Miami Heat Look For Signature Win In Rematch vs Nuggets
Welcome back everybody toin Leroy here with you 560 wqam just found out Marcos is going to be boots on the ground tonight for a little heat action boots on the ground uh your headlines brought to you by the new palet for truck Super Center why buy your truck at a car store
Pal oh he’s got that red truck for heat and Panthers so you’re gonna be uh you’re gonna be watching little heat nuggets tonight too Marcos yes indeed I will be I will be doing a full report it’ll be my first time at the arena this season
First time since they changed it to ca actually really so they’re gonna get the full art God boots on the ground experience are you uh are you going with the misses who you going with no not the or the baby my cousin this time okay yeah yeah he’ll be able to hold the
Camera while I do my serious journalism section you doing you doing like a fans on the street thing uh you know what I didn’t even think of exactly what I’m going to do because a real AR heast just kind of shows things happen so we’ll see if you
See me there just say frog boy I know exactly who you’re talking to and I’ll say what’s up uh all right so be on the lookout for Marcos I’ll be there as well um sweet I I’ll be uh there for heat and Nuggets night probably the last real
Signature game for Miami the rest of I mean they got the Warriors but the Warriors are not as good as Denver is you know there was this the whole thing I think the heat are like 0 and 10 against the top five teams this year not
A fan of that it’s not been good it’s not been good so far with uh with having that St they’ve been much more competitive over the last couple of uh matchups against these Elite teams but you would like to get one you would like to get one Jimmy Butler’s probably Mis
Practice today because he was sick Tyler remains out Tyler’s up to nine nine straight games missed with this foot injury I’m not that is strange I’m not feeling great about it I’m not feeling great about I told you when when you don’t really know what the injury is and start missing substantial
Time in the foot there’s a lot of Bones and there’s a lot of action in the foot right so yeah I’m worried because they haven’t even given like updates nothing jfig says she’s gonna be there too yes I think we should find you and make you love us in public you guys can
Find me it’s going to be a long walk for you guys but go ahead come and find me that’s so true it’s going to be such a long walk I’m not walking up there but if you guys want to come find me by all means I’m obligated to say hi to one
Person in one person only Tommy Ty of course gotta say hello to Tommy that’s about it I mean Tommy’s still going to be pretty far from you he’s goingon to be like in the bardi lounge he will also he’ll also be very upset at me as well
As to why I’m ruining his mojo on game day but I just love love him too he’s a Pros Pro man nobody’s nobody nothing is better than the Tommy tag Miami Heat monologue to get you going so good love it I need you to keep an eye out today
As to who’s coming out of that locker room first to warm up why because we’re trying to see who replac Kyle lri as the hardest worker in the room oh who’s like the first guy to warm warm up warm up yeah like you mentioned before I’ll check it’s going to be somebody really
Young it’s gonna be somebody really young the last game that I went to was the Jazz game yeah and that was a weird one because I think they had an ear I think they had a late shoot around so the the first person that come out wasn’t uh wasn’t there until basically
Pretty close to tip off and it was like dun it and Bam so that I don’t think because they’re usually like the fourth or fifth so I don’t know I don’t have a good grasp of that yet I’m interested but it’s nobody I don’t think it’s anybody maybe it’s Patty Mills maybe
It’s Patty maybe Patty Mills gets there super early I don’t know this his first home game no no oh he debuted at home they just played they just played at home it’s been like four days it has been it’s been a couple days quite some
Time it has been a couple days but no dude should I do you want to remember Washington I don’t I don’t it was it was an awful awful night what is the line tonight do we know what the the spread is for tonight I don’t know what I got I
Accidentally accidentally deposited an extra $20 my hard rock account so so you you put back the money that you spent on my ridiculous parlay where you tried to win $6,000 yeah yeah yeah and I almost did if it wasn’t for that pesky pesky clock Denver is a three and a half Point
Favorite tonight oh yeah I did hear that actually for some reason these uh late night CBS Radio people were telling everyone to hammer Denver they’re totally going to cover and it bothered me even more I mean the heat haven’t beat Denver at home uh since 2018 we’re
Du we are due we’re du we are du but we’re talking a we’re talking a Heat team that had Rody McGruder on it you know it’s been a while dude they they have not I mean because they’ve been really good for quite a they’ve been
Good the he the he I mean the he barely win in Denver H they didn’t win any games against him in the finals last year at home so it’s been a while it’s been a while God that game three oh man I don’t even like these these lines set
At the player props it this tells me we’re going to lose like we’re you know I’m looking at the over hund for our best players and it’s like 19 15 21 well this is gonna be an interesting thing because Jimmy Butler did not have a good finals and everybody kind of chocked it
Up to did he just wear down but Denver seems to have a good method with him I mean Aaron Gordon does a really good job against Jimmy Butler he’s really big okay here’s what they do they’re big as hell they are big as hell so while we
Sit here saying they really do a good job against they’re Giants they do good against everybody because they’re huge yeah but here’s the thing that’s tough like you’re going to have like bam did a really good job in that last matchup against Joker we I I would venture to
Guess Joker has not had a game that bad all year with with what bam did he only scor 40 no he scored like 15 points like bam did a really good job against he did he did H but the thing is Bam also was like didn’t do well because he was
Working on one side of the he’s gota he’s got to go in there and he’s got to stop the Joker which makes it tough on him man he has the toughest job on that team because he has to lock down in some instances like when you go
Against Luca when you go against wh porzingis y right like there’s guys that are huge that can play in the paint that can stretch him out and he’s just working his tail off then you get to the offensive and you dump it into him and it’s like yeah so you know you’re gonna
Need to see I I think Jimmy have one of those games tonight and it’s tough because this is yeah Aaron Gordon is Aaron Gordon cter Point somebody else could pitch in yeah but you do need your best guy especially with no Tyler like you you’re gonna need either or you need
Like a crazy dunks game from three you know something you need somebody to light this thing up like a Christmas tree you know because the heat looking back at that last game could could be a hakz hakz l the SPO yesterday and SPO is saying he thinks hakin is now playing
His best ball of the Season that he is that he is broke through the crossed through did not use the term rookie wall but he had said that he thought out of practice yesterday that he was playing his best ball and I think hakz has found something over these last few games now
Adding a little bit of a three-point game has helped because his three-point shot after the All-Star break I mean it was Brick City for haime hawz so now you could you could trust him a little bit more from downtown in those spots um it’s not all going to be
The the beautiful footwork which we’ve come to fall in love with with haime but this is yeah this is one this is one that I definitely want tonight you know that I would love the heat to go out there be able to defend their home court against an incredible team and uh and
See if they can get this one but it’s not gonna be easy that that that that we do though gigantic Serbian you know wizard him last time we did we did but it still wasn’t enough because Michael Porter Jr was nuclear in that game that’s right also another giant Jamal
Murray did get hurt in the middle of that game too so and and he’s been lighting it up oh man he hit so many big shots in that finals like every time it felt like the heat were making a run Jamal Murray just had a three to just shut the crowd the
Hell up yeah it was it was uh it was it was rough to watch and you know it’s tough because in another world I would like Jamal Murray because is a big UFC fan but for tonight he can go to hell that’s fair he wouldn’t want he was like
In I saw his last press conference over the weekend on Saturday and he was like wasn’t paying attention cuz everybody’s asking him questions and you could see that he was watching UFC 299 on his phone yeah that’s fair that’s honestly look the Lakers they got lucky we were injured the
Nuggets I looked at that series I was like they’re just better than us they’re good it felt bad yeah they’re really good it was it was a hopeless feeling because it felt like every single time Miami got something they just hit a big shot and it was it was a
Killer yeah and that was a series where Michael Porter junr stunk up the joint too yeah he was terrible I remember thinking too I had such a false sense of confidence because after game two when they Heat won in Denver uh because it was such a big thing everybody made
About the altitude and I really thought like some of the quotes some of the things Malone was saying I really thought that Miami like had them yep and man you always think Miami has them no no no but like they seem defeated after that I thought that that that they seem
To show it’s just not the he’s look he’s a really good coach he’s a really he’s a really good coach they’re a great organization but here’s the kicker he has really good players and he’s a really good coach player right he’s got the best and they’re they’re all like
They look like monstar out there they’re all like is anybody under 65 including point guards maybe Murray’s like on the border yeah that’s it that’s what that’s what you’re dealing with because our point guard is 61 62 don’t do that to Scary Terry he’s 6’2 basketball 6’2 basketball 62 okay
Jamal Mur 64 6’4 you’re allowed to have one okay but the rest of them wingspan and height right very annoying very very annoying look I think the thing you have to do with with Denver is force Jokers I mean Joker to play a uptempo game right the other guys
Can run but if you get him running and get him with his hands on his knees you got got a chance I don’t think he gets tired he just plays at his Pace I don’t think he make him not play at his Pace I don’t think he can do
That I don’t think anyone’s figur that out were still trying to figure and you know what he shoots the ball like Nowitzki like just behind his back over the top very strange it’s like talk about his horses maybe oh that’s good good right like bam okay Trash Talk his horses Trash Talk
His horses in Ser we don’t even have we don’t even have that kind of track here anymore harness track there’s no harness tracks down here anymore no kyia doesn’t do any races anymore I don’t think so but M used to have one in Pomo they
Did I think I think lero might be right about that what is a harness track harness is like oh my god he has by the way there’s no weight limit on the jockey what what what if B what if bam goes to uh to to joky goes why don’t you
Ride your horse like a real man like a cowboy what do they call them the flats Flats the the what the some some of them call them Flats I don’t know the horses that they ride on instead of calling them thorough brids Flats I’ve always heard
Be like I’ve never heard Flats but I’ve heard standard bread because they can uh standard they’re definitely they’re they’re artificially flat classes bread but but here’s here’s the crazy thing right the there’s different types of trotting yeah there’s trotting and there’s pacing right and your your horse
Is more of a Pacer and it never fails when you have the Young Horses when you have the Young Horses they’ll look all pretty for like half the race and then they’ll just start running what if B what if bam shows up tonight on Horseback he goes and Ben what’ you do
That tonight he goes I ride my hor that sounds like something Jimmy would do I ride my horse I like that too Jimmy just walk up he goes in a purple suit oh yes Jimmy shows up on Horseback and Jimmy goes hey why H why’d you do that Jimmy
Goes I ride my horse like a real man not a harness and then jok SC for yeah dude but he has no assists is is he can I ask you a question like between Tatum Luca and Joker Tatum’s thirdd and who you afraid of right not even close like it’s
Crazy put them on the list those other two guys do everywhere on the basketball court yeah it’s not even close it’s it’s not even close I actually don’t even know why we mention Tatum’s name that much I really don’t even understand but we like
Okay so if we had to come up with it the best players in the league this the guys that Joker’s won yeah Joker won right I mean I mean Lucas too though it has to be you want me give you the top scores right now in the league sure this just
Helps with this yeah Luca donic 34 34.6 points perame so okay he may be number one dude Jay guildas Alexander Yannis oh my God Kevin Durant I forgot about Giannis gonna say KD Kevin Durant spider at 28 a game that’s impressive Devin Booker 27 and a half
Dearon Fox 27 pum is eighth eighth oh yeah uh Steph Curry is right behind him behind dearon fox fox is a baller but no one ever is like okay you know let’s put that’s because they always talk about sabonis for some reason I don’t know why when you talk about um Sacramento
The first name out of everybody’s mouth is sabonis he had like 42 double doubles in a row so I mean he had a pretty good the big is supposed to get double doubles I mean yeah it he’s the closest guy to get the rebounds bam stuffed him in a
Locker as he always does takes his lunch money stuffs him in a locker yeah I think Anthony Anthony Edwards is uh you have Jaylen Brunson at 10th just under 27 points per game Anthony Edwards scares me more than Anthony Edward Anthony Edward absolutely then you have uh Mr Pineapple himself Trey Young no
Not scared of him then Joker at 26 game he’s 13th in the league 13th in the league 13th in the league because he chooses to be 13th in the league he’s 13th in the league the number one on my list he chooses to be 13th in the league
Then LeBron oh I’m sorry tyus Maxi I skipped him tyus Maxi is at just under 26 he’s light he’s lightning in a bottle LeBron’s 25.3 where is AD 24.8 he’s right under him I think ad ad is another another but here’s the problem they don’t call him Street
Closed for nothing although he’s kind of broken n he’s played a lot of games this year he’s played a lot of games play a lot of games this year he’s he’s he’s uh he cannot take those Jo then you have uh dami Lillard 24.4 he’s starting to he’s
Starting to they hey they look good they look good we’ll see we’ll see I’m just saying they look good I’m not saying all right so make your top five that’s enough guys of guys that and then Kawai I’d be terrified of oh give me your top five guys you’re terrified of
Don’t forget that last guy just Joker okay Luca okay KD okay Anthony Edwards wow because he’s just he’s just like all over the place um Giannis okay good list because I like the those those guys just seem like they can do what they want right
Like I If you think about it they can do what they want they impact the game rebounding assists everything right um guys I would fear in a playoff series oh stop stop here it comes dude I’m do you know you’re playing this stupid game no I want to know I think
It’s a pretty close list yeah yeah go number five Kawai yeah it’s good that’s still scar I’m scared of him no that’s fair he just is it because he doesn’t talk scary no he’s scary he really is scary he is no no I can’t disagree all
Right number four KD yeah very tall yeah very tall the only seven-footer that doesn’t want to be seven feet he wants to be 611 doesn’t miss sometimes number three yep SGA damn okay he’s Herky jerky no he is he’s really good awward haven’t the same uh halberton shoots the ball weird too
True no one’s scared of halberton no number two yeah Joker obviously yeah gota be scared of that so good yeah number one here he comes Jimmy B it has to be no for sure that’s a good list has to be number playoff Jimmy Dude where’s he been what do you mean
Where’s he is it is it the playoff not the playoff they lost three in a row playoff you know he’ll be back no no no but he was sick he was sick can I just can I just say this found out you know if you have kids wait wait wait can I
Say this if you and this is right if Denver loses or um Dallas loses you look at they star they have 40 Point triple doubles or 35 Point triple doubles when the Heat lose Jimmy has 12 different ways to skin a cat no that no it’s
Not it’s not when those other teams lose it ain’t because of their star player what does that have to do with fear I’m not scared of 12 points you’re not scared of J Butler you’re notar I’m not scared you’re no no say the say it I
Dare you I dare you say I’m not scared of Jimmy Butler come on say it he’s I’m not gonna say it why won’t you say it why won’t you say it dang because I don’t want to get caught up in this no no you don’t you won’t say it
Because you know that you know it’s on the playoff yet that’s why yeah you okay wait what happened last year hold on hold on hold on Marcos good Marcos y a month and a half ago Yep this dude looked me in the eyes and said it’s after the All Star break you
Know what time it is yep right now at the three- game losing streak it ain’t the playoffs yet where do you see what junor B dials up to it’s you they put the phone pot up for a second no yeah sure problem no no no no what do you
Uh what are you doing right there Your call cannot be completed as done you have the option of a national TV broadcast today uh Mark Jones is on the call with can you believe this oh JJ reck oh your boy I me look I got nothing against JJ reck smart
Guy intelligent entertaining personality you know but but Leroy and picture camera he almost ruined uh dunks he he one one could argue he was a bad influence on Duncan Robinson with all this podcast nonsense because you want to know something it’s enough A J ra it’s just
Enough of him already that’s has nothing against him I think he’s very good at what he does it’s just a little bit much it’s a little bit much you can’t say nothing against him while mening five things you have against very positive with the Miami Heat and I love
That already but you know it’s enough a jtic and so that air go that’s why you should watch the B Sports Sun broadcast tonight anyway you should watch Eric Reid and John C on Bal Sports Sun tonight Ron rosstein Ron’s rewind I love Ron’s rewind anything that they are
Gonna throw up any horse bleep they’re gonna throw up on ESPN Tonight I dare it to try and touch Ron Roth scene I will say though not even Ron Ron could make me feel better about that Wizard’s game normally whenever there’s a bad heat loss I go to Ron rosstein on the
Television like a glowing warming light and be like Rin was he was even he said this was a windshield wiper game I’m like what the hell does that mean you know what it means what does it mean uh just back and forth back and forth back
And forth like they’re trying to just go you into chaos is basically what he was saying which is what they did and not great um I always no it’s a national televis game because I know what time National Television game start they uh they typically start earlier right so
Anytime it’s like 7 7:30 I can find out right now I’ll always check let see the the run down because the heat very rarely tip off 7:47 today is that the official time I feel like 7:43 oh look at that 7:43 you were close yeah you
Were close but yes it is it is a oh what what nothing oh okay um I see Mark Jones at the gym do you do he’s great he’s great y there’s like look if you if there wasn’t the option of Eric Reed tonight Mark Jones would be the guy
Mark Jones is the guy I want to hear or or harlon yeah those are my two FES love but harlon’s just got a voice for anything he’s got pun I love Mark Jones I love Mark Jones it’s justj re you know so I’m gonna listen but that’s the team
And if I’m not is that not the team now Mark Jones is gonna be with JJ re no no no I think that is their team yeah the number one team though I think is Breen and Doris Burke I think because you left uh you left to go coach the Bucks hey I
Told you I told you baby I told you uh meanwhile nuggets tonight no Tyler hero who was dealing with a foot injury no Kevin Love who’s dealing with a heal injury hey I’m worried about time I am too been a long time and for for them
Only to say foot yeah and I and I I read something in uh I think it was Anthony Chang who said he dealt with this in his rookie season so I’m like oh great this is a this is an old old injury coming back that you’ve had before that’s so
Can I ask a question yeah yeah I don’t want to ask this question m is he injury-prone injury-prone dude people don’t like saying that word you don’t like that word you don’t like that ter you don’t like that ter um but he’s been hurt every year he has been hurt
Every year he has been hurt every year the the the wrist thing FLW right like I I’m I’m able to determine like oh that was just bad luck right dumb play a fluke but foot yep for the second time he’s had foot he’s had uh he had a bunch of lower
Body stuff in the year before that right uh his rookie year he had an injury so it always does seem like it hits at this point and he is you know he’s gonna play Let’s just say he played the rest of the games I think he’d play 52 games this
Year which makes it tough because like you need him to fill a certain role that you don’t know how you going to operate with with Terry roier I’m expecting the 24y old to play more than 65 games a year that’s what you’re expect you’re expecting the young guys
To play exactly exactly more than Jimmy played 36 games this season 36 games this season because he missed 17 from the the bad ankle sprain that he had earlier in the year now he’s on another streak and he’s had some little ones in there as well but yeah it it is
Concerning it’s not the foot he rolled the ankle and then you go he missed a game or two here for some like you can’t have and injuries I know I know you’re Fair that’s totally fair and the thing that sucks about it is I really want him to have his
Opportunity right but you never want him to have that chance can we honestly say we know where Tyler fits in no because he hasn’t played a substantial amount of time to figure it out you and that’s the thing that’s tough about it because they are I’m not saying he can’t I’m say he
Can’t either it’s just it’s tough because you’ve already had that issue this year when Jimmy came back is that everybody didn’t fit in quite the the same way um and you know now if you do get into a bit of a Groove with a starting unit and you bring a guy who’s
A high usage guy in there takes a lot of shots has the ball what does that do that’s and that to me tell you right now Terry rier and Tyler cannot play at the same time uh they at the end well just def def that’s what you’re concerned about
Not no not defense is they both are kind of ball Tyler has been playing off the ball more like he’s been try before he got hurt he was trying to play off the ball more and take more threes so I give him credit for that okay but it’s not an
I I get what you’re saying I get what you’re saying and the other thing that I I’m concerned about Leroy we talk about seeding and all this and look the Celtics can go to hell and I don’t we’ll beat him no matter what series but if
Tyler is going to make a late comeback here you almost would like a playoff series for everybody to get back into it with like we only got what we got 17 games left not a lot 17 games he’s not even close Okay so say if they said oh
He’s clear for Action at the end of the week yeah it’s gonna take a week or a week and a half for him to get uh what do they call it re uh rej readjusted no no no what do they call it recalibrated no what’s the conditioned recondition
Reced yeah that’s the that’s that’s that’s the term for the old though right okay but still yeah so now you’re talking about if they if they say he’s ready for activities at the end of this week you’re talking about a week and a half so he’s going to play five games
Before play but the end of the season it’s a tough spot it’s a tough spot for and and it’s it’s it’s a tough spot for him but it’s more of a tough spot for SPO because now if you put him in certain roles you’re just assuming he’s
Going to be able to do this you don’t know because you haven’t really seen it Yeah the more he the more time he misses the more you have to really have the talk about him not starting just because it’s easier to for to recate it’s also
Easier to say that because you can lie and say we’re gonna gradually work you back in I think it does it does make it an easier conversation right um but let’s hear a little bit uh on tonight’s matchup now this was the last time that Heat played the Nuggets nicoa yic after
Facing bam out of Bio had a lot of uh praise for bam and their match up here was Joker a lot I mean I think I said like four or five years ago when he gets kind of the big the big uh uh role or
Being the one of the best players in the team I really respect him uh even when he was working out and he didn’t play that much then in his rookie or whatever I think um uh he work out with um Howard I think that was their assistant I think
In in the beginning of the six seven eight years ago or whatever uh I really like his game I think he’s uh uh really effective in everything what he do he can guard one through one through five uh he’s the kind of glue guy and
The guy who is leading them so it’s U it’s always pleasure to to to battle against him all right High Praise from the joker last time that they I know is he talking about Jawan Howard why does he know everything I don’t like this is he say he worked out with Jaan
Howard when he was on the staff this Joker he’s got to I mean like he’s got too much Intel now think about this that conversation and what we think we know Joker those two don’t go together the fact that he all the things he said about bam who he worked out with all
These things you would be like horse cared about horses right uh here is Eric spoler on the Nuggets coming up tonight yeah I mean their their uh rotation is a little bit different with the new guys that they have uh coming off the bench uh but um you know they what they know
How to do is uh in those key moments of games how to take control uh and a lot of times that ends up being end a quarter and a half or the swing moments uh in in the second half the real pivotal skirmishes as Pat likes to call
Them that they tend to know how to win those um and that’s usually what Championship caliber teams teams that are coming off of a title run uh they may not play that that most consistent basketball all the way through the regular season but in those pockets they
Know how to to uh win those moments and then ultimately that helps them just win win games uh even if they’re not playing at at that super high level that they can get to uh you know which they can you know they can they can get to that
Level and they did that to us uh in Denver and we obviously saw that you know last night um and even right before we played them they had some similar games like that uh where they were down and then just you know turn the games around and
They’re fully in control in the second half yeah this is one of those games where the Heat have those typical uh stretches where they can you can’t afford that tonight oh my you cannot afford that tonight you mean third quarter yeah now I say CH quarter but it’s been
Popping up you never know yeah it has been popping up in all quarters it can flare up at anytime yes yes and like it’s like a a bad prostate so I call it third quarter but that prostate can flare up in the first the second I love how you’re comparing
It to prostate it does listen jfig when it flares up that hole gets tight Ain nothing go in you laugh that’s a great analogy because they can’t make a basket thank you so much for the demonstration by the way
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