NBA Today| Heat look like the MOST dangerous team in East: Jefferson on Miami winning 4 Gms in a row

NBA Today| Heat look like the MOST dangerous team in East: Jefferson on Miami winning 4 Gms in a row

In Sacramento the heat of the Kings the heat were down many many players but Jimmy Butler he hosted a little watch party heat let’s go Heat I the heat yeah I I the heat I the heat I of the tiger I Hae hakz Nails the three there closing up the opening minutes

Rather of the third quarter what’s going on with your Sacramento Kings Malika I they’re very very confusing right now Pang pangs pangs come on go work him Hae hakz with the left suspended and loving it from home not letting a rookie cook you Sacramento y’all ready for the

Postseason come on now so in the fourth quarter guys the heat were up by as many as as 20 points here bam onab bio going to work cuz you’re all aboard the bag driving the bandwagon he just all he does is Win just makes winning play after winning play but still somehow

Becky the Sacramento Kings they got back into this one down the stretch nice pass there red velvet turns gets it to go well you get you get them out in transition they become a very fast team with de Fox being in the head of that snake um but don’t W so many leads

Sometimes slow down sometimes slow down well the Miami Heat as Jimmy Butler continues to love hit him with him hit him with it he cooked everybody every Defender they threw at him hameh hak JR cook oh Look Out Below Martin Throwing It Down Sacramento I don’t believe they get

The win despite giving up that lead and they’re on a roll baby that wins in eight of their last 10 games including a pair of Victories over the Kings wins at Milwaukee New Orleans during that stretch but guys Jimmy Butler he called this over the weekend here’s what he

Said after the win over New Orleans 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 to standings Nicks beat him in the playoffs Bucks beat him in the playoffs Boston beat him in the playoffs Cleveland has to won of playoff series they are not scared of anybody and it’s

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 calm down so when you look at the Heat and where their standings are they 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 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 that 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 trending 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 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 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 bam wagon 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 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 well obviously when you’re comparing him to Y there a different

Offensive no but bam it was kind of an what you would say it 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 they finish eighth

Who are they staring at in that one spot Bo good I think the Boston Celtics should be rooting for anything but seeing the I think I think I think they’re closer to finishing on the upswing than they are all thee is playin they’re the a play 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 okay I’m afraid I’m afraid of the table is a little bit a little bit if you’re going to win the

Title you’re going to have to beat teams like that take the hardest path do it do it and leave no I don’t believe that when golden state was was down 3-1 against the Thunder we were rooing for the thunder make no mistake we were running for OKC came back from from in

Three weeks since the miniscus procedure that followed the Sixers they are four and seven without their MVP in the lineup and have been slipping in the Eastern Conference standings our senior Insider Adrian W narowski is back with us now W are the Sixers still optimistic about getting Joel embiid back this year

They still are optimistic that they can get him back I think there’s some hope you know that they can get him back on the court by sometime in late March uh back starting to uh get into condition and listen the goal here isn’t necessarily to try to bring him back and

See how many regular season games you might be able to win with him the goal is to get him as healthy as he can be for the postseason hope they can hang in where they are and then have as spry and mobile and conditioned of a joal beat as

They can for what would be either a playin game uh maybe as a seven seed or at five or six you know a nightmare first round matchup for a team um that gets homecourt advantage in the East and all of a sudden here comes a healthy a

Healthy Joel embiid uh with Buddy hee with Kyle Lowry with the additions but uh probably about a week away from him getting uh from getting an up dat on a timeline with him but I think there’s still optimism in Philly uh that that we will see Joel M be again this season

Well the playoffs they start on April 20th so s time is not necessarily on the 76ers side here for the season the Sixers are 26 and8 with embiid in the lineup winning at a better clip than every team in the East except to of course the Boston Celtics but without

The reigning MVP Philly has gone seven and 16 playing at a rate that would be the 13th seed in the the Eastern Conference so simply put zacka the Sixers good enough to avoid the playin without Joel embiid while he continues his recovery they’re good enough particularly since they’re now healthy

Around Joel embiid you know Melton’s back other guys that were out but Batum was HT he’s back but they really need to start playing better that record seven and 16 that’s not going to be good enough if they play something like 500 they got a shot at it but look they’re

Only two games up in the Lost column on Indiana who’s seventh and one game up on Miami Miami and Orlando who’s right there with Indiana have the two easiest schedules in the league it could be a playin thing for the Sixers and by the way that that if if he is healthy and

Ready for the postseason that’s what like five or six days of rest Joel andb doesn’t get if that’s the difference between being out of the playin and in the playin I just think when you look at a your scheduled right as a coach you look okay we feel good but we can get

This win they can be beat by any team and I think that’s a a very scary thought they’re going to have to come recollect because you’re right that record and and how they’ve been playing without him is not going to be good enough um but a healthy embiid at the

End of the day is is scary it Joel embiid on the sidelines adorable with his son Arthur no I I I agree with with with pretty much the panel from the standpoint of hey Joel embiid if he’s healthy he’s that guy I my biggest concern for them is more of like even on

The five six games that he will get back he will be on a minute’s restriction it will be okay he can do this obviously he’s not going to play in back to there’s going to be all of these regulations when the postseason comes you’re going to be playing 40 minutes 42

Minutes of the most intense basketball you will ever play that’s what the PO postseason is so that’s my biggest concern is not that can he be healthy for the playoffs will he be in a condition to dominate for 42 minutes right that’s exactly it RJ is he can

Come back and play but we know with this Sixers team is built to win with Joel embiid playing it at MVP level he did it last year he was was doing it this year you can’t just assume that he’s going to get back to that level in such a short

Window of time after another knee procedure right Joel embiid he’s out tonight facing the Boston Celtics that’s Philly’s opponent on the schedule the Celtics are currently on a season High eight game winning streak and they are blowing teams out Boston is winning on average by more than 18 points per game

During the streak so since we have Coach Becky Hammond and in the building Becky what impressed you most about Boston during the stretch what they’re doing well I love their defensive tenacity so when we start looking at some of their Clips um can we roll that tape yes oh well I’m not the

Tape there it is here it is all right so here you have Derek white on the ball right so great defensive teams are great communicators he goes from a pursuing thing with a big setting that screen comes in you see the small trying to clean it up he’s going to slip out here

Great communication by Drew holiday he switches out but the scramble and the effort after the play may or may not break down is a separation factor for these Boston Celtics and they really just have extraordinary individual Defenders with Derek white I think you could put Drew holiday on a top five

List for on ball Defenders all time so when you have that kind of luxury uh you can do a lot of fun things defensively but let’s run through this real quick let’s have uh you be the ball okay you’re not the ball handle anymore I’m I’m dere white here comes the big

Setting the screen so another thing the guards do well is they pursue they don’t get hung up on screen so I’m going to get in here I’m going to pursue the big was right back there we don’t have another body right and then Here Comes Zach setting you’re going to be the

Small screener with the back screen you’re my Drew holiday over there you’re my Drew holiday he slips out here go out here Zach here comes the swing and the pursuit by D test is definitely a separation well and it’s you said it’s the size and the length Derek white has

The size even if that’s Jaylen Brown even if that’s Jason Tatum the versatility across their backcourt kind of wing players is Elite and that’s why they’re able to switch as much that’s why they’re able to do as much and it makes the de it makes your offense

Struggle to find those gaps right and we’re seeing that the the the results of that for this Boston Celtics team I mean they’re fun to watch defensively and like I said not only are they intelligent they’re physical they’re long they have multiple guys that take

Pride in it right you want guys to take pride in it and at the end of the day when that three Ball’s not going for them they have a defense good enough that they can rely on to sustain them and keep them in games and that’s how you win playoffs games series and

Championship when there’s a real question of oh what’s better their offense or their defense that’s the kind of problem that the Boston Celtics are glad to be having problem fore spe that’s a good to Goode spe spee spe spe Tower on door now back that’s a good toy l Jo so speech good

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NBA Today | Heat look like the MOST dangerous team in the East – Jefferson on Miami making it 4 straight wins