The Miami Heat host the reigning-champion Oklahoma City Thunder, their second game in less than a week! What are your predictions and thoughts ahead of Saturday’s game?! Let us know in the comments!
Here is our game thread!
Injury Report (at the time of this publishing):
OKC Thunder:
- Isaiah Hartenstein (right soleus) — OUT
- Thomas Sorber (ACL) — OUT
- Nikola Topic (surgical recovery) — OUT
Miami Heat:
- Tyler Herro (toe, rib) — QUESTIONABLE
- Davion Mitchell (shoulder) — OUT
- Jaime Jaquez Jr. (knee) — OUT
- Vlad Goldin (G-League) — OUT
- Myron Gardner (G-League) — OUT
- Jahmir Young (G-League) — OUT
Projected Starting 5 (subject to change):
OKC Thunder:
- Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, G
- Cason Wallace
- Jalen Williams, F
- Luguentz Dort, F
- Chet Holmgren, C
Miami Heat:
- Kasparas Jakucionis, G
- Norman Powell, G/F
- Pelle Larsson, G/F
- Andrew Wiggins, F
- Bam Adebayo, C
Broadcast Info:
- Tipoff: 8:00 PM EST
- TV: FanDuel Sports Network Sun (Eric Reid & John Crotty)
- Radio: AM 560 Sports WQAM & The HEAT Radio Network (Jason Jackson)
- Spanish Radio: WAQI 710 AM & The HEAT Spanish Radio Network (José Pañeda)
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props to pelle nice team player does lots winning things.def needs 25 -30 minutes.need more ware and no niko.drus playing terrible.kas should def play over him.wiggins is def a nice piece to have always defends pretty athletic when he scores he looks like an all star.norms a great #2.how do we get a ss.if we somehow landed the greek for a ware jjj jovic package that would put us over the top
Heat would need to give up a first just to get rid of Niko the way he’s playing. Spo keeps trying to play him. He needs a month ( or 2) in Sioux Falls
What?!!!! We won?! They will give me hope again?! lol
versus defending champs less shtein.
were not far off from being a good competitive team need a trade or two i hear sabonis is avai as backup pf c.shnozzy like herro unplayable enough eric failed experiement
team looks so diff w.o herro get this guy the f oh hate to repeat but hes got to betraded or benched.pelles so much better all round player than the all star
crutty caruso didnt get open 3 jeez get pair of glasses jon
Just looked at the replay. He had a pretty good look.
bam came flying by had to shoot the ball way to high
anyway u want caruso taking last shot
True
one stop yes yes yes great TEAM win
WOOHOOO HEAT WIN !!!!!
team win one on one player out
Why should any fan care about that? Happy for the win. Most here, including me, have been for trading Herro. I haven’t commented on whether the team plays better without Herro. I was staunchly against handing him anything he doesn’t earn, like the starting position.
do u think he should play at all .maybe 10 mins max
I am hoping the Heat puts together a trade or 2 to improve the team. I like the starters with no Herro. I also want Ware to get no less than 25 minutes. I love Pelle (you made fun of him early on and even recently was using him as a throw in on a trade). I like what the kid Gardner brings. Kas is interesting, still has a very long way to go, had some great assists today.
they play better w/o him dont know why u dont see that .when he got hurt in milw playoff series thats when we took off.hes a ball stopper teammates dont like ball stoppers unless balls going thru basket.
I absolutely don’t know why you keep saying the same thing. The only thing I kept saying is it makes no sense to blame the team’s performance on him if he’s not playing. Statistically, you are correct – the Heat have a worse winning percentage when he plays then when he doesn’t. Those are facts. I accept factual data every time.
team is better when tylers not on ct correct or not correct or still not sure dont think so?
You might try reading the above comment. Why should I repeat the same thing?
hartenshtein out hes a pain in the ars to keep off boards
still need a closer norm not quite it hope we can pull it out up by 2 3secs left
dru bothered chet crutty watch the game
double sga make somebody else beat u
how bout ty for alan ogg
wiggins with a 3 nice up by two 31secs
monday night versus the quitter
pelles a 30 min guy herros a zero min guy
heat have 33 more fg attempts and there down wtf
keep herro away from the team trade him for henry finkle
bam 6 3s
kasper hand to chets eye
herro out we always play better rc doesnt see it maybe one day he will get it
Stop being an idiot. Oh sorry, you can’t
67 65 heat putting up a fight
Why does it look like it’s better when Heat is the one fighting back from a deficit?
congrats to denver
Go Heat!!
Let’s go Heat!