Miami Heat fall to the LA Clippers 5 Reasons Reaction

hey T it's gold for 5 on the floor on the five re YouTube channel here at the arena where the Miami Heat lose 103 to 95 to the Los Angeles Clippers 25 points for kawh Leonard they've been one of the best teams in the league over the past couple of months and although they didn't shoot the ball particularly well at times particularly Paul George they had enough at the end big four-point play by James Harden and honestly Jimmy Butler just took too long to get going he ended up with 20 uh 21 points had a couple of plays late but by then they were out of it bam outo had a really strong first quarter not much after kind of the same for Terry Rosier they got pretty good performances from Josh Richardson and Caleb Martin but haime Haw has struggled again and again Miami just didn't have enough Firepower and again under 100 points so tonight he couldn't blame Tyler hero for this one no Tyler hero no Duncan Robinson Miami played good defense but Alex they just couldn't score enough against a team that honestly looks like they could be a championship Contender this year yeah the Clippers have really put it together and just like seeing all those guys lined up together on the court is particularly like scary man and we were talking about it during the game Kawai being able to go back to some of that like you know Spurs stuff with the young Kawai where he looks like you know the claw out there on defense making just kind of mindbending defensive plays seeing that again is scary and really I thought the difference today was three-point shooting like I thought Tyler and Duncan were missed a lot in that aspect and they really could have used either one of them in this game like it's one thing to miss uh one but missing both to me is was a lot to overcome and ESP against a team that's already so explosive offensively and they went to zone for so much of the game and I thought they did a really good job like these guys have looked really good recently in the zone but and you know there was times where they mixed up and switched out of it and went back to man especially there towards the end but ultimately they they they I think they kind of figured it out and really hardening Kawai got going there and those those hardened four-point plays were were absolute daggers but before the game I I I told birie like I feel like this is one of those games where you got to grind it down like you're not going to be able to outpaced them from a scoring standpoint and I felt like it was kind of on track for that throughout the whole game they it was a defensive battle I thought that he really defended well and ultimately they just kind of ran out of Firepower there towards the end the offense just seems like the thing to me as you mentioned the defense you know they had the Zone moments they had moments throughout where I thought they had good rotations but even when the defense starts starts to have those moments the you know they don't just click at the same time the offense and the defense and I look at a game like this and it's like Yeah you mentioned the shooting they need Ty and Duncan Tyler or Duncan to kind of provide that but if you don't have the shooting and you cannot rely on that you got to go to your two best players and it just feels like at a game like this when when it's kind of the hype around the game a really good team in town your two best players just have to be better they just have to be better offensively uh and the only way you're going to create good looks from three when you don't to Tyler Duncan is if Jimmy and B are consistently putting pressure on the paint putting pressure on the defense and they didn't do that enough and they're trying to work this offense through you know Terry and and Josh and Caleb and these other guys which is good but it's not those are are just relief buckets those are relief scorers those are not the guys that are going to just consistently push the offense in the right direction so as much as we're going to talk about certain things from this game it's just it really feels as simple to me as as Jimmy and Bam just have to be better in that regard the BAM thing is a little interesting to me just because it just seems like a lot of his shots he's kind of in his head to me a little bit like the way he's getting to his shots like we talked about the mid-range jumper he had a couple soft like jump hooks he had little bunnies by the rim they're just not going in you see his reactions like he just kind of like Stomps like he gets a little angry it's like he's kind of in his head right now and he needs to get out of his head especially in the night you go Tyler I think the same's true for Hopkins honestly ever since he came back from the groin injury he's not exploding he's not looking to explode he's not finishing at The Rim the way that I think he's capable of finishing at The Rim so but it comes back to one thing against a team like this that's got four guys that are going to the Hall of Fame even if they're not all in their Prime right now your best player needs to be elite he was an elite tonight they lost it's just it's that simple what JJ reck said was right they're better when they're at their best when Jimmy Butler is a scorer he wasn't that until the last 3 minutes of the game uh they need more from him obviously if they're going to be able to beat teams like this and they need to get these next two Orlando and San Antonio CU you look at the rest of the schedule over of the rest of February they're not a lot of wins on there they need to beat Orlando because they're competing with them and they need to beat San Antonio this week for Alex Toledo and Brady Hawk I Ean scholnick catch five on the floor and the rest of the content on the F re and YouTube channel