00:00that waste west coast trip i would rather get it out of the way when they're fresh
00:05and not after you know no it's all it listen last year's a little bit of a blur i can't even
00:13recall like i do remember that wasn't much of a blur that well what yeah whatever it was it was
00:19one of those things where like i i don't even want to remember last year with all the one-legged
00:24threes and the haze that it was but yeah they're starting off this year it's like right out of the
00:29bat they're gonna got the the la the la denver trip in like three and four nights i was like oh
00:35all right let's get after it right out right out of everybody will be fresh though hopefully yes
00:40everybody will be fresh but so would they where to go so we're gonna get we're gonna get an early
00:46look at skinny luca but you did nail it because we had ourselves the opening night orlando magic
00:53yep back-to-back years checking out the the although it's kind of a sexy matchup this year
00:59because orlando beefed up it's it's crazy because over the last couple years we've seen the growth
01:08of orlando and know that they're not to be played with they got some players um they haven't quite
01:15you know they kind of had the injury bug at the end of the year too so um it'll be interesting to
01:24see how how it plays out because they do look like one of those teams that that are on an upwards
01:32trajectory no they are that's why they make the move for desmond bain i will say though it was
01:38interesting that uh i saw like they had a list i think it was uh hoop site came out with their list
01:44of shooting guards yesterday and they had tyler hero sixth and i think desmond bain was like all
01:51the way down to 13th and man he went for a lot of picks yeah he went for a hole you know what you
01:59know what it is it's i'm gonna say this about tyler he's getting kurt cousins
02:06meaning that kurt cousins has been a good quarterback but for some reason when you say
02:15kurt cousins you don't give him his flowers and i would say about tyler tyler has had some success
02:21in the league right he's been asked to do a lot of different things that people don't really realize
02:27unless you're here but he's been a scorer he's been an assist guy he shoots the three well and he
02:35does a lot of these things but for some reason everybody else in the nba is like no he ain't
02:43that guy yeah and it's kind of interesting because i see like a lot of these comparisons that are out
02:47there right now like austin reeves you know he's like i better get at least tyler hero money and i
02:52think he's talking about now and i'm like listen austin reeves slow your roll there arkansas all right
02:59like just because you're right because you're intangibles with swag does not mean you're tyler
03:04hero you're good you're good you're good yeah but are you tyler here i don't know if you're tyler
03:09hero yeah but uh i even and then cam thomas is another one where like everybody is kind of looking
03:14at him and they're gonna see what kind of money he's going to get and they're gonna use him as some
03:19sort of a barometer which is i think is what makes this kind of a fascinating year because look i think
03:24tyler hero is going to get paid and you know i think tyler's gunning for like the jackpot i don't
03:32think he's gunning for the 40 million a year i think he's looking for the uh for for you know the
03:38the uber amount of money that's with the the franchise with the 50 a year does it does it
03:43i'm gonna say this and this is not a knock on the miami heat but it seems like every guy
03:50that took the hometown deal got screwed oh he's not taking a hometown deal no but i'm just saying
03:57if you think about it i think he already said he wasn't taking a hometown deal he's like we could
04:02do it in the fall or we could do it in the summer and just be more expensive that didn't sound like
04:05hometown discount to me that sound like that didn't sound like hometown discount to me i like the answer
04:14by the way i thought it was i'm like good have that confidence because if tyler here it's the same
04:18confidence jimmy had before he one-legged three did yeah but the difference like look the difference
04:23between jimmy and tyler is obviously the age like that's the thing is the heat are going to decide
04:27this with tyler hero entering his prime is he is he a pillar of the franchise is he the guy that
04:33they're going to actually believe him we know that they already invested in bam um and you can see
04:38what the listen this is not this is this there's no there there's no clear arbitration of what the
04:44country thinks of those guys as a duo the kings have more national tv games than they do this year
04:49so you know that that's going to be i mean is that because of the players or the record last year
04:56i think both okay i think both i mean you know i think i think both of those stand as as reasons as
05:03to why and regardless of how much let's look at this from a national perspective regardless of
05:11how much the heat are always in the mix and i'm gonna say every year you know the heat in some
05:18kind of capacity are going to be involved in something at the end of the season you don't
05:23you never have to worry about that but what about this team
05:29is appealing and fun to watch
05:34from my perspective what just from a no i i i you know look i think that's i think that's
05:42totally fair i don't think that they have the sexiest names nationally i think probably if you
05:46were to ask like who's the best watch on the team that's going to have the most highlights this year
05:50kalal like kalal's the guy who probably like jumps off the page out of anybody i see i say young
05:57like if he plays some consistent i'm talking though like the guy who has like eye-popping
06:05plays i'm talking about the guy who people are gonna be like whoa who's gonna have the most
06:09of those i'm not talking about best player no i'm not talking about it would probably be kalil
06:15but if you're talking about the guy that if he's going off on a night where he can go for 40
06:21hitting threes they would be tyler like right but but we've already determined vlad we've already
06:27determined what the rest of the nba thinks about tyler right he doesn't he has he he hasn't it's it
06:33i feel like the older he's gotten the less gravitas he's gotten as a player like less people talk about
06:38him as far as like one of those national guys to tune into right or wrong i'm just saying right
06:43that's why i'm not picking him vlad because i'm like looking at this and i'm like well
06:48obviously not yeah tyler hero can have awesome games i'm just saying like who's gonna be the
06:53guy on this team that's that's gonna be bringing people into the circus tent and that's why i'm
06:58like looking i'm like you know norman powell solid player like how many guys have watched the norman
07:03powell mixtape you know right but yeah if you had to go in who has the best mixtape it'd be kalil
07:11yeah it's gonna be either kalil i think jovich is probably if jovich becomes like
07:15little joker and has some of that in him this year like those are the guys i feel like
07:20yeah but but here's the thing about the schedule and and and i love the way people get upset about
07:28how many primetime games they have and right it changes during the course of the year so if your
07:35team is balling out you're gonna get more nationally televised games not that anymore dude yes you will
07:40first of all i thought we would love to hear eric reed and and um john crotty and tony fiorentino
07:48whoever's there i think we would love to hear the local cast right and second who cares right
07:55that's who cares because if your team is bad you know and then the national media gets on you you're
08:00gonna be like oh the national media is on us but then if you're good okay guess what happens they're
08:05gonna do what the nfl does they'll wipe out another team and put your game on because you're right
08:13you're doing things so so while we sitting here making we only have five national televised games
08:18they start off 20 and five they know but you're gonna go up okay but the conversation was you guys
08:24asked like who's gonna be the guy that gets people into the heat nationally like who's gonna be the guy
08:28i pop at it and that's that's what we're trying to figure out but i think if they're if they have a
08:33a good record and they're a top of the the eastern conference at any point during the course of the
08:39season they all are gonna get eyes on them right the problem is is they were 37 and 45 right that
08:49doesn't garner a whole bunch of uh primetime games it doesn't this isn't this isn't a heat
08:56they are being disrespected i right i'm not doing that here i'm asking all right i'm asking
09:02what is the who is the guy because you guys are saying tyler and i'm like i would say tyler's
09:07gonna leave the score bam is the best probably all-around player on the heat i would say those
09:11guys have been in the league for six years and they're obviously because guys who are not as good
09:16or teams that are not as good are still getting more eyeballs like demar de rosen and sabonis are
09:21getting more games than those guys right yeah but he's still in sacramento yeah okay yeah for now for
09:29i would just say yeah i i like i can't disagree about that i would say it's kalil now that i think
09:37about it when i'm thinking of when you watch heat highlights whenever there have been heat highlights
09:41it always comes with a kalil alley-oop or kalil block or something along those lines well that's
09:47what i think it's gonna be like i think like you know he only started half the season last year so
09:52i'm saying like if there's gonna be a guy who's like because bam and tyler have been around for
09:58yes they're good this is not a detriment on their talent as players i'm talking about
10:02if there is there gonna be do the heat have a new equation on them an x factor that'll be like oh
10:08that'll actually imagine i think it's he's the guy who's gonna who's gonna get people if if there's
10:14gonna be anybody well when you say it that way then i guess because then you're adding okay there
10:19you got a triumvirate you know i guess jimmy was the third jimmy was the big star jimmy was the face
10:24the right but because jimmy being the face of the heat you knew about tyler and we saw bam bam's
10:30bam is bam everybody loves bam like you always say everybody knows bam but jimmy was the star
10:36is there another guy that can be another star i'm not saying another jimmy but a just another star
10:42because that's what if the heat win and tyler's putting up good numbers great or better numbers
10:48than he did last year he would that was his first year as an all-star right yep yeah if he does it
10:54again back to back bam picks up his play from last season the team is winning you're gonna see more
11:00nationally televised game there's no way because guess what there's still one dynamic there's still
11:05one all-star in this right city of miami right the heat are winning people are gonna want to come
11:13to miami and they're gonna want to televise games because the biggest star of all of south florida
11:19is the city of miami and you know what's funny about all this i was trying to say that's part of
11:25that it's one of its tools that's one of it that's the asset of miami astron that's it but yeah we'll
11:31take it i was thinking about when i played did i care as much about nationally televised games and
11:39then i realized when i was in minnesota we played a lot we played at four o'clock or seven o'clock
11:48or monday night almost every week 15 and one you literally you were literally john madden's favorite
11:54player dude like you're not you're not a good barometer on this sorry you're just backing up
12:00by point when you win people are gonna watch
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