2025 Miami Heat Regular Season Thread

SerialChiller · Post #1881 » by **SerialChiller** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 5:07 am

K N U C K L E S wrote:What does LDE stand for? And why do you think we know what it stands for?

Is Riley still alive? I can't remember the last time I heard him talk. He's like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget now. All we see of him is his arm and his cat.

It's a sarcastic joke referencing an insanely dumb post from not that long ago on here basically claiming that people who didn't agree that Aja was better then Bam display Little Dick Energy :lol:

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Enso · Post #1882 » by **Enso** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 9:08 am

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SA37 · Post #1883 » by **SA37** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 12:35 pm

Enso wrote:
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Herro and Jovic are going to look great in Memphis unis :wink:

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1884 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 1:51 pm

Enso wrote:
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We can fix him!!!

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1885 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 1:58 pm

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3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1886 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 2:05 pm

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Lennyzinho · Post #1887 » by **Lennyzinho** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 2:06 pm

K N U C K L E S wrote:Why is the game tomorrow at 6:00? And why is the next round at 5:30? It's not like this is the actual playoffs where there's 3 or 4 games a night.

And it's not on TV? I'm gonna have to pirate it.

All NBA cup games are exclusively on Bezos Network aka Prime.

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1888 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 2:45 pm

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3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1889 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 4:32 pm

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dolphinatik · Post #1890 » by **dolphinatik** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 4:38 pm

Giannis solves more of our problems than ja. Rim attack and run defense. Either would we worth trading most of the team for.

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1891 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 4:53 pm

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3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1892 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 5:08 pm

SerialChiller wrote:
K N U C K L E S wrote:What does LDE stand for? And why do you think we know what it stands for?

Is Riley still alive? I can't remember the last time I heard him talk. He's like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget now. All we see of him is his arm and his cat.

It's a sarcastic joke referencing an insanely dumb post from not that long ago on here basically claiming that people who didn't agree that Aja was better then Bam display Little Dick Energy .

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Aja and Bam giving off LDE here

SerialChiller · Post #1893 » by **SerialChiller** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 5:24 pm

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Aja and Bam giving off LDE here

If anything it sounds like training with her could actually be bad for him as she wants him to get in the habit of taking it easy on her and act like a WNBA player. But if you listen to a certain foolish poster, every good thing "B'am" has done on an NBA court all year came from training with A'ja!

greg4012 · Post #1894 » by **greg4012** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 6:18 pm

dolphinatik wrote:Giannis solves more of our problems than ja. Rim attack and run defense. Either would we worth trading most of the team for.

Ja is a small guard that makes his living off of using his athleticism to finish at the rim among the trees in impossible ways. This archetype is specifically prone to not having a long shelf-life.

In his entire NBA career, Ja has been available to play for 63% of his total games (319 of 506). In the past 3 complete seasons, Ja has been available to play for 49% of his total games (120 of 246). This season, Ja has been available to play in 50% of his total games.

Last season, Memphis under Taylor Jenkins implemented the closest thing to this season's Heat offense that the NBA has ever seen. Apparently Ja HATED it and was one of the driving forces in getting Taylor Jenkins fired. Taylor Jenkins was fired on March 28, 2025.

From the start of last season to March 28, 2025, Memphis was 44-29 (4 seed in the West) with the 4th best net rating in the NBA (+5.1), the 6th best ORTG in the NBA (117.4), and the 11th best DRTG (112.4).

Post firing, Memphis went 4-5 and had the 18th best net rating in the NBA (+1.4; 115.5 ORTG; 114.1 DRTG). Memphis got swept in round 1 of the playoffs. Ja was unavailable for 1 of those 4 games with injury. He averaged 18 and 5 in the 3 games he played.

This season Ja is averaging 17.9 ppg, 7.6 apg to 3.8 topg (2:1 ato ratio) while shooting 36% from the field and 17% from 3. Ja has always been a below average 3pt shooter.

This season Memphis has a losing record (11-13) with the 18th ranked net rating in the NBA (-1.9). Their ORTG is 25th (111.5) and their DRTG is 12th (113.4).

Ja is NOT worth trading most of the team for. I'll take him at a bargain price as a lotto shot.

twix2500 · Post #1895 » by **twix2500** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 7:05 pm

If a trade is possible for Giannis. It will not be a trade that will make Giannis seamless addition. It will take about a year for the Heat to build a title team around Giannis

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1896 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 8:25 pm

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greg4012 · Post #1897 » by **greg4012** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 8:42 pm

twix2500 wrote:If a trade is possible for Giannis. It will not be a trade that will make Giannis seamless addition. It will take about a year for the Heat to build a title team around Giannis

Alec Burks could be a sneaky depth add to fill out rotation for this season in such a scenario. Better get to conditioning for the Heat's pace tho..

MartyCONLONNN · Post #1898 » by **MartyCONLONNN** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 9:04 pm

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Ok.. "the locker room is starting to feel the tension." This is where Shams reporting starts to dip into the sensationalism and theatrics. How can he or anyone truly qualify this? I think Shams gets shat on a lot for how often he's right and he definitely pants a majority of our fanbase that thought he was making things up with Jimmy when he was right the entire time, but this is definitely an engagement farming "update"

Tim_Hardawayy · Post #1899 » by **Tim_Hardawayy** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 9:07 pm

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Save this post if you'd like, bring it up in 5 years and see if I was right, but I'm gonna state on the record now, Ja Morant is going to age like, actually age worse, than Allen Iverson did. And whoever actually makes a move for him is going to regret it within 2 years.

Tim_Hardawayy · Post #1900 » by **Tim_Hardawayy** » Tue Dec 9, 2025 9:11 pm

dolphinatik wrote:Giannis solves more of our problems than ja. Rim attack and run defense. Either would we worth trading most of the team for.

I mean Giannis is just flat out a MUCH better player than Ja, he always has been, it's not even a comparison. Ja Morant gets overrated because he has Allen Iverson type aura, but if you look at his numbers, his skillset, his team impact metrics and his injury history, he's also similar to Iverson in those areas (and honestly worse in a lot of ways, Iverson had low efficiency but a lot of that had to do with the era he played in).

Giannis is a top 5 player, arguably going to be top 20-30 all time when its all said and done, and at his best has been the #1 player in the league and easy first team all nba. Ja is another in the long line of Iverson type guys who gets love because he's flashy and short, at his peak was probably a top 30-40 player in the league, will be borderline if he gets in the hall, and imo won't even be memorable as a career, besides to a few kids who became Ja Morant player fans.

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This is much better than my response. But similar sentiment. I do not get the Ja love at all, and the weirdest thing is some of the same people pushing it hate Herro for a similar reason (irrational player fans who overrate the guy based on hype edits). The thing I like about Herro is he appears to be evolving past that stuff as a player and playing smarter within the flow of the team that past 2 years, and people want to get rid of him for a guy who plays more like young Herro (oh but he can jump higher and he's "tougher", yippee). No thank you.