“Oh Blocked by Jaquez!!!”

I would say Tyler has earned it. Even though I am not a Heat fan respectfully, I can appreciate talent when I see it and Herro this season has been healthy. He has been ballin. He is putting up All Star numbers right now in Miami. More than earned it in my book.

You might think this is mid but it’s actually solid, and consistent. I’d argue that the narrative that the Heat have failed Jimmy is a fake one. Not saying the Heat haven’t made mistakes but they have been better for Jimmy than most other franchises have been for their superstars. I feel like there’s only like 10 guys who have been consistently at the “best player on a championship team” level during the butler era

Jokic - their title team woulda won 30 games without him, this year they would be a bottom five team

Giannis - the jrue Middleton and Lopez teams would be above 500 if Middleton healthy, this year they’d be a bottom 8 team without Giannis

Durant - phoenix is like 1-10 without him

Steph - don’t think any gsw team would be above .500 without him this decade

Embiid - lol

Luka - Mavs have been great this year without him but other years they were really bad. Mavs took some risks and made some moves Heat shoulda made (Kyrie and PJ) but they also gave away Brunson so I wouldn’t say their FO is much better. Either way Heat have won more in the playoffs.

Tatum - it’s insane that Celtics got Jrue and porzingis for basically nothing. I mean, wtf.

Heat have made a couple mistakes but overall they have done well by Jimmy. Id argue that only a couple teams made trades that the Heat should have. I think most all-in moves are bad ideas, like the Durant and Dame trades, both of which are gonna lead to lots of pain for the suns and bucks while not producing any extra playoff wins in the short term. I give the Heat more credit than most for not making mistakes (rozier notwithstanding). They’ve been excellent at drafting and developing, and Spo has been amazing for Jimmy. Jimmy has the second most playoff wins this decade on this list.. he’s not the second best player. So yeah the narrative that “pat failed jimmy” is mostly bullshit.

Love the chemistry between these two.

Title, essentially. Key word above is "online"

I think many of these people that constantly whine about Pat Riley are more so Jimmy Butler fans than fans of the heat.

Regardless, I've never seen such blatant disrespect of players outside of the stars on the team over the last few years. Straight up just referred to as "bums", regardless of how they perform, simply because they are either role players or they happened to be undrafted. Heat fans, and nba fans in general, seem to have lost the value of role players. It also sounds like a lot of people would prefer to have a top-heavy team build like the Phoenix suns these days. It's not going to work in Phoenix, and it wouldn't work now with the heat either. If we're being honest, it barely worked with the big 3 heat.

And also, Jimmy butler is one of the primary reasons as to why the heat have had a few mid regular seasons, when you consider that he either doesn't play, OR when he does he plays passively (very often at least), hijacking the offense by passing up shots that are there for him. The regular season also doesn't matter, so I kind of get it. But fans complain during the season too, so I don't think it's worth it.

Rant is over.

TL;DR, heat front office deserves more credit for putting the heat (and Jimmy) in positions to win titles, as evidenced by their playoff performances. Role players are undervalued by heat fans and the league wide fanbase. Heat fanbase misses the big 3 era from a decade ago, which wouldn't work in todays game.

We almost had another classic defeat at the hands of a putback or lob.

Whats the point of Bam if he's tied down to a slow footed center then always has to help off his man.

You can already picture it. Opposing team dribbles into the free throw lane throws a prayer floater. Bam is out of position trying to do too much. Heat lose by 1 on a putback.

Play em both bro.