Knicks 125, Heat 109: Five on the Floor quick takes

Knicks 125, Heat 109: Five on the Floor quick takes

Hey it’s e this call five on the floor on the Five Reasons YouTube channel here at Rock Esports Lounge somebody’s going to win the 2K tournament today but the Miami Heat did not win this game six straight losses 125 to 109 in New York in the garden good start tonight

Catapulted by Jimmy Butler’s 11 points in the first quarter he finished with 28 he was more active but it didn’t matter anyway again I’m Ethan scholnick I’m with Alex too you can follow tropical blanket Brady Hawk you can follow at Brady hawk three 05 the background noise

Again there a lot of people playing video games um I don’t know maybe Eric sper needs to get on 2K and figure out some of these lineups cuz now hero Butler and Bam are five and 10 together this season I know all of that’s going

To fall on one person um but Alex it’s more than that isn’t it like what why can’t this team stop the ball Jaylen Brunson did whatever he wanted again today Terry Rosier shot under 50% again although he did some decent things in this game but how did they get going

Here cuz they had hakz that didn’t solve the problem yeah I thought honestly I felt pretty good coming into this game because we’ve seen this story kind of play out throughout the Jimmy era before where like around this time of the year around this time of year they have a bad

Stretch and they go and get a nice win I thought this was going to be that win especially when getting hakz in love back you got a day off for Rosier to kind of get in the midst of things and that just wasn’t the case man I felt

Good after the first quarter it felt like a pretty good start it felt like guys were getting going and then they got was scored by 13 in the second quarter and then in the fourth quarter like it it kind of felt like you know they had to do everything and and and

Play perfectly with just such a small margin for error with the position that they had put themselves in and it just went the other way they got completely destroyed in the fourth quarter the fourth quarter stuff continues it’s not even clutch stuff anymore it’s just the entire quarter and it’s you can’t blame

Kyle anymore and I know a lot of people are going to blame Tyler he didn’t have like a great shooting game obviously Rosier didn’t either it was cool to see Jimmy do his thing and have a good game but um they still got a lot to figure

Out and I feel like even though we talked about the Rosier thing and ahead of time how it could be clunky it’s been even clunkier than I thought and and look it makes sense the guy had an insanely High usage um for Charlotte this year had big time responsibility

It’s not an easy thing it’s not an easy adjustment to just be you know go from kind of a first to second option to somebody who is kind of deferring to three other guys in the starting lineup and I feel like he made some strides today as far Asing trying to play his

Game I think he did a little bit more than the first couple of games but yeah the shooting has not been there they’ve lost his minutes that he’s played they’ve got a lot to figure out to me like the defense is just is the most I I

I I think what makes me feel the worst because it’s like that’s supposed to be what you’re good at that’s supposed to be your identity and it keeps just looking so inconsistent I think the point of attack hasn’t been great today they did more hedging in recovering than

Switching and um you know I like that but that that did not stop runson whatsoever that guy was just doing whatever he wanted out there hitting all types of tough shots and getting into his bag pushing off dudes creating the space and hitting the jumpers hitting the floaters hitting whatever the hell

He wanted to and really I think after the defense kind of start you know wasn’t able to get stops it’s like oh well there goes the rest of it and a Jimmy having a good game was not enough to carry the rest of these guys bad shooting percentages and the defense

Just being Inc consistent well the thing is with their defense their defense used to hold them in the game until they fig fig out the offense and now now it doesn’t and so you end up with these situations Duncan Tyler had a stretch Brady where they had some open shots uh

Didn’t make them out the thing about Rosier is he’s doing at least offensively what they expected him to do with the exception of the efficiency he’s getting the rim he had the pass to Bam for the dunk on the Baseline but it hasn’t mattered yeah I think there’s a

Lack of consistency with his role and I think that’s still what they’re trying to figure out I thought it was weird the first time that they spoke uh when he first got here was like they were treating him like a role player they were talking about him kind of fitting

Into a role and kind of not stepping on toes and doing all this stuff where it’s like the he he has not been efficient but the guy is not defensive the guy is a guy that you brought in for a reason you brought him in to help with your

Scoring output uh and once again this is not a game where the scoring was a problem I felt like they they were pretty uh good offensively they had that good punch to finish the third quarter where they kind of tied things back up like Alex was saying you got really good

Jimmy you got a consistent Jimmy that was like caring uh about doing things and doing the right things on on the offensive side of the ball but the defense is the problem and it’s just funny how it’s just they are they have not all year had the offensive defense

Look good at the same time they just hav it it’s it’s one or the other is going to be the problem and tonight was the defense again just like it was the last game and it’s just I’d say the trend that’s sticking out the most is the

Three-pointers they you know Greg R this D the other day how they’re really low in contesting threes and that fits the iest perfectly like you’re watching this game uh and they’re shooting 55% from three but I felt like they had the Knicks had a lot of shots where they

Wide open threes that they were missing and I’m like they could easily be shooting like 65% from three in this game like he’d have been very bad in that area they’ve done certain stuff in the paint uh Brunson like you said got got it to his spots but they they have

To figure out the three-point Sho thing because you cannot rely all the way on offense on you kind of shooting the three ball consistently and then also not cover the three ball in the other end of the floor so it’s they have a lot of things to figure out the the biggest

Thing I’ve said is they don’t play with any Force and and because of that they don’t get other teams off their game they don’t make other teams feel them I didn’t think this was a particularly good bam game today um and you know it’s like it it’s this is what happens though

I hate to say it teams are struggling or they kind of train towards being bad teams it’s one guy one night it’s one guy the next night we thought Jimmy need more aggressive hot is coming back to fix it it didn’t happen he been SC for

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