Mia @ The Lebby's, 12/1, 7:30pm

[Shewasfly]

Don’t care what anyone says. Even without Jimmy there is no reason for this team to get destroyed like this. To me, this is a coaching issue. You don’t play the exact same way as you would with completely different personnel. You also don’t stick to game plans that don’t work. Not just within the game, but game to game. What is the point of a scheme that is meant to consistently give up open 3s in a league that is more focused on the 3 point shot than ever? Just because 3 point shooting comes at a premium on our team, doesn’t mean it does around the league.

For the most part it has always been a coaching issue, only Spo fanatics do not see this, i will repeat what i have been saying for years now, he is not a good coach, no matter what NBA TV tells you, its obvious watching his strategies coming out of time outs, hes ingame adjustments that he doesnt have a clue what he is doing out there. The starting center for this game should have been Yurt ( period) Dedmond is definitely suited to come off the bench, our coach should have known by now. I get Yurt is not our ideal starting center right now, but guess what, we dont have any other option, you do not go small just because he is not ready to be in the starting rotation, you will get killed playing our brand of small ball, this is not new it has been happening season after season. Where is the adjustment, where is the adjustment to stop the barrage of threes we get night after night? there is no adjustment at all and you know why there is not adjustment to our pathetic play, because Spo either doesnt see it or wants to impose his failed strategies night after night, either way it will lead to failure. This team needs to turn it around right now, drop all your failed experiments you want to impose, play conventional basketball with centers, power forwards, guards and pointguards, no more midgets masquerading as centers, no more people out of positions and give our only hope to fix this problem a chance.

I agree with most of this except the first couple of sentences. For the most part over the past idk, 5 seasons, the problem has definitely been more so the roster than the coach. And that's on the FO, not the coach.

Idk what it is, but sometimes fans have a hard time admitting when our roster sucks, and blame it all on coaching. On the other hand, when the roster overachieves, there's this assumption that that is their norm and coaching is holding them back. I compleeeetely disagree. Our rosters have been terrible, and Spo has squeezed out the most success that any good coach sans idk Pop or Kerr or some other elite coaches, could get. Best and most obvious example is the bubble team. That was not a team that anyone expected to do anything looking at the talent on it. We overachieved a ton with that team, and you have to give coaching some credit for that.

I definitely agree with everything else though.

To me, when we had KO, that was the best mix of Spo's desired style, and...well, logic. The fact that he's going even smaller this year is where I pump the breaks. KO wasn't a traditional center, but he at least spaced the floor, relieved Bam to some extent, and was a bigger body for rebounding. This PJ Tucker at the 5 **** makes no sense. Idc how raw and unpasteurized Yogurt is, he's a better option than that. Or at the very least the reps can help ready him quicker. Its not as if we have so much of a choice anyway with Bam out and us dropping games left and right.

[AirP.]

Robinson hasn't been trash all season, only at home(basically the same as last year). I didn't want him resigned for anywhere near what he got and would have actually been fine with him walking if Miami couldn't get an asset out of S&T. Seems there's talk that the FO wasn't nearly as sold on him as Spoelstra was.

Are you referring to the stat floating around that says his shooting % on the road (38%) has been good, but not at home? That's not the same as playing good, especially when you can go 3-6 and have 50% shooting.

As for his overall play, he's had foul trouble most of the season (not all his fault, but still) and he gets beat on defense.

Overall, he's been trash all season except for 2 games, and he needs to make 7 3pters at minimum to overcome his deficiencies

I thought he's been playing like trash his whole time in Miami; he just could shoot. I was already asking last year when people would be begging to get rid of Robinson.

Also, he doesn't have to play like a "superstar" in practice to get 30 minutes per game, he just has to be hitting his 3s.

If you want to have your cake and eat it, too, then so will I, and no one should believe that Yurtz is doing bad in practice and that it's the reason Spo isn't playing him.

The truth is, Spo is an unfair coach. There's 3 guys on our bench right now that have been outperforming Duncan on a nightly basis and they have yet to get a chance to start.

Why should anyone believe that Yurtz is bad in practice when Duncan is allowed to start and play like crap for 91% of the season while more deserving players have to come off the bench?

He may not be in the right positions in scrimmages and with that, throwing the whole team off. Missing shots is one thing(not good) but just not being where you're supposed to be is an entirely different and worse issue UNLESS that player is just so dominate it doesn't matter, Yurtseven is talented but not that talented.

He's a one trick pony.

Being a one-trick pony is not worthy of a starting position and 30mpg especially when that one trick isn't working.

You can be on the bench and perform that job just fine and in limited minutes.

Let me be clear here, if it were up to me Robinson wouldn't have been brought back unless it was at a very cheap price, I'm just explaining what the coaching staff is probably thinking/doing. I would have been 100% good with just signing Strus and plugging him into Robinson's old spot.

The Heat made a bad investment, they've got to do whatever they can to fix him, it sucks but they've already made the mistake(IMO).