Nikola Jovic Breakout Game? Miami Heat’s Preseason Opener Breakdown! 🔥
The Miami Heat won the first half of their preseason opener vs the Orlando Magic, and the headline was that Nikola Jovic earned the first start next to Bam Adebayo.
Wes Goldberg and David Ramil react to Miami’s preseason opener, what they saw from Jovic and why Erik Spoelstra chose to start him over Kel’el Ware. They also discuss the good and bad from Bam Adebayo’s performance, Andrew Wiggins’ standout game, Dru Smith’s return and Norman Powell’s debut. They also touch on some concern areas the Heat need to clean up.
0:00 Intro
1:30 Nikola Jovic shines in start
12:00 Heat’s new up-tempo offense
15:00 Good & bad of Bam’s game
22:45 Wiggins, Dru Smith and Norm Powell notes
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20 Comments
Nico looks really good…but wiggs still looked a lil better…plus as I said …wiggs is the best player on this team..no cap
Wow!!! Nico wasn't the best Miami player last night at all. The best player was certainly Wiggins. Nico was an average player at best. Ware, Fontecchio, Trevor Keels, D. Smith played better than Jovic.
Jovic is your "great white hope" and not Tyler?
Wiggs is the best player on the team and you know this!
Stop gaslighting !!!
.500 basketball is 🔥 lol
When can you guys start holding Bam accountable. So we are praising a max player for being aggressive with no tangible results. The way you guys protect Bam, speaks to him being just a an overpaid role player.
Are y’all getting paid to push this narrative? Niko was terrible on defense and had one rebound. We all know Coach Spo does not like to play bigs. This is bad for the team and Ware’s career
Bam missing bunnies is part of the Bam experience.
0-5, being out rebounded, and leading the starting unit to a -1 definitely worth $50 mill😂😂😂😂
Jaime made good lead passes and had a nice cross over
Can we talk about how to heat loss? A double digit lead
Bam don’t have dawg in him an no one wants to except that implement what u want if Bam don’t get it Miami don’t win
These Clowns is already lying and covering for the Great White Hope Nico.
I wish you guys gave a little more attention to Simone Fontecchio. He was running the floor, dishing out to players, scrapping for loose balls and hitting shots and he had a tough and 1 off the break showcasing his size. Also I liked Precious Achiuwa’s minutes you can see right off the bat what he’s capable of providing. Athleticism, blocked shots, rebounding and some relief buckets.
OK, but I have a question. What do we do in the situation where Nico is cooking and Ben is out there already but we need more rebounding who gets benched for Kalel Ware?
Do yall think that Jovic playing over Kelel in the starting position will drain his confidence? We all know he wanted to start.😬 really hope not
"Not a star Andrew Wiggins" has a higher career scoring average than Butler, plus a championship Who knew 😮
We need to stop riding hall passes for Bam so he can go and chill until the period is over only because he isn’t getting the answers right or class is just not going well for him.. He is 28 years old or something like that right isn’t he? The captain is supposed to be a role model if he would’ve scored some points maybe we would have won.. yes it’s just first preseason game. I know you said you wasn’t worried. I’m worried why because he’s been with us since he was 20 or 21 years old or something like that right? I’m sure it’s not the jitters. I’m sure that it’s not that he doesn’t know the playbook, but what can it be? He’s been an NBA player with Miami for 9 years and forgive me if I sound like I’m going in on Bam, I mean, but goodness what happened?
This is a little heavy on the Niko glaze. He did well but he wasn't THAT good. I'd say him and Kel El performed about the same this game in different ways.