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New Heat PA Voice & Klay's Spo Adjustment | The Miami Heat name Gale Nelson as the franchise’s new public address announcer! Plus, Tobin admits to getting surprisingly charmed by a player at Heat Camp, and the crew analyzes Klay Thompson’s transition to Erik Spoelstra’s system.
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00:00Miami Heat training camp underway yesterday.
00:03All three days of it?
00:05Four.
00:07Four days.
00:09They worked out longer on the West Coast.
00:14Yes, probably.
00:15Yes, they probably did.
00:18But we just got some breaking news.
00:20The Miami Heat have announced their new PA voice for this season.
00:29And his name is Gale Nelson.
00:32I got the video here that he just tweeted out.
00:34Can we play this, Vlad?
00:35I'll put this up here.
00:36Our sound's all set up for this.
00:37This is Gale Nelson.
00:39He is the new voice inside the arena, replacing, of course, the legend Mike Biamonte.
00:45And let's hear what he has to say.
00:47Hey, Heat Nation.
00:48My name is Gale Nelson, the new PA announcer for your Miami Heat.
00:53Let's meet our players.
00:55A 6'5 guard, number 9, Pella Larson.
01:01You scared me, man.
01:04I'm in the PA now.
01:04All right.
01:05I'm Gale.
01:06Pella, nice to meet you.
01:07A 6'9 center forward, number 13, BAM, Adebayo.
01:15What's up, bro?
01:16Number 7, Giannis Adedokunbo.
01:22Number 11, Clay Thompson.
01:27Nice to meet you.
01:28Nice to meet you, Clay.
01:29That was really good.
01:32Oh, my God.
01:33What's up?
01:34Nice to meet you.
01:36What's up, Bobby?
01:37I'm going to do PA announcer.
01:38I'm Gale.
01:39Did I get your attention?
01:40Yes, sir.
01:41You got to say 16.
01:42Number 22, Andrew Wiggins.
01:47How'd I do, brother?
01:48How'd I do?
01:49You got the voice for it.
01:51The pipes.
01:52All right.
01:53Well, congratulations to Gale.
01:54He definitely has the voice for it.
01:56He's got pipes, man.
01:57He's got pipes.
01:58Especially when he ends the name and he goes that deep voice.
02:03Yeah.
02:03Yeah, yeah.
02:04You can't.
02:04What's that?
02:05Baritone?
02:07Maybe.
02:08I don't know.
02:08We're all like high-pitched Eric's up in here.
02:12I don't know what's it.
02:13He was a high-pitched Eric.
02:16He was from the Howard Stern Show.
02:18Howard Stern Show.
02:19Oh, that's right.
02:20Part of the Whack Pack.
02:21He was probably the most famous.
02:22That's right.
02:22Him and Beetlejuice, most famous Whack Packers.
02:26Yeah.
02:27Well, congratulations to Gale, man.
02:28I guess you're going to hear him the first night on Tuesday, probably, for the scrimmage
02:33because he'd have the red, white, and pink game coming up on Tuesday,
02:37which I believe you can still get tickets for, $10 to go see the Heat inter-squad scrimmage.
02:43Are you boots on the ground?
02:45I think so.
02:46Yeah, I think so.
02:47I'll be boots on the ground for that.
02:49Are we broadcasting now?
02:50I don't know.
02:50We did last year.
02:52We've been broadcasting.
02:52Yeah, we never do a play-by-play.
02:55We always kind of riff.
02:56We talk about things.
02:58I don't know.
02:58If they need me, I'll probably be there either way, Vlad.
03:01So, you know, whatever they need, we'll make it happen.
03:06Is this the most excited you've been for a season?
03:10Well, I'm not going to lie, dude.
03:12It's pretty awesome.
03:13I'm pretty excited about this season.
03:15I'm pretty excited about this season.
03:17You're feeling like Paul Maurice, aren't you?
03:18I do.
03:19I am.
03:19This is me every night.
03:21I'm just thinking about Giannis and Bam.
03:24And that's without the Bluetooth.
03:26Yeah, I don't even need to use the promo code.
03:29I can, but I don't need it because I'm just sitting here and just seeing Bam and Giannis.
03:34It's just like, oh, amazing.
03:37Amazing.
03:38It's so good, Leroy.
03:40It's so good.
03:42I'm a little nervous.
03:44Why, dude?
03:45Why?
03:48It's 10.30.
03:49Leroy, you can't take the...
03:51It's 10.30.
03:52You up in here like you've been chewing Bluetooth like Tic Tac.
03:56Leroy, you do take the fun out, Leroy.
03:58I'm sorry.
03:59I can't.
03:59I've always protected you.
04:01But you take the fun out of it.
04:03Come on, Leroy.
04:05It's the second day of training camp.
04:07I know.
04:08Oh, man.
04:09I know.
04:09I was there.
04:11I think it might be my daughter's fault.
04:14Because of...
04:15She texted me yesterday.
04:18You want to know who her favorite player is?
04:21Who?
04:21From who?
04:22What team?
04:23The Heat.
04:24Yeah, from the Heat.
04:25Davion Mitchell.
04:26Nope.
04:27Pella.
04:28Yes.
04:30She goes, did you see Pella?
04:32I said, yes.
04:33Did you take a picture?
04:35I'm like, no.
04:37Goodbye.
04:38He is good looking.
04:39She was like, goodbye.
04:40That Pella Larson is handsome.
04:42He is.
04:44I said, what?
04:47Pella Larson...
04:48I never even thought about it.
04:49Pella Larson has got to be one of those guys.
04:52He's just super annoying.
04:53Because he is ridiculously good looking.
04:55And he's a rugged player.
04:56He plays tough.
04:57You would think he's not that good looking playing that stuff.
04:59He would have scars and he would look gnarly.
05:04He'd look like Caruso.
05:05No, he's like a 1980s teen villain.
05:08Yeah.
05:08Like he bullies somebody in a high school show.
05:11Right.
05:12Like Mark Wahlberg in that movie with Reese Witherspoon.
05:15Where he was like, oh, he's the nice boyfriend.
05:17And all of a sudden he's a psycho.
05:18And he's even got the Swedish accent.
05:21So he talks so cool.
05:23And he dresses right.
05:24Like he's, you know.
05:25Yeah.
05:25I was boots on the ground yesterday.
05:27I went to practice.
05:29And Pella Larson, I was asking about his fouling.
05:33And he goes, people call it foul baiting.
05:35It just took what they did to me.
05:37And now I do it to them.
05:38And they get all mad.
05:41I know, but you say it like that.
05:43And it's just like, wow.
05:45But I'll tell you what, dude.
05:46Bam and Giannis playing ones afterwards.
05:50I mean, they were getting Giannis frustrated, dude.
05:52I mean, they are not coddling him.
05:54I love it.
05:55I love it.
05:55I think that's the, listen.
05:57I think in practice, that's the best way to deal with that.
06:03Right?
06:04Like, we used to go at each other all the time.
06:08You know, nitpicking, talking personal stuff that only you knew about your boy.
06:14Right?
06:15To get him mad.
06:16And he would laugh it off.
06:17And then you get in the game, ain't nobody going to say nothing worse than we were saying.
06:21Well, that's what, yeah, that's what their theme is.
06:23They're like, there's nobody who's going to defend us that's harder than us on this court.
06:28And I think that that's going to be, that's going to be an interesting thing to see unfold.
06:31But it was funny.
06:32All the new guys yesterday who spoke were like, whew, we ran a lot.
06:38Because Spoh was, he's like, he's like, they wanted to get after it.
06:41Hunger Games.
06:43I'm just like, so Klay Thompson was like, I am tired.
06:47Yeah, because he ain't played defense in a few years.
06:49He's like, I am tired.
06:51I mean, you realize that, right?
06:53Oh, yeah.
06:54Well, listen, I don't even know.
06:55He's banged up.
06:56You know what?
06:57I wish I could have asked him.
06:59I really wish I could have asked him how healthy he is.
07:02He's healthy.
07:03I mean, he's playing games.
07:04He's not the same guy.
07:05No, no, no, no.
07:06Hold on, hold on.
07:07No, no, no.
07:08You're going to ask a player that question.
07:11What do you think they're going to say?
07:12No, no, no.
07:14But here's the deal.
07:16And I say this all the time.
07:18I really wish you would listen to me.
07:20There's a different level of health to where you can do what you can do, the things you know you
07:27can do, versus just being able to play.
07:32Like, you don't have to be 100% to play, but to be out there and feel comfortable that you
07:39can do all the things to the level that you kind of expect to do it without any thought of
07:46it.
07:46That's a different level.
07:48But he's not Klay Thompson, one of the best two-way players in the league.
07:51No, no, no.
07:51I know.
07:52Like, he was hurt five years ago, and he's been, like, he's played 69, 77, 72, 69.
07:57Like, he's been out there.
07:59But, yeah, is he going to guard a chair?
08:02Probably not.
08:04That's what the other four guys are for.
08:07Is he going to guard a chair?
08:09Yeah, act like we didn't deal with Duncan Robinson for four years.
08:12I know.
08:14I mean, no, we didn't deal with him, because after the first two-for-two, he was out there.
08:18Like, Tyler, you're a woman out here, you know?
08:20Oh, my goodness.
08:21Wait.
08:22When the guy who plays less defense than you says, we were attacking you, you know you got to make
08:29some life changes.
08:31You know you got to make some life changes, right?
08:33I'm a for Darius Garland, too, because I don't feel like he's played since.
08:36He got that turf toe.
08:37No, he got money, and he was in L.A.
08:39Did he get an extension?
08:40Yeah.
08:41Oh, good for him.
08:42Oh, the Clippers.
08:42So, like, yeah, man, I – there has been no injury that hindered me more than when I broke my
08:53toe.
08:55It's a hard thing to explain.
08:57Did you get the fusion?
08:58No.
08:59No, you just broke it?
09:00No, you see my – you could tell I didn't get the fusion.
09:04You see my toe pointing due south?
09:06I didn't want to bring it up.
09:08Yeah.
09:09That ain't fixed.
09:10Your toe's doing crip signs?
09:12Yeah.
09:13Yeah.
09:14My big toe and the toe next to it, they've been in a relationship for, like, 15 years.
09:20It's like a Miami driver.
09:22Oh, it's merged into one?
09:23Yeah.
09:24Yeah.
09:25Wait.
09:25Hey, man.
09:27What?
09:27Wait.
09:29Why did he use this?
09:30Why did Tommy use that?
09:32I'm like, oh, I've been saving this.
09:33Let me get this one out.
09:35So, it's like a merge, huh?
09:36Take a merge sign?
09:38Dang.
09:38With no notice.
09:41He turned on no blinker or nothing.
09:43Toad just over there.
09:45Well, let's hear from Clay Tobeson.
09:47Here's what he had to say.
09:49He said, Spoh yesterday, he gave him the goosies with a speech.
09:53I learned that he's very impassioned.
09:56He gave us a very impassioned speech last night that hadn't talked me to sleep after.
10:01And I see why Mr. Riley trusts him so much, because he cares.
10:07And it's good to be around a head coach who doesn't mind to kind of get into you.
10:14And he respects your work, but he also wants to get the most out of you.
10:19And he doesn't believe in, oh, you're past your prime or your best years behind you.
10:24He believes that you can still be effective at any stage you want, as long as you're willing to work.
10:28Beautiful.
10:30Beautiful.
10:31I wish I could have heard that Spoh speech.
10:34No, no, no.
10:35Yeah, that would have been good.
10:36Why not, dude?
10:37Why not?
10:38That would have been amazing.
10:40Oh, man.
10:41The Spoh goosey speech?
10:42Somebody's got to have that.
10:44Can he, can he, Admin, tweet that out?
10:46I want to hear that speech.
10:49Vlad, let me tell you something about Leroy.
10:51Him and Spoh are kind of besties now.
10:53Oh, what happened?
10:55He, like, Leroy's asking me, and he referred to, he's like, you know, I was coached by an evil genius,
11:01implying that Spoh was an evil genius.
11:02Oh, yeah, no, you know what?
11:03I saw that, Tobin.
11:04When he said evil genius, Spoh did the pull the Paul Maurice.
11:11Yep.
11:12Yeah, that was his Bluetooth moment right there.
11:14He loved it.
11:14He loved it.
11:15When you said evil genius and you said Belichick, I've never seen.
11:20You know what's crazy?
11:22Pearly White.
11:23When I, like, when I see coaches and you hear them talk, right, you go, he's got that same energy.
11:32Like, the personality might be different, but that same kind of energy as far as how we're going to do
11:41things, the way in which we're going to do them, we're going to be relentless and we're not going to
11:46stop.
11:47It's a little bit different than basketball because sometimes you got to let your superstars go out there and, like
11:53you said, let them figure it out.
11:56Which, if Bill had four Hall of Famers on one side of the ball, he would run practice over and
12:04over again until those four guys were where they're supposed to be.
12:07But it's that kind of, you know, that just intensity towards what they do.
12:14And Spoh has.
12:15Spoh is like that.
12:16I told him a little story.
12:18He wanted all the Belichick stories.
12:20He wanted all the Belichick stories.
12:21So, I told him I'd give him another one next time.
12:23If media wasn't pulling him away, I think Leroy and Spoh would have just gone for a beer and would
12:28have just been talking Belichick stories over at Bayside.
12:31Oh, yeah, because, you know, Leroy would have criticized Spoh about Spoh for what he's eating.
12:37You're going to eat that?
12:39I've got your size.
12:41You're going to eat that?
12:41Can I just say this?
12:44Where I'm from and what I intake as far as the food variety, I really don't question what people are
12:53eating unless I don't like it.
12:58That's it.
12:59You can eat what you want.
13:01Wait, what?
13:02You see what I'm saying?
13:03I don't question.
13:04I would never question what's going on.
13:05You don't question.
13:06You question things people eat because.
13:09That I don't like.
13:12But not.
13:13Yeah.
13:13For example, like when we went to a buffet.
13:15No, no, no.
13:16I get it.
13:18But it's his theory.
13:19Yeah.
13:19Like.
13:20Well, at one point.
13:21Because he doesn't like it.
13:22He's questioning people because.
13:23No, no, no.
13:24It's not questioning.
13:25It's just raising questions.
13:26Like when we went to a Vegas buffet one time.
13:28Wait a minute.
13:28Hold on.
13:29I'm sorry.
13:29If I say you're questioning and then you say you're raising a question.
13:33Isn't that questioning?
13:36What in the hell?
13:38Semantic samurai.
13:40I didn't berate a guy at the buffet.
13:43Yes, you did.
13:45Listen, Vlad.
13:46Hear me out.
13:46Everybody hear me out.
13:49We're at the buffet.
13:51Right.
13:52We see this guy.
13:54And then we found out there was ribs on in the little corner in the cut.
13:57Yeah.
13:57So we went and got the ribs.
13:59We seen another guy.
14:01He was loading up.
14:02Right.
14:03And then he went back and got a salad.
14:05And I was like, who you kidding?
14:08You can't get a whole plate of meat.
14:09And then.
14:10And guess what?
14:11When I walked by, that salad was still sitting there.
14:13He didn't touch that salad.
14:15But you didn't have to shame him.
14:16You shamed him.
14:17I wasn't shaming him.
14:18I was like, just be honest with yourself.
14:20You ain't going to eat that salad.
14:24Just be honest with yourself.
14:26Don't waste the food.
14:28You ain't no way.
14:29I seen the types of animals he put on that first plate.
14:33I know.
14:34Ain't no way in hell he going back for a salad.
14:36It's fine.
14:37But you did the same thing at the restaurant, too.
14:40And you did the same thing at the buckets and bets.
14:43He did.
14:44He did.
14:45What?
14:46When we went to herbs and rye, we were in closed quarters.
14:49And you looked over at a, you know, not a svelte fella.
14:54And he was sitting there.
14:55And he was just, you know, obviously, maybe he was trying to watch what he's eating.
14:58And he had, like, a little bird.
14:59Which nobody eats at herbs and rye.
15:01You eat steak at herbs and rye.
15:02Right.
15:02That's my point.
15:03That was my point.
15:04He's like, that's what you got?
15:07That's not going to feed you.
15:08Because he got, like, I mean, the chicken was the size of a pigeon, Vlad.
15:11I mean, it was ridiculous.
15:12It was like a Cornish hen.
15:15Everything that herbs and rye has, like, the steaks are gigantic.
15:18And then this guy gets a thing that looks like a pheasant.
15:21And I'm just like.
15:23I felt like we were in, uh, at an old, uh, what, the old English.
15:29They're sitting around just eating the pheasants.
15:34More ale?
15:35Yes.
15:36Come on, man.
15:37We're in, like, uh-uh.
15:40No.
15:40Clay Thompson's cool, though.
15:41Yes.
15:42I think you just, I gotta be honest with you.
15:44What's up?
15:45I see why Clay Thompson gets a lot of honeys.
15:48I do.
15:48He's a sweet talker.
15:50Oh, he charmed you?
15:51He's so easily charmed, though.
15:53He's charming.
15:54Don't take much.
15:55What charmed you?
15:55Oh, he is so easy.
15:57What charmed you?
15:59What did it charm me?
16:00What did it charm me?
16:01Any athlete, any 6'5", 6'6", 6'7", athlete that walks basketball and player walks by,
16:07they look at you.
16:08You get all, you become a floozy.
16:10But he's, like, he, he, he, whatever you answer, he's just, like, he's gonna go out
16:14there and he's just gonna be, like, oh, I'll give you some goods on this.
16:17Like, I asked about Conwell, he goes, oh, Conwell, amazing shooter, beat me in a shooting
16:21drill, and amazing defender.
16:24I was, like, he is heavens to Betsy.
16:28What do you mean?
16:30Heavens to Betsy.
16:32Loose goose floozy.
16:34Yes.
16:34Whoa.