Miami Heat Are Rolling After Sweeping Their Road Trip vs Bulls and Sixers

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15 mins of Heat! The Miami Heat had a great weekend beating the Bulls 143 to 107 on Friday, and taking out the Philadelphia Sixers yesterday 127 to 117. Norman Powell finished with 32 points, while Kel'el Ware had 20 points and 16 rebounds. Tyler Herro is scheduled to make his 2025 season debut tonight!

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00:00Well, 15 minutes of heat here brought to us by the Lexus December to Remember sales event.

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00:09And while you guys are watching football yesterday, if you guys weren't into the hoops, the Miami

00:15Heat, they beat the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday, 127, 117, no Embiid, no Edgecombe for the

00:2576ers, but they did have, I can't believe Paul George still plays for them.

00:30I'm like, what?

00:31He's still hanging around, huh?

00:32Did he play well?

00:34Because I know he played well his first game back.

00:36Okay.

00:36He's old.

00:37No, he didn't play that great.

00:39Maxie played good, but then the Heat were like, oh, they just have Maxie.

00:42And they had Watford for them played pretty good.

00:46And then McCain, I got to tell you about this.

00:48McCain got a little too big for his britches right off the bat because he hit Drew Smith

00:53with a too small in the first quarter and Drew Smith then was just like, cool, dude.

00:57Yeah.

00:58We're going to, we're going to lock that bleep up for the, for the rest of the remainder

01:01of the day.

01:02But no, Norman Powell just, he's amazing.

01:07He's like, he can't be easy.

01:09He's just on a complete tear for this Miami Heat team.

01:12He's been unbelievable.

01:1432 points yesterday, but just is like, so in the flow state, everything seems to be working

01:21for him, Kalel where, I mean, now, now, like now the light bulb looks like it's gone off.

01:28He got the message.

01:29Now he loves rebounds.

01:31Finally, it got to him where it's just like, oh, he's like, I can make a monster impact.

01:35And this happened like second quarter.

01:38He like, he, I think he ended up with like three putbacks on, on like one basket.

01:44And he was just, he was gobbling it up.

01:46He had a career high in offensive rebounds yesterday.

01:49He is, uh, he's been awesome.

01:52He's a great player.

01:54They're not onto it yet.

01:56He's, I mean, no, he's like the, these two games this weekend, he puts up 30 rebounds

02:01in two games on the road trip.

02:02The heat who weren't a good road team going into these games.

02:05They, I mean, they blew the doors off the Chicago bulls.

02:09Yes.

02:10He killed him one 43, one Oh seven.

02:14And honestly, the cool story about that one was key shot.

02:17Cause key shot finally got some time.

02:19No, Andrew Wiggins on this trip, no Yovic.

02:21So you knew he was going to get some time.

02:24And Spoh was like, I'm going to finally not play him at the five.

02:28And he did great.

02:29He was just playing free.

02:31He was playing loose.

02:32He got a ton of rebounds.

02:33I mean, it wasn't the prettiest field goal percentage in the world, but he just got to

02:36play balls to the wall energy, which is basically what he should be doing.

02:39And so he got to have a moment.

02:41Like, it's been cool seeing this throughout the Miami heats run where like, it just feels

02:46like every single night could be anybody's night.

02:48It could be Fantechio's night.

02:50It could be Norm Powell or mostly, most nights have been Norm Powell's night because he's

02:53awesome, but you know, it could be, it could be Wiggins night.

02:57It could be Fantechio's night.

02:58It could be Drew Smith's night.

02:59It could be key shot Johnson's night.

03:01And it, I mean, they do, they weren't five.

03:04They weren't four or 500 last year.

03:06They weren't five over 500 last year.

03:07They're 11 and six, they're third in the East and they got the Mavericks in town tonight

03:12and it is a lining up and believe it is going to be Tyler hero's return tonight.

03:16Oh boy wonder makes his boy wonder makes his return tonight for this heat team, which

03:23is just absolutely humming right now.

03:26If they're slow because everybody trying to feel their way around, I'm going to be hot.

03:31Yeah, we'll see.

03:32I ain't got Tyler.

03:33You, you see how the game has been played.

03:36You see how they've been playing time to get in, like get himself.

03:40No, I am.

03:40I am.

03:41But I'm saying that would just be like frustrating.

03:44No, I get you.

03:45I, I, I'm going an optimistic.

03:47I don't think it's going to be an issue.

03:48I don't know, but it is, it does.

03:50It is tougher because your team is humming right now.

03:52It's kind of like, Hey, don't, don't, don't hold us back feeling this way out.

03:55You know, you want to, you want it to be like right off, boom, right off the bat, like bam

04:00came right back seamless.

04:02He was just like, all right, we're playing awesome.

04:04Now we're keep, we're keeping it moving.

04:07The ball's not in his hands all the time.

04:09Yeah.

04:10That's it.

04:11It's, it's going to be interesting to go from the go from here's the ball.

04:16Go, go help us win to now we have this, we run in, everybody gets a touch, everybody open

04:23shot, whoever has it, takes it.

04:25That's a different kind of thing.

04:27Now I will say this.

04:29It ain't like he ain't been watching this.

04:32It ain't like game been practicing this.

04:34So he has an idea of, of what's going on and how he's going to fit in.

04:40I'm always going to give him some leeway with that.

04:44He knows how he's going to fit in.

04:46He doesn't need to press.

04:47I also kind of agree.

04:48Like, I, and I know, you know, Tyler, we use screens a lot and all that, but this was a,

04:53this was an offense and a team that was built around playing slow because their best player

04:57was a slow player.

04:58You know, like that's the, the, I don't think that was, I don't think it was dictated on

05:02Tyler hero.

05:03The reason that they, that they played like that.

05:05I think it was a, it was a Jimmy Butler offense that they're trying to do that.

05:08I don't, I don't think he's somebody who can't do this.

05:12And.

05:13You know, I, I, I think it's.

05:16Unfortunate that, you know, some of the times that he's been out, the team has had great

05:20runs, but I'm also wondering like how potent can this look as well?

05:26Because of the shooting display that you can have from Norm Powell and Tyler hero.

05:31He's been a guy who's had some, some good chemistry with Kalel where as well.

05:35So I don't know going into it.

05:37Optimistic.

05:37I'm going into this optimistic.

05:39This is going to be an interesting week.

05:40You got this game.

05:41You got the bucks NBA cup game on Wednesday.

05:44You should always feel good when you add talent to your roster.

05:48Right.

05:49So from that standpoint, you looking at what Norm does and what Tyler does, they do very

06:00similar things.

06:02Norm just got a little bit more back to him.

06:05You know what I'm saying?

06:08Yesterday, he winked at Kyle Lowry after, after getting the end one.

06:11Cause he got like three times.

06:14I think he got the Sixers to bite on three.

06:16Does he not get everybody?

06:19Gets everybody.

06:20I mean, he's just like, yeah, he learned it from Harden.

06:22Let's try.

06:23Good job.

06:25Oh, you learned that from Harden.

06:26Harden is the master.

06:27Isn't he?

06:29Yeah.

06:30Harden is a fall into the stands.

06:32I think, uh, you know, he would tell you that he learned that watching Dwayne Wade.

06:37That's what he would say as a guy who said my favorite player growing up was Dwayne Wade

06:40and not fat bum James Harden.

06:43That's not a direct quote from him, but you get it.

06:49You just had to take a shot.

06:50You got, yeah.

06:51Ain't nobody saying nothing bad about nobody.

06:54We ain't say nothing about preferences.

06:56We ain't say nothing about none of that.

06:57I'm just, you know, I'm just, I'm just, I think it's important to bridge the facts.

07:04Okay.

07:05How excited are you today?

07:06I'm very excited.

07:07What do you mean?

07:08How excited am I?

07:08This team is humming right now.

07:10Kalil Ware is a monster.

07:12Hey, can we get, if there's one, can we get him to be more physical on his putbacks?

07:19He'll be too big to be tappy tapping.

07:22We're just getting it back.

07:24It's been, yeah, no, I know.

07:26That's why I don't want to put it out there.

07:30Cause I really like what he's doing.

07:31You're working on it.

07:32You're rough, bro.

07:34No, I'm not rough.

07:35You are, bro.

07:36You don't, I don't know.

07:37Maybe it's the Bo Schemblech.

07:38Maybe he's Bill Belichick in your mind.

07:39No.

07:40Like, can we just take step by step?

07:42But yes, I just said that.

07:44I said, listen, I don't want to, but he's right there.

07:48But there's a, but it's always a, but that's what I'm saying.

07:51It's like, he's, he, he is, he is, he, I understand what Leroy is saying.

07:58I know that there's times where the touch looks a little, a little, but I think that's going

08:01to come because here's the thing that I look at.

08:04I think when you make the most difficult shots, that means that you can get the easy shots

08:08eventually.

08:09You know what I mean?

08:10Like he'll throw up some crazy stuff off the glass and I'll be like, how do you do

08:14that?

08:15But not the one that's right there.

08:16That's crazy.

08:16You're right there, dude.

08:17So I feel like that stuff.

08:18I think he rushes.

08:20Like he, he wants, like when he gets to take, he taps it and it's like, yo, I'll tell you

08:24one thing I do love though.

08:26And I'm going to thank, uh, I'm going to thank Vlad's boy, uh, Landry Shamit for this,

08:30for dunking on his ass, because I'm telling you, when he got banged on, um, when Shamit dunked

08:36on him, he didn't like that.

08:37Okay.

08:38And then the next game, he gets the old steel and statue of Liberty dunk.

08:43And he flexes right at Landry Shamit, which is ridiculous.

08:45He's Landry Shamit, but he fled.

08:47I'm like, but he's not a guy who's shown a ton of emotion.

08:50He's just, he's been very even keel.

08:53And these last handful of games, you're seeing him flex.

08:58You're seeing him show off the face.

09:00You're seeing him buy into that type of stuff.

09:02Like he's just playing with more emotion.

09:04And I love that from him.

09:05I think everybody's loving on him, getting those rebounds, the tough rebounds.

09:09He's all over.

09:10He's not just getting rebounds on the rim.

09:12He's going all over the place to get rebounds.

09:14And I think the rest of the team is kind of like, yeah, this is what we need you for.

09:20And he's feeling it.

09:21I'm so excited.

09:24Norm Powell was like crashing his interview when Amy Otter was interviewing him in the locker room.

09:29And she's like, you know, is this the, I think it was like something like, is this the player, you know, you envision yourself being.

09:36And Norm Powell's like, he's going to be better.

09:38He's going to be way better, dude.

09:42I'm telling you, it doesn't stop here.

09:45And Kaleel is like, I'll just co-sign what he said.

09:47I just love, everybody's going into this with, uh, with, with trying to pump this kid up.

09:53It's awesome.

09:55It's awesome.

09:55Cause you know, you know, people are always, well, is this going to go the other way?

09:58Nope.

09:59Doesn't feel like it's gotten the other way at all.

10:01Feels like it's just got, everybody has gotten on board with him.

10:04And now he's, uh, he's feeling the love all over the place.

10:07It's been, it's been really exciting to see him and band playing together.

10:10Did the turnaround come with the UD text?

10:12Yeah.

10:14Yeah.

10:15Cause I mean, like, I definitely think it coincided with that.

10:17Y'all sleeping on UD.

10:19Oh, so wait a minute.

10:20When somebody co-signed what UD was saying and then UD went against that person, was that

10:26maybe a little spark, a little inspiration?

10:29I'm not saying I'm taking any credit.

10:30I think what the thing is, is like, I'm supposed to be yelled at.

10:33I'm getting yelled at because I'm not supposed to mention stuff that we're all watching on

10:36television.

10:37So you pointing out the obvious.

10:43Yeah.

10:43Just don't do that to you.

10:44Don't tell people my feelings in public, which I won't unless I feel the need to

10:52Pella Larson's face.

10:55Okay.

10:56Why?

10:56His nose broke.

10:57He keeps getting hit in the face.

10:58And Spoh is a sicko because Spoh's like, we should track that.

11:02Is anybody getting hit in the face more than him?

11:04No, stop getting away.

11:07It's not, I mean, he's no, he does put his face into everything.

11:10He's chin checked.

11:11He's like, boom, like Mortal Kombat style, dude.

11:15And you know what it has to, you know, when you get in that good basketball position, you

11:19by everybody's elbows, you need to put one of them.

11:23What's the, the, uh, who is it?

11:27The, um, uh, Green Bay wire received dobs.

11:32One of them dobs.

11:34The, the, the, the gazoo helmet.

11:35Yeah.

11:37I don't know, man, but he's, I mean, he's, it's rough.

11:40And then it's like 50, 50.

11:41If he's going to get the call he did yesterday, he got the charge and then he got the, uh,

11:45the, uh, the face call.

11:47So I was like, oh, thank God.

11:48Cause when you take that face call, you get the gore on where you lose a chick lit and

11:51they still call the foul on you.

11:52That's tough.

11:53That's, we call that the gogie.

11:55But he has been, uh, he, he is, he, he was exposed to the classic thing.

12:01I said, he was like two for 13.

12:02Couldn't buy a bucket.

12:03No, no Pella Larson shots were going in because it doesn't matter.

12:07I don't even care.

12:08Impact winning.

12:09Yeah.

12:09Winning plays.

12:10Winning plays.

12:11Winning plays.

12:11In the face.

12:13Bruised.

12:14You know?

12:15You can't take a guy to the game.

12:17That's, that's giving this face up for the cause.

12:20It's a, it's a tough, it's a tough, it's tough thing.

12:22Right.

12:23Cause like Davion Mitchell has been playing awesome too.

12:25I love, he's been such a great point guard for this team.

12:29He almost had, he flirted with a triple double yesterday.

12:31You know, I'm just, I feel bad, but also maybe it'll all be a good thing.

12:39I don't know.

12:40Okay.

12:40Give you an update.

12:41Update.

12:42Um, I talked to Bernie.

12:45Um, he said he's hasn't felt this good in years.

12:49That's awesome.

12:50Um, they were supposed to keep him another three weeks.

12:53They might discharge him early this week.

12:56Wow.

12:57Um, so yeah, he, he, he says he feels really good.

13:02Um, now he's still texting me at two in the morning.

13:04That's a whole nother.

13:07Hospitals can be weird with that.

13:08Yeah.

13:09He do.

13:10He's always, he's always done that.

13:12I'd like, I'll get up in the morning.

13:14A text comes in at one 30, you up.

13:16And I'm like, I'll text him back at like seven 30 in the morning.

13:21Nope.

13:23Doesn't he know that you, uh, you don't Twitter ringer.

13:25You have a strobe light on your phone.

13:27It doesn't, he don't do it.

13:29It's not my, I'm telling you, it doesn't matter.

13:33Bernie want to talk.

13:33He can hit you up at any time.

13:35I wish I had a teammate like that so that, you know, if the wife or girlfriend sees somebody

13:40texting you at two 30 in the morning, she just, Oh, it's Bernie.

13:43It's nobody else.

13:44Yeah.

13:44It's gotta be Bernie.

13:45Yeah.

13:46The Bernie alibi.

13:49Who's texting you at two o'clock in the morning?

13:52Bernie.

13:55Yeah.

13:55That's your best bet.

13:57Yeah.

13:58That's your best excuse.

14:00Yeah.

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