Miami Heat Regular Season Thread 21-22 Vol. 3

[al bondiga]

February 2022 Bam

33.7 min | 10 g | 22.7 pts | 11.3 trb | 3.3 ast | 1.7 stl | 1.5 blk | 27.2 PER | .256 ws/48 | Miami 8-2

And this is him w/o a refined skillset or a bag. Imagine when he starts advancing his scoring game.

This is what I want from Bam from here on out. He's good enough to be putting up these numbers consistently.

I don't want to see him reverting to the sometimes guy. When he asserts himself, it normally bodes well for us and him, despite the limited bag.

I disagree that he can do it consistently as long as he doesn't get help in the big guy category

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[al bondiga]

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Who made this ranking?

putin

[IceColdCubano]

I like The Athletic's power rankings better, but I might be biased

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I mean I don't think we are #1 or should be ranked that high.
The eye test hasn't given me the dominance passing grade for this team.

The Efficiency landscape "Synergy sports" shown above posted by AirP says what I feel in my heart.
There are 8 teams posting better offensive numbers and about 5 posting better defensive numbers.
There are 2 clear teams beating us in both.
Were also ranked 4th in winning percentage in the NBA.
We don't have an MVP level candidate in our team.
If our dominance was top notch we would be talked about on ESPN about how terrifying we would be to play against, but were not.
I think we could be there by seasons end however. Right now there's no way we should be ranked in the top 3.
4th is the correct ranking maybe 3rd if you want to push it a bit.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

I like The Athletic's power rankings better, but I might be biased

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I mean I don't think we are #1 or should be ranked that high.
The eye test hasn't given me the dominance passing grade for this team.

The Efficiency landscape "Synergy sports" shown above posted by AirP says what I feel in my heart.
There are 8 teams posting better offensive numbers and about 5 posting better defensive numbers.
There are 2 clear teams beating us in both.
Were also ranked 4th in winning percentage in the NBA.
We don't have an MVP level candidate in our team.
If our dominance was top notch we would be talked about on ESPN about how terrifying we would be to play against, but were not.
I think we could be there by seasons end however. Right now there's no way we should be ranked in the top 3.
4th is the correct ranking maybe 3rd if you want to push it a bit.

We’re not the Lakers, Nets, or just LeBron in general so we won’t be talked about much by ESPN regardless. When they do actually talk about us though they say we’re legit contenders.

[AirP.]

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Who made this ranking?

putin

John Schuhmann for NBA.com?

The Miami starting lineup that was so dominant (plus-29.5 points per 100 possessions) in its 119 pre-break February minutes got destroyed by the Knicks and Spurs coming out of the break. It was outscored by 31 points in 23 minutes over the weekend, with issues on both ends of the floor. But Tyler Herro was back (after missing four of the last five games before the break) and scored 52 points on 20-for-37 (54%) shooting over the two games, registering a plus-46 in his 64 minutes. The Heat came back from two early double-digit deficits and won both games. At 11-18, they’re tied (with four other teams) for the second most wins after trailing by 10 points or more, one fewer than the Mavs (12-20).

For the season, the Heat have the league’s seventh-ranked bench (aggregate NetRtg of plus-1.6 per 100 possessions), having seen the second biggest improvement from last season (when they ranked 22nd). They rank 19th in bench minutes per game, but fourth in bench scoring per game. Herro would just the second player in the last 30 years — joining Lou Williams (2017-18 and ’18-19) — to average at least 20 points in 35 games or more off the bench.

https://www.nba.com/news/power-rankings-2021-22-week-20

[AirP.]

I like The Athletic's power rankings better, but I might be biased

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Zach Harper who does The Athletics' NBA rankings is biased towards Miami. He pushes Heat Culture on his podcasts of The Basketball Buds and Point of Contention. If you like hearing NBA podcasts check out basically any NBA podcast Zach does.

[somerandomdude]

Fun with photoshop

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This man continues to prove me right every night. Just ridiculous

[somerandomdude]

Anyone else miss Max Strus?

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[3ammy3uck3ts]

If not for an historic stretch from Demar and Embiid being so dominant Bam would have a legit case for EC player of the month for Feb. he’s just going to have to kick it up another notch.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Need the basketball gods to smile on us and give us a Hornets-Cavs-Bulls path to the finals

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[AirP.]

It's amazing to hear so many NBA centric podcasts acknowledging that they're ignoring Miami and then continue to ignore Miami.

Host: We don't talk enough about Miami.
Co-Host: No we don't.
Host: So Golden State have lost the last 5 of 7 games. (or whatever bigger market doing something)

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Didn't realize Patrick Patterson was an FA.

[RexBoyWonder]

It's amazing to hear so many NBA centric podcasts acknowledging that they're ignoring Miami and then continue to ignore Miami.

Host: We don't talk enough about Miami.
Co-Host: No we don't.
Host: So Golden State have lost the last 5 of 7 games. (or whatever bigger market doing something)

It's a narrative driven media.

Our continued excellence, no-drama winning isn't their forte.

I don't mind flying under the radar. We don't need any extra pressure, will only make the playoff winning sweeter.

[RexBoyWonder]

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Just give me Dipo and Morris back, they're better then anyone out there.

I've got to think FO believes Morris is coming back or else we would've added a PF

[AirP.]

It's amazing to hear so many NBA centric podcasts acknowledging that they're ignoring Miami and then continue to ignore Miami.

Host: We don't talk enough about Miami.
Co-Host: No we don't.
Host: So Golden State have lost the last 5 of 7 games. (or whatever bigger market doing something)

It's a narrative driven media.

Our continued excellence, no-drama winning isn't their forte.

I don't mind flying under the radar. We don't need any extra pressure, will only make the playoff winning sweeter.

Well, it's changing all of a suden, although Ethan Skolnick mentioned Jorge Sedano making the rounds for ESPN this week and he already popped up on today's The Lowe Post. Dangerous loomers comes up.

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[IceColdCubano]

It's amazing to hear so many NBA centric podcasts acknowledging that they're ignoring Miami and then continue to ignore Miami.

Host: We don't talk enough about Miami.
Co-Host: No we don't.
Host: So Golden State have lost the last 5 of 7 games. (or whatever bigger market doing something)

It's a narrative driven media.

Our continued excellence, no-drama winning isn't their forte.

I don't mind flying under the radar. We don't need any extra pressure, will only make the playoff winning sweeter.

Well, it's changing all of a suden, although Ethan Skolnick mentioned Jorge Sedano making the rounds for ESPN this week and he already popped up on today's The Lowe Post. Dangerous loomers comes up.

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Were getting there, I think if we make it through this week and take down the Bucks & Sixers, (Feel like we could lose the back to back with the Nets) there's going to be way more talk about the Heat as the clear cut power house in the East.