How much does Jaime Jaquez Jr.’s rise help the Miami Heat? | Five on the Floor
Jaime Jaquez Jr. is off to a flying start. Ethan Skolnick and Alex Toledo discuss what Jaquez’s strong play could mean for the season, and beyond.
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Tyler will come back and mess it all up playing for a contract. Book it
Jaime shake back season is real. The way he’s playing is the way he looked playing against the USA team. Uptempo basketball with the ball in his hands and the ability to get a bucket or create for teammates.
Jaime Jaquez was never really healthy last year. This is the real him.
The biggest improvement ive seen is his ball handling, its taken a leap
Trade Herro. He isn't worth 45 million a season ,and he will.mess up flow what they have now.
I'm with Ethan, Herro gone make us better.. I don't see him messing nothing up
Davion is one of the most effective players for the Heat. He stays put.
Ethan… smh. talked shit about him all summer. Did the same to Dru 2 years ago.
Great problems to have
Y'all sleeping on wiggs….he only had two games with double digit shot attempts…leads the team in blocks and a close second in steals…and still is a bucket…pay attention to the nuances…the whole team is playing good.
What if Kas plays well. Loads of talent.
Jovic is still playing like Jovic. Spurts of good play. Nothing more
The reason for the Jaime leap is the change in offensive pace. Jaime still can't shoot 3s.
I don’t think Ethan realizes that the reason Miami is scoring so well in transition is bc of their DEFENSE. They’re top of the league in steals. They have i believe a top 5 defense right now. We have 48 minutes of elite point of attack defense and we wear down teams by pressing them from half court the entire game. Tyler can’t do any of that. You have to admit as awesome as Tyler will be offensively he will also take away a lot defensively and idk if that trades off benefits this team.
Also Jaime seems way more explosive like in his rookie year. Was he injured more than we knew last year?
The good news is the starting unit still stinks statistically… they are in the negative. So hopefully Tyler can help fix the starting unit
Trade tyler he is now expendable
I think we don’t need to worry too much about Herro disrupting anything. At this pace, we’re bound to go stretches without guys due to injury. If Powell misses time, Herro slides into his role. If Wiggins misses time, Jaquez moves into the starting rotation, maybe Davion goes to the bench to do Jaquez’s bench distributor role. We finally have a team that can legit go 11-12 deep. Imagine being able to win big with your guys only playing 28-30 mins tops. That’s a recipe for a great regular season.
Stop trying to sell our home grown players 😮