Miami Heat Regular Season Thread 21-22 Vol. 1

CanesHeatFins · Post #1361 » by **CanesHeatFins** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 1:49 pm

Tony15 wrote:They really ought to just postpone the season for a month.

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Sitting out a month wouldn't fix anything. They'd still eventually test positive for COVID-19 again. If there were an Aids vaccine, and the players were "forced not forced" to get it, would we really be surprised if half the league tested positive for non life threatening hiv. We'd better wake up to the reality that the COVID flu strain is here to stay and learn to live with it.

3ammy3uck3ts · Post #1362 » by **3ammy3uck3ts** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 3:22 pm

Tony15 wrote:They really ought to just postpone the season for a month.

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This would help us so much.

contract · Post #1363 » by **contract** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:16 pm

Wiltside wrote:Are we ever gonna get the real story on Morris? This is crazy. Either that injury was reeeeeally bad, or there’s a mutual parting coming up.

Unless it's something off the court I can't imagine that we'd want to get rid of him. Jokic is a big guy. That whiplash may have caused significant damage.

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contract · Post #1364 » by **contract** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:24 pm

Tony15 wrote:They really ought to just postpone the season for a month.

Omicron is spreading like wildfire, but it could still be kicking around for months. And that's assuming that yet another variant doesn't pop up. Mandatory vaccines and boosters and daily testing and strict protocols is the way to mitigate this, but the union will never agree to it.

At the current rate teams are going to have to expand rosters and create split squads like MLB in spring training.

MorbidHEAT · Post #1365 » by **MorbidHEAT** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:39 pm

I know it isn't possible this season, but I really love Dragic practicing at the Heat facility.

MorbidHEAT · Post #1366 » by **MorbidHEAT** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 5:40 pm

contract wrote:
Tony15 wrote:They really ought to just postpone the season for a month.

Omicron is spreading like wildfire, but it could still be kicking around for months. And that's assuming that yet another variant doesn't pop up. Mandatory vaccines and boosters and daily testing and strict protocols is the way to mitigate this, but the union will never agree to it.

At the current rate teams are going to have to expand rosters and create split squads like MLB in spring training.

They are going to have to do something crazy like expanding roster minimums to 20 and get rid of luxury tax for min contracts.

oreon · Post #1367 » by **oreon** » Fri Dec 31, 2021 6:11 pm

contract wrote:
Tony15 wrote:They really ought to just postpone the season for a month.

Omicron is spreading like wildfire, but it could still be kicking around for months. And that's assuming that yet another variant doesn't pop up. Mandatory vaccines and boosters and daily testing and strict protocols is the way to mitigate this, but the union will never agree to it.

At the current rate teams are going to have to expand rosters and create split squads like MLB in spring training.

In SA it spread fast and there was also a quick decline. Fauci estimates peak should be end of Jan and there might be a steep decline as well. I don't have the numbers but in the NBA it seems half the players have gotten covid so this tracks with what Fauci is saying. For the people that are vaccinated the speed of which Omicron spreading might not be the worst thing. The hope is it becomes dominant and snuffs out the other variants and a majority get immunity from it. So to be positive we could see not an end but covid kinda become like the seasonal flu where it is manageable. So the NBA and everyone at large could be in a good position2 months or so.
But that in the case we don't get another variant then its back to one. This really needs to end, another year of Covid is depressing.

puppa bear · Post #1368 » by **puppa bear** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 12:30 am

oreon wrote:
contract wrote:
Tony15 wrote:They really ought to just postpone the season for a month.

Omicron is spreading like wildfire, but it could still be kicking around for months. And that's assuming that yet another variant doesn't pop up. Mandatory vaccines and boosters and daily testing and strict protocols is the way to mitigate this, but the union will never agree to it.

At the current rate teams are going to have to expand rosters and create split squads like MLB in spring training.

In SA it spread fast and there was also a quick decline. Fauci estimates peak should be end of Jan and there might be a steep decline as well. I don't have the numbers but in the NBA it seems half the players have gotten covid so this tracks with what Fauci is saying. For the people that are vaccinated the speed of which Omicron spreading might not be the worst thing. The hope is it becomes dominant and snuffs out the other variants and a majority get immunity from it. So to be positive we could see not an end but covid kinda become like the seasonal flu where it is manageable. So the NBA and everyone at large could be in a good position2 months or so.
But that in the case we don't get another variant then its back to one. This really needs to end, another year of Covid is depressing.

There has been over 1000 confirmed variants so far, but only a handful of variants of concern (VoCs) like delta & omicron. The way we get variants is is via more hosts, increasing the chances of stable and useful variations happening. The reason we have delta & omicron is due to certain countries not being able to contain it. The long-term outlook is probably the flu-like seasonal change thing, but a potentially more deadly version.

The steps mentioned by contract are the only way to beat this, but humans seem to not want to follow these guidelines. We’ve seen it in Australia, and now WA has only a month left of border control, while NSW is experiencing the highest rate of community transmission Australia’s ever had (at a rate 4 times previous highs).

NBA needs to permanently expand roster spaces, and ensure the expansion has no cap/tax implications. The league needs to encourage teams expanding the pool of players and almost incentivise it.

twix2500 · Post #1369 » by **twix2500** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 2:52 am

Awesome got to 10 games above 500 during this g-league tournament. Likely to play some nba level teams coming up

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AirP. · Post #1370 » by **AirP.** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 5:35 am

Miami sure has a lot of players on it's roster.

Post #1371 » by **IggieCC** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 5:48 am

Post #1372 » by **IggieCC** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 5:49 am

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marson · Post #1373 » by **marson** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 5:54 am

Do you think it's worth to cut Garrett for that guy Guy?

harlem_ball · Post #1374 » by **harlem_ball** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 6:03 am

contract wrote:
Wiltside wrote:Are we ever gonna get the real story on Morris? This is crazy. Either that injury was reeeeeally bad, or there’s a mutual parting coming up.

Unless it's something off the court I can't imagine that we'd want to get rid of him. Jokic is a big guy. That whiplash may have caused significant damage.

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Boom! Nuff said

harlem_ball · Post #1375 » by **harlem_ball** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 6:03 am

IggieCC wrote:

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Yeaaaaaaa

Post #1376 » by **IggieCC** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 6:07 am

marson wrote:Do you think it's worth to cut Garrett for that guy Guy?

Too early to make that determination.

My gut says Guy is the guy, but at least we have a couple more games to watch the guy play.

harlem_ball · Post #1377 » by **harlem_ball** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 6:40 am

IggieCC wrote:
marson wrote:Do you think it's worth to cut Garrett for that guy Guy?

Too early to make that determination.

My gut says Guy is the guy, but at least we have a couple more games to watch the guy play.

I see what you did there

RexBoyWonder · Post #1378 » by **RexBoyWonder** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 7:40 am

Guy is the type of scorer we never go for - 1 way chucker. But might be a good one at that.

Garret is the classic Heat type - long, hard worker defender. Offense seems un-natural to him.

In years past the choice would've been obvious, but I feel we might be in the process of changing our player development philosophy - prime examples are Herro/Duncan/Omer. We're taking talented guys and trying to make them respectable on the non-scoring areas.

Guy could be that guy too.

BenoUdrihFTL · Post #1379 » by **BenoUdrihFTL** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 2:41 pm

BenoUdrihFTL wrote:9) What will be the biggest surprise of the season? (positive or negative or both)
Top 5 defense and top 10 offense

2021 in the books and we're currently sitting at #7 defense and #7 offense. Also have the 5th highest SRS despite Yimmy already missing 15/36 games, Bam missing literally half the season, Herro missing 6 games and all the covid chit. So putting everything into context along with expectations, I consider the 2021 part of the 2021-2022 season to have been a success

Oh yeah and Happy New Year brehs and may your 2022 bring dangerous consumption levels of 50% off HEATWIN Papa John's pizza

HeatIn5 · Post #1380 » by **HeatIn5** » Sat Jan 1, 2022 4:06 pm

IggieCC wrote:
marson wrote:Do you think it's worth to cut Garrett for that guy Guy?

Too early to make that determination.

My gut says Guy is the guy, but at least we have a couple more games to watch the guy play.

Would rather see if we can package Vincent/KZ for a young big somewhere and maybe a 2076 2nd and keep guy, consolidating spots.

I'd rather have Guy/Young big over Vincent/KZ