Erik Spoelstra rookie hazing Kel'el Ware?

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We hear from Bam Adebayo who explains how Erik Spoelstra is hazing and testing Kel'el Ware.

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00:00Miami heat.

00:01They are in the midst of a training camp, seeing some photos from people,

00:05boots on the ground, like Ira Winderman and Anthony Chang and Ethan Skolnick of,

00:09uh, it's, uh, it's a photo of, uh, Eric Spolstra and Jimmy buckets post a practice.

00:19I'll put this up here for our viewing audience.

00:22Um, they are, it looks like a chopping it up after a little workout.

00:27Member spoke, told us, uh, in the interview that Jimmy needs me and I need him.

00:34So, uh, having a little post, uh, post-practice conversation there,

00:40chopping it up and, um, it's going to be interesting.

00:44It's going to be interesting to see, but this was, I think an interesting thing

00:47to, uh, bam yesterday, Leroy, he referred to Eric Spolstra challenging

00:53Kalel wear as hazing Kalel wear.

00:57And I, I don't think I've ever heard of a coach hazing a rookie.

01:01It's usually player on player that's referred to as hazing, but, uh, this

01:05was bam on Spoh and telling Kalel, he's got to get ready for the Spoh rookie

01:11treatment for me is just telling him to be patient, you know, take his time.

01:15Cause in training camp, it's a lot, it's a lot going on.

01:18It's a lot of moving parts.

01:20So, you know, I just started telling him, you know, just figure it out.

01:24As you go, I spoke on yell at you.

01:26It's guaranteed.

01:27You're the rook.

01:28I mean, he, you're going to get rookie hazed.

01:30It is what it is, but you got to take that with a grain of salt

01:33and really get the message.

01:34Uh, and he's been coming back every day, better and better.

01:37Wow.

01:38Wow.

01:39Intense.

01:40Yeah.

01:41He's not like, Oh, the food is good.

01:44Scoop

01:51does he, uh, can you give a bam?

01:52He gave some examples of how Spoh is going to challenge Kalel as a rook.

01:57Here's a, some more of bam out of us speaking to the media yesterday.

02:00Yeah.

02:00Spo didn't play me.

02:01I still stand on that.

02:03Uh, but just, you know, we'll be talking like today.

02:08He was like, how many shots have got, how many, uh, how much time is on the

02:11shot clock when you, when you take it out of bounds on the side of the bounce?

02:16It's like, obviously he looks straight at kale.

02:19Okay.

02:19It was like, depends, like 24, 14.

02:24And it's just those type of mental games he plays.

02:27Uh, but it's also just preparing them for when we do get in live action

02:31and you've got to make adjustments.

02:33You got to go out there and score and 14 seconds on the side is just

02:36preparing them for those moments.

02:38Yeah.

02:39Sposa out here, given the wonder lick

02:40Oh, yeah.

02:43A bar exam.

02:46That is, I didn't even think about that, dude.

02:48Like, of course, those are small things that you need to know, but when you

02:51think of like extensive studying, you think of the NFL, you think of like a

02:55playbook that's 50 pages long formations, play calls, but those small things in

03:01basketball, if you know those, that's what separates a good teams from, you

03:04know, like a Jr Smith moment or something like that, something that you see the

03:08bad teams do, I think, I think a lot of times they'll ask you questions about

03:14things, you know, but you never really have to like actually know them.

03:24Right.

03:25Like Kalel.

03:26He, what if he's never taken a ball out about it?

03:30So is this stuff like that?

03:31Stuff like that, that spoke gets them ready for, gets them ready for all parts

03:36of basketball, even though you may not be a part of it.

03:40Yeah.

03:40Spode does love that throw and lob play though.

03:42Oh, he's like, Hey, you better, you better be a paid attention.

03:46Get those hands ready.

03:49Stunt.

03:49Steve says Spode definitely doesn't think he hazes the rookies.

03:52He's very tough on the big men, like especially the big men.

03:56Like he, and Louie says that they don't accept a soft big man.

03:59I agree.

04:00They don't like it's partly why we talked about this with Nico, right?

04:05Like he had to earn that Spode trust and he's harder.

04:09He was, I think, harder on a Nicola Jovich than he was on a Tyler hero.

04:14Tyler hero came in like a flamethrower throwing buckets off the bench.

04:18No doubt, but you know, also had his defensive lapses that felt like it

04:22got a little bit more excused, maybe so than the big man does.

04:27So it's an interesting, and I wonder with Kalel, I'm, I'm kind of hopeful.

04:31And I think you are too, Leroy, because you want the more size on the floor, right?

04:35Is that I hope there's a little bit more of a leash for him, you know?

04:41Like I hope that I don't think they have a throw.

04:44I don't think they have a choice though.

04:47That's the thing.

04:48I really don't think they have a choice because I don't want to, I don't

04:51want to start this season respectfully, respectfully, I don't want to start

04:54this season and, and we're, we're giving the backup center minutes to Kevin.

04:58Um, you know, if we're going to do that again, again, first of all, he's old.

05:05All right.

05:05We gotta, we gotta monitor K loves minutes.

05:07Toward the end of that season.

05:09Kevin loves efficiency was through the roof.

05:11He was playing seven minutes of putting up 12 points.

05:13He can give you the greatest seven minutes of all time, but also it's a long season.

05:18Yep.

05:19You gotta wind them up.

05:21And, and, and he, he's one bad step away from a hammy cause he's old.

05:29He always feels like he's holding his back.

05:35I don't hold my back.

05:36I can't reach it.

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