NEVER DOUBT THE HEAT! – Zach Lowe thinks Miami are dangerous 👀 | NBA Today

NEVER DOUBT THE HEAT! – Zach Lowe thinks Miami are dangerous 👀 | NBA Today

I think our our team is so ready for anything that anybody’s thrown at us um we’re so together we’re playing some incredible basketball I don’t think it matter who we go up against right now it’s it’s that time of the year the heat are starting to hit

Their stride 25 games remaining is Jimmy Butler right never doubt the heat never ever doubt the heat they’re always lurking they’re always lurking now they’re doing more than lurking they have the second easiest schedule in the NBA left they we could wake up at the end of the season they could be the

Fourth seed and you just look up and down standings Nicks beat him in the playoffs Bucks beat him in the playoffs Boston beat him in the playoffs Cleveland has to won a playoff series they are not scared of anybody and as we watch haime hakz and Caleb Martin cook

The Kings it is interesting to think about they didn’t get Damen Lillard and there was a lot of panic about oh my God they missed the boat on Damen Lillard what is this team going to do they weren’t panicking they wanted Damen Lillard at a certain cost Portland

Didn’t meet their cost they said you know what we like our team we like this rookie we like our players and I don’t think they feel much regret these days about it well when you look at those two teams I don’t know if we can pop the standings back up Philly is trending

Downwards right Nicks trending downward because of injuries every TR yeah everyone calmed down so when you look at the Heat and where their standings are they’re obviously they have a bunch of guys injured but they know this is a team that has been to two NBA Finals in

The last five seasons let let’s let’s make no mistake well they have one of the great coaches they have one of the great they are doing everything right so when I look at them and I see the their two teams above them are dealing with injuries we’re not sure of Randle we’re

Not sure of embiid they’re trending this way Miami Heat they had the e one of the easiest schedules they’re getting healthy they’re training upward to your point they can get up there in that standing and they don’t fear anyone I guarantee you there are a lot of teams

That will be positioning themselves to not play them it’s called a program they got a program down there and it sustains you is that is that a euphemism for heat culture it could be I just think it’s because when I look at the Miami Heat the amount of success they’ve had

Not I I I give they have buyin with their coach right you need an organization that has buyin with their coach because when the crap hits the fan and it will you know injuries dis whatever it might be distractions but your system will help you withstand that and I think that’s

Something that I really admire about the Miami Heat I got to think you know coach spos is a top five coach he’s got to be in the conversation um and so when you have him at the helm and then you got guys that are committed to winning like a bam what

Did you say the BAM train what was bwag driving the BAM wagon hop on we got plenty of room I’m on it I’m on it I I think he’s having an a spectacular year he is a separation factor and he’s a guy that impacts both ends of the floor

Which man in the middle like that uh you got to give him some love he’s averaging career highs in points in rebounds and when you talk about Point centers and I know we talk about this a lot with joic we talk about it a lot with sabonis I

Feel like we need to put bam a little bit more firmly into that conversation yeah no I I I think bam he does pass the ball Shing well obviously when you’re comparing him to yage there a different offens no but bam it was kind of an what

You would say was a power forward if you would have gone 15 years ago like very versatile can do all the things and now you see him in the center spot and he defensively he can beat you just by his plays defensively so I think I mean the

Miami Heat you you mentioned their strength of schedule they’re trending in the direction of finishing they could finish fourth they could finish fifth so could also finish eighth like you never know if they finish eth who are they staring at in that one spot goodness I think the Boston Celtics

Should be rooting for anything but seeing I think I think I think they’re closer to finishing on the upswing than they are all thee eight is playin they’re the eight is play in I agree with you on Miami’s likely F I just think like don’t count out Indiana

Orlando but I actually would soft disagree with you I remember when Milwaukee after being dispatched by the heat drew them again the next year and actually won their last game of the season specifically not to avoid the heat I think there’s something to be said for you know what if we’re the

Number one seed let’s go get them let’s go not be afraid of them out of all of those teams out west who are you picking as a team that could win a playoff series Without homec court advantage well and also four of them are tied in

The loss column all 24 losses look I’m going to put the Warriors and the Lakers down here because right now they’re nine and 10 and there’s a decent Gap still so they’ll play each other if things don’t change in the play in Tournament of the other four teams looking so we see the

Suns big three healthy for a longer period of time particularly as we get to the end of the season I’m going Dallas I think Dallas has really found a little something lately after these trades Luca is a monster nobody wants any part of him in the playoffs so right now as of today

Dallas I mean it’s hard to bet against Luca right yeah um but I mean I kind of want to say the Suns but it’s the same thing it’s the health and I want to see them buy into the the pass more share the ball more with each other yall will get more give

It up early you’ll get it back I’m go suns are close close Wizards the Wizards that that that was the two things I was trying to decide on the W Wiz in the west the wizards but no I I I think I think it’s Dallas I think when you’ve

Got two guards at that point of attack I think Derek Lively I think I think the bigs that they have to me they have kind of a a three-headed big situation very similar to the Clippers they can play a variety of ways they have different guys

They have it uh so look Dallas is a scary team LC is playing at an MVP level statistically so you get that guy into a playoff series and it it doesn’t seem fun every time and you know playing next to Kyrie Irving in the postseason since

He has come back from injury he has looked excellent this Mavs team has looked very very scary well and Kyrie is just so special people don’t understand that this individual what he’s able to do on the court there is no defense created for him there is no oh we’re

Going to put a six foot guy we’re going to put some length on him he he go to the Post he’ll go he’ll he’ll take you in pick and roll transition all of the things he can do and that just compliments Luca so well very similar to how it complimented LeBron James yeah

The Mavs the Pelicans they both feel like they’re poised to be able to potentially do something at least a little bit interesting in the postseason the Suns as well the Lakers the Warriors they’re still on the outside looking in at this point the Warriors have a pretty easy remaining schedule here but they

Have their work cut out for them I don’t think if you’re the Timberwolves if you’re uh OKC you want to see one of those battl tested teams in a first round series that’s life in the west you don’t want to see anybody I can we can

We get someone from the East to come over and play in the west cuz you don’t want to see anybody whether it’s Lake I’m sorry but whether it’s Lakers Warriors who have been clicking and kind of have found an identity I think even more so than the Lakers or one of the

Other teams we’re talking about Minnesota hasn’t won Playoff series together Oklahoma City hasn’t won a playoff series together like that stuff is hard all these teams are good I’m goingon to say you know when you look at Golden State there something’s missing defensively right when they were really

Good they they played both ends of the floor so when I look at a team being able to win in the playoffs on on one of those lower seats I kind of like La in there too because they’ll play defense they can play some defense and that

Always gives you a chance in the playoffs but at the end of the day do you want to see LeBron or Steph no no no no the the you don’t the experience is the thing because what what you learn in playoff experience is that it’s about okay we’re going to take

Away this one specific thing and then we’re going to make this beat us or we can spot the weakness in their defense and we are going to attack that for seven games and that’s where we’re going to define the the advantage T SPO there coaches that are great at this there’s

Players that are great at this once they find the weakness they will expose it for the rest of the series LeBron James Steph Curry their teams are as good of team that you will ever find at that so I think those top seeds they don’t want

To see any of those bad boys down there the west and then you get into those middle rounds four versus five that could be Clippers versus Suns you don’t know who’s going to win that well you got the guys that can just take over game yeah Steph can take over game

LeBron can take over a game Luca can take over a game like and there’s sometimes there’s nothing you can do well look here’s the reality this is life in the west you are going to see after the first round two teams who came into the season at least two teams with

Championship level expectations out after one round that’s life in the western whoever they are that’s what the expectations were in the Western Conference when you’re looking at the Phoenix Suns when you’re looking at Los Angeles when you’re looking at the Warriors you could see that then the the

Clippers are going to be without Paul George once again tomorrow in their battle against Los Angeles so we’ll see what happens there but it feels like there is we we are posed for a very interesting final stretch particularly in the Western [Applause] [Applause] Conference

NEVER DOUBT THE HEAT! – Zach Lowe thinks Miami are dangerous 👀 | NBA Today
The NBA Today crew discuss how dangerous the Miami Heat are this season and which team outside the top 4 can win a playoff series.
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