2023 Miami Heat Regular Season Thread - Westbrook and Love edition

[wade44]

A healthy barrage of threes got us the lead.

You da man Shula. Forgot there was a game on today

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[ShulaDon92]

You do not get more points for shooting closer to the basket, Herro.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[Seabass777]

Isiah Roby just got waived by San Antonio, we need to get on that and pick him up.

6’8 230 7-3 wing span, can guard 1-4 and hit the 3, he would be a great project in our system.

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[3ammy3uck3ts]

Isiah Roby just got waived by San Antonio, we need to get on that and pick him up.

6’8 230 7-3 wing span, can guard 1-4 and hit the 3, he would be a great project in our system.

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For sure, wanted him when OKC waived him last year

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[ShulaDon92]

Isiah Roby just got waived by San Antonio, we need to get on that and pick him up.

6’8 230 7-3 wing span, can guard 1-4 and hit the 3, he would be a great project in our system.

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Do it.

[ShulaDon92]

Yurt77 is ready.

[Wiltside]

Yes to Roby. Waive Robinson and sign him to a 2 way.

Yurt is ready. Bring him in and give him minutes.

[HEATVols865]

Spo won’t give Yurt minutes. Too tall


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[al bondiga]

If you sign Robbie he will play center And have to guard the big guys, He will probably be too exhausted to develop offensively

[3ballbomber]

So do we go back to being bored & human nxt gm? Asking for a friend.

[MiamiLoyal926]

So real talk, is Lowry hurt or being a B?

If it’s the latter, how does Butler feel about it? Is he being a B too about it? At the end of the day, he defended his boy, and his boy isn’t even on the court for who knows what reasons. Same thing last year… was out around this time of year, and then when he finally came back, was not in good enough game shape to make an impact in the playoffs.

Butler has to hold his boy accountable. We also need to stop pretending like Lowry isn’t here because of Butler, and is part of the reason we are having trouble getting Butler help. If Lowry had lived up to his contract, then that money wouldn’t be ill spent. We would also be way more attractive to other players, seeing us as contenders instead of pretenders.

Duncan is on Pat. Lowry is on Butler and Pat.

[Kobewade11]

So real talk, is Lowry hurt or being a B?

If it’s the latter, how does Butler feel about it? Is he being a B too about it? At the end of the day, he defended his boy, and his boy isn’t even on the court for who knows what reasons. Same thing last year… was out around this time of year, and then when he finally came back, was not in good enough game shape to make an impact in the playoffs.

Butler has to hold his boy accountable. We also need to stop pretending like Lowry isn’t here because of Butler, and is part of the reason we are having trouble getting Butler help. If Lowry had lived up to his contract, then that money wouldn’t be ill spent. We would also be way more attractive to other players, seeing us as contenders instead of pretenders.

Duncan is on Pat. Lowry is on Butler and Pat.

We need to make it normal to hold players accountable for their performance instead of assigning blame to why they are here. And I’ve been guilty of the latter in Lowry’s case. Did Jimmy push to get his boy here? I’m absolutely sure he did and you are right that he wouldn’t be here without Jimmy. But its ultimately on Lowry that he hasn’t lived up to expectations of this organization, nobody else. Did Riley sign off on Duncan? Did he have other influential benefactors inside stressing why he was vital to the team? Yep, we knew he was a one dimensional player - however his one dimension falling off a cliff is on him.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

So real talk, is Lowry hurt or being a B?

If it’s the latter, how does Butler feel about it? Is he being a B too about it? At the end of the day, he defended his boy, and his boy isn’t even on the court for who knows what reasons. Same thing last year… was out around this time of year, and then when he finally came back, was not in good enough game shape to make an impact in the playoffs.

Butler has to hold his boy accountable. We also need to stop pretending like Lowry isn’t here because of Butler, and is part of the reason we are having trouble getting Butler help. If Lowry had lived up to his contract, then that money wouldn’t be ill spent. We would also be way more attractive to other players, seeing us as contenders instead of pretenders.

Duncan is on Pat. Lowry is on Butler and Pat.

Lowry is for sure being a B, you don’t go from being upgraded to questionable to the point they think you might play in Philly to then randomly being out indefinitely. Spos comments seem to make it sound like it’s on Lowry too

[MiamiLoyal926]

So real talk, is Lowry hurt or being a B?

If it’s the latter, how does Butler feel about it? Is he being a B too about it? At the end of the day, he defended his boy, and his boy isn’t even on the court for who knows what reasons. Same thing last year… was out around this time of year, and then when he finally came back, was not in good enough game shape to make an impact in the playoffs.

Butler has to hold his boy accountable. We also need to stop pretending like Lowry isn’t here because of Butler, and is part of the reason we are having trouble getting Butler help. If Lowry had lived up to his contract, then that money wouldn’t be ill spent. We would also be way more attractive to other players, seeing us as contenders instead of pretenders.

Duncan is on Pat. Lowry is on Butler and Pat.

We need to make it normal to hold players accountable for their performance instead of assigning blame to why they are here. And I’ve been guilty of the latter in Lowry’s case. Did Jimmy push to get his boy here? I’m absolutely sure he did and you are right that he wouldn’t be here without Jimmy. But its ultimately on Lowry that he hasn’t lived up to expectations of this organization, nobody else. Did Riley sign off on Duncan? Did he have other influential benefactors inside stressing why he was vital to the team? Yep, we knew he was a one dimensional player - however his one dimension falling off a cliff is on him.

This is true… it’s on the players themselves who aren’t performing to their contract… and they are the first that should be held accountable… but when Jimmy is sitting in front of media, weeks leading up to the trade deadline, defending his boy, and advocating to keep him, then it’s also on him why we couldn’t get him better help. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Either help or get out of the way so that the front office can get you help. Instead, you are muddying the water, and then later saying you are bored. Bruh, if you that bored, go get your boy, the one you defended in front of the cameras, out of his vacay and make it a point to fire that dude up! Shoot, we missed on Dragic because of your boy.

All I am saying is that Lowry better be injured and not pulling more pranks…. Dude has me livid.

[MiamiLoyal926]

So real talk, is Lowry hurt or being a B?

If it’s the latter, how does Butler feel about it? Is he being a B too about it? At the end of the day, he defended his boy, and his boy isn’t even on the court for who knows what reasons. Same thing last year… was out around this time of year, and then when he finally came back, was not in good enough game shape to make an impact in the playoffs.

Butler has to hold his boy accountable. We also need to stop pretending like Lowry isn’t here because of Butler, and is part of the reason we are having trouble getting Butler help. If Lowry had lived up to his contract, then that money wouldn’t be ill spent. We would also be way more attractive to other players, seeing us as contenders instead of pretenders.

Duncan is on Pat. Lowry is on Butler and Pat.

Lowry is for sure being a B, you don’t go from being upgraded to questionable to the point they think you might play in Philly to then randomly being out indefinitely. Spos comments seem to make it sound like it’s on Lowry too

Shoot, at this point, he is giving us the same trouble Kyrie gave the nets. What was the point on passing on Kyrie all those times, if we ended up with our own diva?

[AirP.]

Duncan is on Pat. Lowry is on Butler and Pat.

Yes and no, Duncan is also on Duncan, you usually don't just lose your 3pt shot unless you're not spending as much time on it as you had been and he's talked about and his game has shown he's tried to open up his game to more than 3pt shooting so now he's a degraded 3pt shooter while still being horrible at everything else.

This is a repeat since it seems this person hasn't seen it about the Lowry situation.

Spoiler:

Lowry.. Lowry is the boobie prize of the failed 2021 plan that watched the FO refuse to add salary past the summer of 2021 to get Giannis(the FO didn't think he'd take the super max?) so they could add another big free agent, the trade with Memphis, they were actually after Gallinari but he wanted an extension that went past 2021 so Miami changed course and added Crowder to the trade which worked out but he was not their 1st choice. Miami makes the finals and because Crowder wanted a 3 year deal the Heat let him walk, tried to replace him with the good Morris twin with an inflated 1-year deal (that they offered to Crowder also) but LA gave him more years for around that money. So... at this point you'd have to expect the FO is talking to Butler about letting Crowder go and why. Nothing gets done, the FO target (Giannis) announces he's taking the supermax and their target for 2021 is gone, Bam is extended a year early since they no longer need that low cap hold for the next summer and now the FO's plan has backfired greatly, and I'd expect Butler knows that. They tried to add Lowry at the deadline to try to fix the situation, it didn't happen, Butler played uninspired/terrible, and Miami got knocked out quickly in the 1st round and then... Lowry got signed for way more money than he was worth because of a bidding war with NO to possibly mend fences with their top player. I still can't believe the FO handcuffed themselves after making the finals instead of keeping the core players and adding to try to win a championship, that's insane to me but they did. The FO did basically the same damn thing this offseason putting EVERYTHING on hold for the tiny chance they'd get KD on a huge discount (which wasn't going to happen) yet that's what they did.

Outside of Butler, Bam and near minimum contracts, over the last 5-6 years the FO has been handing out a lot of bad contracts for whatever reason. The reason could be just bad evaluations (which I think it is) but it could also be a disconnect between the FO decision makers and Spoelstra, it seems very odd to sign Robinson to big money only to move away from his one great skill of hitting 3s off of DHOs.

[AirP.]

Wonder if he still does this.

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