2025-26 Miami Heat Regular Season Thread 3.0

[Tony15]

Giannis and Ja are constantly injured, it’s a bad joke to think they are saving this mediocre team. Tear it down and start over, this isn’t complicated.

Don't. Let. Go. Of. The. Rope.

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[MettaWorldPanda]

Kuminga and Horford for Wiggins is an exact to the number salary match. Let’s get that 1st

[Flash4thewin]

When you feel attacked but what was said is 100% true

[3ammy3uck3ts]

When you feel attacked but what was said is 100% true

At some point they’ve finally gotta get it done lol

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[broke]

If Miami were to trade for Giannis I’d sit him the rest of the year. Back to back calf injuries? His size, age, and game…. That’s an Achilles injury waiting to happen.

Note for note what happened to Durant isn't it? But he tried to come back a little early but still

[SerialChiller]

When you feel attacked but what was said is 100% true

At some point they’ve finally gotta get it done lol

I'm starting to think by the time we do Riley will be gone, Spo will be the Team President and Quinn will be the Head Coach.

[Tim_Hardawayy]

majority of the text I'm reading isn't all that relevant. But here we are.

I'll circle it back around then. Bam to me isn't an anchor but his superpower and value comes from his portability. Not sure if you read the PC board a lot but ElGee (prominent poster there who started the thinking basketball website and does youtube videos now) championed it a lot back then, think Doctor MJ had a lot of great posts on the subject as well.

An anchor (defensive or offensive) to me is a guy you drop on a team and they all get better and you build around him. They give you 50 wins as a floor. I don't think Bam's quite at that level. But he's like a 9 or a 10 on the portability scale, he can fit on almost any squad in the NBA. There's a ton of value in that.

Weird anchor definition to me. It suggests there are no more than 10 players in the NBA that can be considered an anchor--and that's assuming that all the 50+ win teams are driven by one star player rather than a collection. And it infers that these "anchors" should always or almost always have 50+ win seasons. If you control for all those parameters, I'd bet that the number of players that fit that definition in the NBA is 5 or less. So, I'm 1000% with you in contending that Bam is not a top 5 player in the NBA. I don't think anyone ever posited otherwise.

And it's pretty distinct from a discussion of a "defensive anchor" imo. It basically suggests that a "defensive anchor" as a concept doesn't exist. Then we just get into weird semantics.

It is kind of a semantic debate though. There's no hard definition for it, but let's say we expand it to just, best defensive player on a team. That's still pretty exclusionary, 30 anchors instead of 5, or maybe say 15-20 if you're only including teams with very good defenders. To me I view a term like anchor as having weight, as that is sort of the idea of an anchor in reality, things revolve around it.

That said, its also fair to say the Heat defense revolves around Bam's versatility, so I can see that argument as well. In a lot of ways, Bam is an evolution of what the Heat did when LeBron was here, which is pretty high praise for Bam. He's almost a combination of some of the best attributes of LeBron and Chris Bosh defensively.

I will say, because one of Bam's best attributes is switching and guarding multiple positions, it means he acts as more of a force multiplier on a defense than a sole additive one. That's where I have trouble with the anchor term, Bam with 4 other very good switchable defenders (or even 2 or 3) is awesome, Bam by himself can't lift them as easily as a more traditional dominant center. But that's just me, I can see how someone else can view it as, he's the anchor of a very versatile defense. And in all fairness, in the modern game, switching is a lot more prevalent, there's an argument to be made that a traditional center like Zo or Mutombo couldn't be as dominant. I think we just don't have that many in the game now, but I can see it going either way.

[MettaWorldPanda]

If the Kings are looking for a true cost cutting reset then maybe we should look into a Herro and Rozier for LaVine, Carter, and Saric type deal. LaVine contract expires when we need it too and don’t have to worry about Herro’s extension. Carter and Saric are solid bench fillers.

[SA37]

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When you feel attacked but what was said is 100% true

This is basically the Miami Heat organization is just a group of preppers.

[Tim_Hardawayy]

Spoiler:

When you feel attacked but what was said is 100% true

This is basically the Miami Heat organization is just a group of preppers.

lol... you guys are so negative but the reality is 1 out of 30 teams wins every year. Most teams are wasting time trying to build a contender. We're at absolute worst a top 5 franchise of the 2000's, probably top 3 really, and people are comparing us to actual treadmill organizations like say the 76ers or Suns or Bulls.

A lot here would point to the Warriors and say why can't we be more like them, but the Warriors effectively rode Steph Curry's career and now their window appears to be slamming shut exactly with Curry himself. The Spurs? They were worse than us until they drafted Wemby. The Celtics? We're still ahead on championships and finals appearances this century, and even in recent years other than Boston winning one before us, we're just about matching their pace.

I get its frustrating when you feel like we're close but so many of the moves people suggest are either out of our reach because we're always trying to compete, or panic moves that keep the big ones out of our reach. If we go all in on Ja because he's obtainable and it doesn't pan out, people will criticize that we wasted our pieces when we could have had Giannis. If we save the pieces for Giannis and the Bucks decide not to move him, they will criticize we didn't take the obtainable guy in Morant.

The only criticism I'm on board with is we don't tank sometimes when we probably should, and we sometimes overpay our own guys, but I think the Heat have been pretty smart in their pursuit of stars.

[twix2500]

lord you all boost your heads making the dream of getting Giannis your only enjoyment out of the season. Bless everyone in here thou they are not well

[Beenie]

Should trade the entire kit n kaboodle for a currently injured and perpetually injured aging 7 footer who can’t shoot a lick from the outside or the ft line, whose game is entirely dependent on his athleticism and speed, and may not even be available for the remainder of the season, eh

[Beenie]

Yea, gimmie Kawhi all day over Giannis

[Tim_Hardawayy]

lord you all boost your heads making the dream of getting Giannis your only enjoyment out of the season. Bless everyone in here thou they are not well

I'm just happy with the development of Pelle and to a lesser extent Kas, those are the two big bright spots for me right now. Both young and still cost controlled assets. Ware's shown signs too but he's gotta be mentally tougher.

[Enso]

Kuminga and Horford for Wiggins is an exact to the number salary match. Let’s get that 1st

down

Would still love me some geriatric Horford

The Celtics fans tears would be nice too

[Enso]

Yea, gimmie Kawhi all day over Giannis

wut

[3ammy3uck3ts]

Should trade the entire kit n kaboodle for a currently injured and perpetually injured aging 7 footer who can’t shoot a lick from the outside or the ft line, whose game is entirely dependent on his athleticism and speed, and may not even be available for the remainder of the season, eh

Come on Beenie, you can’t base the majority of your take here on Giannis being injured and then your next suggestion be adding Kawhi over him lol (I’d be happy with either but easily Giannis>>>Kawhi)

[Beenie]

Should trade the entire kit n kaboodle for a currently injured and perpetually injured aging 7 footer who can’t shoot a lick from the outside or the ft line, whose game is entirely dependent on his athleticism and speed, and may not even be available for the remainder of the season, eh

Come on Beenie, you can’t base the majority of your take here on Giannis being injured and then your next suggestion be adding Kawhi over him lol (I’d be happy with either but easily Giannis>>>Kawhi)

Kawhi wouldn’t cost the entire kit n kaboodle is the primary distinction

Furthermore, Kawhi’s game is elite in all areas thus he isn’t solely reliant on physical advantages the way Giannis is. Injury prone 7 footers who rely on athleticism tend to be more vulnerable to a steep and fast decline once they cross a certain health compromised threshold. Giannis just seems like a ticking time bomb; and one that’s about to get a super max to boot.

[Vertical Limit]

If we can get giannis by the deadline and they say “but he wont be ready till the start of 26/27 season”, im still doing the trade, and im not going to try to cheap out the bucks.. theyll get the assets they were looking for before the calf strain.. we will look dumb if giannis ends up being traded to LA and playing awesome next to luka just because we wanted to get him on a bargain over a calf strain.