Miami Heat Sweep Weekend w/ Wins Over Hornets and Blazers

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15 mins of Heat! A recap of wins at home this weekend, everyone gets a 3!!! The Miami Heat are back on the hardwood tonight against the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Miami Heat swept the weekend beating the Hornets 126 to 108. Norman Powell ended with 25 points, while Andrew Wiggins with 22 points. Jaime Jaquez Jr. continues to impress with 18 points. On Saturday the Heat defeated the Blazers 136 to 131, Nikola Jović with 29 points. This all continues tonight from the Kaseya Center.

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00:0050 minutes of heat brought to you by the lexus december to remember sales event get offers on

00:14select models for a limited time learn more at lexus.com miami heat back on the hardwood

00:23against the cleveland cavaliers come for you jay crawford bobby heat sweep the weekend they beat

00:32the hornets beat them down 126 108 that's how you start the nba cup that's how you start the nba cup

00:40i still don't know the rules i'm very confused i was like oh that's why spo was like going for the

00:46lead i was like oh because the point differential point differential counts yeah right point

00:50differential counts they're number one now they uh they have the point difference they did they

00:54beat uh they won by 18 and the bucks i think won by 16 so they uh they don't the top two teams go

01:01though i think so okay i think so but there's still i think three more to go three more to go and they

01:06got to play well it all figures out because you got four in your yep right you got four and you play

01:13all the other three teams the next one i think is friday in new york oh good week it's gonna be

01:20they this is a uh this is a nice this could be a fun little week good week of this past week

01:25because the heat did this without bam on a bio yeah uh he's in a walking boot i'm surprised you

01:29didn't come in here talk about nico oh hey even the the thing that it was hilarious that little

01:42bleep eating grin he gave when he shot it from the logo he's like he's like i'm gonna try and not

01:47look at eric sport don't look at me spo that was uh that was dead did you see that shot that that

01:55nico took that didn't hit nothing he was on a heater during this game and then he just decided

02:01to take a double step back from nearly 30 feet and it hit nothing heat check an absolute heat check

02:09it hit nothing and it was like i think it was a television timeout oh my god so we had to go back

02:16to the bench like oh my goodness it was uh it was crazy but he uh but the heat beat portland

02:25portland has been killing it portland's beat the thunder they beat the lakers they're beating every

02:30they beat denver they've beaten everybody in the west they come in here miami heat it was a great

02:36game great back and forth between these two teams i mean great back and forth between did it not look

02:41like that was gonna be a blood again in the beginning well the other way yeah the other way

02:46it started the opposite well the first the friday's game was crazy okay because the heat broke a record

02:5253 points in the first quarter and you're just like well this only has one way to go because that

02:58was third quarter that was incredible and of course like all of the baskets dried up in the second

03:03quarter but they they could not miss i mean it ended it was like everybody got it was like oprah

03:08everybody got a three fontecchio got a three drew smith got a three wiggins got a three and they

03:13finished with 53 points in the first quarter it was all eradicated by the time we got to halftime

03:19which is crazy but then in the fourth quarter jaime jaquez jr oh my god he embarrassed not one

03:33but two hornets rookies he snatched buddy's ankles at the wing drove past him and slammed it on that

03:41giant intangibles that they got what a play by jaime jaquez jaquez fake of the pass he put james down

03:48and then cracks it on colt gritter jaime jaquez jr how dare you

03:56oh give me the 10th letter of the alphabet any day of the week amy wow that was a i mean that was a

04:05play he has been incredible this year he has been incredible but that i mean he was absolutely

04:11bullying the hornets but that play to to to cap it off there on friday night and mind you obviously

04:16an emotional night eric spolster's first game after uh after the the house after his house was burnt down

04:22has his kids up there with him at the pre-game press conference leroy and uh and then afterwards

04:28he was just like you know he was asking he's like what would you want to do and an idea he's like

04:33ideally i'd like to go home you're just like damn all of a sudden it's just like it just hits you

04:38because you're like oh this is all i gotta i gotta figure this out afterwards but uh what a performance

04:44by jaime jaquez jr norman powell what a godsend i can't believe this we got this guy for peanuts

04:51why didn't they want him no it's not why didn't they want him it's not a matter of wanting him

04:57like it's one of those deals where you figure out how much he's going to be worth and you don't want

05:04him to go walk for free because you know if you let it get to that point somebody's going to offer

05:09him more money than you want to give even even if that's the case like you got kevin love and

05:15kyle anderson for him why don't you just ride it out no that's kind of that's literally getting

05:21nothing but but that i thank you some to some teams to some teams and you hear this in all sports

05:27i mean we had the same situation with um now you we get draft picks a third rounder but we had the

05:35same thing with jp like trying to figure out what you were going to have to pay him versus him being

05:41able to walk yes but you also have to make those decisions like remember they did that with calais

05:46last year because they were kind of in the race and they're like do we trade him do we not trade him

05:49like if i was the clippers i would have been like i mean we got to keep first of all you got james

05:53harden and kawhi letter they are not making it through a season like yeah i would have just had

05:57i think surprisingly we make fun of of james harden he doesn't miss a boatload of games he's got a

06:04hamstring injury coming up somewhere oh you know it's coming it'll pop up somewhere oh not pop but

06:08norman powell my god this dude is just such a a dynamite score yeah and he's vibes dude and he's

06:18vibes he just got good vibes he's just there he's plays did you like the shimmy oh did i like the

06:23did you do it did you do it no no too embarrassing for me to do that you know you got the moobs uh

06:29sticking out i can't do it like he does with the uh with the tight t-shirt you know i can't do that

06:34but i did love it i did love it and i love that he was there playing around with nico in the uh in

06:39the winner's circle afterwards i just oh it's fine i'm just so happy for him i'm happy i'm this team is

06:46this team is so enjoyable to watch what they're doing and uh and i'm loving it i'm loving it this

06:53was spo on uh nico's big game against portland i liked his energy i liked his intent uh he was

07:00assertive aggressive uh on both sides of the court uh you know you can choose to float or you can

07:08choose to insert your will on a game and it's not about like how many points you you score uh it's

07:15about uh imposing your will uh on a game and you felt his will uh on the game um you know i gave him a

07:24hard time that last uh you know iso he did a double step back james harden you know three i would have

07:30liked to see what happened if he imposed his will on that possession uh i think that's a growth

07:36opportunity he hasn't been in that situation very often where we just say open you create a play for

07:40us but i think he would have gotten into the paint uh and made the right play um but i i just like the uh

07:48assertiveness you know tonight i love it from him because he obviously needed it he's uh

07:53he's he's had a little bit of a tough start to the season but you know i think one of the things

07:59you're going to wonder with bam out is like who was going to take advantage of this opportunity i

08:04think that you know he was there when they needed him they needed that that aggression from him and

08:09you know he had some willy-nilly plays where he's like throwing the ball into the stands for sure

08:14but he had six turnovers in the game but i finally liked him trying to make things happen didn't feel

08:20like he was hesitating i think that's like you need people on your team like that to get teed up

08:25huh got teed up you need people you need people on your team like you need people that are going to

08:30be aggressive you know that they're lightning in a bottle um and then you have to just kind of have

08:35them avoid the mistakes but you got to work through that that's one of the things i get irritated about

08:40with kalal right sometimes you got to coach him through those moments yeah whether it's hard or

08:47whatever but at some point it's going to be be a time in in the season or a game where you're going

08:54to need the best version of kalal and if he's if you've never forced him to play that way during a

09:01game who's to say he's going to be able to respond to it i think that he's done a good job the last

09:06couple of games like he has started off slow but i do think that is his second stint he's done a lot

09:10better i thought that you know this past game he was getting a lot of loose balls he was getting a lot

09:15of rebound so i think we are seeing some of that with him it's just you know matter if we can get

09:20him out of the gate with it but he was uh you know they needed that because clinging was having a

09:25good a good performance yeah he's a moose he's just pushing kalal and pushing and pushing nico all

09:31around but uh but he responded strong in that game so i like i liked that from kalal and then i

09:37wish frog nothing against having you here dan day we love you but i wish frogbo was here just so i

09:41could yell at him for how he treated drew smith yeah i wish i could just have him on the phone

09:47right now so i could yell at him for how he's treated drew smith because let me tell you something

09:51about drew smith this dude's a needle mover i mean he's not in there to score 30 he is like do you know

09:59why he's there he's a menace to the other team's um offense does he steal like two possessions a game

10:06where he's just in the back corner like takes the basketball because they're not paying attention

10:10because he's just locked in at all times and this frog boy had the audacity to kick him kick him

10:17while he's down well not anymore frog boy you're gonna answer for your drew smith crimes

10:24one day when you decide to show up because you know who always shows up drew smith unlike you

10:33ridiculous that's fueled by deuces stay on the lily pad

10:39crazy i love it though team is playing great this was uh norman powell after the uh the portland win

10:47um just uh for me i'm talking to them uh mentally you know uh you know young guys um they worry about

10:55um the other things you know um all the missed shots the turnovers they get upset when they don't

10:59make a make a play um that they feel like uh they should uh shot or uh pass you know um they're

11:05very selfless guys but you know they get down on themselves a little bit especially nico um so

11:09just staying in his ear throughout the course of the game um before and after you know um keeping

11:15them positive and not focused on the mistakes you know i told him um after the first time out

11:20i don't want to see his body language go down when he uh makes a bad play turn over missed shot or

11:25whatever like stay even kill you know it's a long game um and he's too talented for that you know and

11:30i thought he did a great job tonight um staying with it in attack mode um reading the game uh getting

11:36to his spots and making the plays that were in front of him nolan powell leader leader

11:42wow well tonight's a big one you got the calves in town obviously they put the miami heat they spiked

11:50them into the ground in the playoff series so if he can get the no bam tonight still dealing with

11:55that toe in a walking boot you you believe me yet i'm very scared i'm telling you i'm telling you

12:04there's a there's a few things that christmas i've experienced firsthand christmas you don't know

12:09thanksgiving you don't know because guess what you can't walk around and play on a boot you got to put

12:16a shoe on and once you try to squeeze that shoe on around that toe you might not be able to walk

12:22how about asia wilson's making fun of him on threads about the boot yeah that's what i mean you can't look

12:28cool in a boot no it's too bulky you look like a cyborg nope but guess what you know if you try to

12:37be uncool without that boot and you step on that toe you'll be like where the boot where the boot give

12:43me the boot yeah the last person i remember doing that frog boy who tried to cure himself he limped

12:47around for seven weeks for an injury that should have lasted two or three weeks there you go hard

12:53hit it

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