How Jimmy Butler’s Injury and Miami Heat’s Loss to 76ers Could End the Season | Miami Heat Podcast
The Miami Heat lost to the Philadelphia 76ers setting up a win-or-go-home final play-in game on Friday night. But what if Jimmy Butler is too hurt to play? Is the Heat’s season over? Who is to blame, beyond injuries, for Miami’s loss on Wednesday?
Wes Goldberg and David Ramil break down the loss and what comes next.
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40 Comments
That loss hurts like hell
They shouldn't even have been in the play-in. Miami's overcoasting may have cost them the season.
Remember THE REGULAR SEASON DOES NOT MATTER 🤷🏾♂️
Batum owns you
Jimmy needs help bruh,, he's been carrying the heat since he got here.. get a real center, tyler should have been gone
Tyler was terrible. Hopefully Friday will be the end of this season. The Heat don’t deserve to be in the playoffs. Spare Heat fans the torture of watching 4 straight 30 point losses against Boston.
You can never blame jimmy, tyler is a bum, and bam is not, is not a center
We definitely needed terry out there
Wes get off jimmy nuts,, jimmy has done way more than expected.. it's everybody else that never shows up so stop the bs
Wes is meat riding herro at this point.. when has herro won us a playoff game
It's hard listening to Wes Cape for herro
Herro just shoots up whatever he want. Can we please package him in a trade? Package Herro and Tua.
I don’t understand Bam! I know you got the two fouls early, but if you are supposed to be a All-Star and going to the Olympics and you see Jimmy Butler giving his all and limping out there how do you not take over?
So blame Herro for shooting bad but had balls to keep shooting keeping us in the game. But what did Bam do? Didn’t Caleb get benched?
Nikola needed to play more
Once Batum hit the 2nd 3 pointer they had to prioritize guarding him you can’t allow a player like that to get hot and beat you in basketball you always prioritize the hot hand get in his face put your best defender on him … ps stop making excuses for Bam he was a none factor once again & yes Tyler struggled early but hit big shot down the stretch when nobody else was giving them offense
bad game from my sixers and give Spoelstra credits for the strong 1 half and take Embiid out for the most time
I didn’t miss Kyle Lowry one bit stop, this team isn’t good enough plain and simple and now even if you win the last game you have a hobbled Jimmy rest of playoffs aka it is SPO-OVER. Blow it up in offseason
We miss Rozier we have him were up 20 instead of 12 in those moments we couldn't really separate more than 12-14 pt lead
This was unacceptable loss. Time for changes! Spos coaching horrible!!
Wes is the reason I stopped watching, the excuses he makes for Tyler is getting old
Hell of a game. I hope Jimmy is ok. Good luck vs Chicago! I also really appreciate how ubiased you guys were in covering this.
-76ers fan
For all the idiots, who questioned Jimmy and his value come post season ya gon learn today.
we’re cooked
Nobody wanted the ball in the second half don't blame Tyler blame Bam were was he? He sux
This loss is on Spo. His rotation of the players once again was a disaster. Why did Jovic get 14 minutes? He was 2-2 with 5 rebounds in 14 minutes and played good defense. You got Martin playing reckless and Herro thinking he Kobe Bryant where I will shot until my shot starts to drop and is extremely horrible defense. Why isn't Herro held accountable for his pathetic defense?? There has to be serious regret of giving him that extension. We haven't even thought about his lack of creativity on the office Three players in the corner and two at the top of the key. What the hell is that ?? Simply pathetic
Bam can’t get no damn buckets when you need him the most. Herro is inefficient as hell. Caleb sold the game with the free throws. We have no size down low to contest shots. We’re slow in getting into offensive actions. Nobody can make shots in the paint. No fast break or easy shots. And Jimmy gave you an all round game before he got hurt. This team is killing my mental health
Jovic was on fire and he could have locked up Batum. I dont know why coach sat him so much after the 1st quarter. We need more Jovic minutes
Basketball Gods don’t like when you disrespect the regular season.
Ultimately, I blame Spo of course. He has a short leash for Jovic who can generate some offense n push the pace. Guys was scared to go coast to coast on fast breaks n the only guy who can do that only plays 14 mins?
Jimmy isn't playing on Friday, and he's likely done for this season
Baffling to me why Jimmy was playing in the fourth quarter with a bum knee! Spo decision making in question
Anyone that know basketball knows Herro thinks he's a star, he's not. A point guard is more valuable than the points. G-league guys are roster fillers not to be cast in important roles. This he team is not making the playoffs.
😮 y’all find every excuse for Tyler
Jimmy has a reported MCL injury…That sucks like hell…Heat still in 5 🔥🔥🔥
I'm so sick of the Tyler Herro excuses. "SoMeBoDy HaS tO TaKe tHoSe sHoTs". Hell I can take 30 shots and shoot 30%, so what? Herro is supposed to be part of the "core" and hes always inefficient.
Jovic can make plays but herro if he can't shoot what good is he
People watch these games and get emotional. It's not emotional it's execution. They look for someone to blame, and for the opponent in the playoffs its not about that.
They key on the heat strengths and weaknesses. First job, clog up the middle and take away bam, done.
Secondly, don't let Jimmy beat them. After that, what's left. That's how teams look at the heat.
So, from that perspective, the heat has some serious holes to fill. This is what I think should happen, draft night, they should trade herro for as high a draft pick as they could get. Use the first pick to draft a backup guard like Devin Carter in case Terry gets hurt.
With the herro pick, I hope a big like Tyler smith Jr. is still on the board. Draft him and PLAY him early so he can figure it out on the floor.
Teams take advantage of the heats lack of height. If they don't quickly address that this off-season, next season will be like this season.
If jimmy gone it’s over. Don’t tell me Bam or Tyler or anybody else is going take Jimmy’s place. For everybody who questioned Jimmy’s value to this Miami team ya gon learn today.
I’m glad we saw our biggest flaw on full display last night. No size, no lead guard, and injuries has killed the heat killed us since Jimmy been here. Bam is a 4th scoring option and defensive anchor at best. He’s not a bucket getter when you need him to be. Tyler takes too many bad shots and can get sloppy with the ball against better defense.