Miami Heat Fans Get BAD NEWS

Miami Heat Fans Get BAD NEWS

[Music] The Miami Heat could get some bad news and we’re going to discuss it because one of the Heat’s top assistants, Chris Quinn, is going to be a finalist and could be the next head coach for the Phoenix Suns. Now, this is something Miami fans should be used to at this point because Quinn has had countless number of head coach interviews over the past couple of seasons, but this one feels like the most likely outcome for Quinn to actually leave the Heat staff. Jake Fischer had the report on May 18th saying that originally there was a list of eight coaches named the Elite Eight by Chris Haynes. Whatever the freak I Haynes is a fraud, by the way. He’s tweeting a bunch of nonsense nowadays. But either way, Chris Krin was not on that list. I actually was surprised that he was not talked to in a finalist for the Phoenix Suns. Well, Jake Fischer and Mark Stein added him to that list. And there are even more strong reports that showcase him being a legit option for the Phoenix Suns. And before we talk about that in what would happen if the Heat did lose Quinn, make sure you do subscribe to the channel because we’re breaking down Heat news, Heat rumors, everything you need to know, coaching, trade for ANC draft. And we got challenged by the Celtics channel in a 1v one video sub battle. They got 27 subs on their Monday video. We have the chance to beat him today. So join the channel right now. Well, if you’re unfamiliar with Chris Quinn, I’d like to inform y’all about the Heat assistant coach. Well, he’s actually the top assistant on the staff. He’s the associate head coach for Eric Bolstra and he has been with the Heat organization for a very, very long time. He actually played for the Heat. He played for the Spurs as well, point guard back in the day, but he was in Miami from 2006 to 2010. And shortly after he retired, he joined the Miami Heat staff under Eric Spolstra since 2014 and is now the top assistant. Now, Phoenix interviewing him for their head coach vacancy marks the sixth time over the last four seasons where he has been interviewed for a head coach role. And that doesn’t even count the Cavaliers and Lakers last season who registered interest in Quinn. These are just legit interviews. He’s interviewed with the Suns now, the Bucks before they hired um Adrien Griffin a couple years ago, the Utah Jazz, Charlotte Hornets, Detroit Pistons, Indiana Pacers. So, this is someone who is very well respected in league circles and amongst the players and is countlessly getting many interviews for a potential head coaching job. But I do think this one might have the most legs because not only did he crush his interview, which we’ll talk about in here just a second, but Phoenix Suns fans want him desperately. A Toz Sports Zone, who has 14,000 followers on Twitter, is one of the leading, I guess, covers in the Phoenix area in terms of the sports world, said that Chris Krin should be the 1A, 1B, and 1 C option for the Suns. Promise, read about him and see how players, execs, and other coaches speak about him. He’s exactly what Phoenix needs. But if you just look up Chris Krin Suns, you will see many and many and many tweets, social posts about these Suns fans wanting Quinn to be the next head coach of the Suns. So if Matt Ishba Ishbia believes and wants to look at what the fan base wants, Chris Quinn would be probably the top option for Phoenix. And it makes a lot of sense, too. And Quinn finally deserves a shot to be a head coach, but it would be unfortunate for the Miami Heat. Now, it’s prediction time. Will Quinn leave the Heat this off season to become the head coach of the Phoenix Suns? Type L if you think he leaves. Type S if you think he stays as the associate head coach for Miami. Well, I will say this, it’s either Phoenix or Miami. There really isn’t any other head coach vacancies out there right now. Most of them have been filled by their kind of interimm head coaches, right? We saw that with the Memphis Grizzlies and I believe the Denver Nuggets are going to do the same. Now, they might conduct a formal interview, but their interimm head coach almost had them in the Western Conference Finals. So, I imagine they’ll just stick with him. I think he’ll either stay in Miami as the top assistant and the associate head coach or he’ll be the next Suns head coach. Now, he is someone rising for Phoenix, though. I mentioned that he interviewed strong. Well, John Gambado, who is one of the top Phoenix reporters and radio host, who is super tapped in. Remember him with the KD days, the Jimmy Butler days, and everything in between. He said that Quinn had a terrific interview and made a very strong impression with the front office and ownership group of the Phoenix Suns. So, I do think that he kind of has catapulted himself into the top three or top four of the nine finalists and second round of candidates that the Suns are looking at for their head coach vacancy. Now, if you are someone asking, well, what are the Heat going to get out of this if Quinn leaves to become a head coach? This is not the NFL where sometimes you are able to get draft compensation for an assistant coach leaving to get a head coaching job. that is more or less for minority head coaches and if you are a Dolphins fan, we talked a lot about Anthony Weaver and if he left the Dolphins, if the they could get a um draft pick out of that, but this is not the same case for Miami. They would not be getting or receiving anything from the NBA if they lost their associate head coach by him becoming a head coach. But I want to transition now because coming up in just a second, I am going to talk about some replacement options for Chris Quinn. If he leaves, who could be the next assoc assistant head coach, associate head coach for the Miami Heat? Is it on the Heat staff or is it someone outside the Heat Staff? We’ll talk about that and more in a second. But we are sponsored by Prize Picks, the daily fantasy sports platform I play every single day. And as the playoffs are almost coming to a conclusion in the basketball world, take advantage of today. Don’t miss your last chance to add your favorite players from the court to your prize picks lineup. Whether it’s points, rebounds, assists, take your pick of more or less for your shot to win up to 2,000 times your cash today. Turn your playoff hot takes in the tickets to basketball’s championship series. Every lineup you make on prize picks will enter you into the takes the ticket sweep stakes, which could get you and a plus one a VIP trip to the ship. My entry for a series. You can do daily, you can do season, you do series long projections. 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Now, I think it’s important to look at who the current assistant head coaches are for I not should assistant head coaches, but the assistant coaches on the Miami Heat staff is the five assistants outside of Chris Quinn are these Malik Allen, Karan Butler, Octavio Dea Grana, Eric Glass, and former Heat player Wayne Ellington. Now, Wayne Ellington is the most recent addition to this staff. Now, the other four have been with us much longer, but I’ll be honest, like I’ve got skepticism. I’m not sure if it should be any of them becoming the associate head coach for the Miami Heat and getting their voice heard even more. Why is that? Well, it’s because I’m sick and tired of the same old same old Miami Heat. And I know it’s produced some solid results. The one seed in 21-22, two finals appearances in the bubble and in 2223. But look at the last four seasons for the Miami Heat. They are consistently a bottom half offensive team and they’re a consistent top 10 off defensive team. Like there’s no issue with the right side of your screen and their defensive ability, but the offense is what is so concerning to me. And it’s also not a coincidence, by the way, that the one year that the Heat were in the top half in terms of offensive rating, what were they ranked in the Eastern Conference? Oh, yeah. They were the number one seed in the 21-22 year. And then they followed it up by being the eight seed, eight seed, 10 seed. Like it is all dependent on the Heat’s offensive performance. And it just has not been good the past three seasons. I love the defensive identity. I thrive and I love defense. I actually prefer to have a better defensive team than an offensive team. And I like that identity, but you need to have that competent offense. And the Heat have not had that over the last three seasons. The Heat need radical changes on the offensive end of the floor. When you are ranked 21st, 21st, and 25th in offensive rating out of 30 teams, by the way, the past three seasons, that is not a recipe for success in the National Basketball Association. The defense and what they do on that end of the floor, that does not need to change. But there needs to be fresh different ideas, schemes, and points of emphasis on the offensive end that are vastly different from the last three seasons. And I’m not sure that you are going to get that if you just promote within. But let me know your thoughts. I’m going to give you two names here in just a second. Who should replace Chris Quinn if he leaves the Miami Heats coaching staff this off season and joins the Phoenix Suns organization? Let me know your thoughts down in the comments section. Now, I’m going to give you two options. My top option and I think the most likely option. If the Heat promote within, which is something they do consistently at all stages of their organization. So, unfortunately, I’d like to go outside the building. I don’t think it’s going to happen. I think Malik Allen is the most likely choice here. He has been with the Heat for a very, very long time. He played actually in Miami like Chris Quinn did from 2001 to 2005. Has been an assistant coach in the NBA since about 2013 2014, but has been an assistant on the Heat staff since 2019. And the reason why I think he could become the associate head coach and replacing Chris Quinn is because he’s been the summer league head coach for Miami in 21 and 2022. So although it is just summer league, he has brief experience being a head coach. So does a couple people on the staff. Um Chris Quinn, for example, yeah, he’s associate head coach. He also was the interim head coach when Eric Solstrom missed a handful of games over the last four seasons. I think it’s likely that they want to give someone who’s been a head coach at some capacity that role once again next to Eric Bolstra. But I’ll give you the person that I would want. Keep an eye on Dan Baceio, a young man in this Heat organization. He’s actually been with Miami for a long time. Although he is very young, it’s because he started really young in his early 20s, mid20s as a video intern like Eric Spolstra started with the Miami Heat in the early 2000s. He is the current Sky Force head coach, which is the Heats G-League team in Sou Falls. And he served as the Miami Heat summer league head coach for the first time this past summer in 2024, coaching Kel Wear, Hy Mayhawk as Junior, Pel Larson, Isaiah Stevens. Oh yeah, if you don’t remember, they won the summer league title. Not that that really means anything, but the dude can coach. And in his first season as the G-League Skyfalls head coach, the Heat actually had relatively okay ratings. Now, they weren’t awesome, but they were okay. They had the 15th ranked offense 111.4 rating, and the 14th ranked defense won 11.5. So, similar ratings offensively and defensively. That is right in the middle of the pack. For whatever odd reason, there are 31 G-League teams. So, this ranked in the top half technically of the GLeague in terms of offense and defense. So, it’s not like they lit it up. It’s not like they won the G-League this past season, but in his first season as head coach in Sky Falls, I thought he exceeded expectations. And for him to win the summer league championship for the first time in this summer and then go out and perform relatively well as the Skyfall head coach for his first season. I think he’s got an extremely bright future in the NBA. And I’ll make this abundantly clear. I prefer for the Heat to go outside the organization, but if you do promote within, I would rather have Dan Baceio. And I know it might rub some of those assistants the wrong way because Basio has never been an assistant head coach on an NBA staff. Has mostly just been part of developing and the summer league and the Skyfall head coach. But I think he’s got an extremely bright future in this Heat organization. I think another team may realize that too and try to scoop him up and make them an assistant coach on their staff. So in some capacity, I think Basio should be an assistant for the Heat this upcoming year. Even if he doesn’t get the associate head coach role and they give it to like a Malik Allen or something like that, well then there’s a vacancy on the assistant coaching staff in the NBA level. And I would like to get Basio on that role so he could potentially become a head coach or the associate head coach in the future. I love me some Dan Baceio. And that’s why you subscribe to the channel, by the way, because I don’t know who else is in the weeds talking about Heat coaching assistance on a video in Miday. Hit that sub button for daily Miami Heat content. [Music]

Miami Heat coaching news is the main topic for this Miami Heat YouTube video. Heat news surrounds Chris Quinn, Associate Head Coach, as Quinn is a finalist for the Phoenix Suns head coach vacancy. Quinn has had several head coach interviews in the past, and would be a brutal loss for the Heat coaching staff. Heat Report host Nic Rohloff goes through the Miami Heat news, and Heat rumors on today’s Heat Report video. Nic takes a look at who could replace Quinn as Erik Spoelstra’s top assistant if Chirs Quinn does get the Suns head coach job!

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Chris Quinn has been in the Miami Heat organization for a long time. Quinn played for the Miami Heat from 2006-2010 and has been on Erik Sposlestra’s staff since 2014, now top assistant. Phoenix marks his 6th NBA head coach interview over the past 5 seasons.

Phoenix Suns head coach finalists:
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David Fizdale
James Borrego
Johnnie Bryant
Jordan Ott
Steve Hetzel
Micah Nori
Dave Bliss
Chris Quinn

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Miami Heat assistant coaches:
Malik Allen
Caron Butler
Octavio De La Grana
Eric Glass
Wayne Ellington

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Malik Allen could be a top Chris Quinn replacement on the Heat staff. Allen played in the NBA from 2001-2011 and was with Heat from 2001-2005. Allen has been a Heat assistant coach since 2019 and was the Heat’s summer league head coach in 2021 and 2022.

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Dan Bisaccio started with the Heat in 2014 as a video intern and is the current Skyforce Head Coach. Bisaccio was also the Miami Heat summer league head coach in 2024, where they won the championship.

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