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We get to witness Erik Spoelstra on his pregame presser when addressing last season... was he too set in his ways last season?

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00:00Miami Heat, they win last night, 106-102 over the Dallas Mavericks.

00:08Squeaky cheeks.

00:09Squeaky cheeks.

00:10When Jaime turned that ball over, I was like, no.

00:13I mean, was that the most nonchalant throw in?

00:18No, listen.

00:19Well, I think that's, listen, that's the one thing.

00:21Like, you don't have Jovich.

00:21That's his thing, 6'10", passing the ball.

00:24And they're doing the whole offense for these.

00:25Let's get Jaime in there.

00:27Look, stop taking Kalel Ware off the floor.

00:29Let's not get cutespo, okay?

00:31You put them out there nonstop.

00:33That's how this needs to go.

00:34Yeah.

00:35But they end up getting the win.

00:37And five in a row, 12-6, third in the East.

00:42Toronto is above them.

00:44And then Detroit's won 13 in a row.

00:46They tied a franchise record yesterday.

00:48Very impressive season by them.

00:51But Eric's Bolger had this, like, look during the pregame, right?

00:58And he was asked about the new offense, right?

01:00It's been the very chic thing.

01:01We're all talking about the new offense, right?

01:03And I got to tell you, I saw this Noah LaRoche before the game.

01:07He's the whiz kid from Memphis that we stole.

01:11And I was like...

01:12That Ja doesn't like?

01:13That Ja didn't like the style of the offense.

01:15That's correct.

01:16Yeah.

01:17And I just wanted...

01:17Like, I didn't think it was appropriate, but I was thinking about if I should just go up there

01:20and shake his hand.

01:21But I didn't do it.

01:22I didn't think it was professional, J. Fig.

01:24That's why I didn't go up to him.

01:25But I wanted to go up to...

01:26Because you're a professional.

01:26Yeah, I'm a professional.

01:27And I just wanted to go up to Noah.

01:29And I'd be like, you know, like, thank you.

01:32Thank you for bringing this to Eric Spolstra.

01:34Because he was asked about this last night.

01:36So, I believe the great Chuck Cooperstein, voice of the Dallas Mavericks, asked this question.

01:41I think it was him.

01:43And he was asking, he was like, you know, hey, Spoh, you know, for those who haven't been around,

01:46like, what's the deal with this new offense?

01:48Like, where'd it come from?

01:50And I want you to look at Eric Spolstra's eyes when he talks about this.

01:54Because the pain and shame that he goes back to when he's asked about this.

02:00Like, you could just tell how much last year impacted him and the way that it ended.

02:07And just take a little look, you want to listen.

02:11For our radio audience, like, you're going to...

02:13Like, when he starts talking about them getting bounced,

02:17it's like Eric Spolstra witnessed a crime that he's flashing back to.

02:21That's, like, that's the look you should imagine on his face when he's describing this.

02:26But it was, like, such a, it was such a vulnerable moment from Spoh

02:30on where he was at at the end of last year when they got smoked.

02:34Eric, for those who have not seen you guys a whole lot this year,

02:39what was the moment or is there an epiphany that, you know,

02:45last year, 27th in pace, this year, your first, like, you know,

02:49historically, like the fastest pace in 44 years.

02:51What brought you to that moment where you said, we got to change?

02:56Yeah, I mean, what I've told everybody in this room several times,

03:02you know, we were absolutely outclassed and embarrassed

03:05in a really bad way in the playoffs.

03:08Last time we walked off this floor, we got beat by 55.

03:13It was almost like a misprint.

03:15It's the most embarrassing thing I've ever been a part of.

03:17The locker room felt the same way, and we had plenty of time to reevaluate things during the offseason.

03:27We were done, and it wasn't even May when we were done.

03:32So we had plenty of time to work on things, and then we just wanted to be open-minded.

03:40You know, the first day of camp, I said I just wanted to embrace, you know, the unknown.

03:47And I viewed that as a good thing.

03:50You know, there's some possibilities here,

03:52but I also wanted for there to be and continue to be surprises as the season goes along.

04:01There you go.

04:02Did you not see, like, the look in his face?

04:04No, this is when you know, when he does this.

04:10He does the hands.

04:11The hands drop.

04:13He did the hands drop.

04:14It was like crazy.

04:15Like, he was like this, full of energy, and then he had to talk about last year.

04:20That was, like, PTSD.

04:22That was.

04:22That was, like, he was not okay.

04:25His eyes were just, like.

04:26I would imagine that, yes, losing by 55,

04:36it makes you do some self-evaluations.

04:40You know what I mean?

04:41And it makes you want to try to figure some things out.

04:46And I think that's what happened.

04:49That's crazy.

04:50Yep.

04:50But, like, it's either, like, obvious.

04:52It's obvious that they were embarrassed.

04:53He said that they were humbled.

04:54But it wasn't even the words.

04:56It was.

04:57Do you see the way those guys walked off the floor?

04:58Oh, yeah.

04:59It was embarrassing.

04:59No, it was a humiliating.

05:00It was a humiliating effort.

05:02But I think the thing that is, like.

05:03What would you expect?

05:04You won 37 games last year.

05:06Like, I'm not trying to, like, say they shouldn't be embarrassed.

05:12But I'm saying, based on the way that season went,

05:15for both of those two teams,

05:18you had to know at some point this was going to get ugly.

05:21You're not going to just all of a sudden turn it around.

05:24I think here's the thing that's embarrassing about it, though,

05:26is, like, if Cleveland did that and then, like,

05:28they went to the NBA Finals, it's one thing.

05:30You can live with that.

05:30Like, they.

05:31If you did that to the Oklahoma City Thunder,

05:33I think I could live with it a little more.

05:34The fact that, like, they're not a playoff juggernaut.

05:37You know?

05:37They were a good regular season team, for sure.

05:39They were in the heat a few years ago

05:40when they were number one in the conference.

05:43Yeah, I don't know.

05:44But, like, it was just one of those things, like,

05:46that's the team?

05:47That was the biggest margin of defeat of all time?

05:50It's such a bad scarlet letter for this coach,

05:52who's, I think it was the third,

05:55maybe the third time he's ever been swept?

05:58Ever?

05:58Right.

05:59And.

06:00That wasn't even swept.

06:01Ew, it's double swept.

06:02They didn't even.

06:04But you could just see the.

06:05They just scooped you up like a dead frog in the driveway.

06:09Roadkill.

06:09Yeah.

06:10And you could just, like, he just, you could just tell.

06:13Do you feel like he looked back when he got to his office?

06:16And because he, like, you could see when he mentions May.

06:18And you could just see he probably looked at his office on his calendar

06:21and it just said April.

06:23It's not even May.

06:25Right.

06:25What am I going to do with all this time?

06:27Right.

06:27I know what I'm going to do.

06:29I'm going to reinvent offense, dude.

06:32Well, you kind of have no choice because that's the way the league is going.

06:37Yeah, but nobody.

06:37Like, it's not.

06:38It's not like this pace, dude.

06:39No, I get it.

06:40I get it.

06:41But keep in mind, the crazy thing about this is you've always had these guys.

06:49You have one guy who wouldn't cooperate.

06:54Jimmy wasn't a runner.

06:55Right.

06:55But you look at all the other guys.

06:58You ever see when Jimmy's on the bench, they always try to pick it up?

07:05Yeah.

07:06So, maybe it was something that he was probably looking at before he actually did it.

07:14And then the way the season went and the way your roster changed.

07:20Their offense has been statistically terrible.

07:22They had to change something.

07:23But I think the thing that is with Eric Spolstra, because I think people were wondering, is

07:26like, hey, was he too set in his ways?

07:29And I do think that you're seeing a guy.

07:31This guy has obviously been a great coach his entire career.

07:33Well, that's what great coaches adjust.

07:35And I think that that's been the thing.

07:36It's like, oh, all right.

07:37You're about to see my next move.

07:39Remember, like, position list back with the big three.

07:41Oh, my beer.

07:42You know, making a bunch of G-leaguers 500.

07:46This is going to be my great symphony right here.

07:47No, I got you.

07:48And so, I think that's the cool thing.

07:49But, man, I felt so bad.

07:51When I saw that look in the pregame from him, I'm like, oh, my God.

07:55He still feels it.

07:56You know, we were absolutely outclassed and embarrassed in a really bad way in the playoffs.

08:04Last time we walked off this floor, we got beat by 55.

08:09It was almost like a misprint.

08:11It's the most embarrassing thing I've ever been a part of.

08:15The locker room felt the same way, and we had plenty of time to reevaluate things during the offseason.

08:23We were done, and it wasn't even May.

08:26That's where it got done.

08:30So, we had plenty of time to work on things.

08:34It was great.

08:35He was, like, looking into a dark hole in that moment.

08:38We were done.

08:40I'm like, when have I not coached basketball in May?

08:46Oh, man.

08:47It catches you.

08:47I'm telling you, the one thing that is literally, like, the worst part of the season.

08:59Like, you get into a rhythm, right?

09:01Where this is what you're doing.

09:02This is what you're doing.

09:03You get to the playoffs.

09:05Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

09:06And then it ends.

09:09And, like, when it ends and you go to the locker room, you don't know what to do.

09:15Like, okay, what are we doing tomorrow, right?

09:19What do we?

09:20Like, it's, I mean, brutal.

09:25I know that feeling.

09:26Now, I can honestly say that at no point in time did I get mollywhopped.

09:35Never felt like you had to reinvent yourself.

09:37The only time I did was when we played.

09:41And so, after we lost in 98, you know, the 15-1 team, the very next year we won division again.

09:50We went to, but we had to go to the Rams and play.

09:58And we were up, like, 27-20 at halftime, right?

10:07We lost 49-27.

10:11And we didn't know, like, they went on to win the Super Bowl, but that's how things change.

10:20So, you have to kind of change with it.

10:22Did you call Kurt Warner grocery boy before the game?

10:25Was that the year?

10:27No, that was Nick.

10:30Was that Kurt Warner's year?

10:33That might have been.

10:34It might have been.

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