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Crowder is forced to eat crow after the “Toyota Tercel” made NBA history last night. Our immediate reaction to Bam’s 83 point game and the criticism it is receiving from national media.
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00:00Bam is not an offensive guy.
00:03We don't have a guy that just goes out and gets buckets.
00:0717 a game is Gabe Vincent.
00:10He is an all-star basketball player.
00:13He is a mediocre scorer.
00:17He's a mediocre at best.
00:19Mediocre.
00:21He's just not that threat on the offensive side.
00:23Bam doesn't even look at the rim anymore.
00:25He just doesn't even worry about that side of the basketball court.
00:29I said he's going to do exactly what Bam does,
00:31and he's going to get in the high teams.
00:32That's not impressive.
00:33You're making $50 million a year,
00:35and you're going to consistently give us 17?
00:38I don't think that's acceptable.
00:39He's a damn good quality NBA guy.
00:44That's it.
00:45When guys are looking at their schedule, they say,
00:47Bam, we play Bam on Friday.
00:49Cool, we got to get ready?
00:51No, Solana, they don't.
00:52Bam for Embiid straight up, Hawk, you're taking that?
00:55Yeah.
00:56Bam's turning into a hustle man, rebound master.
01:00He's an energy guy, hustle man.
01:03He said, how does Bam go whatever in the game without scoring 20 points?
01:08Be Bam Adebayo.
01:10If you think the Heat see Bam Adebayo, a one-time all-star,
01:15as untouchable, and you are out of your mind if you think that.
01:23Bam Adebayo is going to the Hall of Fame.
01:25He's on track to be a Hall of Famer, and it's not even close.
01:29I don't think it's a discussion.
01:31That's crazy.
01:40Yesterday.
01:42Here are some of the player props for tonight.
01:45Would you like to guess Bam Adebayo?
01:49Bam's up to 20.
01:50I'll go 20 and a half for Bam.
01:5223 and a half.
01:54Hmm.
01:57Too high.
01:58It's begging me to bet the under tonight.
02:01It is begging me to bet the under on Bam.
02:09We get underway.
02:10The Heat moving left to right in front of our broadcast position.
02:13Bam with the rock fed by Pella.
02:14To the right block, mid-post, bouncing in on Sarr.
02:17Fade away from the dots.
02:18Nothing but that for the captain to start our hoop party tonight.
02:21Three ball.
02:22Bam's on fire.
02:23Knocking it down from the right corner pocket.
02:25That man wants to get to 15,000 tonight.
02:28And Bam has incorporated the three in his game.
02:31You don't want to take it that shot.
02:32Incorporated or does he just shoot it more?
02:33Because it doesn't go in.
02:35Cooper the best.
02:36Here's Bam for three.
02:37Nothing but net.
02:38Bam raising his hands to the heavens.
02:42Keep the blessings flowing.
02:45Let our cup runneth over with the captain tickling twine all night long.
02:50He's got 27.
02:52Maybe on.
02:53Puts it in the hands of Bam.
02:54Why not?
02:55He's going up, scooping up off glass.
02:57And one for the Heat, captain.
03:00Don't stop until you decide you have enough.
03:04He's got 42.
03:06We don't have a guy that just goes out and gets buckets.
03:10Teller.
03:11Seating Bam.
03:13They post to the right side.
03:15Double team comes, of course.
03:16He'll drive now and throw it down.
03:19Oh, Cass knows what he's doing.
03:21He's like, I'm playing with a monster.
03:23Bam being himself is going to make him nuts.
03:25The average is 20 points.
03:27He's crowded.
03:27I mean, that's...
03:28He is a 16-point guy.
03:31A miss.
03:31Kick ahead to Bam.
03:32Get up two hands.
03:33Throw down for 52.
03:36Bam now joins the great scorers in Heat history.
03:40Talking about LeBron James and Dwayne Wade and Lonzo Bourne and Glenn Rice.
03:47Now add Bam out of bio to that 50-point club for the Miami Heat.
03:53Bam has it.
03:54Get it up.
03:55Throw it down with the right-hand hammer to be the finest single-game score in the history of the
04:01Miami Heat.
04:02He got up, he threw it down for one of, if not the most delicious Bam sandwich of his career.
04:12Everyone on their feet, praising the Heat captain with his historic 62.
04:2180 points for Bam on his 40th free throw.
04:28His 33rd make.
04:30His record's now as well.
04:34For 81.
04:37For Kobe.
04:4281 points on the board for Bam out of bio.
04:46Quickly into Bam.
04:47He's got space.
04:48Head down.
04:49Spins.
04:49Puts it up.
04:51And Bam going to the line.
04:54Again.
04:56Bam out of bio is a complete monster.
04:59Monster.
05:0383.
05:04For Bam out of bio.
05:07Only Wilt Chamberlain has more points in an NBA game in association history.
05:29I stand by what I said.
05:36Toyota Curselle, huh, Crowder?
05:39That was a one-night Lamborghini game.
05:43I'll tell you what, man.
05:44I just looked at his stats.
05:45He's still only averaging 20 this season.
05:47So, the 23 and a half over-under is...
05:50It went up a full point.
05:54Here's the thing.
05:55I mean, it was an amazing night.
05:57Solana was there.
05:58I'm watching on TV and Crowder was flying home from New York.
06:02I guess you saw the end of it by the time that you were home.
06:05But, here's my disconnect.
06:09I can only speak through the prism of being a Heat fan.
06:14And I know the rest of the nation, because I've heard from people out of state.
06:18And I'm sure everyone saw, you know, Mad Dog on first take this morning.
06:23And other pundits across the country.
06:27But, because there are differing opinions as to what we witnessed last night.
06:32But, as a Heat fan, it was glorious.
06:35And I don't think any of us are going to have the ability to look at it any other way.
06:39This was, in my opinion, because I can pick apart some of the things that happened.
06:45But, it was something that Heat Nation needed.
06:51And, BAM and SPO delivered it.
06:55They delivered it to the team, to BAM, to Heat Nation.
07:00This was, and it was very deserving of a guy like BAM.
07:03Now, I'm, again, not necessarily certain the rest of the country feels that way.
07:07But, I think Heat fans go, yeah, BAM deserved that.
07:10So, they delivered last night a moment that we Heat fans are going to remember forever.
07:17And so, as a Heat fan, I don't need more context than that.
07:24But, the rest of the country does.
07:28And that's what you're seeing, I think, on all these talk shows and opinion programs.
07:33And that's fine.
07:34They can do that.
07:35I'm going to have a difficult time doing it because I'm a Heat fan.
07:38And so, I'm watching it last night.
07:39I wish I was there like Solana was.
07:41But, I'm watching it.
07:42And, it's like the greatest party you've ever been at.
07:45You know what I mean?
07:46It doesn't matter how it's happening.
07:47You're just watching a magical night for a team that you root for and a guy that you root for.
07:52And then, all of a sudden, I even said to my wife last night, it's going to be 10 minutes
07:57before people start taking a negative slant on what we just witnessed.
08:01And, it was 10 minutes before the tweets started populating my timeline about, you know, what a carnival it was
08:10at the end.
08:12First off, I want to apologize to Bam.
08:16I never thought he had 83 points in a three-game stretch.
08:20That was crazy.
08:22When I got off that plane, I started texting y'all, listening to Jax.
08:26Solana's jumping in.
08:27This is a big celebration.
08:28Amy's talking.
08:29It was wild.
08:31I thought y'all were joking the text that said, Bam has 77.
08:35I thought it was a joke.
08:37I'm like, there's no way.
08:39That's when I actually started getting home.
08:41Because he texted on the plane.
08:43He goes, is Bam having a big night?
08:45Question mark.
08:46Because you must have been seeing Bam this, Bam that, or whatever.
08:49And, I'm like, 77 points.
08:53It does sound like a joke.
08:55When I got reception, I'm thinking, you're BSing me like, okay, Bam got 38.
09:00You know, Bam sneaking up on 40.
09:03We're good.
09:0377 points.
09:04Never saw it out of him.
09:06Went back and watched the highlights today.
09:09He was on.
09:10He was banging them down.
09:12And then, the one thing I love is all the X and O and all the schematics and all.
09:20In that second half, Spoh put all that crap out the window and said, hey, fellas, Bam is feeling it
09:26tonight.
09:27Give this man the damn ball.
09:29Then, when he got over 70, they were turning the ball over on purpose to get Bam one-on-ones.
09:34Like, that is amazing.
09:37Bam went out and did his thing.
09:38I love how he had his old lady up there on the podium after the game.
09:43I know what happened last night or two nights ago for him to have the night he had last night.
09:48But, bro, the names of the top three scorers in single-game NBA history are known by one name.
09:59You say Wilt, you know who we're talking about.
10:01You say Kobe, you know who you're talking about.
10:03Now, you say Bam.
10:05The name Bam.
10:06It's a phrase.
10:08It's not even a real damn name.
10:09They know it's Bam out of Bayou.
10:12Bam, I'm going to officially apologize.
10:15But, you're still at 20 points a game.
10:17I need a higher point average than that.
10:19And, speaking of the one name wonders, Boozy, 41 last night.
10:23Hawk, please don't do that today.
10:26Boozy had 41 last night.
10:27Giddy had a triple-double.
10:29Bam had 83.
10:30You better not bring up.
10:31If you say Giddy.
10:3341.
10:33If you say Giddy, I'm coming to get you.
10:3641 for Boozy.
10:38Anyway, it was – and here's the thing.
10:41And, again, I understand the other side of it if you want to have another side of it.
10:46I get it.
10:47And, we're going to talk about it today.
10:48Jason Jackson is going to join us.
10:50Coach Jim Laranega will be with us for an hour.
10:52Zach Gelb will be on with us.
10:55The thing that I love – you talk about Spoh.
10:58The thing that I love about Spoh, you know, he threw out the window last night normalcy for an NBA
11:08game.
11:09And, the Heat generally stand on normalcy and unwritten rules and doing things the right way.
11:20That's how they've cultivated this DNA narrative that they have.
11:27And, Pat Riley just a few weeks ago said, I wish coaches would wear suits on the sidelines.
11:33The guy who says that, trust me, is not the guy who thinks they should be missing free throws on
11:40purpose up 30 for the chance of an offensive board and more points for your center.
11:46So, they threw all that out the window, though, because something special was happening.
11:52And, they had an opportunity to give a gift to Heat Nation that we'll remember forever.
11:58And, I compare it and contrast it to Mike McDaniel with the 70 points.
12:04And, he decided to take the high road, if you want to call it that, and not go for 73.
12:10When he could have gifted Dolphins Nation, who, by the way, probably needs it more than Heat Nation needs it.
12:17That moment where you go, hey, this, while 70 was great, 73 would have been the record.
12:24And, Mike McDaniel decided in that moment, I'm not going to do it.
12:27And, Spoh had a number of off-ramps last night where he could have done that.
12:32I wouldn't have blamed him, by the way, if he did, but also, I applaud him that he didn't, because
12:39he gave us something special.
12:42He gave the people in that crowd on a Tuesday night at the Kaseya Center against a depleted, unknown Washington
12:52team, he gave them something special.
12:54He didn't step in as the referee and say, I got to call this one, it's over, TKO.
13:02He let it play out the way fans love to watch things play out sometimes.
13:08Has he opened up a Pandora's box against the Heat?
13:11I don't know.
13:12We'll find out.
13:13But, I love that he did it last night.
13:16Humanity.
13:18That's what, he opened up humanity and fandom, where, yeah, I want to run, let's run the triangle, because they're
13:25protecting the three-point line.
13:27Listen, Bam's at 70.
13:28Y'all give that bastard the ball.
13:30Who cares what happens?
13:32We're already winning.
13:34If Bam has 70, and they're down, that's a different thing.
13:39They're up.
13:40They're beating the hell out of the other team.
13:42And Spoh can click out of X and O mode and understand the moment this is.
13:48I love that you bring up the Mike McDaniel, the Denver game, where, oh, no, we're already winning.
13:53We don't need to.
13:54Bro, you could be the highest scoring team in league history.
13:58A league that's been going on for 100 years, you could be the highest scoring team and give that to
14:02humans.
14:03Let's click out of this coaching mode and get into it.
14:06But Spoh is the epitome of hard-nosed culture, X and O, let's-do-it-right guy.
14:15Spoh had to step back and see the history that's about to be made.
14:19And I don't know what went on in them timeout huddles, but it had to be Spoh saying, hey, give
14:2613 that damn ball.
14:27I don't give a damn what y'all want to do after that.
14:29I want to ask Jim Laranega, because I wonder if Laranega would have unilaterally decided, we're up 30, you've scored
14:38over 50, you're coming out of the game.
14:40Or if you would have left it up to the player, because 99, 999 out of a thousand times, Bam
14:51does not play in the fourth quarter.
14:53Doesn't play much of the third quarter.
14:55Game was over.
14:56It was in hand.
14:57You were playing a much lesser team.
14:59And that's the part where I say Spoh, forget about running the plays for him.
15:04That's the part where I say Spoh allowed everything to fly out the window and say, yeah, I'll just keep
15:09him in the game.
15:09I'll keep him in the game that he has no business being in.
15:13Well, it was chasing the Heat franchise record.
15:17Correct.
15:17And I think that had a little bit to do with it, because if the franchise record would have been
15:2148, let's just say, and Bam had surpassed it in the first half or early third quarter, maybe, you know,
15:29you end up benching him because of the sizable lead.
15:32He had to get to 62.
15:33Once he gets to 62, as early as he did, and there's still time left in that third quarter, a
15:40lot of time left, and all of a sudden you're ending the fourth quarter, and he's got 70.
15:45I don't think there's any coach in the world, any player, any teammate in the world that wouldn't give their
15:52guy, when you're up 20 points, against that defense who has been unable to stop in all night, the chance
16:00to go chase history.
16:02I think there are.
16:03I think there are plenty of coaches who just stand on ceremony and don't read the room.
16:09If he had 60 going into the fourth quarter, then he doesn't get to 81.
16:15I'm sorry, if he had 50 at the end of the third quarter, then it's a different conversation.
16:20I mean, he broke the franchise record, and there was more than 12 minutes of basketball left to be played.
16:26He ended up scoring 20 points in the fourth quarter.
16:30I mean, he was close.
16:32He was very, very close, and there was still nine minutes of game action left for him to go get
16:38more.
16:38It just doesn't happen very often.
16:40It's why I applaud Spoh, because it just doesn't happen that coaches allow that to happen.
16:45Mike McDaniel, I'm telling you, could have had the NFL record for points, but he played by the letter of
16:51the law.
16:52Not going to rub it in here.
16:53I'm with you.
16:54By the way, one of the best moments last night, that building, like, I can't.
16:58It was something I've never experienced before, where there's this crazy anxiety, and when Bam, with about two minutes and
17:0948 seconds left, it's an and one.
17:11Drew Smith kind of throws the ball over.
17:12It looks like an air ball.
17:14Bam catches it.
17:15He's fouled.
17:15He makes the shot.
17:16He goes to the free throw line.
17:18He gets points 75, 76.
17:19The free throw's for 77.
17:21There's this anxiety in the building, because there's two minutes and, like, 45 left.
17:26Everybody knows we're about to witness something that has only been done twice.
17:33Bam's going to pass Kobe.
17:34It's going to happen, but we don't know how, because they're fouling anybody not named Bam Adebayo when he gets
17:41the basketball.
17:42How is this going to happen?
17:44But everybody knew it was coming.
17:46We're all going to witness history.
17:47Bam drives to the basket.
17:49He takes out two Wizards defenders.
17:51Two.
17:52Charge.
17:53It was the clearest charge ever.
17:55Those two guys just stood there.
17:57Bam took them out both.
17:58And Spoh just waves his arm, and he comes running out onto the court, and it was so obvious he's
18:05going to lose the challenge.
18:06It had to have been an NBA record for quickest challenge in the history of NBA challenges.
18:12But it was great.
18:12It had that wrestling vibe.
18:14It had the wrestling vibe.
18:18Because he was so demonstrative with the replay.
18:21He's in the middle of the court.
18:21The whole bench.
18:22Yeah.
18:22Ron Butler, Chris Quinn are all out there with him.
18:25It was, like, you don't see that ever.
18:29It was like, it was almost like a movie.
18:30And, again, you watch sports movies sometimes.
18:32You go, well, that couldn't happen.
18:34That would never happen.
18:35This wouldn't happen.
18:36That wouldn't happen.
18:37And that stuff doesn't happen usually because, again, people are their own governors.
18:42And most sports, all sports really have unwritten rules.
18:46You know, there's times I've seen in soccer before where if there's an injury or whatever, but they can't stop
18:53the play.
18:53And they do.
18:54But then they give the ball.
18:55Yeah, you kick the ball out of bounds.
18:56There's unwritten rules where you could keep the ball in that situation, you know, but there's unwritten rules.
19:01And you watch a movie and you go, well, that couldn't happen.
19:04That wouldn't happen or whatever.
19:05And last night was like a movie or wrestling because stuff that normally doesn't happen, especially by a team and
19:13a coach who are the gatekeepers of everything that's right about the sport, allowed this stuff to happen because it
19:20was a special moment.
19:22Like, you can't go back and do it over.
19:25You don't get mulligans on those chances.
19:28And Spoh went for it.
19:31And Bam went for it.
19:33And his teammates went for it.
19:35And it was, it will be a magical night that we all remember.
19:39Spoh hit it on the head.
19:41And then Bam hit it on the head when they were getting Drew Smith, a damn Myron.
19:47I don't even know his last name.
19:48Gardner.
19:49No, Myron didn't do jack.
19:52Myron, there's a couple things.
19:54Myron Gardner, how about you get your four field goals so I can cash a big ticket, all right?
19:59He was, what was it, two for four, I think, from the field.
20:02How about you hit the other two, Myron?
20:04Also, Bam, double-double.
20:06Wouldn't have killed anybody last night.
20:07One rebound away.
20:08Put up 83 points.
20:10Hey, how about a double-double?
20:11He was a little tired, Hawk.
20:13A little bit tired.
20:15Three assists.
20:16Passed the ball a couple times.
20:17Imagine having Bet-Bam double-double, and the dude ends with 83 points and nine boards.
20:24Yeah, I mean, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
20:27And he stopped defending, too, which was great.
20:29He just stopped defending.
20:30Oh, Kendall Gill, you want to take that three?
20:32He just wanted the ball back as quickly as he could get the ball back in his hand.
20:35Yeah, go ahead.
20:36Hey, Kendall Gill, you want to take that three?
20:38Yeah, go ahead.
20:39Oh, Sharif Cooper, you want to drive to the rim?
20:41Yeah, go ahead.
20:42I'd make it, miss it.
20:43I don't care.
20:43I just want the ball back.
20:45To the point of people today who chose to pick apart how it happened and who only watched
20:55three minutes at the end of the game, where it did become something that's not basketball.
21:00Well, you have to understand it if you're not a heat fan.
21:02You have to.
21:03I don't.
21:04I don't.
21:05Because if you only watch the final three minutes of the game, you're doing yourself
21:10an injustice of one of the greatest regular season slash NBA history performances ever,
21:19ever, because the last three minutes are not what transpired for the other 45 minutes of
21:26the game.
21:26And if you're picking apart the amount of free throws that he took and you're picking apart
21:31why he was on the line, which, by the way, all those fouls were fouls, then you're just
21:38a hater.
21:39He did something that basketball fans should treasure.
21:44He put up a stat line that basketball fans should marvel at.
21:51And less than 24 hours later, less than five hours, less than one hour later, people are
21:57just looking at the box score, looking at what the Wizards and what the Heat were trying
22:02to accomplish and just picking it apart and saying it's not a real 83 point game.
22:08And it's an embarrassment to the sport.
22:10You should treasure somebody like Bam Adebayo, maybe the most improbable 50 point score in
22:18the history of the NBA doing something that nobody thought he could do.
22:24And he delivered the entire game.
22:28Solana, how do you feel about Michael Strahan's stack record?
22:31Because I've always thrown water on that.
22:33It's not the same, though.
22:34It is.
22:34It's not.
22:35It is.
22:35For a lot of people watching, again.
22:37But it's not.
22:38Again.
22:38But it's not.
22:39It is.
22:39It's not.
22:40Solana, he had a legit, he had a legit, he had a legit 70.
22:45Those last 13 were, that was questionable.
22:48Many people say, because you say, hey, don't just watch the last three minutes.
22:51But the problem is, the last three minutes, for many people, impugn what he actually accomplished.
22:58But Michael Strahan and Bam Adebayo are two completely different situations.
23:03First of all, Michael Strahan got a sack that he didn't deserve.
23:08Bam Adebayo.
23:09Bam shouldn't have been in the game.
23:11Bam Adebayo.
23:12But why?
23:13He's chasing a record.
23:14Because Michael Strahan should have been in the game.
23:16But we don't know.
23:17Bam Adebayo.
23:18No, no, no, no.
23:19Solana.
23:19He's talking about it all the time on this show.
23:21Rest your starters in the fourth quarter kind of game.
23:23But that's normal in the NBA.
23:25I agree with that.
23:26You're up by 20, Solana.
23:27Quickly.
23:27You're up by 20.
23:28But when they were turning the ball over on purpose to get offensive possessions, like, that's not basketball.
23:35I'm not.
23:36Listen.
23:37When Keyshaud Johnson.
23:38There's context.
23:38When Keyshaud Johnson missed a free throw.
23:40Come on.
23:41There's context.
23:43Because.
23:43No, no, no.
23:43No, no, no.
23:44No, no, no.
23:45There's massive context to that.
23:46The Miami Heat don't have Keyshaud Johnson miss a free throw on purpose.
23:50And they're not giving up possessions on the defensive end.
23:53If the Washington Wizards don't start fouling Drew Smith and Keyshaud Johnson the second you inbound the ball to ensure
24:03that Bam Adebayo wasn't going to get the basketball.
24:06That's an important part of this story.
24:09If they had just D'd up Bam Adebayo and if they had double teamed him from earlier in the game,
24:15he doesn't get 70.
24:16He doesn't get 80.
24:18They could not stop him.
24:19And then every free throw he took, every single free throw.
24:24Go back and watch the tape.
24:26It was a legitimate foul.
24:28I would agree that this wouldn't be a true 83-point game if the referees were calling ticky-tack fouls.
24:35I would agree if the Wizards themselves were purposely putting Bam Adebayo on the free throw line.
24:41None of that happened.
24:43The Wizards were actively sending three, four bodies at Bam and they still couldn't take the ball away from him.
24:51They still couldn't not foul him.
24:53You have to give it the context because the Heat were still playing with the hammer down in a situation
25:00that most teams don't.
25:01It's the situation, listen, when someone's dribbling the ball out to end the game and someone comes up and steals
25:09the ball, we're outraged.
25:10Right?
25:11We saw it happen to Dwayne Wade.
25:12We saw it happen to Dwayne Wade with the Heat.
25:15Hey, game's on.
25:16You can steal the ball if you want.
25:18Last night was a situation that doesn't happen.
25:21All I'm telling you is you can understand if we don't look at it through the prism of being Heat
25:26fans, which I'm telling you at the beginning of the show, it's impossible for us to do because we're all
25:31Heat fans.
25:32But you have to understand someone from across the country looking at that and going, wait a second.
25:38They could do that with Giannis every game if they wanted to.
25:42They could do that with Kevin Durant every game if they wanted to.
25:46If they foul, if they miss free throws, if they keep KD in for the entire game and only allow
25:53him to shoot, it could happen.
25:55That's why I said I wonder if the Heat open up a Pandora's box by doing so.
25:59I'm just telling you, if you can't understand the other side, then you've got to disconnect between real basketball and
26:06being a Heat fan.
26:07No, I think the people who want to pick apart what Bam Adebayo did yesterday and brush it off like
26:12it was gifted to him, like the Heat did something that shouldn't be done.
26:17They did something that's not normally done.
26:19You can't not acknowledge that.
26:21Aren't real basketball fans.
26:23But wait a second.
26:23They're not.
26:24Doesn't a real basketball fan know that starters rest when they're up by 30?
26:28Doesn't a real basketball fan appreciate another team who's getting punked by Bam Adebayo?
26:35But you're answering a question with a question.
26:38Defending him.
26:38Solana, you cover basketball.
26:41You love basketball.
26:43You watch hundreds of probably thousands of games in your life.
26:47That fourth quarter was not normal basketball.
26:50He was chasing a record.
26:52They were trying to stop him.
26:54They were doing stuff to stop him.
26:55And they were strategically making to not stop him.
26:59I don't agree with the other side, Solana.
27:01But you have to understand that wasn't basketball we watched for the last three minutes of that game.
27:06It doesn't make you less of a Heat fan to say, yeah, that wasn't a typical fourth quarter.
27:10I'm not arguing that it was a typical fourth quarter.
27:12I'm saying the reason the Heat had to go that way, the reason it became a chess match between Spoh
27:17and the Wizards coach is because they, the Wizards, turned it into not basketball.
27:22The Wizards started fouling Drew Smith.
27:25The Wizards started fouling Keyshawn Johnson.
27:27But of course you're going to leave Bam in for that record, Hawk.
27:30No, you're not.
27:31Of course you are.
27:32He had 70 points with nine minutes to go in the game.
27:36Nine minutes of game action.
27:37And by the way, at one point in that fourth quarter, it was only a 12-point lead.
27:41It's not like the Heat were up 30 the entire game.
27:44It was a nail-biter.
27:45Not calling it a nail-biter, but a 12-point lead with five minutes to go in the NBA is
27:50not a foregone conclusion that the game's over.
27:52The Washington Wizards, if they wanted Bam to not get the record, maybe they should have stopped them.
27:57Maybe they should have stopped grabbing them every time Keyshawn Johnson set a pin down so he could come to
28:03the nail and catch the ball.
28:04But guess what?
28:04They were unable to do it.
28:06Then they start sending three, four bodies at him, and they couldn't stay in front of him without fouling him.
28:11He earned every single point he got last night.
28:14And to suggest otherwise is an absolute disgrace when somebody put up something that everybody should be cherishing, not blaspheming.
28:24Well, Solana, you got your thong in a bunch.
28:26And I understand it.
28:27I understand your thong is rammed deep right now.
28:31That's why I brought up the human side of it where Spoh understood the assignment when Bam got to 70.
28:38He did.
28:39The Wizards didn't want to get embarrassed.
28:42So it wasn't a normal game.
28:45Like, you get mad when I say he earned 75.
28:48Let's say he earned 75.
28:49That was basketball.
28:51He earned 75.
28:51He earned 83.
28:53And I'm telling you.
28:54No, no, no, no, no.
28:55But, Solana, when you're turning the ball over, you're missing foul shots.
28:58I – and Hawk started by saying the other side.
29:02I had to watch it today because I was – I'm watching the shows, and I'm like, what the hell
29:07are y'all talking about?
29:09I remember Kobe's 81.
29:10Did you watch Kobe's 81?
29:12I did.
29:13And I went back last night.
29:14I don't want to do this now.
29:16Kobe was one-on-one, still hitting fadeaways.
29:19We're all celebrating Bam, and we're all saying it was the most magical night maybe in the last, I'm going
29:27to say sports-wise, in South Florida.
29:30Well, actually, I have to go back to the Stanley Championship.
29:32Yeah.
29:33Well, all I'm saying is I do understand why people would pick it apart because it was not a normal
29:40fourth quarter.
29:41It just wasn't.
29:41It wasn't, but I would say people who are picking it apart are missing the context of why it turned
29:48into what it turned into.
29:49That's fine.
29:50And instead of doing that, they should appreciate the fact that Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in an NBA game,
29:59and nobody, nobody in the NBA would have put Bam in a top 50 list of players to go score
30:0780 points in a game.
30:08Nobody.
30:09And he did it, and I'm telling you that he earned every single 83 points.
30:14That shouldn't be lost upon what happened last night because people on ESPN this morning watched three minutes of the
30:22game
30:22and decided that it wasn't a true 83-point game.
30:27Those people were disgracing maybe the greatest regular season feat ever.
30:32But they're literally telling you he, the Heat, disgraced the game last night.
30:38They have a wildly different opinion of it than you do.
30:42I'm hearing you, and I'm telling you, the Miami Heat aren't in a position yesterday to turn that into a
30:48funky game
30:48if the Washington Wizards don't start fouling Drew Smith.
30:52He doesn't have to be in the game.
30:54He doesn't have to be in the game.
30:55He's chasing an all-time record.
30:58I get it.
30:59And they wanted to try to stop it, so they muddied it up.
31:02I mean, you're arguing apples to apples here.
31:06What's the boys' name?
31:06Cooler Belly?
31:08You got it.
31:09You think Cooler Belly wants to say, I was on the other side of an 83-point game by Bam
31:13Riley?
31:14Back in my day, late 70s, early 80s, someone would have clocked him.
31:18Oh, yeah.
31:19He's getting knocked out in the paint.
31:21Knocked him out.
31:21Oh, yeah.
31:21You
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