00:00Kind of like crap, because I know Vlad is looking forward to the playoffs, but we got, for the last
00:09three years, we've had some riveting sports this time of year, and now it almost seems like it's coming to
00:19a screeching halt, and I need something.
00:22You got this shit in the day before. Relax.
00:25No, no, no, no. I'm talking about locally, man.
00:27I don't want to throw that in your face.
00:30That's not me.
00:32I'm just saying.
00:33Right? But I'm just saying, like, I don't know how to feel about the heat.
00:39The Panthers, you know, I'm not going to even complain about the Panthers.
00:43Right?
00:44There's excuses and there's reasons.
00:47If you can't look at this Panther season and say they got a legitimate reason as to why it went
00:52the way it went, shame on you.
00:55Right?
00:55We're trying to look towards the Dolphins, but in all the past three, four years, we've had sports to get
01:07us to Dolphin season.
01:10Last year, the Marlins did a hell of a job.
01:13I don't know how that's going to go.
01:15Right?
01:16So, I'm just like, you know, I don't know.
01:23I don't know what I'm going to do.
01:24I'm a little down with my sports.
01:27But.
01:28What?
01:29Leroy, you sounded all.
01:30Come on, man.
01:31Don't.
01:32Listen.
01:33Listen.
01:33But that's the reality.
01:34Is that not?
01:35Is that not the reality of the situation?
01:37It is.
01:38Okay.
01:39Absolutely right.
01:40Okay.
01:40We just lost Frog Boy for a second.
01:42And I get that.
01:45I get that.
01:46Okay.
01:46But we still have, even though last night the bullpen messed up, we got the Marlins.
01:53The Marlins held last year.
01:55So, and now they're on.
01:56They're on with us now.
01:58So, you know what I'm saying?
01:59We're going to hear.
01:59No, no, no.
02:00Again.
02:01Again.
02:01I'm just saying as of right now.
02:04And part of the reason why I feel that way is because baseball season is so early in
02:09the season that we've had other sports to not have to rely on baseball at this moment.
02:16That's all I'm saying.
02:17We're going to have to rely on baseball now.
02:20Yeah.
02:20A lot earlier than we normally have in years past.
02:23Yesterday was a gut.
02:26Like, I have to use the words Solana used on one of his social media.
02:31It was a gut-punching day locally for all the teams down here.
02:35Yeah.
02:35Well, I mean, the city of Miami in sports took an offer.
02:39Yeah.
02:40Sandy was pitching a gem.
02:43A gem.
02:44You wanted him to have back-to-back complete games.
02:48He got tired.
02:50And the Reds scored two runs in the ninth and then scored four in the tenth.
02:56And the Marlins lost a game that it would have been great for Sandy to have the back-to-back
03:01Maddox, as they call it, where you pitch, then you throw less than 100 pitches and have
03:07a complete game.
03:09Panthers, I saw this late, Leroy.
03:12I don't know how they gave up that.
03:13Oh, my God.
03:14It was great.
03:15And here's the kicker, Vlad.
03:17The net was wide open.
03:20I think part of the reason is when the goalie came over, right, if he would have just hung
03:28to the post like Bob does, when Bob comes over and hangs that post, that pass don't get
03:34through.
03:35But because there was room, the pass got through.
03:40But that was a gut punch because I thought they had that thing.
03:43They look better for a majority of that game.
03:46And that's the thing I wanted to give them credit.
03:48Even though we know they're not making the postseason.
03:50They're playing hard.
03:50They're still playing hard.
03:53They're still competitive.
03:54So at least, like you said earlier, we're going to give them a pass for what they've
03:59given us over the last three, four years.
04:03And what you're seeing, you know that next season, when next season comes, they're going
04:08to come back with such a vengeance that you're excited to see some of the young players that
04:13maybe, you know, maybe on a roster a little bit more next season.
04:18And then.
04:22Can I just say this about the heat?
04:25Go ahead.
04:26I have never seen this team at this juncture of the year look so out of sync on offensive
04:38end.
04:39I can't explain it.
04:41And what happens is, is that they get frustrated and then give up easy buckets on the defensive
04:49end.
04:50Leroy, you're complaining about the offense.
04:52What has always been the identity of this team?
04:56Defense.
04:56Yeah.
04:57But I'm saying that the lack of offense, they're not getting back.
05:01They're giving up fast break points.
05:03They're giving up easy layups.
05:05Like it, the offense, and they say, they've said this a lot is that we can't let our problems
05:17on offense affect us on the defensive end.
05:19It affects everybody.
05:20It's not just the heat.
05:22It seems like you get frustrated and you hang your head and then give up an easy layup.
05:29And then compound the problem.
05:32For the first time, I can say this team is fragile right now.
05:35Mentally fragile right now.
05:37Yeah.
05:38Like I've not, this, you can say because they, bam, I love you.
05:44You didn't want to be in the play-in.
05:46You've tried your best, but dude, this team.
05:50This is who you are.
05:51This is who you are.
05:52This is who you've been the last three to four seasons.
05:55The last three, four years, this is who you are.
05:57You're mid.
05:58You're mid.
05:59Keep in mind, keep in mind, even when they went to the finals, they were in the play-in.
06:03Right.
06:03They haven't been, they haven't been a sixth seed or better since, then the following year
06:09there were two.
06:09They were, they were second seed.
06:12They haven't been a.
06:14They were the second seed after they went to the.
06:17Since, what, with the Jimmy Miss three?
06:21Uh, yeah, that was after the bubble, after the bubble.
06:25Yeah, after the bubble, right.
06:26Even when they went to the, when they went to the, to the, um, to the finals, they were
06:31a playing team.
06:32They were a playing team.
06:33Correct.
06:33Right.
06:33That was that first year.
06:34That was the first year of being a play-in.
06:36Correct.
06:36So, and then the next year, next year, they were the two seed and they didn't go as they
06:41lost in what?
06:42The first round or the second round?
06:44I think they were playing again.
06:48No, no, no.
06:48They were, they were a two seed after they went to the, the bubble.
06:51That was the bubble.
06:52That was the bubble.
06:53I'm talking about when they went to the second final against Denver in 20, was it 22?
06:57Yeah.
06:58Or 23.
06:59No, it was 23.
07:01Yeah.
07:0224, 25, 26.
07:04Bubble.
07:04Bubble.
07:05Correct.
07:06Correct.
07:06So, so, so, and, and, and, and part of it is if you look at all the teams in the
07:14NBA
07:17and then look at the heat, they've probably over that period of time have had more lineups
07:26than any team in the NBA.
07:29I, I, I, I'm willing to just go out on a limb and say that the different combinations they've
07:34had to play with because of injuries and all the different circumstances surrounding
07:41this team.
07:42And, and you just wonder, like, if they had any kind of consistency, and this is how you
07:53have to kind of look at this, how I look at it, would they be any better?
08:00Because that's the honest decision that this franchise has to make, that we've said the
08:07injuries and getting back to consistency and having a normal lineup and this and that.
08:14But I say, okay, I give you that.
08:17I give you, you, you have a consistent lineup with your reserves, with the minutes they play.
08:23You have a consistent lineup for 50 games or 40 games.
08:29Are you still in the same spot?
08:31I think that's an honest assessment that the franchise has to make because for the last
08:38three or four years, all we've been talking about with the heat, not how well they play,
08:46not the line, how much they've been injured, how many guys miss, who do you have available?
08:53That's been the biggest question before every game for the Miami Heat for the last three
08:57years.
08:59So from that standpoint, how do you go about fixing that?
09:06I know you can't fix injuries, but you can also have guys on your team that you know, going
09:14to give you reliable minutes.
09:16Like, listen, Bam may be, may not be the best player.
09:23But the fact that he's there 95% of the time makes him seem like he's the best player.
09:33You see what I'm saying?
09:34Because he's the most dependable on that team.
09:39I need two or three guys that are that so you can build something.
09:46We got good players that don't play.
09:51Spell has been trying to tweak his lineup all season to figure out what is going on.
09:55We will be talking with Tommy Tige in the next hour.
09:57We've been doing that for the last four years.
09:59Last four years?
10:00And last four years we've been in the play-in and we have another.
10:04He's been playing his whole season, Marcos and Leroy.
10:06Correct.
10:07It's been Jaime and Bam.
10:09That's it.
10:10Jaime and Bam.
10:11Jaime and Jaime.
10:12That he plays.
10:13Because Kalel.
10:13I was going to say, Kalel wasn't injured.
10:15He just didn't get the consistent playing time he deserved.
10:18Which, which at some point, at some point, and I think this is the difference between football
10:26and basketball.
10:29If you're a good player, no matter how much you get hurt, they're going to try to work
10:35you back in, even if it's to the detriment of your team, even if it's to the detriment
10:41of, okay, we've had some consistency.
10:44We're going to break that consistency up because this guy is a better player, right?
10:48In football, we've seen a number of situations where a guy's out for four or five weeks and
10:56he come back and it's like, bruh, I know you a good player, but your replacement is
11:04balling and we ain't going away from that.
11:06Just ask Tom Brady, right?
11:10So it, it, it, and so I think sometimes that portion of it and me and Tobin go at it
11:17a lot
11:19about when a guy comes back after missing a substantial amount of time, how he just rolls
11:24back into the starting lineup, right?
11:28Like, I'm not used to that.
11:31My, you know, I'm from the, the school of in football that if you get replaced and your
11:39guy's balling and we winning, we going to try to get you back in, but we ain't changing
11:45the winning formula.
11:48So there's, there's that, but, but the injuries, the injury, how frustrating it is, Vlad, the
11:56most important moment of a basketball game for Miami Heat fans, the last four years hasn't
12:05been the game.
12:06It's who's available.
12:07The two hours before the game where you hit, get the lineup.
12:12Uh, definitely in the last two years, uh, right for the, yeah, it's so-and-so playing
12:19and so like, it's hard to win consistently when the most important of aspect of your team
12:27or your game is who's available.
12:30Not even how you going to play.
12:32Wow.
12:33Humble and kind one brings up a good point.
12:3528 and 17 without hero 13 and 18 with hero.
12:39Grow.
12:39Hmm.
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