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Following another blowout loss on the road last night in Golden State, we discuss what the best case scenario looks like for the Heat after finishing with a 21-20 record through the fist half of the year.

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00:10Heat tonight.

00:10They're on a West Coast road trip.

00:12Heat tonight, 10 p.m. tip, which means 8.45 pre-heat

00:17with Alejandro Solana.

00:20Heat right now through 43 games, Solana, are 22 and 21.

00:26They're the eight seed.

00:28They lost to Golden State last night.

00:29No Steph, right?

00:31Steph played.

00:32Oh, we did play?

00:32Draymond Green was out.

00:33Okay.

00:34And then obviously we know Jimmy Butler was lost for the season

00:38for Golden State.

00:39What is the best case scenario for the heat in the second half

00:44of the season?

00:45Because I'm kind of looking at who they are and what we thought

00:49they were, and maybe we all got fooled a little bit by the run

00:52at the beginning.

00:53And I was trying to figure out what's the best case scenario

00:56for the second half of the season.

01:00Trade deadline.

01:01Well, that was one of my options.

01:04Like, I was thinking to myself, is the best case scenario,

01:07you get back to that scoring punch and it comes together again

01:13for a second phase the way that it did,

01:16and maybe you're the five or six seed, or maybe you get the four seed,

01:20or is the best case scenario, they say, it ain't this,

01:25and we've got to make some changes.

01:29You can go, Solana.

01:31You probably know my opinion, but what do you think?

01:35No, I don't think my opinion would differ wildly from either

01:40of your opinions.

01:41Look, through 41 games, you were 21 and 20, the exact same spot

01:44you were last year.

01:45I mean, there are some bright spots.

01:47You beat Phoenix at home.

01:48That's a really good Western Conference team.

01:50You beat Oklahoma City the other night.

01:52That's a really good Western Conference team,

01:54but the flip side to that is teams like Sacramento blew you out.

01:58The other night, last night, in Golden State, you got blown out,

02:02and your best player in BAM regresses once again.

02:05Best case scenario, in my mind, if they keep the roster intact,

02:09Hawk, they don't make changes, would be maybe finishing better than 21 and 20,

02:15the remaining 41 games.

02:17They're one and one through the first two.

02:19But yeah, six seed, in my mind, right now, from what I've seen,

02:23is best case scenario.

02:24And maybe first round, you get a favorable matchup, maybe,

02:30and you can get to the second round.

02:31But this team's not contending for a title this year.

02:35And I'd be hard-pressed to find Heat fans who aren't saying,

02:41why not look to move some guys who would have some value at the trade deadline

02:46to truly make this, what Spoke called it coming into the year,

02:50a developmental year.

02:51Because you're in a position now where they're trying to win games,

02:54and the guys you want to develop,

02:57Kalil Ware, are playing 16 minutes a game.

03:00And I don't know how favorable that is when, ultimately, best case scenario,

03:06in my mind, your second round exit.

03:08Right.

03:09And that's what I would say.

03:11It's kind of what we talked about with the Dolphins earlier,

03:13where, Solana, you're saying,

03:14don't go seven and nine.

03:18Like, it's a waste of time.

03:20If you're going to be bad, be bad and build.

03:23So that's my thing.

03:24Triple J, even Tyler Hero, those guys,

03:28like, they're not going to take you over the top.

03:30So if they have some value right now,

03:32I think Triple J, I think Kalil Ware, being as young as he is,

03:35try to move something around and plan for the future with them.

03:39Why get the 6C?

03:40To your point, Solana, get the 6C losing the second round.

03:42Why do that?

03:44Get in the play-in, get whooped by somebody,

03:46and let's build for the future,

03:47because this roster is not going to compete

03:50with those top teams in the NBA right now.

03:546C is maybe 5C.

03:56Like, that's best case scenario.

03:58And look, they're just not healthy.

04:00Tyler has a rib injury right now.

04:02This season's toast for him.

04:04I mean, we don't even – and the injuries he's had are just like –

04:07he had surgery with an extra bone in his foot

04:10he didn't even know about.

04:11Then he has a toe contusion that keeps him out another stretch of games.

04:16And then now he's not even traveling.

04:17And again, it's like a pain tolerance thing with this rib contusion that he has.

04:22And you don't know.

04:24So now he's played five games starting with Norman Powell.

04:29Like, is it ever going to work?

04:30It worked for one game.

04:32Thus far – look, what I think they want to do

04:35is make a push for Giannis next offseason.

04:38That Giannis is just going to be done with Milwaukee and he's going to want to move.

04:42And in my opinion, the best way to do that is to send Milwaukee a boatload of picks

04:48that right now the Miami Heat do not have.

04:50And how do you get picks at this deadline?

04:54You move some of the guys that could maybe garner you some picks.

04:58I don't think the Heat are going to do that.

04:59I don't think they're going to trade Norm.

05:01I don't think they're going to trade Tyler.

05:02I don't think they will.

05:04But if you really think Giannis is an opportunity in the offseason –

05:09It's like what they did with LeBron.

05:10You've got to start planning for it a year and a half way out.

05:14And that would signify to me that, hey, we're stockpiling picks for a reason

05:22and we're going to take another swing.

05:23Because, man, I love Norm.

05:26I think he's perfect for the Miami Heat.

05:28Really, I do.

05:30But you're going to pay him in the offseason to do what?

05:33To be this?

05:34This, right.

05:36And letting him walk for nothing, in my opinion, would be a grave mistake.

05:41So I think they're going to be active at the deadline to try to improve this roster.

05:46I just don't know how realistic it is.

05:48Or how much more improvement you can see.

05:51And do you maybe take on –

05:53People are talking about Kaminga.

05:55I'm just throwing it out because he's been tied to the Heat.

05:57So you take on that contract.

05:59You just got an extension.

06:00And perhaps hinder your opportunity to remain flexible if Giannis becomes available.

06:06Or you're looking at –

06:07The Clippers might want to punt.

06:08Maybe Kawhi.

06:09I don't know.

06:09I'm just throwing names out there.

06:11But the NBA isn't how it was a couple years ago where, okay, 2028,

06:15we'll have cap space and there's going to be free agents.

06:17It's not like that anymore.

06:18You have to trade for the whale.

06:20And how do you trade for the whale?

06:21You either send a whale like the Mavericks did, which is still the dumbest trade ever,

06:26or you have six first-round picks at your disposal that you can move.

06:30And right now the Heat don't.

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