Miami Heat Center Kel'el Ware Feels Wrath Of Erik Spoelstra Publicly and Responds Well!

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The Miami Heat lost in Summer League action 92 to 72… Erik Spoelstra calls out Kel'el and how the Miami Heat center responded strongly.

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00:00got summer league going on but cooper flag is officially already done he dropped a 31 piece

00:04and they're like all right see we got it we've seen enough here yeah kind of exactly what the

00:07heat wanted kalal where to do i think is exactly like i don't think that he went into this saying

00:12like oh yeah kalal's gonna play four summer league games i think they wanted him to just come out

00:17there drop a double double and say hey see you in august see you in september but they needed to see

00:24it and somebody had to say something so that he would put forth that effort and get the hell out

00:29of there yeah yeah yeah well that's listen that's listen that's the life of a young athlete right

00:36that's youth and and and so i don't blame spo i'm actually glad to see kalal respond to it

00:46and not cry and whine i thought that was very impressive from him right and he did that and

00:53you know what impressed me the most about it was the fact that he did it unsolicited

00:58uh during the game when they talked to him during the game he kind of just brought it up himself

01:04he's like i gotta you know bring more effort i gotta you know so i thought that showed a lot

01:08i thought that showed a lot because i know that he like tweeted and deleted during the day and i was

01:12like ah here we go i'm like because because that can get to you those rabbit ears on twitter can get

01:17to you but i thought uh with the with the the nba tv interview and then yesterday after the game i

01:23thought that he handled it well but if you guys missed it over the weekend uh eric spolstra the

01:28heat practiced on saturday and eric spolstra held court he spoke for probably about 17 minutes to the

01:34media and he was shooting i mean spo was uh this was not this was not postgame spo spo had some

01:40opinions he had some he had he wanted to put some some sauce on it but the most uh the the the

01:47biggest storyline out of it was of course kalal who coach glassy said like hey they wanted him to

01:52come here and dominate he has not and so spo had to say something or felt like he had to say something

02:00so here was the start of it he said uh that he has to improve uh his professionalism that there's

02:06layers uh to this with uh kalal um you know a big part of this is he has to uh really embrace uh

02:13and improve his professionalism his consistency his approach uh every single day he has to get

02:21better with that uh it's learning how to become a pro i understand it he was 20 last year and he's 21

02:26we have bigger expectations that's not your normal uh growth and growing pains of a young player

02:32learning how to become a pro but that's what this summer uh is about um learning how to become a pro

02:39learning how to be consistent um every single day all right so it starts off uh you know that's

02:47basically young people talk right that's that there's a lot of guys that what you what you tend to

02:54learn in once you get to the next level is that your talent by itself is not gonna lead you to

03:05long-term success i don't care how fast you are i don't i'm not i don't care how tall you are

03:12like there's certain things that you need to do to become a pro and it's going to accentuate

03:20the talent that you have you can't just go out there and say roll the ball out i got you 20 and 10

03:25and so for young guys for young guys who've been dominant their whole careers

03:33it's a bit of an adjustment some guys do it quick most of the guys and i tell you the guys who seem to

03:40transition quicker or the guys who weren't highly regarded at some point during their career

03:46yeah so they already had afford to yeah right well even even d wade d wade had a level of he ended up

03:55at marquette right i mean say he had to sit for a year because of grades right right we call that prop

04:0248 we had yeah he um then said that look the talent is there for kalal but it's the other stuff

04:10that he's got right here's uh here's some more spo the talent is there uh the professionalism

04:16uh inconsistency uh has to improve um and it is you know our standards are not going to change and

04:25our expectations of how fast we want that to improve for him are not going to change um but

04:31he's got to get better at it uh he has to take ownership of it um and uh you know the other stuff

04:39will will come along with that you know that leads into the weight room you know your professionalism

04:45your consistency your approach every single day uh he's getting stronger um he is gaining weight

04:53um that's a big part of his improvement is getting his body physically prepared and ready to handle the

05:00rigors of a physical position yeah he uh i think and i think the thing is like it wasn't even about a

05:11points thing like you know the rebounds i think is really what stood out that's yeah man they were

05:16like hey man you can't go 28 minutes being the tallest guy on the court and walk away with three

05:22runs like yesterday even yesterday's performance like i know there was one point uh it was a straight

05:27you know who uh who was playing yesterday did you notice who was playing for the calves

05:30who nor chad omir from the canes final four and he's all of six seven as a center but he's a

05:39rebounding he's a hound yeah he's just like he's getting after it and you're just like oh not the

05:46put back and one no kalal you know kalal where it came back and he you know he he answered with it but

05:52you're just like yeah you gotta you you gotta you can't just stare at it go get the ball and i just

05:59think it's just driving everybody this isn't about like not going out there and looking like hakeem

06:03in the in the summer league like just play your ass off it's gonna take care of itself it's obvious

06:09right and that's why you know he he felt like he had to to do this because look spo is not one to do

06:15this this is not a common thing for this he doesn't call guys out by not in the media not in the media

06:21but i do think that they felt like it was a bit of a either a last resort or it was just necessary

06:26because he was on the espn broadcast the day before and he was kind of praising him he's yeah he's in

06:30the weight room he's looking good uh we had heard from zo on draft night he had been in the weight

06:34room he's been putting in the work but yeah that that just that effort just on the court was just

06:39like yeesh now you think that had something to do with like spo felt it necessary which one came out

06:46um did kalal talk first or just spo talk first spo talked first okay and then kalal kind of came out

06:53and so yeah goodbye him yes spo spo talk first uh here's one more from him to just uh talk about

07:00that he uh he has to get stronger he has to play with more force and he's got to work on you know

07:05the little things like being early and all that stuff and having good expression here is more spo then

07:10there's nuances of uh doing things defensively and playing stronger with more force uh offensively

07:16we're working on those things every single day malik uh you know i think is the best big man

07:20coach and mentor in the league and they're spending a lot of time um hitting you know pounding uh lower

07:27stronger stronger more physical uh you saw a piece of it right here uh at the end um you know that

07:34that's what we feel like we do we feel like you know also giving them the structure uh to grow and

07:42embrace becoming a pro learning how to be a professional you know every single day being early um having a

07:49great energy and countenance uh every day uh how you do anything is how you do everything um

07:57and you know he's he's taking some steps but he's got to get better he has to get better

08:03with the professionalism countenance is a big word for me dog

08:08shmeeth and schmolnick says on the chat wouldn't trade this mope for kd unbelievable

08:15yeah but i mean if you did trade him for kd what are you promising yourself

08:23three years from now right so you work with the young guy because you know that

08:30you know especially when he's on the same age he's in the same age group as a lot of your stars

08:36a lot of your guys on your team so if you're going to build something

08:41right they're not in a they're not in a quick fix situation right now they're in a development

08:48um and get young guys on the court phase and they have the talent to do that they just have to

08:57see it through right because i can tell you right now uh casper um

09:04is about three turnovers in the first five minutes of being on the bench for half the year

09:13so there's certain levels to this but i think at some point

09:18suppose just gonna have to be frustrated and keep riding it out

09:23305 maniacs we're overreacting we know damn well that kalal doesn't care about summer league

09:29he wants to be home in miami chasing some ashtron before he locks it for the season well first of all

09:34they're in vegas so like he can go have some fun and it's kind of like you could you know it's like

09:42get your project done early you probably would have been home already right and then somebody says in

09:49fairness pella larson makes everybody look like they're not playing hard oh man he's always on the

09:53sound oh my goodness like let me tell you something i've never seen more intangibles on the court

09:59since i watched uh hoosiers because like today's his last day then he's going to sweden for euro

10:07basket he's basically gonna be swedish swedish dwayne wade for for euro basket no who else do they

10:15have sweden gustav forsling's cousin

10:19this is uh this is my cousin rustoff forsling you know what's amazing there's certain countries

10:28when you see these world cups and basketball and fifa and olympics

10:33certain countries that aren't known for having tall people but a basketball tournament they rolling

10:40out two three seven footers and you're like

10:42guy says uh suppose having white side ptsd

10:49yeah but i gotta tell you white side would have never said what kalal said

10:56that i agree with yeah i agree with that that he was from the start was getting his 2k rating up

11:02and uh this was kalal after the game uh when he was asked about the whole

11:07spo press conference and he handled it in stride how much of this was you trying to make a statement

11:15after coach spoke to us yesterday you obviously saw his words how much played into that how much

11:20was this just you saying maybe enough is enough i mean yeah uh you know it all comes down to like

11:25you know like spo said you know he's putting the effort you know going out there and planning so

11:29this is what i wanted to show that i can do why don't we see no offense all the time

11:34you will you will how how strongly did you take coach's message were you surprised by it

11:46i mean it's just rare he usually does a lot of stuff behind the scenes as you know so

11:50when you saw the way he he decided to approach it what was your reaction to that i mean no i just took

11:55it as motivation uh you know obviously you know he you know he's the coach and he has that you know

12:00trusted me and he wants to see me you know be the best that i can be so i took his motivation

12:04yeah i thought the performance that he had on the court and then even after the after that with

12:09the media i thought i thought he nailed it what he said afterwards kind of solidified his efforts

12:16during the game now the one thing that i bet you spo said or whoever was coaching him said as soon as

12:25they got into the locker room being a professional means being consistent with this yes and and that's

12:32the thing you won right because remember colette will come out and have you know a double double

12:38and then go two points and three rebounds in 25 minutes yeah but that's you know and that's the

12:44thing though like you know everybody's getting crazy with it i understand nobody wants to hear about a

12:48guy who's that talented one of the things i think sports fans don't relate with the most when if

12:53you're that tall and you look like an alien like why why not play balls to the wall but we've seen

12:59that he's good enough to play in this league like we've all seen it with our own eyes i've seen this

13:03man cook victor wimbanyama i've seen him dominate games already at a very young age so i don't need

13:09the proof that he's talented it's just yes this was stuff that was there early in the draft it's why

13:15he left oregon and it didn't work out there uh we talked to mike woodson about that mike woodson said

13:20like his mom told me like when he got to campus do whatever you have to do you know chew out his

13:25ass whatever has to happen and it seemed to work out made himself a first round pick um but you know

13:33i think maybe there's a little like walked into this league i got i got 10 and 7 baby well but here's

13:40here's the other thing so is everybody else and that's the part that young guys sometimes when you've

13:48dominated your whole life and then you get to that final destination you don't realize that they've

13:56been doing the same thing you're doing so it's not going to be as easy as it was some guys make it look

14:03that way right like some guys are rare freaks of nature that at any level of whatever sport you're

14:12playing you can go out and dominate um you know case in point randy moss look at him look at where

14:20he went and how many different places he went before he ended up in nfl and then teams had questions

14:27but i don't think anybody ever questioning his ability and so nobody's questioning kalal's ability

14:35what happens is and what gets him in and out of the lineup is is this the night we can count on him

14:42or not and i think spo's saying you are far too talented to not put the work in to where we can

14:50depend on you for 30 minutes a night where we got to try to guess if you're in the right frame of mind

14:56or if you put the work in to have a good game tonight that's it that's what it boils down to

15:02the rest of that team yesterday though woof woo a lot of running around though right

15:08there was a lot of running around but nobody really you know 22 offensive rebounds by cleveland

15:16yesterday i tell you one thing you're ducking with some of those three pointers that people

15:20are chucking up you're like whoa whoa whoa let me tell you you know what i learned in summer league

15:26that everybody think they can shoot a three pointer oh my god but your ass need to be in the mid range

15:36because i've never seen only in summer league do you see three pointers missed badly so badly

15:45it's like why are you shooting the three you ain't never shot a three in college now they move you

15:51farther back and you're including guys doing pull-ups right pull up with the logo i'm like what coach

16:01it's like yeah all right hit the bricks dude enjoy sioux falls so it's amazing it's like i wonder in

16:09summer league because you want to see how these guys perform in the heat of the battle and so you

16:16kind of let them go a little bit but at some point you you got to bring it back here right because

16:23man there's so many three-point shots dude like this is the numbers yesterday 40 for the heat 40

16:31for the calves the only reason the calves kicked the hit they had 87 free uh field goal attempts to the

16:37heats 59 right so they just like they you know it was all rebounds rebounds rebounds and they get

16:43other extra chances it was but like they the the heat seven of 23 from three

16:50the calves seven of 29 oh i can't believe that i thought there was a lot more shot

17:00right and it looks like and one league because uh who's the point guard that

17:05is getting to the rim like nothing oh that's uh tyson yeah the other thing is

17:11why couldn't nobody make a damn layup crazy right like i'm like what am i watching i watch it

17:18we got a whole a whole room full of fiddler crabs

17:21crazy what about miss look miss three winners and miss layups are not very conducive to winning

17:29there's a whole lot of the ratios that are not up to you now and i can see all the ratios being

17:34raised here and for sure you go to ourunächst then i lunatic again melating

17:40land multi-testing, but yeah it's not there you go e theaneous

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