Why Giannis and the Miami Heat Are Off to a Slow Start

You know, Giannis is putting 28-3 up. You got Bam at around 19 points, yet they're 3-5. Why the slow start with Spoelstra's Heat? They're not that good. I mean, I told people before the season, I don't think Miami was making a playoff. Hey, when you look at this team, man, and there's no disrespect to Eric Spoelstra. Eric Spoelstra, to me, is one of the greatest coaches in this generation, and Giannis has done Giannis. Bam has been Bam. But when you have to trade all those parts, Tyler Herro, Duncan Robinson, Norman Powell leaves for free agency. There's not enough around them. And that is the problem with Miami is they don't have, in my opinion, when you have Giannis, you need to surround themselves with shooters. So they're not shooting the ball well enough, but that ain't even the big problem. The biggest problem with Miami is they can't defend the three. Folks, they are the worst in the NBA. At defending the three-point line in regards to three-point makes allowed and also three-point percentage defense. So when you look at the game tonight versus Golden State versus the Warriors, I'm going to the three-point market, but I'm not going to step. I'm going to go to Pods. I'm going to go to Brandon Podzimski to go over two-and-a-half made threes in the matchup tonight, over three of the last five games, over the last five versus Miami. And when you think about just not just that. There's something they call the break, right? The break is when the three-point line comes to the corner and kind of works its way up. That's called the break. Miami is second to last at three-point percentage defense above the break, and Podzimski shoots 78% of his threes above the break. That's called a bad matchup. Defense on Mitchell focuses on Steph. Pods gets loose. Brandon Podziemski over two and a half made threes tonight. Do you think Riley does anything when they get closer to the trading deadline and making a move? Because as you said, they need shooters, man. I mean, they traded the entire farm away when they got Giannis. Do you think he makes a move, J-White, to bring something in there or they're just going to run this year out and go and try to build in the offseason? Who are they going to trade? I mean, Bam? I mean, that's the problem. I mean, Jovic? He hasn't really done much in his career. Mitchell, no one really liked him until he got to Miami, right? So they don't have a lot of movable pieces. And it's not just the fact, Big Seals, of they need to make a move to get better. The East is loaded. We talked about already Philadelphia. We even talked about how, you know, Boston has looked. Toronto has looked good. Washington is 500. Atlanta's starting to come on. Knicks have won three in a row. I think the Charlotte Hornets team is improved, right? So you start looking at it. And I haven't even talked about Detroit or Cleveland or Indiana who's struggling right now. And I think Orlando's going to be better. So when I start lining all these teams up, where do we slide Miami? The difference is you don't slide them anywhere. The Miami Heat is not going to make the playoffs. And Giannis goes from one bad situation of not enough supporting cast in Milwaukee to the same thing in South Beach.