Miami Heat’s BIGGEST Front Office Mistake | Is Terry Rozier Trade DOOMING Future?

Miami Heat’s BIGGEST Front Office Mistake | Is Terry Rozier Trade DOOMING Future?

Miami is looking to improve their roster, but one particular transaction has kept them from making major changes. So, was the acquisition of Terry Razier the worst move in franchise history? We’ll debate that and more on today’s episode of Locked on Heat. You are Locked on Heat, your daily Miami Heat podcast, part of the Locked On podcast network. Your team every day. All right, welcome to Locked on Heat, your daily podcast on the Miami Heat. Whether you’re tuning in on YouTube or on your favorite podcast app, thanks for making Locked on Heat your first listen every day. I’m Wes Goldberg here with David Mill. Both of us are credentialed Heat Media members who cover this team every day. For daily content on the Heat, click that subscribe button on YouTube. Make sure you’re following us on your podcast app. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now, new customers get $150 in bonus bets when your first $5 bet wins on FanDuel. Have a fun show for you today. Kashad Johnson didn’t mince words when he was asked about his goals for the season. Plus, we debate the greatest team ever in Florida sports. But first, I want to start with this piece on ESPN that listed the worst decision every NBA team has made over the past 5 years. And for the Heat, they point to the Terry Rosier trade as the Heat’s worst decision. The last five years is basically the entire Jimmy Butler era. Makes it nice and clean for us in terms of this conversation, David. So, do you agree that the Terrosia trade was the worst decision they made during the Butler era? Yeah, I think so. I think it’s pretty clear. I think there’s a decision that took place just before that in 2019 that just misses the cut off that might give it a little bit of a run for its money. But I’ll go a little step further and say that maybe the acquisition of Rosier might have been the worst move in franchise history. For a team that takes pride in making smart moves and having a vision and understanding what it takes to get them to a championship level, Rosier just backfired so badly. And I don’t think it was anybody’s fault in particular. I I’d love to be able to put blame on Terry. I don’t don’t think it was his fault necessarily. And I’d love to put a blame on the franchise, but they were finding a position of need and and filling that with a player who seemed to bring to the table a desperate need for Miami’s offense, which was being able to get to the rim and attack the paint and create some opportunities for an offense that had been so stagnant for such a long time. And they certainly weren’t getting that from Kyle Lowry, especially when he seemed more passive than ever on offense. So, I it’s it’s hard to debate any move in the last five years and maybe even further back than that being worse in acquiring Terry Rosier, especially because it’s limited them so much and what they can do in trading away a first round pick in order to acquire him. Yeah. Um, I have some honorable mentions, but I’d have to agree that Rosier is the worst. I think it’s pretty clearly the worst roster building decision that this front office has made over the past five years. Not only because Tier Rosier has been bad, but also what the other options, what the alternatives to trading Tay Rosir could have been and what it cost them. You mentioned the first round pick that cost them a valuable draft pick to use in trades. I don’t know. They probably still don’t have enough to go out and get Kevin Durant even if they just had that one first round pick available, but they are actively trying to go get a 2027 first round pick in order to unlock the ability to use up to four to trade up to four first round picks. So I don’t maybe you know maybe if not Durant maybe it could be somebody else. So there’s an opportunity cost there. They also remember at the time they were internally debating do they go Terry Rosier or do they try to trade for DeJonte Murray who was being shopped at the point he didn’t get traded until the offseason to New Orleans but he was being shopped at the time. Now reports around then indicated that Atlanta was asking for a lot for DeJonte Murray and I don’t know it cost Miami one first round pick for Terry Rosier would have been two first round picks for Deontay Murray and if so that also doesn’t feel like a great allocation of resources but they could have went Deonte Murray over Terry Rosier and who knows like right he probably doesn’t Terry’s Achilles or whatever I don’t know what happens to John Murray but he’s a better basketball player than Terry Rosier it also cost them Caleb Martin in the ensuing offseason I don’t know how big of a deal that was, but when you look at how much of their cap space was basically allocated to Terry Rosier that summer, because at the time Kyle Lowry was an expiring contract, right? And had they not traded Lowry and certainly not traded for Rosier who was under contract through, you know, these these couple seasons here, they a could have resigned Kayla Martin. Again, I don’t know that that would have been the right decision that I I don’t I I don’t think that I would have done that as much as I liked Caleb Martin. Uh but it also cost them a chance at Demard Rosen. Let’s remember like they probably could have pulled off a sign and trade for Demard Rosen. There is no question D Rozan would have preferred to come to Miami than have to go to play in Sacramento, right? So, uh it it might have cost them a chance at D Rozan. It also put them in the luxury tax, which is something that they’re still fighting to try to get out of. So, there’s a lot of reasons why besides the fact that Rosier has just been bad since they’ve traded for him that that was a bad trade. I mean, I think we can all agree and maybe I know there were some detractors when the transaction took place, but I think overall it just made a lot of sense. Like Kyle Lowry had been and it’s always so important to remember the mindset at that particular time. Like he started off so miserably sluggish or just unwilling. I don’t even know if it was sluggish necessarily. He was It was weird from training camp, David. Like remember when Gabe Vincent finished the 2023 season as a starting point guard, then they lose him in the off season and then Kyle Lowry comes back and is just sort of penciled in as the starter. And I remember we were asking him at training camp in Boca Raton, hey, do you do you think you’re going to be the starter? Would you be open to coming off the bench? And he basically was like, no, I’m the starting point guard. And from there, there was just friction between him and the coaching staff. Yeah. Josh Richardson. I remember him getting testy at training camp against I mean it was there’s a lot of a lot of weird vibes going on with that team there and he was I think he was a little checked out at that point in time and and so um the acquisition of Rosier made so much sense because again his ability to get to the paint that had been something that had never really been in doubt. He was so much of a better shooter during that time in Charlotte and I don’t know what went wrong. I don’t think there’s anything in particular. It’s not like he was much more wide open in Charlotte. It was a team that lacks any kind of scoring whatsoever. I who there’s the the gambling probe that is I I have to imagine that’s a level of a distraction to him that he’s have to be that he’s dealing with or worrying about. And then there is the Nick injury that was very mysterious and the team never really was transparent about in terms of the severity of it. Got it wrong. Right. Exactly. Exactly. Um I do have some honorable mentions though. Uh I have four honorable mentions that I could think of. Again, this is just for the last uh five years. Um All right, I got you. Because I was going, you know, based off the ESPN piece here, but overpaying Duncan Robinson. Love Duncan Robinson. It ended up being an overpay when you don’t when you lose your starting job and you basically aren’t part of the rotation for a full year while you’re in a shooting slump. That’s a tough overpaying Duncan Robinson’s one of them. um betting on Victor Oladipo being a star next to Jimmy Butler and dealing with that for basically three seasons. So low risk though, right? Yeah. Right. That’s why it’s an honorable mention, but it was a mistake nonetheless. Like it it felt like maybe they could have, you know, diverted their attention elsewhere during those three years. Uh not replacing Max Struce or Game Vincent in the summer of 2023 and chasing Damen Lillard instead. The more I think about that offseason, the more it’s so clear that the Heat just bungled that because if you’re not going to go all in for Damen Lillard, then you better replace Strus and Gabe. Yeah. Right. And they they tried to thread this needle and they never got it. and and it just felt like okay either you’re going to you’re you’re going all in for Damen Lillard and that’s the guy who’s replacing Max Juice and Gabe Vincent or you’re not going to go all in for Gabe Vinc or for Damen Lillard and you’re going to go out and replace Gay Vincent Max Juice with other free agents or find another way to replace those guys. So they bungled that and then um not finding Bam a consistent front court partner, right? Just that rotating cast of guys whether it was Jay Crowder or PJ Tucker having to force uh Kayla Martin into a a power forwards sized hole like all these different options that they never really landed on one. That was also a mistake. I’m surprised you didn’t go not trading Jimmy Butler over the summer. That was also a mistake. They eventually had to trade him. So, um, that was also a big that was also a Jimmy Butler mistake, I think, too. But, uh, that’s fair. That’s fair. But, I mean, yeah, all of those, it’s a good one. It’s a good one. It’s another honorable mention, not trading Jimmy Butler in the offseason when they should have. Um, and the one I had mentioned before that just missed the cutoff, the drafting of Kespala, just to throw away the number of second round picks that you did, and we see now how valuable those second round picks have been in acquisitions around the league. And either you use those picks to get a first round pick, you get a player of some consequence. Just it’s just such a great asset to have. A second round players wind up becoming more and more parts of NBA rotations around the league. You see that they have greater value than they have ever had. And so it’s just it was a a mistake from a team that doesn’t make a lot of mistakes in that sense. But you know, yeah, all of these are have cost a team. And it’s just it doesn’t take any it’s not like they’re huge mistakes. Like even just the acquisition of Rosier, it was a bad one, but at the time it made a lot of sense. The first round pick seemed you know what if he can get a 20 point per game score they can attack the paint with some efficiency and stretch the floor. Well, even if he wasn’t that like you look at like a team like Memphis that that used a first round pick, they’ll go get Marcus Smart. But it didn’t I mean it was a mistake. It didn’t work out, but it it didn’t feel as bad because they weren’t relying on Marcus Smart to be what the Heat were relying on Rosier to be. That’s fair. Uh and and I think where you were getting to with that point is not one of one of these mistakes isn’t some huge like Joe Dumar’s level like what are you doing kind of thing, right? But in combination, you put them all together. Yeah. And they wind up hamstringing your team from being able to make the kind of Yeah. moves that that you obviously need to make. And so you’re kind of just figuring out it’s like, well, we made five little mistakes, but all of them together wind up being something that really hurts us and is a detriment to our being able to continue to improve our team. So, it’s just you have to move forward. Like, you know, it’s almost funny because we talk about the offense being the same way where things have to go perfectly in order for them to be able to just have a good game and be able to score enough points to be able to escape with a victory. It’s almost like the front office has mirrored exactly what they do on the court as well. us like we have to be near perfect. Like see they have an abundance of resources so every resource counts. You have to maximize every single resource. To their credit, the Norm Powell trade seems like as close to perfect as you can get. Like if you can have a high rating for trades and only giving up Kyle, you know, whatever you had to give up in order Kevin Love, etc. It it’s a very good move for a team that has to make much better moves moving forward. Always the optimist. Way to way to end on a positive note, David. Speaking of optimism, Kashad Johnson was straight up when he asked about his number one goal for the season. But is it realistic? We’ll talk about that next. Today’s episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Summer sports are in full swing. And whether you’re all about baseball under the lights, golf on the green, or high stakes soccer action, FanDuel is the best way to make every game even more exciting. You’re already following the action. Why not make it a little bit more thrilling? With FanDuel, you can get in on the game while your friends are getting sunburned at the beach. 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David, do you think that Kashad Johnson has a chance of earning a rotation spot? A chance? Yes. Uh, not a good one. I just I I we like Kashad around here, obviously. Like, he we were I talked about him prior to the draft. I thought he was a great fit. Uh, and it was nice to see the payoff there and that the Heatfront office also saw something in him as well. And so, we were believers from day one. He talked just like the perfect cut from the mold heat player that you’d want to hear from. Talked about the culture and everything else like that. It seemed like it was a great fit, but um we just haven’t seen enough from him. Even what we’ve seen in in summer league, you know, again, the the it’s summer league, so you have to be able to take those with grains of salt there. And I I just think that I’m still not sure what it is that he can do at an elite level where he can carve out some time specifically because you have to go to a player like that. You’re not going to get elite three-point shooting. you’re not going to get elite athleticism. You’re not going to get the kind of size and versatility that you might need defensively. So, how is it that Spo is going to justify throwing somebody who can do a lot of things pretty okay and nothing particularly great? And and I think there’s just enough of that on this roster already and guys that I think they’re more heavily invested in. So, I I don’t I don’t want to seem negative about it because I I like his shot. I like his ability and his potential. I think there is room for growth there and I think he’s done a lot to continue to work hard. I just don’t know if this is the right fit for him. He almost seems like a guy who better be suited on a team that has very little expectations where he can just pop off the screen because he does have enough athleticism because he just does do enough well where if he gets more opportunity, he’d probably be one of those guys where you could see who had a big 30-point game and and you know, you’d have to check the box score to see that it was him, you know, because you might not even know who this player is or that he even exists. And yet uh on the heat that’s just that’s not what they’re looking for. You know, he’s competing with I mean at that wing spot, Wiggins, Haime, Fonteio, Yoic, Highmith, all of these guys are going to be ahead of Kashad on day one of training camp. Um I think he plays I I think he would factor in at the power forward spot. He’s not enough of a ball handler to play on the wing. He’s a little undersized for a power forward even though he’s got a positive wingspan. But even there like, okay, is Bam the starting power forward next to where? Do they end up starting wear at center or I’m sorry, Bam at center with Nico at power forward? I think that’s a spot that’s open for uh competition in training camp. But either way, Johnson’s playing behind both of those guys. Hey, with Heismith, we know that he could play that stretch four spot. They’ve even like Wiggins is certainly capable of playing the small ball four. already did it for a title winning team in Golden State a couple years ago. Jamez Jr. could play the four in a pinch. Maybe heck, they could even throw Fonteo in there as a stretch for if they want. Um it would not be ideal, but again I I is Kash Johnson over him in that kind of pecking order. I don’t know. So um he shot 25% from three during summer league. I can’t. It’s not good. And that’s going to be the big swing skill for him. I like Kashad. The Heat love Kashad. And but I’ve pointed it out before, I was surprised they gave him a 15-man roster spot so early in the offseason. I’m I’m like, really? Like, you couldn’t have waved him and and and resigned him on a two-way. Like, why not? But they clearly believe in him. And talking to people in Vegas, man, they they love the attitude. They love the approach. He works hard. They believe in him. And I think they believe in him the way that they believed in Caleb Martin early on. But I think it’s going to take a couple of years of seasoning for Kashad, which is fine. That’s that’s fine. That’s how the development program is built. It’s we bring these guys in, we develop them for a couple years, and eventually they backfill somebody like Haywood Highmith or Simone Fentio or whatever it is. So, that’s probably where we’re going to end up with him. So, I don’t know. I like that he’s got the goal. Obviously, he’s got to stand he’s got to stand there and say, “I want to be I want to play.” Like, of course, he’s an NBA player. Of course, he wants to play. I just don’t see it as I’m not saying he’s never going to play, but being a part of the nightly rotation, that seems a little farfetched right now. Yeah. I mean, I I don’t know that Heismith, who’s a far better defender, um gets any playing time. If that’s the thing, I don’t think he gets any playing time despite his defense if he doesn’t shoot 40% from three. And and that’s the whole thing. If you’re if you’re not as good a defender and Kashot isn’t, he’s not bad. I think he’s got the size and positional length that you’re looking for. At the same time, he’s just not clearly shooting 40% from three-point range. So, you can’t be out there and be such a a problem offensively and and you know, this team struggles enough as it is. So, it’s it’s just one more disadvantage. You need you need to be able to have an elite skill. Like we’ve talked about Miami’s bench for a long time and it seems like a guy like Kashad is perfectly representative of that because you just have so much and I hate using this word because it sounds really insulting to NBA players and and I recognize that they are among the top players on the planet and and you have have to acknowledge that but within the context of NBA rankings uh there’s a lot of mediocrity towards the bench and and it’s just they just haven’t been able to get anybody to shine or pop off. Again, a Duncan Robinson doesn’t happen unless he is one of the best shooters in NBA history. You know, Max Struce has to be able to find ways to contribute across the board and play some better defense and play, you know, shoot lights out during stretches. You know, these are the way that these guys from the development pipeline find opportunities. And right now, I don’t know that anybody on this roster, it’s not even, we’re not even debating about undrafted players. I mean, guys like Haime can’t crack the rotation. Nico can’t crack the rotation. Can I tell you who who’s in my top 10 right now? And you can tell me whether you you disagree. Yeah, that’s fine. So, I’ve got Tyler Herro, Norm Pal, Andrew Wiggins, Bam Adabio, um Kell Wear, Nikoloic, uh and Davon and DaVon Mitchell as a very That’s your top seven. Yeah. Okay. You You’ve got a believer in Nico. I know we could debate this maybe tomorrow, but I I’m just a little surprised, but so we we’ll put a pin in that because I think that’s a good topic to continue because you seem to be unless you heard something. I’m reflecting what Eric Spolster has said. I mean, he was very when we asked about Nico in Vegas, he was very high on Nico. Let’s put a pin in that because I feel like this is another topic of brewing here for a upcoming episode. Um well, those are my top seven in in some order. Uh, and then penciled in here as my last three of a 10-man rotation. And that’s obviously not set in stone, but I’ve got Pella Larson, Himea Hakees Jr., and Haywood Heismith. Yeah. Just as my last. Yeah. Right. And so that means Terra Rosir, Kasparis, Yakon, Simone Fentio, and Kashad Johnson. Um, not part of the nightly rotation. you know, minutes here and there for whatever reason, but not part of your plan nightly rotation. No. Simone FKO, who might wind up being your best three-point shooter. Well, outside hero. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. And Powell, but I mean, in theory. Yeah, sure. I mean, I I just Who else are we missing here? I I I’m trying to think. I named all 14 players on the roster. I mean, I’m not including the the Vlad Golden who’s their only two-way guy. He’s not going to be part of the nightly rotation. So, Right. So that’s pretty much it. So yeah, it’s uh and somehow I wind up thinking that Terry Rosier winds up leaprogging into that second tier that you mentioned there. He could compete with Pella, right? He could compete with Haime. He can definitely compete with Hwood. Like he could compete with those guys for sure if he has a better training camp. Um yes. All right. Well, uh like you said, there’s a lot to there’s a lot more to get into there. We’ll save for another episode. Um, we debut a new segment next where we’ll discuss um a uh uh a couple mailback questions here, including I’m botching this because I forgot what it was. Oh, what’s the most dominant Florida sports team ever? We’re going to talk about that next here on Locked on Heat. All right, this is a new segment. We’re calling it locked off heat. Nice. It’s a new segment where we discuss anything other than the Miami Heat. We got this question from a Subtext user. If you want to join the Subtext community, the Lockdown Hit Heat Insider community, you can do so by using the link in the show notes. They write in, “What’s the most dominant Florida sports team ever?” I think this is a fascinating question. Can I can I lo up a couple of uh candidates for you and then you can either add or subtract or debate me? Sure. The 1972 Dolphins have to they went undefeated Super Bowl. Okay. Have to be in the conversation. But is that what we’re talking about? Like individual seasons or like amongst like all teams which one you would consider because they’ve all had their peaks and valleys? Oh, I’m I’m like what is the one team like a season? A team for a season? A team for a season. when I I left this part off the question, but he the uh uh the person who asked the question um submitted that he thought last year’s Florida Panthers are the most dominant team in Florida sports history. Yeah, he’s visit the 2425 Panthers. So, we’re going to put them in the conversation. Um I think of the two Panthers Stanley Cup teams, that one was clearly superior than the one two years ago. Um so, I’ll go the 24-25 Panthers, the the 1972 Dolphins. I’ll go. Um, would you agree that it was the 201 13 Heat was the best Heat team? Yes. But was the 2012 Heat team more dominant considering that they’ve won that finals a lot more easily than the 2013 finals, which took lockout shortened year and I don’t think you got the same sample size. Sure. Well, you didn’t have the same rotation players, no Ray Allen, etc. But did they dominate their competi? The 2013 team was better, but then but did 2012 dominate their competition more than 2013? They had a close call in the playoffs. The 2012 team was it was easier for them to just go right into it because the lockout because they were so topheavy. So, it’s like our we bring our three guys and you bring your three best guys and our three guys are going to beat them. So it it was just because of the way that the whole season played out. I I think it was better for a team constructed like that version of the Miami Heat were. So they may have been more dominant, but I still think that 2013 was the best Heat team in Heat history. Like I think so we’re going to we’re going to nominate 2013 then. I would say so. Okay. Um 26 of a game win streak usually does it for you. That’s true. That’s a good point. Um, the 2001 Miami Hurricanes. Yeah, even though the next year’s team was even better, they got robbed. This was a That’s absolutely true. That was a That was not past interference and we all know it. Um, the question asks Florida sports. I’m assuming they mean South Florida because there were some great uh Tampa Bay Buccaneers teams, but I don’t care about that. So, I’m going to I’m going to alter the question. I’m just going to go to South Florida sports if that’s okay. All right. What about Semol’s football? Yeah. Exactly. Like I don’t want to talk about that. I don’t want to talk about the T-Bog like Oh, yeah. Yeah. T-Bog Gators. They’re probably I mean they had like how many? I can’t talk about that. Um, so we’re gonna we’re gonna alter the question. Just talk about South Florida. I believe I believe that the questioner was asking about South Florida sports. Am I forgetting anybody? Where’s UCF rank in that? Is that is that considered South Florida or not? N Central Florida. All right. But the and the 2019 team never got a chance, but we wanted Bama. Well, hell, we can’t go 2003 Marlins. 97 Marlins. No, they got in as wild cards. I don’t consider them dominant. They won. I love those teams. They were not dominant. No, it’s fair. They don’t make the cut here. Was there a Hurricanes team I’m missing? It feels like 01. I mean, there’s great Hurricanes teams 80s later in the 2000s. But that I just look at the team number one. There were so many like NFL Hall of Famers on one team. Okay. All the recruiting down here at that point in time, that was great. But yes, so many great players. That’s so that’s my answer is the 2001 Hurricanes team. I don’t think we’ve ever had a more dominant team in South Florida. That I looked up the stat. That team scored 512 points over the course of the college season. That’s an average of almost 43 points per game. That’s impressive. Not as impressive as the fact that while they scored 512 total points, they only gave up 117, less than 10 points per game. So, they were winning their games by an average margin of 33 points per game. Oops. That’s crazy. Yeah. Can I list you some names? Yeah, sure. I love this. I’m sure. Yeah, this is great. I love this team. This was my This was my all-time favorite team at the time and and uh before the Big Three era uh before even the 2006 Miami Heat. But uh I’m just going to give you their starting their starting lineup on offense. Ken Dorsy, Clinton Portoris, Naji Davenport, Jeremy Shaki, Andre Johnson, Kevin Beard, Bryant McKini, uh Shako Rasuli, Bren, uh Brett Romberg, Martin Ba, and Walking Gonzalez. I 90% of those guys went on to play in the NFL and that was the bad unit. This was a team that was carried by their defense. Uh their defense had Jonathan Vilma on it, Mike Rum, Ed Reed, Philip Ukanon. They had uh coming off the bench on defense. They had Shawn Taylor. Yeah. RIP. They had Kelly Jennings. They had Entrell Ro and played a long time in the NFL. Vince Wilfork, who I think is in the Hall of Fame or will be in the Hall of Fame, was coming off the bench for that team. Their their their running back room was Clinton Portoris, Willis Mahi, and Frank Gore. Yeah, they had Kellen Winslow coming off the bench behind Jeremy Shaki. Yeah, they had Rosco Parish coming off the bench behind Andre Johnson. I think he ended up being a first or second round pick. They had Vernon Kerry who played like 10 plus years in the NFL coming off the bench on on the offensive line. That team was stacked. No. No. Yeah. Ridiculous. like really like deep in terms of you have like professional players there, but you know the statistic is always like, oh, which team from Florida’s had more first round picks or something like that, but maybe a lot of those players didn’t pop because it was so deep. Again, like you you didn’t know what a Vince of Vince Wilfr was capable of and then all of a sudden he just winds up becoming a longtime starter for a Patriots team and winning multiple NFL championships. So, I mean, they were competing against each other more than anything else. like getting to the NFL might have been easier than M practices. They used to say I remember Larry Coker talking about that team who was the head coach at the time and talking about how our practices are harder than the games on Saturdays. Yeah, I can. I’m like, yeah, that makes sense. That makes sense. You have maybe the number two team in the nation on your bench. Yeah. So, um so that’s the answer, right? 2001 Hurricanes. I Nobody else comes close. Like I mean the Dolphins I guess I mean those Hurricanes also went undefeated so it’s not like you throw the undefeated team thing, you know, right? So I mean that’s that’s that’s part of it. No, if it’s South Florida, you’d have to go with that Canes team most dominant. They might have an argument. They’re in that they’re in that mix. It’s it’s the same sort of NBA debate like the 86 Celtics, the 90 whatever Bulls and kind of thing. They’re part of that group. So, uh I’m going to go them. I But that hey, that that Panthers team this last year is up there, man. Like that team is all that might be the most stacked roster from beginning to end that we’ve had in South Florida. But similarly, 2001 Hurricanes, they had a hell of a run, a heatike postseason run, if I may. I mean, but they weren’t exactly like close call against the Canadians. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They had game seven in there, too. So, I mean, it wasn’t like they didn’t run rough shot the same way. It was a great roster and a very dominant team on some stretches. It was just a lot of five to one scores. And so, I it probably eclipse any points per game points per game margin or goals per game margin in terms of like uh Stanley Cup finals. I would I don’t know. I’m just wondering how that stacks up because they were just they scored so much. And I’m not gonna claim to be a hockey expert by any stretch, but it just seemed like they were dominating in those games that they did win. They lost a couple boneheaded games maybe or gave up some some late goals or something like that. But sure, I I just think that in terms of when they had those winning games, it just felt like it was like such a a It felt overwhelming. Yeah, it just it they just came in waves. It felt like the Thunder this past season, honestly. It’s just like what can you do against them? Yeah, they are on they’re on the Mount Rushmore of South Florida sports teams. Of great South Florida sports teams. I don’t think there’s any question about that. No, that’s good. I like that’s pretty cool. Um, all right. Finally, Azie Osborne. He died at 76 years old after a year’s long battle with Parkinson’s. He was the frontman of Black Sabbath who went on to a solo career later was known also as a reality TV star. But, uh, David, I can remember growing up in Coral Springs listening to 1059 in the car. You couldn’t go 30 minutes without hearing Aussie Osborne’s voice. whether it was with Black Sabbath or some of his solo stuff. I remember um when I was in high school, like everybody in high school, you try to play guitar for a little bit and remember and like learning the opening chords of Iron Man and Crazy Train and stuff like that. Um we talked a lot about our appreciation for rock music last week and I think it’s safe to say that rock music isn’t what it is today and is and won’t and wasn’t the same after Ozie Osborne or without Aussie Osborne. So, I just wanted to shout him out during our locked off heat segment. I mean, he’s he was a uh um a giant of of within within the history of rock and roll. No question about it. Yeah. Yeah. I think a larger than life personality and the legend of what he does and what he didn’t do and everything else. It’s so hard to parse what he was or what what the the rumors and legends were about him. And then you see this version of him as a family man in reality. Did he really bite the head off of a bat on stage? still don’t know the answer to that because I’ve heard so many conflicting thing. I think he said no and then I’ve heard other people say absolutely he did and it’s like I think he said no and I think he’s also said yes. It’s quite possible a lot of it definitely a lot of chemicals that might have changed the perception of what happened that night. So uh but yeah was it did you ever watch the reality show? I’ve only caught bits and pieces yeah only bits and pieces. I don’t think I’ve ever sat down. I’m like oh I can’t wait for the meet the Osman. But it was just like the the teenage kids and the wife and just like get into arguments and by that point already he was like struggling to be like like he could have really understand what Aussie was saying but I love the fact that sometimes he was talking they had to put subtitles underneath there and you know the accent was part of it just you know that was a big thing a challenge too but it was just like to see him in these very atypical family environments from what you remember him as. So, what’s crazy is you couldn’t understand a word he was saying and then he would sing and you’re like, “Oh, I understand all of this now.” Yeah. Why didn’t you just do that all the time? Um, no, it absolutely crazy that he uh it just it’s one of those guys when when they die, you’re just like, “Oh, that that that feels so weird.” Like, I don’t really I I turned on War Pigs right away when I saw the news and I was just like I it feels weird that this person isn’t here anymore. But uh he it was just he’s one of those people that just feel like they’re always around because they were so omnipresent within our pop culture that it’s just it’s a little strange that he’s not around anymore even though I can’t claim to sit here and and be like oh I think about Aussie Osborne every day but he’s just he was sort of just always a part of life and now he’s gone. So um yeah just want to rip Aussie Osborne, right? I mean just left an incredible mark on music history. We’ve got some other questions I know that we’ll get to at some point later on this week or next because uh I I love being able to hear these kind of off-topic type questions because people are curious about different things. But even if there’s like the question that we answered before about it’s within context of sports, but it’s not necessarily about the heat. Uh I mean we’re big sports fans across everything here. So I mean we’ve watched baseball, football, hockey, etc. So we love those. So keep those coming in. you know, send us in via email, send us in via subseex, whatever, however you feel comfortable reaching out. We’d love to hear from all of you. Thanks for making Locked on Heat your first listen today. For your second listen, find the Locked on NBA podcast where there is no offseason. Doug, Matt, and Hayes keep you up to date on contract negotiations, rumors, and everything you need to be the most informed NBA fan. 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Miami Heat’s Rozier gamble a costly mistake?

Wes Goldberg and David dive into the fallout of the Terry Rozier acquisition and whether it was the biggest mistake of the Jimmy Butler era. Then the hosts analyze Kashad Johnson’s rotation aspirations and debate his chances of cracking Miami’s lineup. Plus, a heated discussion on Florida’s most dominant sports team ever – from the ’72 Dolphins to the Big Three era. Stick around for a touching tribute to rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and his impact on music and pop culture.

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