Can Ja Morant find his joy in Miami?

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National Buzz continues around Ja Morant and his joy, is there a sense of urgency? Rumors are that the guard could be traded to Miami. Would it make sense to trade Tyler Herro for Ja? How would he fit in the city of Miami and Heat Culture?

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00:00the big thing that's gone on a lot of national buzz around the the the jama rant stuff now

00:08i saw mark stein report yesterday there doesn't appear to be this sense of urgency from memphis

00:15to trade him but it is one of these things that's very odd because yeah they learned anything from

00:21jimmy butler who the heat has memphis learned anything oh yeah if you let this linger on it's

00:28just gonna go poorly well yeah the thing is interesting i really do like it very much

00:35clearly seems like he does not like the coach tomas iasalo well if you don't like two coaches

00:40maybe it's not the coaches it's you that's a fair point that's a fair point that's a fair point

00:45hold on don't say that's a fair point i didn't want him to come here when the previous coach

00:51from his team that vlad vlad vlad well he was my man my man my man tobes sometimes tend to

01:01overlook certain aspects of what he wants because he's gonna now tell you

01:09but that was in memphis this is memphis

01:13you know you know we're doing the same offense right here's the thing here's the thing that guy's

01:20coaching he's he's uh he's spearheading the the conversion to what job was supposed to be doing

01:28last year he's not spearheading he is a he is an unlisted consultant nick laroche what do you think

01:35they're getting it from and here's the thing here's the thing that i'm curious about now everybody said

01:41last year that oh ja didn't like the offense however starting to get the arithmetic on this

01:50whole thing of making a stink did he not like the offense or is he just tired of memphis

01:56you know it's very easy to say oh i don't like the offense oh ja doesn't like the offense let's fire

02:06taylor jenkins with six games left that's how desperate they are but now you don't like this guy

02:11either maybe he has nothing to do with the offense maybe he just doesn't like you guys so he's he's the

02:19new marcon now he's walking away from memphis now i won't get away from memphis yeah i don't know vlad

02:26i'm just saying like maybe the off the offense isn't the issue as much as we thought it was

02:31first class to get to miami

02:40hey it's been real memphis it's been fun what you're doing it again what am i doing you making

02:49the circumstance fit what you want i'm not making myself first of all yes you are hold on hold on

02:54that's not fair that's not fair that's not fair really that's not fair sometimes the tooth hurts

02:57uh well here's the thing i i am not making any i don't even know if i want john moran okay so

03:06first oh stop it i want john moran everybody just everybody just keeps looking vlad and they're like

03:14oh miami would be the perfect place for john moran he needs culture so even you know you want to say

03:20make a stink you know you want to say it so he's already making a stink i don't have to tell him

03:24anything he got he's already making a stink thank you j fig why why do i get a minus one you know why

03:32stop acting like you're here stop acting like you're innocent or lying you are not dude

03:38that's not fair i'm just access okay hear me out on this would the heat not have a little bit of

03:49insight maybe you call up our old friend anthony carter is he still coaching on memphis i think he

03:55is wait a minute even more of an insight who's john's agent it was mike miller but they're oh they

04:04done they broke up yep oh okay well then you still have an insight he'll let you know yep yep

04:11hey what now let me ask you this jay told said it and i was thinking it

04:18would have one of the best traits of the heat right now they share the ball feed the hot hand or

04:26whatever time around doesn't play well with others that's not that's not true though like when memphis

04:33was playing at its best that was a well-oiled machine jaron jackson and desmond bain and

04:37they all shared in the wealth like i don't think of john moran as a as a ball hog let's look at his

04:43stats and that team was good okay that team was good i don't think of him as a ball hog and again

04:54he may just be tired of memphis you know and you think with all the problems that he has had

05:01that that is gonna just go away look

05:10i can't say that they will go away i don't know he did he may be very immature i don't know

05:17that's why but this is all you have that's all you have to make decisions like this

05:23that's what he's done you are willing to give up assets and everything

05:27and hopes that it will be different when he gets here i'm not willing to give up assets and

05:31everything okay i'm just saying if this is a problem what do you think you're gonna have to

05:36give up to get john moran i don't know i'm not if you're talking multiple first round picks i'm

05:40click i'm out i'm not doing it you guys you guys got your own headache all right we're not

05:45dealing with that so i just i'm clear he's not a give up the farm type of guy what do you think

05:49you're gonna give up crickets i don't know i don't know that's a good question because a lot of

05:53people are seeming to think that he doesn't have a lot of value around the league well they said

05:57that his shooting is um diminished and his athleticism yeah his athleticism games and he's

06:04tiny and he can't shoot the rock but he is a career 22 point 22.5 seven assist guy so he's not

06:13really a bullhawk no he's not right if you're averaging seven assists in the league you're sharing

06:18the bull tell you who you like to give lobs to the warehouse you need a pigeon that's his guy now

06:25that's his pigeon bygones that's also hey bled if i called you a pigeon and then came to work and

06:35you was doing like we would have to have a conversation no we have to fight no no no we

06:39have to have a fight like you got to take that you can't probably call me a pigeon and then all

06:43of a sudden we're teammates now we can be like oh yeah i'm gonna let that slide no no no

06:47just call john and so wait oh don't okay let's do this you think being in miami lessens the chances

06:59of him doing job stuff or increases the chances hard to say you know maybe no it ain't hard to say

07:08it ain't hard to say five minutes ago you said as trying to activate

07:11dude i don't know what to tell you as trying to assemble so if we assemble in astron you think

07:19if ja get down here oh his sliders for his sliders with uh you know in nba 2k you have sliders like

07:25you know you improve oh yeah his slider for not improving would be very high there's no way he'll

07:33be at tootsie's or playhouse or you know the cheetahs in pompano he'll be at every cheetah

07:38pompano hollandale and west palm hmm come on youtube and you know that's look i say we give

07:45a little call is anthony carter still there we give ac a call we're like what do you think ac

07:49you think this guy can handle it down here anthony carter would know pros pro he's he's played down

07:56here what do you think about this john morant i was outside when anthony carter was outside

08:03okay i'm just saying bill simmons came out today sports guy now all of a sudden you listen to

08:13anybody if it makes sense i'm not listening to everybody i'm just bringing it to the table

08:18everybody he thinks you are something else he thinks that the trade value would be

08:24why don't the grizzlies and the heat do it a a tyler hero for john moran swap skis apparently

08:34the heat i guess got to take case uh contavious caldwell pope and his contract and i guess i

08:39don't know he suggested the terry roger contract i don't even know if you could touch that but let's

08:44just say you could make the salary work let's just say that let's just say it was a tyler for

08:48josh straight up trade one would memphis do that and two if you're the heat would you do that

08:53no why do do elaborate okay because one who's saying no in your case you answered okay double

09:06hang up because here's the deal memphis ain't memphis ain't trading nobody without trading job without

09:12draft picks well you can only trade with what you can get and i don't know what they can get for him

09:18and two you think they want tyler hero i don't know and he's up for a max extension he is up for

09:26an extension but you're not you don't i mean you don't have jaw to pay anymore if jaws get like i'm

09:31saying here's the situation if we're saying this is a jimmy butler type situation he's joyless

09:36he doesn't he doesn't they should have did with jimmy was trading before the um right draft but they

09:41didn't and the and the grizzlies had an issue with jaw last year and did they trade him no they

09:46waited through this year so now they have john morant making a stink which you know we'll see how

09:53they deal with all of that i don't know but obviously i don't i don't like that trade for either team

09:58you have kevin durant mocking you know papa morant on the sidelines saying that your son doesn't want

10:04to be there everybody knows it he wants out by the weekend i don't know

10:09i'm i if i'm either team i don't want that i don't want the john morant contract without like

10:20you don't know if he's matured enough to to like be equivalent to what tyler is on the court

10:26well let's say there is a tyler is a shooter ja isn't he is that's true ja is small and has been

10:37banged up and that's the last thing you want that's the last thing you want oh i would say

10:43both of durability and i would tell you what compared to john morant um tyler swole okay but

10:51whatever like john whatever it is it is i mean like if you're talking about like liabilities and

10:59durability like both of those things handle for both players one guy's a really good shooter his

11:03his game will probably age a lot better and maybe john morant flames out by his 30 i don't know maybe

11:09not even i'm just saying but i would say this if you are squeamish about paying tyler hero in the

11:1740s john morant you have under contract for a couple of years in the 40s you know like and if

11:25tyler hero is shooting for 50 and you're just like like is that a question the heat are already like all

11:30right well this is this is a guy we know what the price point is for the next couple years right and

11:34and and so let me ask you a realistic question do tell name all that doesn't matter based on

11:44how the heater playing right now how does john morant make this team better his skill set

11:52does it really make the team better

11:53yeah i think so how guy gets up and down the floor fast can share the basketball scoring punch you'd

12:04essentially be replacing davion mitchell you wouldn't have his defense but you'd have a guy who's a souped

12:08up offense pretty nice fit with donan powell i would say so i don't think i don't think i mean when i look

12:15at look at when i look at davion davion's not as good offensively but what i'm getting on the defensive

12:21side of the ball makes up for that and you have other guys who can score like i don't want to lose

12:27that part of it especially when you're running up and down the floor but you're going to lose

12:31somewhat of it like look you're eventually going to lose those minutes anyway because tyler hero is

12:36going to play unless you're going to go super small and play bam wiggins norman tyler and davion

12:42and we've already been seeing how getting your ass kicked with the rebounding has been going for

12:47miami not great right so i don't know you're gonna you're gonna have some give on that either way

12:52i don't i see i don't think his scoring is gonna like overshadow his lack of defense on this team

13:03that much right we okay let's just put him at his average is 22 well we got guys that do that

13:10right how his averages his averages are 22 but this is a guy who's like averaged up like 27 points a

13:17game before i mean to me john morant would just be a a a smaller um i mean like smaller jimmy butler

13:32like you would have to start building your team around him yeah i guess that he does on the

13:39defensive side like all things that when you brought a guy in when you brought you know even

13:45jimmy and you don't have to worry about the defensive side of it yeah i mean jimmy butler's

13:51a really good defender that's not really that's that's that's not the the issue that was there for

13:55him the issue with jimmy was you know when you could you always rely on him to go and turn on the

14:01scoring like that's not going to be a thing with john morant people have always said like you need

14:05the go-to guy in miami and if there are and here's the thing if they are squeamish about paying

14:11tyler hero this is a little bit of a punt move like it's it's like you're bringing in a guy who's

14:16obviously an uber talent yes with way more baggage than tyler hero but also some red flags that tyler

14:22hero also has like what injuries injuries yeah injuries they both have those that's what i just said

14:29no i know but i'm so so you're basically saying john morant's upside is worth the risk

14:39where i look at tyler hero and i say i can just keep tyler and not have that risk

14:47and maybe be in a better place but tyler hero as the number one guy on a team has never led a a

14:55a 50 win top of the conference type of team like john morant has and that again that like that guy

15:04maybe got i don't know if he's an immature guy here's what happens with immaturity those things that

15:10carry over that you think are going to carry over don't always carry over so you're taking more of a

15:16risk when you know he's immature you see what i mean definitely got a question of maturity that's

15:22why you gotta call up anthony carter right i'm saying we gotta call up anthony carter set up a

15:25group call you know somebody said ja sells tickets that's true you get ja miami's in hot city again

15:32it's like when you guys not and i'm not comparing him to the hall of famer but the same buzz you would

15:40get when wade got to miami and then wade everybody started seeing that you know flash was a thing and

15:45he was must see tv and must see to come to the you know to the arena ja would do that you will see a

15:51lot of asses in the seats there won't be no skittle colors being shown on tv when they play

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