Miami Heat Struggling For First Time This Season

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15 Minutes of Heat! The Miami Heat lost their third in a row, getting smoked by the Kings at home 127 to 111... After losing to the Magic on 106-105. They will practice today and play in the NBA cup tomorrow against the Orlando Magic. We listen to Miami Heat Guard Norman Powell, is there a level of concern right now?

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00:00Miami Heat.

00:01First of all,

00:03lost their third in a row.

00:04You give 140 to Sacramento.

00:07Yeesh.

00:08Yeah, that was...

00:10You know what?

00:11They go about once every five games

00:12where they just can't shoot the ball a lick.

00:15The Heat?

00:16Yeah.

00:17Dude, it's been so...

00:18They have been in such a funk

00:20except for the Clippers game

00:22where they broke their record

00:23or tied their record.

00:24Or they come out and within

00:26two games, they'll come out and make 23.

00:30Zach Levine hit eight threes

00:31and the Heat finished with nine,

00:33which was, you know, some window dressing.

00:35They had a terrible second quarter.

00:37They gave up a 40-piece

00:38and it really just couldn't slow them down

00:41the rest of the way.

00:43It was an ugly game.

00:44It was an ugly game.

00:45Miami is now 14-10.

00:47Back in the play-in.

00:48So...

00:48Back in the play-in.

00:49My question is this,

00:50and I've always wondered about this,

00:53and I was wondering how this was going to play out.

01:00The old Heat,

01:02regardless of how much

01:03or how little they scored,

01:06were always in the game

01:07because of their defense.

01:09Now, the defense wasn't as good last year,

01:12but that's usually what their bread and butter was.

01:16Now they want to run up and down the court.

01:19Their defensive numbers

01:20have still been very good this season.

01:23Yeah?

01:23Yes.

01:23Okay.

01:24Yeah, their defensive numbers

01:25have been really, really good.

01:26Now, this past game

01:27is not a great example of it.

01:28I know, but that's...

01:29But when it goes south,

01:31this is what it looks like,

01:33whereas before when it went south,

01:35it was just they couldn't score.

01:37SDI says,

01:37Dolphins are back in the hunt.

01:39Heat back in the play-in.

01:40Sports seems right again.

01:45This was Norman Powell.

01:47He says this was him

01:48on the concern level right now.

01:51I don't think we're too concerned

01:52right now.

01:54You know,

01:55if you look at the four and five

01:57and go back and see

01:58how we lost those games

01:59and where we're at,

02:01you know,

02:01we could easily be,

02:03you know,

02:04five and four and one,

02:07you know.

02:07Don't get too...

02:08He was getting ready to say five.

02:10Just got to get back to who we are,

02:13back to our identity,

02:14offensively, defensively,

02:15especially this game.

02:17You know,

02:17no excuse coming back

02:18off of back-to-back.

02:20But, you know,

02:21just tightening up the little thing

02:22and how we want to play,

02:24the flow and the play style

02:25that we want to get back to

02:27and that we've been having

02:28throughout the course of the year

02:29so far.

02:31But, yeah,

02:31I think that's the biggest thing.

02:32We're going to tighten some things up,

02:33take tomorrow off,

02:35let our bodies rest and recover,

02:37come back Monday,

02:38watch some film,

02:39see how we can get better,

02:40and then get ready for Orlando again.

02:43Yeah,

02:43the NBA Cup is tomorrow.

02:45Early start,

02:45by the way,

02:46everybody,

02:46six o'clock,

02:47just to keep note of that.

02:49So,

02:49early start,

02:50so that would be what,

02:51that's a three,

02:52no,

02:52445,

02:53455 free heat

02:54tomorrow.

02:56So,

02:57just keep note of that.

02:58Back in Orlando,

02:59it's like our second home.

02:59There's,

03:00I mean,

03:00tell you what,

03:00those let's go heat chants

03:01are loud up there.

03:03Loud.

03:04But,

03:05here's the thing I would take,

03:07Norm,

03:08love you,

03:09dude.

03:09All right,

03:10love you.

03:11So,

03:12I've just been,

03:13been a great

03:14Norman Powell era thus far.

03:16Here's where I gotta take

03:18some issue though,

03:19my friend.

03:21You can say that,

03:22oh,

03:22we could have been

03:23four and one,

03:23and we could,

03:24dude,

03:26you've basically had to

03:27fight your way

03:28into just being close,

03:30and first,

03:30I'm taking Saturday out of it.

03:32The Orlando game,

03:33the Mavericks game,

03:34and the Pistons game.

03:36Every single one of those games,

03:38you guys had to have

03:39a furious comeback

03:40just to make it close.

03:42So,

03:44I don't wanna make it seem

03:46like you guys were going

03:46tooth and nail

03:47with all these teams

03:48and all bouncing the wrong way.

03:50Wanna do that with the

03:50Orlando game?

03:51Okay,

03:52Orlando,

03:52you're always gonna have

03:53close games.

03:53They're good defensively.

03:54You're good defensively.

03:56That game is just gonna be

03:58104,

03:59you know,

04:00103.

04:00That's how those games

04:01are gonna go.

04:03The Mavericks game,

04:05the Pistons game,

04:06this pass game,

04:07every one of these,

04:08you had to make

04:09a furious comeback

04:10just to even,

04:10like,

04:11give yourself

04:11some kind of a chance.

04:13So,

04:13I'm not buying

04:14what he's selling there.

04:16Respectfully,

04:16Norm.

04:16Love ya.

04:17You know,

04:17it's been a great era

04:18thus far.

04:18I just wanted to make sure

04:19I'm not buying that one.

04:22So,

04:23you know,

04:24and as D-Sizzle says,

04:25Mavs suck,

04:26Kings suck.

04:27Lost to them both.

04:28I was hoping for a

04:28three-in-one week.

04:29You guys had a

04:29one-in-three week.

04:31Like,

04:31you know,

04:32like,

04:33at the very least,

04:35I was hoping,

04:35all right,

04:35well,

04:35two-and-two,

04:36you're gonna beat

04:36the Kings.

04:37And you guys

04:37weren't even close

04:38to the Kings,

04:39dude.

04:41You know,

04:41guys showed up

04:42in heat uniforms,

04:43but it's like,

04:43your minds were

04:44over at Art Basel.

04:44I don't know

04:45what the hell

04:45happened in that game.

04:46That was a terrible

04:47performance.

04:48So,

04:49look,

04:51you advance in the

04:52NBA Cup,

04:52you head to Vegas,

04:54you know,

04:54we'll feel a little

04:55bit better about things,

04:56but yeah,

04:56all of a sudden,

04:57the Heat are in

04:57kind of their first

04:58slump of the season

05:00right now.

05:02I gotta take a break,

05:03but I will get into

05:05what the reports

05:06are out there

05:07surrounding the

05:08Miami Heat,

05:09because quite

05:10interesting.

05:14Could be

05:14something,

05:15could be nothing.

05:15Could be

05:15something,

05:16could be nothing.

05:17Oh,

05:18let's see.

05:19I'll ask you this.

05:21Hope it's something

05:21or hope it's nothing.

05:23It's a bad time

05:24to ask that.

05:25See,

05:25I'm down right now,

05:26you know,

05:26and this is why

05:27I'm upset because

05:28that's what you do.

05:29That's not what I do.

05:30Because guess what?

05:31Right now,

05:32if somebody came in

05:35and wanted to trade

05:37and you said

05:38Jovich has to be

05:39in the deal,

05:40you were like,

05:40nice knowing you,

05:41little Jovi.

05:42Wow,

05:42don't say that.

05:43Yes,

05:43you would.

05:43No,

05:44you would.

05:45I love you.

05:45You're fraudulent.

05:46Don't start because

05:47two weeks ago,

05:48two weeks ago,

05:50I'm so happy

05:51with this team.

05:52I don't want

05:53to trade anybody.

05:54Did I say that?

05:56Did I say that?

05:57I said I don't want

05:58to trade anybody.

05:59I don't recall.

06:00That's exactly

06:01what you said.

06:02Wow.

06:02She takes notes this one.

06:04Yeah,

06:04we all do.

06:05You just don't

06:05listen to my notes.

06:07I shot back in

06:09I hate it.

06:26I won't stop

06:26but it was

06:27too.

06:28So now

06:29I'm

06:29just gonna

06:30pick

06:30another

06:31thermostat

06:31in

06:32anything

06:32Okay.

06:33He's

06:34looking

06:34up

06:35I'm

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