Suns 118, Heat 105: Five on the Floor quick takes

hey it's Ean SC for five on the floor on the five reasion YouTube channel Miami Heat just lost their seventh straight game longest losing streak since 2008 where dayquon cook was their starting two guard and Chris Quinn now an assistant was their starting point guard Alex Leo here with me you can follow the tropical bik you can follow me e j Skol in a five reent sports another game where they give up 100 points through three quarters another game where they don't get enough from bam maayo or Tyler hero who four of 20 until the fourth and then a cosmetic comeback at the end which I'm not going to give a lot of attention to J Richardson did some good things late but other than Jimmy Butler and Terry Rosier pretty much nobody showed up for this game today Kevin Love struggled again Haywood heith had a lot of kind of silly fouls today and again it comes back though to hero and out of Bio like if this is what you're going to get from the two of them you're not getting out of this funk no I think it's been a little bit um of a problem recently where it feels like uh a lot of their problems have been connected and I mentioned that on the last pod because it feels like they there's some parallels with with both of their roles this season with added responsibility and like I really do think they're trying to go about it the right way you know trying not to settle for as many tough shots as they have in in the recent past this season but again it's just not been great results like I like that Tyler has tried to play a little bit more off ball has tried to take more threes so obviously it's going to mess with his percentage a little bit but again the results have just not been there for him or bam they finished I believe 6 to 21 going after everything tonight from the field and you know like I I'm glad that Terry got had a good game like I'd rather he did and didn't and he it's felt like he's getting a little bit more acclimated more comfortable with every game but that's about the most he could take away positively from this game other than you know you got a decent Jimmy game I wouldn't say a great Jimmy game better than some of the ones he's given you this season uh but again the defensive identity is not there I I felt like their they have their their defense now has become a very leaky one it feels like one that isn't as physic AG as it used to be um and I didn't really feel that they were felt on the defensive end until the fourth quarter and even then it was still leaky because they were playing the zone for so long in the second half the second half it felt like it was 100% Z 100% Zone and air Gordon just over and over and over the human slump I mean Zone Buster man like that guy just kept getting wide open in the corner and that's just not a good recipe like it it's funny though because the Zone like them playing it for so long ended up being a good thing for them in the fourth quarter where they actually out for they had their best offensive and defensive quarter in the fourth quarter uh outscoring the Suns 31 to 18 which you know I I guess I'll take it rather than you know them losing by 30 I show some fights but yeah you saw like the ups and downs the pros and cons of running zone for so long and it felt like they ended up just going to that because that first half like when it was love and Rosier and Tyler love and Rosier and Duncan like those lineups I feel like it's it's one too many Defenders that you're a little bit worried about and it ended up being being you know Kevin Love mad and throwing stuff on the bench and hitting the chair and and like the defense has just not been there I feel like their inconsistency on that end has been their the main reason for their collapses as of late and here we go seven game streak for the first time since I was probably like what was I 12 years old or something during that year pretty much I mean at least kind of Lov showed a little bit of fight there on the bench so those anger seemed directed uh at himself but you mentioned Eric Gordon look it's one thing for Beal and Booker and Durant to go off and all of them had pretty yeah but it's another thing for Eric Gordon at age 35 to be not just the threes you mentioned the threes against the Zone there were two times that he he just sliced through the heat defense through three different Defenders again he's 35 and that's not his game anymore it never really was but certainly not now and then Drew Eubanks had 11 points in the first quarter like that cannot happen and I I just think this is a team right now that they looked like they known know how to play together ha hakz comes back he was 0 of six today they didn't involve him at all they kind of put him him in bad situations I don't know maybe they need some more players to get hurt I hate to say it and they got to figure out the rotation from there but this team this team is not looking healthy at all uh and seven straight losses and the Kings coming in on Wednesday you would figure that the losing streak ends in Washington on Saturday but I'm not counting on anything at this stage Ethan scolnick with Alex too here at the arena again the Miami Heat lose seven straight losses sign up for Discord vent about it check out the new five4 tonight