jordan’s heat bløg

aw lol

cuet. lagoon is the epitome of heat culture its true

Cassell injuring himself doing a "big balls" celebration is a top Timberwolves moment

if youre gonna go out go out big (balls)

epic timberwolves moments

what’s the c word

culture i think?

actually it's celtics

i used it above. heat CULTURE baby

heat celtics 2023 ecf

el heat

does kinda feel like they're gonna take down the knicks now too huh. would be anticlimactic if they didnt

“c”heat

Jimmy Butler next target has been acquired pic.twitter.com/3Q6igBeyRd

— HEAT NATION (@Zachppp) April 27, 2023

lmao

my god i cannot WAIT

It's going to be great.

Erik Spoelstra walks in and says:

“This closeout game was a nod to our president. That was fully in his image and personality.”

— Brady Hawk (@BradyHawk305) May 13, 2023

The @MiamiHEAT have more Eastern Conference Finals appearances than the @nyknicks have winning seasons since 2001.

— Greg Sylvander (@GregSylvander) May 13, 2023

Erik Spoelstra and the Miami Heat are in the East Finals for the 7th time in last 13 years. pic.twitter.com/PSpHgGshVY

— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) May 13, 2023

Bam Adebayo averages in 9 elimination games

23 Pts / 12.2 Reb / 5.2 Ast pic.twitter.com/wXMvkZgCXP

— 🏎…💨 (@PatRileyBurner) May 13, 2023

Miami HEAT legend Joel Anthony - AKA The Warden - in the building tonight! #HEATCulture pic.twitter.com/6lUZr7rf1T

— Alejandro Solana (@AlexMSolana) May 13, 2023

Crazy stat from second round: The Heat’s bench combined to outscore the Knicks’ reserves 183-90 in the series.

Heat's depth has been a big strength. Miami has outscored opponents by 14.7 points per 100 possessions when Jimmy Butler is off the court in the playoffs.

— Anthony Chiang (@Anthony_Chiang) May 13, 2023

btw happy birthday dude

thank you i appreciate that. go heat.

this can be cross posted to the celtics thread

Most conference finals appearances for “stars” since 2020 (updated)

Butler + Bam 3
Tatum + Brown 3
LeBron + AD 2
Jokic 2
Giannis 1
Luka 1
Kawhi + PG 1
Curry 1
Paul + Booker 1
Durant 0
Irving 0
Embiid 0
Harden 0

— Five Reasons Sports 🏀🏈⚾️🏒⚽️ (@5ReasonsSports) May 14, 2023

hb j0rdan S, salute to one of the greats

hb jordan!!

something i've been thinking about the last few days is to what degree should spoelstra be considered an elite playoff asset (for lack of a better term) on par w/ some of the top players in the league? i.e. how many players left in the playoffs would you take over him if you were trying to win a 7 game series?

jokic, bron, davis, tatum, butler are givens. would you take spo over jamal murray? jaylen brown? i think you could go either way on those. if heat fans had to give up spo or bam i don't think there would be much of a debate. once you start getting into pure role players even great ones like horford, brogdon, gordon etc i don't think those guys are more valuable than spo in a 7 game series, tho it would kinda depend on the make up of your team and your other available options as a coach yada yada this is just a fun thought exercise

spo or trae young? spo or jalen brunson? julius randle? for a playoff series i think you'd take spo over anyone on brooklyn's roster, minnesota's roster, atlanta's roster. spo or ja who you taking to win you a 7 game series?

it's kinda fun to think about but ultimately i feel like spo (in the playoffs) is on the level of a second or third team NBA type player? would def be on the level of an all star reserve type of guy (top 20-24 players instead of top 15 players). spo prob makes something like $9-$10m per year which is a crazy steal if he has the approximate value of a $30m-ish player. and there's no supermax escalators for when he finishes third in coach of the year voting

the thought experiment requires the coach matching up against the other coach, its like you have six players on the court instead of five, so if spo is worth as much as a borderline allstar how much is the other guy worth, it kind of falls apart idk, but trying it out nevertheless just based on nothing on a game to game basis the best coaches are prob worth like a solid starter and the worst are scrubs, then theres longer term stuff like player development team cohesion etc thatre a bit murkier and not totally the product of just the head coach but are prob worth more than in game coaching

if im the heat would i trade spo for anothny edwards? sorry erik youre moving to minnesota buddy

would i trade him for kat? no but i hate kat

i then who replaces him i guess, celtics had to cut udoka but found a better coach just hanging out on their bench

i’d rather have spo and max strus than edwards and chris finch for this upcoming series against boston. maybe i’m crazy! would boston fans be more worried about the heat? i feel like no. for the regular season the calculus is much different. but i feel like we see how much coaching matters in every game in the playoffs, a great coach can effect the totality of the game in a way that rivals the truly elite players. of course a hot night from i.e. brunson can render that moot so there is some level where a third team all NBA/all star reserve type player just rises to a level that a coach simply cannot hit by function of not playing in the game. a great great game from a horford or brogdon type prob gets there too. it’s a permeable line & everyone will see it differently but i still don’t think ppl account for how good spo is when they’re talking about how the heat are back in the ECF. they essentially have 3 all stars on their roster imo

I think coaching is mostly overrated in all sports. Gimme that GM. It's mostly about the talent and luck.

Does anyone think Spoelstra would have pushed the Sixers over the top in Gm 7?

no of course not. but might he have pushed them over the top in game 6? entirely possible! he may have figured out a way get embiid a single touch in the final 5 mins of that game. the heat clinched on the bucks in large part bcuz spo called three plays in the 4th quarter that got butler touches right at the rim and he got 7 points out of those including an and 1 that prob flipped the game. bam & butler had to make great plays sure but spo was as instrumental in that equation. the gap between spoelstra and bud in that series was larger than the gap between anyone on the bucks and his counterpart on the heat

I think Spoelstra is a good coach, I just wonder how much affect it has. My feeling is it's like 60% talent (GM), 20-30% random (execution by players), 10-20% coaching.

It's hard to argue though when you see the Heat do what they do.

10-20% of the recipe is significant. agree that some of spo’s in game play calling and strategy have been crucial this post season

I’m with lagoon on this one, you have to consider the fact that the value is relative to other coaches for one thing, and also a lot of the value coaches bring is more long term than short term. having the best coach is probably closer to having the better 8th guy on a postseason roster

I do think it’s pretty hard to argue there’s a better coach out there than spo though

he may have figured out a way get embiid a single touch in the final 5 mins of that game.

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 15, 2023 3:58 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

tbf he did touch the ball a number of times he just didnt try to actually do anything with it

this is an interesting conversation although i think coaches are much less plug and play than players....like some of the things that matter about spo are that he's been there forever and has this infrastructure around him that seems to work in lockstep with how he coaches. i'm avoiding saying heat culture but i think just extracting spo from miami and dropping him in philly or wherever would blunt some of what makes him successful

where does pop fit into this (besides being too old to really count)

https://www.theringer.com/nba/2023/5/19/23727949/jimmy-butler-dreadlocks-media-day

lol i had never heard that one from spo. “Sometimes, the psychotic meets the psychotic.”

Real Sideline Story: how @JColeNC helped @Calebmartin14 get off the sidelines and become our X-factor pic.twitter.com/1on4Jcjp9q

— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) May 20, 2023

why are j cole and caron butler old friends…

🤫 pic.twitter.com/kLASYzQtGv

— Miami HEAT (@MiamiHEAT) May 30, 2023

OFFICIAL: We have waived Caleb Martin

🔗: https://t.co/KHzg3DlIJ0 pic.twitter.com/Jxj7YueOO2

— Charlotte Hornets (@hornets) August 7, 2021

congrats to The Heat of Miami - rootin for you guys