GAME SEBEM!!! FOR ALL THE MARBLES! HEATS V. MEERKATS , MONDAY, 5/29, 8:30PM!!!

[KingDavid]

Anyone know where I can re-watch the game?

I think it's www.nbareplays.net

Should be there, but idk.

[Rapaz]

They won 3 games in Boston.

Bwahahahahahaha.

[El Alonzo scowl]

Anyone know where I can re-watch the game?

Check your pms

[greg4012]

by the way, Bam might have stunk on offense, but he does SO MUCH for us that doesnt show up on the box score. His screens, his defensive presence... i mean he can literally guard 1-5 out there.

We need to stop expecting Bam to become a scoring all star. He is what he is, and he is very valuable to the team.


What we need is another scoring threat to pair with Jimmy, and stop asking Bam to do it. Thankfully Caleb The Bearded Mamba Martin is answering the call.

This is correct. I promise it's not pure coincidence that Bam Adebayo has now made it to the ECF 3 times in his 4 seasons as a starter and made it to the finals twice in that span all by the age of 25. He's far from the only reason, but he is literally the plumbing that connects the team dynamic that succeeds in the playoffs on both sides of the ball.

Best defender in the world. He's still growing.

[heatlejuice]

That BobRoss guy probably in the Nuggets forum now begging them to beat the Heat like he was in the Celtics forum before

haha what a loser

[AirP.]

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[Grumpy Heat Fan]

by the way

who designed those horrifying ugly hats??

I noticed the Nuggets had the same design, so it looks like it was the NBA???

it looks like an MSPAINT 5 minute job, a black square on the default white background with some basic words on it. Ugly !!

[Bishop45]

Damn, what a series. Up 3-0, miracle play in game six to save their season then manhandled at home in a high stakes game seven! Got our money's worth

[HeatFanDan]

by the way

who designed those horrifying ugly hats??

I noticed the Nuggets had the same design, so it looks like it was the NBA???

it looks like an MSPAINT 5 minute job, a black square on the default white background with some basic words on it. Ugly !!

Nothing can touch the '06 Champions hat. Those were the steez.

[HeatFanDan]

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The Bosdone Celtpricks - "Nearly Eastern Conference Champions 2023".

[3ammy3uck3ts]

by the way

who designed those horrifying ugly hats??

I noticed the Nuggets had the same design, so it looks like it was the NBA???

it looks like an MSPAINT 5 minute job, a black square on the default white background with some basic words on it. Ugly !!

Design in the nba has fallen off a Cliff when it comes to stuff like this and the all star game jerseys.

Also please bring back the nba finals emblems on the court, they just gave that stage such a different and more important feel

[FlaMoses]

by the way

who designed those horrifying ugly hats??

I noticed the Nuggets had the same design, so it looks like it was the NBA???

it looks like an MSPAINT 5 minute job, a black square on the default white background with some basic words on it. Ugly !!

Design in the nba has fallen off a Cliff when it comes to stuff like this and the all star game jerseys.

Also please bring back the nba finals emblems on the court, they just gave that stage such a different and more important feel

The hat probably said Boston Celtics on it and they simply put a Miami Heat patch on top of it when they won!

[IceColdCubano]

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Good morning

The Celtics shot 28% as a whole regardless of whom was covering them. Some of these tweets are dumb, you don't need to exaggerate and prop one player up to make them look better. Listen we know he does a lot of other things, nobody takes away the intangibles from Bam he has those on lock. Its when his fumbling balls, commits turn overs from dribbling off his own foot, missing bunnies at the basket, letting guards beat him to rebounds, fades away 10ft from the basket with a defender not even covering him and or afraid of posting up a 6'-5 wing that we give him a hard time about.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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Good morning

The Celtics shot 28% as a whole regardless of whom was covering them. Some of these tweets are dumb, you don't need to exaggerate and prop one player up to make them look better. Listen we know he does a lot of other things, nobody takes away the intangibles from Bam he has those on lock. Its when his fumbling balls, commits turn overs from dribbling off his own foot, missing bunnies at the basket, letting guards beat him to rebounds, fades away 10ft from the basket with a defender not even covering him and or afraid of posting up a 6'-5 wing that we give him a hard time about.

Hate to say it but your takes have been horrible here lately. All this stuff is right there for you to easily look up, Celtics didn’t shoot 28% as a team. He’s had massive games in these playoffs on both sides but yes scoring wise he’s also had some bad games. As have every other player on the team. He’s still growing.

[Grumpy Heat Fan]

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[HeatFan_NC]

Tatum is eligible for a $300M contract extension after next season, and Brown will be eligible for $295M. Those contract extensions we gave to Bam, Jimmy, D. Robinson, Herro look like steals now. Thank God we extended Caleb Martin last offseason for 3 yr./$20M before the market increases.

[Wiltside]

Tatum is eligible for a $300M contract extension after next season, and Brown will be eligible for $295M. Those contract extensions we gave to Bam, Jimmy, D. Robinson, Herro look like steals now. Thank God we extended Caleb Martin last offseason for 3 yr./$20M before the market increases.

The bad news is it's a 24/25 player option. So we really only have him cheap for next season.

I presume we would have bird rights on him though.

[KingDavid]

to pass the time, I fell in love with an incredible woman. Had no clue if she liked me back, but I told her anyway. She's gone radio silent. Soooo, that's okay. I've been through much worse, and God will lead me through it, and someday pair me with a woman I choose that also loves me back

would be nice to see a Heat W today for some feel goods

Omfg...

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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Good morning

The Celtics shot 28% as a whole regardless of whom was covering them. Some of these tweets are dumb, you don't need to exaggerate and prop one player up to make them look better. Listen we know he does a lot of other things, nobody takes away the intangibles from Bam he has those on lock. Its when his fumbling balls, commits turn overs from dribbling off his own foot, missing bunnies at the basket, letting guards beat him to rebounds, fades away 10ft from the basket with a defender not even covering him and or afraid of posting up a 6'-5 wing that we give him a hard time about.

The Bam hate brigade loving the fake statistics I see

[IceColdCubano]

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Good morning

The Celtics shot 28% as a whole regardless of whom was covering them. Some of these tweets are dumb, you don't need to exaggerate and prop one player up to make them look better. Listen we know he does a lot of other things, nobody takes away the intangibles from Bam he has those on lock. Its when his fumbling balls, commits turn overs from dribbling off his own foot, missing bunnies at the basket, letting guards beat him to rebounds, fades away 10ft from the basket with a defender not even covering him and or afraid of posting up a 6'-5 wing that we give him a hard time about.

The Bam hate brigade loving the fake statistics I see

I wasn't a statistic it was an exaggerated comment from me to prove a point vs a tweet from a guy who enjoys to oversimplify context into something greater than it is.

Lets talk about context in statistics, because numbers without actual delivery mean nothing: lets dissect the tweet, because its the only way you understand how I am looking at the information.

Three points of emphasis on this Tweet:
1. 28.6% from the field vs Bam
2. Bam lead the Heat in Assist & Rebounds.
3. 10 Screen Assist to help free up shooters.

I will leave Point #1 for last, but lets start with Bam leading the Heat in Assist & Rebounds.
For the series, Bam averaged team leading 9.1 rebounds, the next best was Jimmy with 7.6 and the next Caleb at 6.4. However this specific game Bam was tied with Caleb with 10 rebounds, Both Jimmy and Lowry had 7 rebounds respectively. Boston shot an abysmal 39% overall FG% and 21.4% 3P%, which means lots of rebounds to go around there was no fighting for boards or some outworldly chaos to go grab these boards. Also Miami is more of gang rebounding team, its more opportunity than anything else, but the expectation is the Big man should still grab more based on size. Boston had 40 rebounds to Miami's 42 rebounds, so again there is nothing here of significance to point to Bam being extraordinary. Jason Tatum on a bum ankle got 11 rebounds, Al Horford who played 9 less minutes picked up 9 boards.

Lead the team in Assist this game by getting 7 Assist, Jimmy this game got 6 Assist Kyle 5 and Vincent 4. Jimmy averaged more Assist through the entire series due to the double coverage and collapsing defense, similar to Bam when he received the ball on the drop to the basket. With Bam having one large difference from Jimmy he committed 4 TO this game which means TO to ASSIST ratio in this game was worse than his other assist leader teammates. Making his Assist totals not really look as appealing as previously thought. Miami's 26 Assist to Boston's 18 Assist, Miami players were far more organized and better schematically. Bam lead the team in DHO's and Screen Assist which the next point so it makes a lot of sense he would be the receiver in more Assist. Also to his credit although he was abysmal in the post, the Boston defense collapse whenever he stepped foot into the dunkers area, which means he read those plays correct by passing out to open team mates whom were killing the them hitting threes.

This gets to the next point, Screen Assist. He is the primary pick setter in the greater majority of all DHO's because he does them the best. I don't necessarily understand how these is kudos moment, when were schematically in line to perform this scheme over and over and over again. It works, its like crediting Vincent for taking away 2-3 extra seconds of the shot clock on 10 possessions by performing full court press on the opposing ball handler in a game. When Vincent is schematically told to do this over and over again because its successful. Something that Lowry wouldn't be told to do because he is slow footed and fat at this point his man will dribble by him, Hence why Spo is ok with Vincent or Caleb or even Jimmy to do this at certain points. Nobody else will be the biggest receiver in Screen Assist day in day out outside of Bam unless Spo changes the scheme in the series.

The last thing which is the big WOW from the tweet, Bam held Boston to 28.6%. So lets get into the context of this stat within the game. Boston shot and Abysmal 21.4% on 3pt% this game. Bam Adebayo is our best perimeter defender who can guard 1-5 and keep up with Guards, Wings and stay on their hip, play them to their worst spots and funnel to another Miami defender. However this specific game Boston in all its wisdom decided to launch 42 3pointers at the rim, and hit at 21.4% 3pt% rate, Bam was the primary defender on the switch who sprinted as the clock was winding down running at the players at the 3pt line after the 2nd to 3rd pass. This was because he was usually man 4 or 5 on the 3-2 zone on the corner schematically. We let them shoot the 3ball because they were not hitting and we lived with the results. Bam did not make it to contest half the time, and neither did any of our players for that matter. There was a tweet that said more than 60% of the threes taken by Boston was uncontested or mildly contested. Again they shot 21.4% were talking a stat that would be applied to Bams defended FG% because he was the primary guy running them down. This is not the game to credit Bam for such a low FG% against defenders come on son!, he had an advantage schematically there. But lets put more context into this. The big men he defended in the game Horford on the perimeter (2of5@40% 3P% on the three point line), Robert Williams 3(4of5@80% FG% at the RIM). He defended them 75% of the time on the floor, with those numbers also afflicted by switches where he found himself on the perimeter.

Once more the word of the day is Context. Those stats above are from NBA reference and NBA.com them factual, not made up.