How Kel'el Ware Stepped Up and Swung the Heat's Win Over the Nets

He did what they were supposed to do,

disposing of the Brooklyn nets,

despite damn it, a bio-being and foul trouble.

But it was Kalil Ware, who stepped up in every way.

Miami's now won three in a row,

but Wes, I can't help but look ahead

and fight his matchup versus Charlotte

as a real test for the heat.

Ah, yes, heat versus hornets.

The game we all had circled on our calendars

before the season started.

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I'm Wes Goldberg, host of Locked On NVA Daily

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I'm here with David Rammill, both of us

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We've got credit cookies in the oven.

Listen to our questions to get to later in the show.

We are recording this after the heats,

126 to 110 win over the Brooklyn Nets.

They take care of business, getting both wins at home

against the tanking Nets team.

But David, it was a little dicey there for a moment.

Swing moment of the game comes in the third quarter

when Bam picks up his fourth

and then his fifth foul,

with no matter of seconds.

Score is tied at 72 after the Nets come back

and tie the game with just under seven minutes

to go in the period.

And then Kallelware checks in.

And you and I, in that very moment, we text each other.

This is a, and we agreed.

This is a big test for Kallel.

Spoiler alert, David, he passed.

And he did it with flying colors.

The heat were plus 15 in the 16 minutes

that Kallelware played in the second half.

The heat were broken down in the parking lot

and Kallelware showed up with the jumper cables, man.

What a game from him, from him.

Fantastic performance.

Like he really showed a lot of energy, a lot of emotion.

He did it on both ends too.

The defense was phenomenal, but the offense was great.

Look confident.

Putting up shots from beyond the perimeter

but he was also the lob threat that we all knew he could be.

He just provided such an insane boost.

When Miami looked like, oh, this might be another

disappointing loss.

And another one of those unexpected losses

that they shouldn't have had.

Or it shouldn't have allowed at any point.

And you know what, with, not for Kallelware,

I don't know if they win this game.

Like he really did save Miami's night.

And potentially there's season in a way

that, you know, he provided the kind of boost

that he does.

You're not supposed to lose these games

and thanks to where they don't.

It was his most impressive performance of the season,

I thought.

I don't think it's close, right?

I mean, this was the pop quiz, right?

I mentioned it was a big test for Kallelware.

I mean, it was a pop quiz.

Bam does not foul out of games.

Literally has not fouled out of a game all season long.

He did not foul out of this game

because he didn't play hardly at all in the second half.

In part because he didn't have to,

because Kallel got this extended run

that we never really see from him.

Kall plays 30 minutes in this game

and he makes the most out of it.

And it was a tough, that was a tough moment for him, right?

I thought Brooklyn was finally outplaying Miami

for about 10 or 15 minutes there

where they were just able to get to the rim

over and over and over again.

And so that's why I thought it was a really big test

for Kallel too.

This wasn't a matter of Brooklyn just making a bunch

of threes although Michael Porter Jr.

didn't get hot there for a little bit of a stretch.

But you're bound to get hot.

When you take as many whatever who cares,

just shoulder shrug threes as you do

as Michael Porter Jr. of the course of two games in Miami,

you're gonna at some point make a couple back-to-back.

But anyway, with Kallel, that was a tough moment for him

because the defense was the problem.

And then your best defender by a mile in BAM

ends up in foul trouble, silly foul trouble, by the way.

And I thought that offensive foul, that fit foul was deserved.

It was a little bit of a silly foul from him.

Like why put your shoulder down in that moment

right after you picked up your fourth foul?

BAM checks out.

It's a big moment for Kallel to basically do what BAM

couldn't do over the last couple of minutes

and fix the defense, anchor a defense

that had been leaking points at the rim.

And that's what he does.

We could talk about the block numbers,

the offensive rebounds, the points, all that stuff.

All that stuff is impressive and very important

to this game.

But to me being the anchor to defense, it starts there.

He shut the faucet off on Brooklyn's Rim attacks.

Yeah, they were completely discombobulated from that point forward.

When he comes back in the game and plays with that kind of energy,

they were kind of just missing something that they could go to.

And yeah, they wound up chipping away at Alida.

Had grown to what 26 points at some point.

And they didn't wound up chipping at it with a slight run.

But I think for the most part, they just didn't have a go-to move.

They couldn't get to the rim.

They felt his presence in a way that I don't know

what we've seen from him at any other point this season.

There've been moments, maybe, but not for as consistent as it was.

He was impactful for a long stretch,

a deciding stretch of the game that he helped swing himself.

That's, to me, I've long used a definition

of a superstar in that regard.

And so I'm not going to use it for Khalil

because it's obviously too soon.

But a guy who can consistently swing and individually

swing a game on both ends of the floor,

I think that's what defines it to me.

And I think we saw the potential for that, maybe, with Khalil.

I know that's kind of overstating things a little bit.

But for him to be able to play the way he did on both sides,

really bodes well for his ability to kind of be impactful

and have more impactful moments as this season wants to.

I'll rephrase a little bit of what you said

without projecting forward and running the risk of having

to put such high expectations on this guy.

He played like a superstar in this game.

He did.

He did.

And for people watching on YouTube,

I'm putting up a graphic of, you could see the Gameflow chart

when Khalil Ware checks in.

The game's tied right in the middle of their quarter.

And then that game, it's just a flood of red, which

is good for the Miami Heat, that's

our obviously in black.

That's a crazy swing.

It's such a great point, David.

That's the moment where, again, kind of go into the superstar

impact that he had on this one night.

This is what Niklai Yokech does.

This is what Shaker's Alexander does, right?

It's why they were plus minuses are always so free out

of whack and why they're always leading in the MVP race.

It's what Yanis does, right?

For years at Milwaukee, it's kind of crazy

to see what Khalil Ware's swing impact was in this game.

And without bearing the lead here,

at the risk of bearing the lead here,

I mean, Khalil Ware has seven blocks in this game.

On real, seven blocks, 11 rebounds,

four of which are offensive rebounds.

He has five steals, seven blocks, and five steals

in this game.

Never had been done in franchise history.

Just don't, and this is after he had four or five steals

the first night on Tuesday night against Brooklyn.

It was a dominating defensive performance

and his greatest bam is defensively

and he is better than Khalil Ware defensively as a whole.

So take what I'm about to say with that grain of salt in mind.

But they haven't had like a fear factor defender like Khalil

and I think that might be what we saw in that second half

where guys just didn't want to attack the rim

because Khalil Ware was standing there

and they don't want to get their shot blocked, right?

Bam will just not let you get to the rim.

Khalil will play that drop defense,

like they're gonna drop Khalil by the basket.

So you're gonna get a runway to the rim.

But what Khalil can do is deter you

and kind of make you do that

Victor Wembenyama, you turn a little bit

when he's playing like this.

Yeah, that's a great point.

And to have that kind of combo really works well

like to have the guy who can guard one through five

and make things so difficult.

And then if you're able to pass him

or somebody else along the perimeter knowing now,

like think about the last time they had a real shop blocker

has signed wide set, right?

But who was he playing with?

The on-waiters go on.

Is that a bam, guys?

Yeah, bam was his back up.

Bam is the on-bank of off the bench, yeah.

But so I'm saying like the guys that he shared the floor

with during the minutes,

they were not perimeter defenders.

They weren't solid in that way.

And now you have some solid perimeter defenders

and Andrew Wiggins and the Davy on Mitchell.

And then you've got Bam and a bio

who is just one of the best defenders in the league.

And then on top of that, you've got a guy

who is a real, for right, a real deterrent.

A guy who just changes the game

because of his length and his impact.

That really, it was phenomenal to see.

I will say, look, they're parts of me

watching this game and going,

God, this net's team really sucks.

Like especially in the fourth quarter

where they had like a billion turnovers.

And it's like, oh, we don't really care.

We've been in Miami for four days and it shows.

Right, it was a five turnovers

in the first three or four minutes of this game.

They were just like, they're garbage.

They were really garbage.

That's not, that's not work-tanking.

That's just, you know, what you guys kind of stink

as an NBA team, you know?

So, but to their credit,

they did wind up putting together that run later on.

And I thought, maybe this might be a game

that Miami let slip away because those have happened.

But didn't kill, it comes in there

and changes the course completely and individually.

I think there are a lot of different guys

stepped up over the course of the second half.

But where's impact was so singular?

And so just, you felt the magnitude

of what he was able to do on the court

in a way that I don't know that we've seen

very often and I don't know that we've seen

from any player like that since,

honestly, Jimmy Butler.

I have a feeling that he's gonna get the game ball

after this game.

And I also have a feeling that a few of these credit cookies

that are almost ready might be headed his way too.

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Well, David, it's another Miami Heat win,

which means it's time for the tasty segment of Lockdown.

Heat, it's time for credit cookies.

As always, we have time to hand out.

Where do you want to begin?

You know what?

It's not being around the bush here.

We've talked about it enough, but killerware,

I think, deserving of, in my opinion,

or credit cookies, the killerware.

I think it was tough.

There are a lot of players who stepped up.

It was really difficult because it's kind of hard

to parse their impacts and say, you know what?

They put up some points.

They put up some nice shots here and there

to help Miami pull away.

But the total game, the complete impact,

nobody had, to the same degree, is Calilware.

Seven of four, one of two from three-point range.

Didn't take a lot of free throws,

but you know what?

I think he'll get there.

And he had 11 total rebounds and assists.

Like you said, five steals, seven blocks.

Only one turnover tonight.

And it didn't get to foul trouble either.

We're finishing with 16 points.

That's a hell of a stat one.

And it was the moments there that really defined a game

where he showed aggression, confidence.

He's a better player now.

I don't think there's any way of hiding that or disputing it.

He's a better player now than he was earlier in the season.

And he's by far better player than the one

he was last year.

I still have questions about consistency.

But overall, there's no denying that he has shown some real growth.

And I really like where his trajectory is heading to season.

Jared Dubin who writes the last night in basketball newsletter.

And I have him on my real GM radio program all the time.

He has this idea that we see crazy performances

throughout a season.

And the heck I made six, three pointers, that's nuts.

And then you see performances that are outlier performances,

still, but are still indicative of a talent level.

And Jared's point is that it doesn't matter what you have

outlier performances from three point range

because that's a variance thing.

You could take as many shots as you want.

And eventually, if you flip enough coins,

you're just going to hit heads seven times in a row, right?

But there are certain things on a basketball court

that variance does not account for.

And even if it's an outlier performance,

it's an outlier performance, but it

does show what your overall talent level is.

And only a player with your talent level

could reach that kind of outlier performance.

So that's sort of the idea that Jared talks about.

That's what this game was for KaloAware.

Not anybody can have seven blocks and five

steals in a game.

Not even plus the four offensive rebounds,

plus the three point shooting, plus all of that.

There are the list of players who are capable of having

the game that we're just had is really short.

It's a really short list.

And I don't even want to name the names on that list

because I don't want to do the hyperbole comparison thing.

But you know the names I'm talking about, you know?

There's one in Santonio, right?

I love Stefan Castle, I agree.

But he actually, he might be able to do this.

He could get seven blocks in a game.

But to your point, right?

I mean, it's a crazy, crazy game.

One of my favorite, so one of my favorite things

early in this game for KaloAware before the big

sort of cross-road moments is he made himself available

for a ton of lobs.

Hero was hitting him for lobs.

Jaime was hitting him for lobs.

He made himself available.

That part of his game has gotten a lot more consistent.

And then we have the second half take over from him.

And I think my favorite, maybe my favorite sort of series

from him was the nets put up a shot.

It misses.

He hustles, pokes the offensive rebound

away from one of the Brooklyn nets players,

and kind of pokes it towards Pella Larson.

Larson runs the floor.

Where keeps running the floor?

And then Pella throws it back to him for a lob

and the heat go up 18 at that point.

And I'm like, I think that was the game.

I was in the start of the fourth quarter,

and it was kind of the dagger to the game.

And that might have been my favorite series,

but I'd have to go back and watch it to really name it.

But yeah, very deserving of the four credit cookies

who's next.

Let's go for another guy who came off the bench.

I have a big moment.

Jaime Hakez.

And then there any other night, I think

he would have been deserving of a lot more credit cookies.

He didn't finish with 18.66 from the line.

6 of 9 from the field.

Seven rebounds, seven assists.

Flirting with triple double type territory really, really

solid.

And it was just impactful.

And just being able to generate points

during different stretches throughout the game.

I loved his overall impact.

The playmaking was there.

He's shown just steady growth in that regard.

He's been really, really good this season.

And he's just been one of Miami's top five players

all year long.

And I think tonight he certainly deserves it as well.

So he gets one credit cookie.

And that's where I feel kind of guilty about it.

But I mean, somebody has to, because Kaleil had the monster

game that he did, somebody has to struggle.

And that gave it as many cookies and tonight it was Jaime.

The order of the credit cookie allotment is, it's an art.

It's not a science.

Providence.

Sometimes it's unfair, right?

But with Jaime, I'm glad you brought up the playmaking.

That's the port that really stood out to me.

It's the most assist he's had in a month.

And I think it's not to say that he has been bad from a playmaking

perspective.

But there was a stretch there about a month ago

where he seemed to be really taking

the leap in terms of a playmaker.

And then Tallah hero comes back.

And they don't need him to do that stuff

on his much anymore.

That's OK, right?

You'd rather have hero back than Jaime being over tasked

with playmaking and scoring.

But it's nice to see him be able to step into that, especially

when Norm Palo is out still with the scoring injury.

So well deserving of the credit cookie.

It's a big credit cookie.

Tallah hero is next on my list.

I gave him two credit cookies back in that study line up,

obviously.

Miami's top score with 25 points.

The shooting wasn't there, but he was really good in the painted

area of the game.

It's a three-point shooting game.

Yeah.

7 from the three-point land.

2, 9, 16 overall.

Yeah.

5-5 in the line, 2, 4 rebounds, 5 assists.

You know what, a really solid game.

He's shown no rush.

He looks really solid in that starting line up.

I love the chemistry with both BAM and with Khalil.

It's just been seamless.

So I think we have questions ahead as far as what this starting

line up might be when Norm Pal eventually returns from injury.

But for now, you've ride the hot hand for as long as you've

got it, so make the most of the opportunity.

And Tyler certainly has.

We literally have a question from a listener

from the cookie gang about that.

So I love the driving from hero in this net's little home

and home series that they played.

I mentioned it in the Tuesday post game show

when I gave Tallah hero credit cookies.

It was like his drive game has been on display in this game.

And that's what you want to see from an all-star type of player.

I don't need the three-point shot.

It's Tyler here will tell you and told us

after the game on Tuesday, he still feels like his three-point shot

isn't completely there since he's come back from injury.

That he's still trying to find his rhythm from beyond the arc.

But I love the fact that he's like, yeah,

I'm not totally comfortable with my three-ball right now.

But let me just put my shoulder down and get to the basket.

And he's playing with the level of physicality

that I think we're reminded of, right?

This was part of the reason why he became an all-star last year.

That he wasn't just a jump shooting player anymore.

He became a legitimate three-level score last year.

In order to his first career all-star game.

And we're starting to see that now.

And the fact that he can just sort of adjust the sliders,

so to speak, when he's not feeling comfortable

with the deep ball.

And he's like, all right, I'll just get to the rim.

I'll get to the free throw line.

I got this float game.

He's got one of the best floaters in the NBA

and he's shown that this week.

Yeah, well deserved.

I mean, I don't know if he's ever been asked by a before,

but because the floater is so good,

I think that's the kind of touch that he's made

of so great at tossing the lob, too,

because the arc and the trajectory of the pass

is very, very similar.

You're just kind of laying it up softly

within the vicinity of the rim.

And his timing is so excellent on that.

Like, he is a really, really good lob.

It's great call.

Passer.

I've got Bam at a bio.

And any other night, he'd probably

getting more than two credit cookies.

But with a foul trouble, it kind of took away

from the impact, but he was in 25 minutes.

He put a 21.750 from the floor.

The three-point shot was not there tonight.

And still, if you take away the four missed,

three-point attempt, seven of 11 from the four,

talk about a guy who was in his bag around the rim.

He was phenomenal, really soft touch there as well.

And eight drips to the free throw line.

He connected on seven of those to go with seven rebounds

to assist, really, really solid game from him.

I see you, and a block as well.

21.

I'm glad you brought up, Bam, because his night

could get lost with the fact that he had foul trouble

and then overshadowed by the big Kalalware boost

in the second half.

But he was tremendous in the minutes that he played.

Very deserving was credit cookies.

He had a series in the third quarter

before the foul trouble.

He gets a put back, gets the ball again on the next heat

possession, takes Clowney into the post

for four straight points.

After Brooklyn had taken a four-point lead,

he was helping the heat get back into this game

before where it came in and took it over.

So very deserving the cookies.

I'm glad you shot it him out.

What do we have one more?

I've got one more left.

And this was a tough one.

I was wobbly between Pella Larsen

who finished with 16 points at a really solid

Larsen S-Type Knight and the rookie Casper

Ciacus Jonas.

And you know what?

I gave it to Cas.

I think he had the more impactful game.

11 points in total, so less than Pella.

Four of nine from the four, three of seven

from three-point range, six rebounds, three assists, a steal.

I just felt like his minutes were more impactful.

And he's got such great potential.

And I've really liked his development

and continued growth over the course of the season.

He's making the most, he played only 21 minutes,

but he wins a plus 20 in that stretch.

And maybe that's because a lot of the time

came alongside what Khalil was having

as a break out there.

I really just liked his impact overall.

I don't know.

I could be convinced if it's a...

I would go Pella.

I would go Pella on this one.

I just thought he was better overall.

Cas had a couple of really dumb turnovers.

Maybe that's just in the front of my head,

in front of my mind right now.

But he was good.

He had a couple of big three-point shots too.

He did.

He made some really good threes early on.

They were just leaving them open early in this game.

I tweeted this during the Tuesday game

when they were running the BAM in Wear Minutes.

I said, I would really like them to run this line up,

the BAM wear line up, when they come in

at the end of the first quarter

and into the second quarter,

with a few more floor spacers, right?

Because on Tuesday, it was BAM where,

I think, Jaime, Fontequeo, and Caz.

And a lot of people replied to me and said,

Caz can shoot threes.

And I'm like, yeah, Caz could shoot threes,

but there's a difference between making threes

and being a floor spacer.

Being a floor spacer means that the defense reacts to you

as somebody who is a lights out shooter

and doesn't play off of you.

And opponents are still playing off of Caz.

And you saw that in this game,

the net's just playing off of them in the first half.

And Caz was like, all right, you're gonna leave me open.

And he made three of his first six three-point attempts.

I thought he was really strong in that regard.

Also, little side note here,

Spowe did listen to me on the post-game show

because then when we saw the BAM wear minutes

in the first half of this game,

on Thursday night, he did it with hero also in the game,

which was needing forcibly.

And Caz, Caz was in there too.

All right.

Thanks for listening, Spowe.

But Pella deserves some crumbs for sure.

Good segment on the credit cookies coming up.

We got some listener questions including one

about whether or not the heat could build momentum

from these games and get a much needed win in Charlotte

on the second night of a back-to-back.

It's coming up next.

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This question comes from Pat who writes in,

I'm taking my nephew to his first NBA game in Charlotte.

I got him a heat shirt, but my question is,

can we beat this Hornets team and are they for real?

Shout out to Pat for taking an FU to your first NBA game.

That's very exciting.

I am glad that he's going to be representing the heat

in Charlotte.

That Hornets crowd is really loving this team

and that is something that I think heat fans,

when we watch this because they eat

have not played the Hornets since the first month of the season

and this Hornets team now is not the Hornets team

from the first month of the season.

I think we might be a little surprised

when we tune into the broadcast about how loud

this Hornets crowd ends up being

because they are energized and rightly so by this team.

It's going to be a tough environment, David.

Yeah, I know that.

I mean, they're finally have a good team to rally around,

I mean, the way that they've been consistently winning

of late, this is very, very different than the Hornets group

that we've seen over the last few years

where it's always been kind of stuck in the mire

and not really sure what their identity is.

Are you buying it?

I am, absolutely.

I don't think you can help but buy it.

Like I was skeptical weeks ago and then I locked on a B.A.

I said, yeah, you know, it's a Hornets for me.

Are they really getting the win?

And then you know what?

They shut me up real quick because they kept winning.

And I was like, at some point you watch them

like, you know what, they play defense?

I mean, it's been makes part five.

35, 40 games of this.

I mean, that's most of the season.

They've been this, right?

And so that's a real stretch.

I'm with you.

You watch them put the beat down on the Celtics the other night

and like their defense is on a straight,

they don't have any great individual defenders.

Although Brandon Miller could be that at times.

But and Musa Diabata is a game changer at their center

because it's just a hustle center

who does a lot of different things,

especially on the on the glass.

They're honest string.

They're coached really well by Charles Lee.

They're the best defense rebounding team in the league.

So all this stuff, we've been on the margins

for the heat lately.

And one of the margin wins that the heater trying

to get on a nightly basis is on the offensive glass.

That's gonna be really hard in Charlotte

on the second night of a back-to-back.

So what's at stake in this one?

The heat right now after this win are 34 and 29.

The magic one also tonight.

So nothing changes there in terms of the standings.

The magic obviously have a tiebreaker over the heat

because the heat cannot beat the magic for whatever reason.

The heat are still eighth, but with this win,

just one loss back of the sixers for six place.

So they're right there.

I mean, this is six places right there for the taking.

And then this game on Friday night in Charlotte

is very important.

Miami two games ahead of the Hornets in the lost column right now.

A win would obviously add a game to that cushion

and it would secure the tiebreaker for the season

because the first two times at this team is met

to heat one those first two times.

So getting this win, you would get the tiebreaker

for the season if it comes to that.

David, how do the heat win this game

against a Hornets team that is playing

as well as anybody in the league right now

and by the way, has the rest advantage

and coming off of a really impressive win against the Celtics?

I don't know.

I mean, I don't know.

It's gonna be tough.

They play in a style that feels like it's a major obstacle

to what Miami is able to do.

And so I don't know that Miami has a way to respond.

My gut feeling is honestly that they just have to find a way

to be more physical and kind of take Charlotte away

from doing what they do well.

I don't know.

Put their imprint on the defensive perimeter.

Try to shut down what they do

from the three point range.

Konkenipu, obviously a great shooter.

He's kind of, they're most dangerous weapon

from that regard but Miller has some great range

and we know what ball can do on occasion.

So they're just, they're really good at this point in time.

So from Miami's perspective,

I just think that they have to find a way

to play their game as effectively as possible

and focus on what they can do well defensively.

I think you're gonna need another big night from where.

Yeah.

I don't know.

Other than that, I'm not sure that the other thing.

I think you're on to something with the physicality, right?

Where Charlotte is a physical team.

Like they're a big team.

They're built around six, seven wings with Lumello

and Konenipu and Brandon Miller

and Musa Debiata and Colkbrenner in the middle

are real defensive type of centers

who play with a lot of physicalities set really good screens.

Bridges is a physical player as we know, right?

We've seen him enough within the division to know that.

But I think at the very,

you're not gonna beat the hornets on the boards

but you can't get crushed by them either, right?

Because that was a big thing in that Celtics loss

when the Celtics lost them.

They just didn't bring the effort on the glass

and Charlotte dominated in that category.

You can't get dominated there.

If you're not gonna win the margin,

you can't lose the margin by a lot.

The one area where the hornets have been

and still are very vulnerable,

they turn the ball over a lot.

And the heat in these games against Brooklyn

did a really nice job of not only forcing turnovers

but scoring off of those turnovers.

The heat are gonna have to force turnovers,

force steels, get block shots, all those things

and really run off of those turnovers

and do a good job scoring efficiently off those turnovers.

You can get a few swing points that way.

That's the way I think you win this game

if you're the heat.

Don't get beat on the margins by a lot.

Hope that the hornets don't go crazy

from three point range.

Now they did go crazy from three point range in Boston.

So maybe they kind of come back down

to Earth a little bit Friday night.

We'll see.

You just hope that Knapple or Brandon Miller

just don't lose their minds from deep

and you don't get crushed there

and maybe you win the turnover battle

and maybe that's the path to a big one on the road.

Two years to your point there, that statistic.

Any guess on how many turnovers they had

against the Celtics?

Just four.

Yeah, they might be cleaning this up right

and just in time.

The Celtics also played like they didn't realize

they had a game to play that night.

It may be.

That was one of the lazier Celtics games

I've seen in a long time.

So I don't know what was going on with them in that one.

We'll see how Miami responds.

This is going to be.

Hopefully not that way.

Yeah, no, no, this is a this is a must watch game

and this is like on a night where Jason Tatum

is coming back for the Boston Celtics

more likely than not.

And I think this is the must watch game on the schedule.

This could decide the southeast division.

It could decide who ends up making the playoffs

and who doesn't.

Like this is huge, not just for the succeed by the way.

But for teams trying to stay out of that 910 bracket

part of the plane where you have to win two games

back to back to just make the playoffs.

I mean, this is a game with massive playoff implications.

Very excited to watch it.

That'll do it for us today.

Thanks for tuning in.

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