Miami Heat’s Bam Adebayo Needs to Step Up Now | HEAT VS KINGS POSTGAME REACTION
Can the Miami Heat recover from their double-overtime heartbreak against the Sacramento Kings? With a 17-point lead lost, the Heat’s performance raises questions about their future without Jimmy Butler. This episode dives into Bam Adebayo’s critical role, Jaime Jaquez Jr.’s standout triple-double, and Erik Spoelstra’s lineup decisions.
Wes Goldberg and David Ramil explore potential trade scenarios, including a blockbuster involving Zion Williamson, and discuss the implications for the Heat’s roster and playoff hopes.
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46 Comments
@18:33 WES,FORGET ABOUT JIMMY,STOP making excuses. This team sucks.😂Bam’s limited game is exposed.
Why rely on Bum adebayo?
Lol
Bam is not a clutch player. He has never been that and never will be. So why they gave him a max contract no clue. Another Riley F up.
Bum Adebayo needs to retire and enjoy the money. He is a over priced overrated center who can't score and can't get any rebounds
Wherever jimmy is hes laughing hard
Got the bag and turned into Ben Simmons… Bottom line is we are not a very good team. Jimmy quit on us. What is Pat going to do?
This team has been bad even with Jimmy the last couple years, I wouldn’t expect them to be better without him. Let’s hope the Heat can get some good assets back for Jimmy and get some chips so we can be in play when the next whale becomes available.
Bam probably has a coke problem. He sure acts like it.
What step up? Bam is the problem all these years. He is lucky to have friends and went up top and got picked in Olympics.
He is short for a C and not good for PF. He is not quick, can’t shoot mid range, no 3P shooting, can’t finish layups efficiently too many flaws.
But contacts keep him in the limelight.
I said it already and I’ll say it again, Bam’s game is to hand the ball over to Duncan, that’s all he does well! Period.
They don’t have enough
This team has been mid for years with Jimmy. They are less now.
We lost to cause we couldn’t rebound for shit, they had like 18 offensive rebounds, how does Spo not see this and adjust!!!!! Bam and ware ???? Love Spo but sometimes man I question his strategies sometimes
Why has Spo opted for Rozier over Duncan? Robinson a better fit with bam. 0 and 2 with Rozier in the starting lineup!!! Duncan should have played in ot!
He might be frustrated with spo insisting to play small ball. It was mentioned a few time from bam and Jimmy. When Ware was drafted I think they was excited but when they see he wasn't playing the got deflated
Rockets fan. Kings a dirty team. Keon Ellis is good though. With that said, this was a super disappointing loss. Coaching decisions were weird at the end. Terry was not good at all. Did very little when the ball was passed to him.
Bam excuses!! Stfu! He dealing with alot!! He’s max player!!!’ wtf bruh
Fans know bam is overrated! Miami media just baby him! Because they know him and talk to him in the locker room. He’s mentally soft so if they call him out he will shut down. He’s not a real max player.
BAM A CERTIFIED SCRUB
Sabonis pump fakes gets bam in the air steps through for easy layup
Bam pump fakes gets sabonis in the air takes fadeaway jump shot, miss
Once again Riley overpaid one of his own role players (like Tyler Johnson). Old man makes 3 bad moves for 1 good one
Bam needs to be Wares backup
Tyler keeps getting blitzed at the top of the key and keeps turning the ball over! It has been an issue since year 2 for him and the fact that it has not changed is very concerning. Bam is checked out. UD needs to come down and have some “iron sharpen iron”. There is no dawg on this team. Terry is the closest one.
I just figured it out. Spo uses Bam in the half court offense the same way Kerr uses Draymond Green in GSWs offensive set. He's more of a playmaker than scorer. This is why he struggles so much offensively. His mind has been conditioned to automatically go into their half court offense, which is horrible at times, especially when they're not making the 3 pt shot. That's why teams have a tendency to come back in games against the Heat. They simply go cold shooting the 🏀. They really have very little margin for error when they play that style of half court offense. They really need to improve their FT shooting. It's been horrible; especially latte in close games like last night. The same with allowing teams to get offensive rebounds at critical parts of the game. In my opinion, that's what cost them the game last night against Sacramento. Lastly, the Heat needs a playmaking point guarding the worst way. They're really missing Dru Smith right now.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP PLAYING BAM AT CENTER!!!!!!!
I didn’t know about the pick protection stipulation. That is such a mismanagement of assets. And paints the whole Jimmy Butler situation with extra light. People are going to be fired.
Terry needs to go ASAP
😊😂😂😂 y'all are so bad I just now realized like for real y'all might not even make the playoffs this year and that's hilarious especially if Jimmy says the screw y'all and he don't even want to play for y'all when he gets back from his suspension y'all gave him and honestly you know it's just funny to us up here in Boston because you know it's about time y'all finally realize just how sorry y'all are I mean for crying out loud how are you up 17 in the fourth quarter and you still managed to lose😂😂
Double Herro and get a big body on Bam…the formula to embarrass the Heat. Missed free throw and turnovers at the end doesn't help either
Get Desmond Bain right now
I’m so tired of these excuses for Bam! If it was Tyler…people would be screaming trade him
Bum Adebayo
We need Bam and Ware on the court at the same time so we can dominate the boards!!! And we need a true point guard.
Bam is not a superstar please stop saying that
BAM-Below Average Man…trade Bam A.-sap
😂😂😂😂😂 y'all are hilarious you Miami heat fans and you Miami heat reporters honestly think y'all are going to beat Golden State in Golden State and and you're talking about spacing isn't going to be a problem man just stop it yeah this isn't the same Golden State from 2016 – 2017 or 2018 but at the end of the day they're still good enough to whoop y'all and whoop y'all pretty bad I'm saying y'all are going to lose by at least 10 maybe 15
SPO–Small Player Objective ….doesn't exist…
Bam can score the ball.
He is just so damn lazy offensively.
He don't want ball.
He not going to come get the ball.
He's not going to fight for the ball to be in his hands and if he does he gives it right back, even with the shot clock winding down.
I'm tired of beating a dead horse.
Trade jimmy bam terry.
Let's go Heat.
Can we just play bam at the 4
JJJ cant hit free throws/ Terry Rozier should be playing for the Guandong Tigers. The stat lines are misleading, Tyler disappeared, Niko didnt get a chance to see the court in OT for some reason. Spo is coaching like a scared puss. They can’t hold a lead to a Kings team that doesn’t even know who they are. How you like passing on a guy that dropped 30+ on your teams head pat???
Pat riley needs to retire. He is out of his depth. Hes hamstrung this franchise and the last decade has been a failure.
Bam is doing a lot defensively so offensively he becomes absolute trash for some reason.
Sabonis bodied BOTH Bam and Ware. Let that sink in. This team is AWFUL. Only ones I like are the rookies. BLOW IT UP PAT. Your ego is destroying this franchise. Absolute clown show
the heat don't have a enough talent to compete when Caleb Martin left it was over now Jimmy Butler they don't
have a chances
Enough with the Hopium guys…Without Jimmy Heat are a bunch of Scrubs that can't even beat teams that are tanking
Let’s go kings !!
Playoffs? Playoffs?? Playoffs???
Every win, every loss is a over reaction from you guys. Stop acting like Sabonis out scored him by 10. THERES A 3 POINT DIFFERENCE STOP..
Where are all the people who follow this podcast and who are active in the comment section that were defending Bam and his contract all Summer long when people like me kept saying Bam isn't a legitimate 20-point a game scorer, so stop rounding up his scoring average, he's a #3, a defensive specialist role player who's no better than Draymond Green ever was, etc..
Where are all of you right now? Why are y'all hiding and/or being so quiet?
Bam's a 2X Olympian, All-defensive, a multi time All-Star, etc.., right? Come back here and be a man, and admit y'all were wrong.