00:00so we got a couple things that we're monitoring here as the show goes on today uh first off we
00:06are getting ready for the panthers panthers and bolts getting going tonight uh we looks like uh
00:12no surprise that uh sergey babrovsky and that of course playoff bob is in full swing so he is uh
00:19good to go tonight according to the reporters at hand the miami heat they have their exit
00:26interviews going on today which uh are streaming on their youtube channel uh we have it uh you know
00:33tuned up here so i'll let you know if anybody comes to the podium and we'll follow some of the
00:37quotes there on twitter if anything juicy is said uh we'll try and get you that sound to turn around
00:42but um this is just to keep everybody afloat on things so you know how it rolls it is voluntary
00:50so the players don't have to speak i believe spo does talk at this typically he'll do like a
00:55season wrap i mean usually he's like the first guy to talk um and then everybody will kind of come in
01:01and it may be 90 seconds because nobody has questions for key shot johnson or it might be
01:07you know 10 minutes because bam has a lot to get off his chest or maybe nobody goes i don't know
01:13that's the thing so we'll uh we'll keep in tune on that with uh with this the heat obviously uh
01:20dealing with a lot of scrutiny right now and everybody wants to hear from pat like that's the
01:24the big thing is everybody wants to hear from pat riley and hear what he has to say about all this
01:29um and look pat right now has a lot of people coming after him you saw stephen a smith yesterday
01:38saying that it's time to move on and make air exposure to the president of basketball operations
01:42to pull up brad stevens uh and put everybody in new roles and new things the thing that i don't
01:49really understand why everybody's so quick to kick pat riley out the door i understand you know for
01:55people who are sitting here and they want to say ah well he was too harsh with the words first of all
02:02i've never known this fan base to be pissed about pat riley's words like one of the things that you
02:09appreciate is that he does hold the organization to some kind of a standard and had some things that
02:16he's upset about and he's going to say those things now when they're not living up to those
02:20expectations is it time because maybe he doesn't feel like he's got the fastball anymore to do it
02:26it may i don't know but i will say the man's done enough for basketball in this town
02:32and has done enough raising the game and everybody in that damn organization everybody who by the way
02:40this is going to get handed off to it's not like you're going to do this and you're poaching
02:47steve kerr from the warriors or brad stevens from boston and there's going to be some new brain trust
02:54that's there like if pat riley steps aside and he does decide it's enough that's his right but if he
03:01does the organization is going to keep everything in house and people are going to be in a different
03:06order maybe they'll bring somebody new in i think there are some arguments to bring some new voices
03:12in for sure but the thing is is like even the idea of like you know you know i joked about like goron to
03:19have some connection with the balkan guys who who may be out there or d wade even if he wanted to leave
03:26the jazz even though i know he just took a job with amazon whatever a lot of these guys ud all of these
03:32guys still are going to have the standards and the influence from pat riley and i almost thought
03:41going into this year before everything blew up with jimmy the way that it was i thought that there
03:47was a chance this could have been pat riley's last year anyway he's 80 and you know they ran the court
03:53after him they the lakers are giving him a statue next year so there were there were some breadcrumbs
04:00that i was like oh this might be it for pat anyway now there's part of me that's like oh well i the
04:07thought is he's not going to go out like this that he's not going to go out on the worst series loss of
04:13all time some may say this is the perfect time whatever it is what i do know is the guy has earned
04:20the right to go out on his own terms you don't get another pat riley you don't get it and i said the
04:25same thing when dwayne wade left one of the things that fans have to realize is you don't get another
04:31one of those and if you do sometimes it takes a very very long time and you got to appreciate it
04:36when it's there sometimes you can get pieces of it jimmy did some dwayne like things didn't win the
04:45championship had some heroic performances but he wasn't like dwayne wade all the way he didn't have
04:51the the bubbly personality or did all of the things where he was in the organization the whole
04:56way had a bit of a i do my own thing mentality that obviously didn't keep the relationship as
05:03harmonious as it could have been throughout the whole thing in the end i mean it did end by the
05:07same reason because they didn't pay him and they didn't give him the money the same way that it did
05:10with dwayne wade didn't feel like he got that respect but i had a hard time for heat fans who want
05:16to just kick pat riley out the door like they did shula back in the day because like how many coaches
05:21the dolphins go through you're still looking for your next dan marino yeah two has had some
05:27semblances he's had some good years but he hasn't won a playoff game still 25 years since that you're
05:33still looking for that don shula magic and if you don't think one of the things that's going to be
05:39interesting even if that were to happen i find like the fans are going to be would be more frustrated
05:45with an eric spolstra at top because spo's not going to call things out he's going to handle that
05:50stuff in behind closed doors because that's how he handles it he never calls out his players he never
05:57rips anybody he does behind the scenes he'll call people out and sell them like it is and say this
06:03ain't bleeping good enough behind the scenes never gonna do that stuff in the press so i don't know man
06:10i find that stuff uneasy look i said this after the game and i said this the next day where the
06:16heat are at right now is not nearly good enough because of the standard pat riley said
06:21but i don't think the man's without solutions i don't think that organization is without solutions
06:28they took some desperate swings at the end of that jimmy butler era because they thought and this is
06:35where their ego got in the way and they have to hold blame in that they thought the dame thing was in the
06:39bag they thought they were going to be able to bully the blazers into getting damian lillard and
06:44getting him at their rate and that was stupid it was stupid and it closed their window officially
06:50for the championship but they've been here before in places where they need to reset and get the
07:00organization in a better place they've done it before so i do trust that they can do it again
07:05i do and i don't think just kicking riley out the door is going to be that why because he said
07:13he said some some some hard truths i'd like you to play a little bit more you don't think you don't
07:18think eric spolscher feels that same way you don't think andy feels that same way you don't think ud
07:23move ud up you don't think they feel that same way hey guys kind of want you to play a little bit more
07:29so i'm not really sure what uh what what teams what everybody's asking for here the only thing
07:35that is going to be there is and and the organization has to ask themselves this honestly
07:41is is there a move that they can make this year to fix things is there a one is this a one year fix
07:51is this a one summer fix because bam said after the game he's like expect a lot of changes i don't know
07:56what the hell that means but he obviously expects it because i'm sure he's tired of getting bounced
08:01too but everybody's quick fix to that is kick riles out the door let's bow have the car keys
08:09i don't know that's cold man it's cold to me he's not without blame he's gonna get he's gonna get his
08:17due there but yeah i'm not i'm not going to demand that the man retire or get the hell out of the
08:23organization when he built the damn organization to mean something hello leroy hello i i would say
08:29i would say that pat riley has earned the right to go out under his own terms
08:43however he also has to be aware of what he's able to do
08:52and how he's put this thing together right so but as far as
09:02basically the people want him to do what he's done the old players for his whole career
09:07right so i would there has been some moves
09:16that have
09:20caught me off guard
09:23the kyle lowry
09:26the you know and i and i would say i was all in we were all all in
09:31well that was but that okay well that here's the thing though
09:34all right that was a jimmy thing jimmy wanted his best friend here
09:39right and so you don't want to manage your stars like
09:43yeah he didn't know how to manage jimmy
09:45okay you don't like when since when don't we want
09:49like if the star player wants his best friend and the godfather of his daughter here
09:54and he makes that happen
09:56to the point to the tune by the way where they got smacked on the wrist for for tampering
10:00but also that wasn't the most unsuccessful period with kyle lower he wasn't great but remember
10:05number one overall seed a bunch of eastern conference finals nba finals so it's not like
10:10to say oh man that was just the worst thing we could have ever done
10:12but the trade he's been plagued with a lot of unfortunate situations like
10:20every move he made that guy got hurt in the last three years they have had a very bad two-year run
10:25and you didn't see rozier being a nobody he sucked like that you didn't see that coming
10:31well that's that's the one though dan like the one the the and that's why i say going back to
10:35the dame trade and them not being able to and the arrogance that they had with all of that
10:40and bullying joe cronan at which i did too i of course i laughed at that man
10:44and that is that is the the line where the heat were like too much our arrogance got the best of us
10:52right and it's not the first time they did it with the end of lebron they never saw the end of
10:56lebron coming it's like oh we were blindsided and you turned that not getting damian lillard into a
11:03season where you were always chasing and that's why they ended up in the situation of you went to that
11:09year and you said we're gonna have a point guard battle which pissed kyle lowry off josh richardson
11:16was your answer and he got hurt in training camp so oh guess what kyle you're the starter again
11:22and then kyle who was getting old and long in the tooth in his final year they got to the middle of
11:29the year and kyle lowry scoring four points a game and they're like we can't do this anymore we need
11:34some punch and by the way tyler hero half the year injured again because he broke his ankle
11:40and so you're sitting here in a spot where they were desperate and they give him a first round
11:45pick with kyle lowry for terry rogier who was awful and i'll never understand why they had to attach a
11:52pick to give up one year of 30 million to take back three years of 30 million a year but they did
11:58it was a bad move there's no excuse reason rhyme for it it was bad and then also terry rogier ended
12:05up with a broken neck and a federal investigation over his head
12:07it's a bad look of course it is that's a miss swing and a miss awful he need to get grilled for
12:18that sure but i think i've already given you the answer why did it happen well we whiffed on the
12:24damian lillard thing and we were desperate we did a desperate stupid thing and you want pat ryan to go
12:32out there let me say i was a stupid boy i did a stupid thing but here's what i would say
12:36as long as you've known this franchise
12:39i can't believe that we're now in a position where they've made these desperate moves
12:51yeah that's the part that catches me off guard right that's the part that i'm shocked at
13:00is that when you call something a desperate move that usually is not associated with the
13:06miami heat and if you have to make a desperate move it has more to do with the moves you made
13:13previous to that not working stunting steve says i actually would like pat to say that i'm a stupid
13:19old man for trading for terry rogier that would make you feel better not gonna accomplish anything
13:25i was gonna say damage is done the damage is done
13:29so he will never shoot up for the miami heat again no i i just i like
13:36they've lived on this basic fundamental we'll bring guys in because in two years we'll clear up a lot of
13:50space and they've put themselves in a situation where just because you cleared up a lot of space
13:59you're not in a position where people are just gonna bang your door down to get here
14:04because of how you struggled the last couple years no i mean the only thing i would say is
14:09we don't it's not one of the things with the heat is
14:13they'll know they'll know they knew they had jimmy in the bag they knew it they thought they
14:24had dame in the bag they just misappropriated how strong they should have been in the media
14:30towards the blazers but they did have him in the bag they knew it why do you think the agent came out
14:35so strong so if the heat don't act if the heat are in a position right now the heat probably already
14:44know who that move is whether it is yana they'll know whether or not listen dude yannis's agent
14:50represents bam on a bio they're gonna know whether or not yannis is in to come into miami
14:55they're gonna know they just gave bam on a bio a max extension one one would say
15:01that's how it happened how do you think the big three happened they were all at caa
15:08so this thing happens we'll see now my other question is
15:13here's where it becomes
15:17interesting
15:19where are you gonna have to give up
15:24and how is your team gonna look after that
15:30because what has happened in the past is
15:33you do whatever you can to get the superstar and we'll figure it out afterwards
15:37but
15:39we've seen with some of these ancillary signings
15:42that doesn't work
15:44we haven't had
15:46who's the ancillary or the
15:48the in-season trade or signing
15:50that has made that big of an impact
15:53as of recent
15:55Luca
15:57no i'm talking about for this team
16:00oh this team this team
16:02what are you doing
16:03well maybe it won't work out they may get top hat and monocle tonight
16:07and then nico's gonna be peacocking
16:10he definitely is how about he is going
16:14he is gonna be he's gonna be with a disguise in the in the uh with the with the timberwolves jersey on tonight
16:20that's right
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