than anybody.
This is true.
And in a big three years, it was like a supercharged.
I could only imagine because I was sitting on my couch and I was stressed out.
Never mind being on the road with that damn team.
Um, other things about the injury report I heard two days ago.
Bam out of bio was about a week to 10 days away.
So, um, that was good news to me.
Uh, like basically when, when we got the news that Tyler was getting close,
it was like, and Bam's not far behind him.
So hopefully that continues on its way.
And then the team looking, what do you think for Christmas?
I think, I think he plays Christmas.
Um, that's great news for them.
Cause Lord knows, yeah, they're going to, they're going to need it.
And he's been killing it.
I thought he, he, he had 20 or something like that in the first quarter in the game.
I think it was tonight actually against, uh, they won by, this is a true, this is
a true stat they won by 6,000 points today against Charlotte.
Now they won by 50.
Oh my God.
35 to 82.
That's insane.
So yeah, that was here was out like hot, the entire Hornets team was out.
Um, but still, I mean, Jesus, right?
No, that's ugly.
The heater almost hole.
That's the really good news from the injury report that, um, Heywood Highsmith.
I don't think he looked great yet.
He's still trying to figure his game out to your point about giving
come a compassionate concession to a guy like Caleb Martin.
We should do the same for Heywood Highsmith, at least for these first,
uh, couple of weeks as he's getting ramped back up.
Um, but the heat are getting closer to being whole.
I know that that doesn't feel great today and it didn't feel good yesterday
and it might not feel good in the next game, but they're going
to get close to being healthy.
So that is good news for the Eric Rubenstein injury report.
As we wrap here, final thoughts, uh, one on the one 18, one 16 victory
looking ahead to the rest of December and just any final parting thoughts.
Uh, gee, it was really dope to have you on the show.
Um, but definitely let, let, let's chop it up with final thoughts.
I have, I have an important question.
Let's go.
Does Duncan Robinson get the game ball?
Oh man.
That's tough.
Or is Jimmy going to run in the locker room and go take it?
Give me my damn ball.
It's, it's, it's up to Jimmy Duncan.
Ain't saying I'm going to have to buy it from him.
Hey, Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy's had enough buzzer beaters.
You know, Jimmy, Jimmy's won a few games.
Let, let, let dunk have this one, man.
That one had to feel good though.
I mean, it was against his former team and I could sense Jimmy was frustrated.
There were some Patrick Williams moments where he was kind of looking like he was
over the, um, the physicality, et cetera.
Uh, and Jimmy Butler kept coming back for more.
So that, that was, um, It was, this was a big night.
I'm happy that it happened the way that it did, that the heat ended up getting
the victory one 18, one 16.
Um, where, where are you thinking this team lands?
Uh, seeding wise, just generally speaking, you don't have to put a number on it.
You don't have to put a name on it.
How are you feeling?
How are you, how is G's vibes on the Miami heat as we close the five on
the floor postgame show tonight?
So I said this on, uh, on MHB the other night, the East of separating.
You have Boston, Milwaukee, and Philly all within, you know, Boston at the top.
And then Milwaukee and Philly tied a game and a half back each.
You got Orlando three games back from one.
So lower land, a little separated from the, then you have the Knicks, Miami,
Indiana, and Cleveland and Brooklyn all bunched up together.
So five through nine.
So Miami is, is clearly in a, in a, a different statistical standing right now.
I think if you're Miami, you're like, we're better than the Knicks.
We're better than the Pacers and we're better than Cleveland.
And certainly I think you can be better than Orlando, even
though Orlando is very scary.
I, that is the team I said in the off season, if they get one Banyan
malicious, cancel the league.
Cause that's over.
Um, so if you're Miami, you're, you should aim, your aspiration should
be, we should be the four seats.
You get a home playoff series.
We know that the organization and everybody loves home ticket, the extra
home game for the ticket prices.
That that's, that's, that's a big deal.
It is.
Um, and you get a whole, you get, you get a home series and then you get, you
know, whatever you prepare for Boston or Milwaukee or whoever's going to be in
that one seat, hopefully it's Philly.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, we, I, but so I think they should end up around that four spot if they
don't, I think, you know, we're in for a long, I think that asking them or
asking Jimmy in particular to keep pulling Houdini's out of his headband.
It's just, it's not crazy.
They can't, they can't do two years in a row and he needs to listen.
He needs to play a little better in the regular season.
And I know that he will come February.
He did last year.
He kind of turned it up, but late, the finishing numbers
are a little concerning.
He's shooting 52% at the rim.
That is almost a career worse for him.
He shot 64 last year, 63 the year before 63 the year before
and 62 the year before that.
So his entire Miami tenure, he's been very good at the rim, his entire career.
This is yes.
The low, this is like one of the lowest marks other than his rookie year.
I'm a little worried about his defense and about his rim.
I hope tonight was helpful because you saw him kind of bully
switches, which is what you want.
Kyle and Duncan active screeners for him, getting small guys on him, going
into that mid post area, getting to the free throw line, the pick and
pop, as we talked about with love.
So you kind of saw some of his diet come into play and his free throw
rate is a little lower, but it's still pretty healthy.
Yeah.
But you, you just want, I just, you want to feel more comfortable and you
want to see all that stabilized to a point that you're like, okay, that
guy is who I remember on the floor.
And then statistically it, it reflects that agree.
I think that having Bam back on the floor, having Tyler back on the floor
is going to help some of the numbers normalize, but also get Jimmy some rest,
get him ramped up for the second half of the season.
Um, I also agree.
I think they got to shoot for the four seat.
I think they can catch Orlando for the division.
I, I, I think Orlando is going to be a really tough out.
And I think that they're going to be a good regular season team maze.
They may win the division, but it's, they're not like, you know, 10 games up.
And it's like this ridiculous, um, you know, like you'd have to run the
gauntlet of some crazy luck to get there.
I think that he can do it and they've got all their matchups.
Have they played Orlando?
No, they haven't.
So they have their fourth, they play for the first time this Wednesday.
So that's, that's the first time that they play.
That's a, that's a big one.
I'd say late.
I see Orlando is kind of like this year, Sacramento East.
It's very young team.
It's all coming together.
Extremely talented.
Great.
Might be a little too young, but I, I really liked their team by the way.
I think that they, they're going to be, yeah, I mean, Paulo is great.
I mean, they're just, they're just a very, that is like the platonic
idea of modern basketball.
It's it's they're a really fun team.
Yeah.
And also to close on, on a heat note, they play and suffer from some of the
same things that he'd do offensively.
And they hang their hat on many of the things that the heat organization likes
to hang their hat on defensively.
We shall see if the heat can get back to that magic are up there now, but the
heat got the victory tonight, Jimmy Butler with the clutch buzzer beater.
I mean, literally the walk off buzzer beater, which is appropriate
for this show.
It is now Jimmy Butler's house.
Thank you G for joining us.
Thank you for joining five on the floor.
Have a great night.