Erik Spoelstra Wants The Miami Heat To Have More Bam Adebayo(s)

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15 Minutes of Heat! The Miami Heat is back in action tonight against the Orlando Magic in NBA Cup action. It is the quarterfinals, winners advance to Las Vegas. Leroy is sensing a problem... If Tyler Herro is playing with Davion Mitchell will it work out? Injury updates, then go around the leagues Cup games. Tobin is flabbergasted by Erik Spoelstra's wild response on the team's defense, should everyone be like Bam Adebayo and Davion Mitchell?!

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00:0015 minutes of heat here for you brought to you by the lexus december to remember sales event get

00:04offers on select models for a limited time learn more at lexus.com miami heat got nba cup action

00:13tonight against the orlando magic again well so who's is everybody uh in it sounds like we got a

00:24full slate today and maybe drew smith might be out here's can i just tell you already i'm sensing

00:32a problem do tell

00:35i'm gonna say this but i'm gonna say it and it's not what i think of a player or what i think of

00:45the situation but it seems like when they try to

00:54incorporate tyler they sometimes it's clunky and i don't know if you can afford that and i don't

01:07know what the fix is well to be fair i mean they missed the last couple they didn't play very good

01:12without them right you know but then who else did um they missed a couple guys the last game

01:18against the kings which was a a horrid embarrassment they didn't have davion they didn't have pella

01:22now i'm gonna say this and i know a lot of people might not agree with this

01:29but the guy you need the most is davion oh i don't disagree with that he's he's been incredible he is

01:35the fire starter he is the lockdown guy he is the deterrent he is all those things and every now

01:44and then he might make hit a couple of threes but that's not that's not why he's there and those guys

01:50know those guys feed off of his energy when he's not playing they look very like blah i i don't disagree

02:00with you i think he's he's been the catalyst for a lot of what they do so if he's playing

02:06are we thinking that regardless of what the combination is that because he's playing it's

02:13going to work out because he is i think the guy he's just so unselfish and he's just all about

02:20setting everybody up like i don't think he's ever going to be a deterrent for either guy that he's with

02:25and it does feel like at least the way that they started the last time around with tyler

02:29uh is that they will start the three guards with wiggins at the four and bam at the five

02:34and then tyler's out pretty quickly like in four minutes and then he's going to set up to go in

02:38with the second unit right so it's kind of a token thing or starting or if we get one of these because

02:43you know if that game starts off crappy no well and also this is a game like they lost the the big

02:52news out of this one franz is out franz is a badly busted ankle can i just say something to

02:57alejandro solana what do you say stop calling him franz he calls him franz yes franz why because he's

03:06solana but that's not his name he calls him franz go listen i like i was in the car and i'm like are

03:14you leaving franz franz he plays for germany franz he couldn't be more franz that's what you did

03:22there that's what you did there huh franz well uh bam on a bio this was him yesterday this was him

03:29on the nba cup he's a nice little breakup in the regular season yeah because it definitely you know

03:35i mean i take every game serious but you know i know nba has this sort of like dry season uh i feel

03:42like it's good for us you know it gives us something else to compete for uh not just

03:46regular season wins it's more you know middle of season cup and you know guys can look forward to it

03:53all right six o'clock is your game time tonight both these teams 14 and 10 on the year but the

03:58magic have beat the heat twice orlando's a point and a half favorite and then they beat them twice by

04:05a total of what four points yeah very close game yeah so that's why they're a point and a half

04:08um and then tonight at 8 30 the knicks are in toronto for their quarterfinals knicks are four

04:15and a half point road favorites that's a good game too these are good these are good cup games

04:19and then on the west coast tomorrow you got a well not west coast but the western conference

04:24suns thunder phoenix suns phoenix playing yeah phoenix playing good no booker though

04:30uh so suns thunder and then uh the oh my god the 23 and one i know okay see they won you see what

04:40they did to portland without without shay what do they do they blew them out by like 30 oh my god

04:46it it was it portland or utah it was portland in portland the crazy thing about this is this is

04:53probably the most frightening thing about okc most of their team is under 30 so they're just

05:04getting into their prime and they're getting the clippers first round pick right that's insane and

05:09the clippers are terrible i'm looking at it right now this is like you know what it is it's like a

05:12classic like college football team that gets to feast on like a mid-major because i'm looking at

05:18it's just like gonzaga playing out with i'm looking at their bench and like everybody on

05:22their bench has double digit points in this game like chet and jalen williams did their thing

05:26but they each had 25 but then the bench is like 14 13 11 19. oh jeez louise right crazy

05:33jeez and 10 30 is what lakers birds nurkich is on the jazz huh yeah uh yes lakers and spurs i think

05:42when binyama is getting close isn't he so he might be i think he might be creeping back

05:50they didn't play last night well they're playing the pelicans though you're not gonna you want to

05:53they lost right they almost lost they almost lost derrick queen had a really good game yeah he's the

05:57first center to ever have a 30 as a center to have a 30 point triple double as a rookie let's see

06:03really yeah i just read it um i just made that up no that's it listen i thought that doesn't

06:10i'm shocked he's saying something positive about mr queen what mr queen you know why nah it says he's

06:18still out because he's still out that sucks that sucks yeah i'm so i'm shocked you're saying good

06:23things about mr queen and his uh his size why because of his size portly but he's easy he's young

06:33hey he ain't got his i'm gonna tell you this bled a lot of players come into the league i came into

06:41the league and i looked a little portly right it's just the way my body was i didn't weigh a whole lot

06:50but it just looked that way as i got a couple of off seasons in me where i ain't worrying about school

06:56and whatever and all i was doing was working out playing football then i got my man body

07:01schmiefen says this cup is this cup nonsense faker than the s uh the cfp committee

07:06i look i i don't get it it take like i'll tell you one thing the tiebreakers all that stuff was

07:14mind numbing even eric spolscher was like i was exhausted i was watching the game i didn't know if

07:18we were in or out i couldn't tell somebody let me know but uh we'll see i i want to see if the

07:23heat's in vegas obviously that'll be kind of cool i will say nicks that'd be fun

07:27heat makes that would be fun and then you get lakers thunder and the other and the opposite

07:31round be fun and be happy prime would be happy then okc lose the cup last year they they lost

07:37did to milwaukee right um eric spolscher said something yesterday about the team's defense he

07:43was talking about the where bam pairing hold on did he get all dude mike mcdaniel on us yes and i

07:51gotta tell you if i heard all them damn championships we would be saying the same stuff you have to listen

07:56to this quote and tell me what you think about this because i thought this was a crazy quote from

08:00him when he was talking about bam on the bio he's basketball mike mcdade or i should say mike mcdade

08:05is spo is football spoke bam is is really the guy that uh anchors everything for us defensively um

08:16you know i've said it to the team we would be an incredible defensive team if bam could defend

08:23the pick and roll with the fives but if he could also be on the weak side uh being the weak side

08:29defender uh at the same time um i don't think that's possible you know to split them and have

08:36them guard two areas at once we would also be really good if davion could guard the ball and then also guard

08:42who they bring up on a switch um so i'm trying to figure out how to make those those things happen

08:48in the meantime we have the ability uh to improve across the board um and commit to that

08:56that's the same with that that pairing so is he saying they're really good or the other guys suck

09:05no he was taking a shot at his team well he said he told the team he goes you know what'd be great

09:10if you were all bam and i was like wait you told that to the team like two bams two davions that's

09:19a good defense he said we could split yeah i'm like davion's already he's slight he's all and he's

09:26also already running all over the place like a crazy person i mean but i heard i heard that i'm like

09:31wait a minute i understand what you're saying no you don't but no you don't but i'll stop stop

09:38trying to be oh because you like smoke you no way in hell you know what the hell he's talking

09:44about i understand ideally he's like you would like two bams we'd all like two davions you know

09:50what this is you want to talk about ring protection this is ring protection because let me tell you

09:56something if mike mcdain would have said that about any player tobin would have flipped out so

10:02here's i need to know this is this energy transfer from sitting so close to spolstra

10:10at heat game when he sits right next to the heat bench that mike mcdaniel's aura is starting to

10:16infiltrate like they hang out too much i just don't know maybe he's just when during a timeout he's

10:22looking at spo and he's trying to you know think the same thing as spo and this is why spo was

10:26talking like him because that made absolutely no sense why did he just say look i got two great

10:33defenders the rest of them aren't that good i wish they all could that's basically what he said that's

10:38basically what he said and no i i'm with you so what if you and what if you're wiggins yeah that's

10:44i thought he got a drive-by i mean what about kalal as much as we praise kalal now you just threw

10:52him under the bus so i consider wiggins one of the best two-way players in the league he said that

10:58recently right didn't you throw him under the bus and say i need two and you know you're good you

11:04know bam out of bio you're good but i'd rather have two bams and two davions two davions they would

11:12pick and roll him to death oh but we would we would we would fight through so many screens there'd be

11:18like people would foul out because he'd just fight through all the screens oh my goodness he gets

11:22like he gets two or three of those you know what's sad about davion he would be perfect for the riley

11:27era heat oh yeah he's no he's a menace but i just thought i was like wait it wasn't that he said it to

11:34the media can i ask you this how many times did you listen to that oh like because like six or seven

11:38because i i just picture you chopping up the sound right and go wait wait wait what i i saw the quote

11:47yesterday first on anthony chang's twitter and it was like i thought the guy had to be a joke but

11:52then i'm like he doesn't sound like he's joking he sounds like but the the the part of the clip

11:57that makes me the happiest about this wackiness that he's saying is i told the team which means

12:04he was at one point in a meeting watching the film and he just goes

12:09what's wrong spo

12:16i just wish we had two bams what yeah that'd be great you know it would be solving if uh we had

12:23two bams that'd be great i was like what you're right sorry and two davions and norman powell and and

12:33and and tyler hero and andrew wiggins are like jesus what man i guess tyler can understand that

12:41comment norman powell not so much and wiggins that's his shot bro i mean like

12:51powell's defense is okay but he's got a bigger he got a bigger body than tyler yeah he tries he tries

13:00he tries okay he's not what he was in toronto and by the way by the way tyler stop stretching

13:06your arms out like you're playing block down deep like he comes up with some steals every once in a

13:12while but no you know it's it's literally stealing you know why because he goes and gets the other

13:18guy when he's guarded by someone else he's stealing from his off ball yeah you might be better off just

13:25like putting this water bottle right there on the court and just be like right

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