The Miami Heat closed the book on their longest road trip of the season on Sunday night. And the final chapter ended smoothly!
The Heat earned a 111-102 win over the Phoenix Suns inside Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Ari., rewarding them the series sweep after beating the Suns by six earlier this month.
It wasn’t the prettiest of games from either team. But Bam Adebayo led the way with a team-high 22 points on 6-of-16 shooting, including a pair of corner 3-pointers. He had seven boards with exceptional defense all night.
It was just another night in the office for the Heat’s three-time All-Star.
Jaime Jaquez Jr. roared for 20 points, five rebounds and six assists on 8-of-11 shooting off the Heat bench. Andrew Wiggins had his first double-double of the season, finishing with 10 points and 10 rebounds; Norman Powell had a 16-point, 10-rebound double-double of his own; Nikola Jovic, Dru Smith and Pelle Larsson finished with 12, 11 and 10 points, respectively.
The Heat’s nine-point win improves them to 7-3 on the second night of back-to-backs this season.
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The Heat should beat the Suns without Booker. The score directly reflects where the team is at in relative strength to the rest of the league. With Booker, it’s more of a toss up, but we did win a closer game with him earlier.
We are a solid middle of the pack team and things could be a lot worse. There are about ten teams who wish they had our players and about ten more who are in the same category as us. But, there are also ten more who could send us packing quite easily. And sometimes, with our up and down season, it gets easy to overreact either way. But, we have actually been fairly consistent in our level of play.
Last night was a good win against an average team. Sure, we wish we could make a move to improve, but it’s all so complicated and we just have to have that thing that’s so difficult to handle, having patience. Maybe for the Heat, in the next few days…. “Something’s coming, something good. Could be, who knows…”(from my favorite play, and what I believe is clearly the greatest musical of all time), West Side Story.
You are exactly right. We are the envy of the lottery teams which seldom make it out of the cellar. They only dream they could make the play-in round, much less the playoffs.
For Miami to make it into the ranks of the top 10 teams, we couldn’t have $55M+ in salaries sitting at home (Herro and Rozier). What can that much money buy, how about a ss or a very good starter and a rotation player. If the Heat had such players would the team elite, maybe not. Would it be good enough to make it out of the first round… probably.
It will be interesting to see what Riley does in the next week or so to improve the team now or prepare for the future. What does he do with Powell and Wiggins? Whatever he chooses to do, maintaining the status quo is not an option.
teams below teams above team is mediocre changes needed
And, off subject, but the plunging quality of what constitutes art in our still great, but once greater culture, is exemplified by the movie Sinners getting 16 academy award nominations, the most ever. Anyone who has Amazon, meaning anyone who gets deliveries, can see this movie streaming on Prime. In a spoiler alert, this movie opens and for the first hour seems like a nice little period piece depicting the Jim Crow south. Think of the O Brother Where Art Though setting and era, but from a more black perspective. An hour in this movie suddenly morphs into The Night of the Living Dead, and becomes a bloodbath. Now, I applaud the academy for seeing the artfulness of this film thru the gratuitous violence, and the underlying themes it touches upon, one being the Robert Johnson Crossroads tale of selling your soul to the devil for your music. But, 16 nominations is outrageous. I’ve seen movies overhyped and win before, (The Unforgiven) and movies who should have won (Do the Right Thing) but were overlooked due to controversial content. But, usually, maybe over the last fifty years, I believe the academy got it right probably 45 out of 50 times. If you see any reason this film deserves 16 noms, let me know. I think this a B+ movie at best, and only then for its broad sweep, it’s redipiction of an era, and for the creative effort at touching at universal themes. But, it has plenty of holes, large enough to drive a truck thru. Then again, a nomination isn’t a win, but, again, in all the years of the academy, this breaks the record.
sports guy dont go to movies or watch
It was about one of your other favorite subjects, music, the blues.
rocker like johnny winter eric clapton allmanbros blues not bb king type blues
ZZ Top played a little blues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN69GC2amTg&list=RDpN69GC2amTg&start_radio=1
Well, not exactly the zombie or horror movies lover, but I intended to watch it one of those days. I m not sure if I ll do it now. :).
But good movies are rare lately, and especially American production is in big crisis. Its all about zombie movies, franchises movies or remakes.
You can find better, even much better movies from Europe or Asia.
I agree. With the demise of the mall and the movie theater, American movies are becoming less creative as they get harder to get greenlit. So, we are seeing a lot of sequels and superhero movies. The Leonardo DiCaprio movie is getting some buzz as the Oscar Winner. But, I do believe the bar for greatness has been quite lowered.
The sane is happening in music where diva voices and dance steps have taken over where learning to play an instrument and write clever songs, songs that were the poetry of our generation, used to reside. I saw this group this week on SNL, Geese, and even they, although at least trying to be creative, were quite derivative of the nineties grunge era, except with notably less nuance and virtuosity in their musical proficiency.
Maybe the smart phone and computer, and the bombardment with information, has made it harder to focus and make great movies or music anymore.
Music and film are not comparable to what they were in previous generations. I have absolutely nothing against Taylor Swift, but having substantially more Grammys than artists like Carole King and Joni Mitchell (I’m comparing apples to apples here) is absurd.
Its hard to find good new music, but its possible. I often find some really good music on Tiny desk, KEXP or ARTE concerts.
Most American movies and series these days are crap. There are exceptions such as Game of Thrones, The Wire, The Sopranos, Band of Brothers, Ozark and others. However, overall, American movies cater to a much less sophisticated audience and take for granted that American viewers will eat whatever garbage they are being fed.
I prefer watching British movies and series. I especially enjoy watching their period pieces. They are much better written and directed, have much better actors, develop their characters much better and flow much better. Here’s a few worth exploring and there are several others not on the list.
https://theglossarymagazine.com/arts-culture/best-period-dramas/
Thanks Sun
Enjoy.30.
Thats what is the Miami Heat type of game. Not enough of those this season.
Offensive rebounding is a key to success.
Overall, not a bad game, despite the poor shooting. Defense is still the Heat’s main strength. The offense is evolving (run & gun when you can) and pick and roll/screens when you can’t. Ball movement is critical. Offensive rebounding is on the upswing and is having a direct impact on total shots taken and made. Miami is getting more second and third shot opportunities.
Despite the mediocrity of the team so far, it seems the Eastern Conference has also become mediocre. At 25-22, Miami is only 1/2 game behind 6th place 76’ers, 4 games behind 2nd place Celtics and 3 games ahead of the 10th place Hawks.
Where does the team go from here? From all the rumblings, it sounds like Giannis and Milwaukee may be heading for a divorce. If that happens, Riley needs to be locked and loaded and ready to pull the trigger before the deadline or by this summer. It will probably require gutting the rotation and 2-4 picks (depending on whether it is done before the trade deadline or this summer). To begin with, I can see Bam, Jaquez and another young player going to the Bucks as part of any trade. If Milwaukee is not ready to move Giannis before the deadline, the Heat may be able to trade for him this summer.
Meanwhile, what does Miami do with Powell and Wiggins? The options are: extend them, trade them or do nothing, thereby allowing Powell’s contract to expire and Wiggins to opt out and sign with another team, e.g., Golden State.
If Riley does not intend to extend one or both players, the smart thing to do is trade them before the deadline for young assets and draft picks. Doing nothing and waiting until summer would constitute gross mismanagement!
The next 10 days should be very interesting.
Actually, the best thing to do is trade all three (*including Herro).
with jjj pelle and hopefully kasper all 3 might be expendable.right now between jjj pelle norm wiggy zero.how u rank them sun .id go norm jjj wiggy pelle zero
You are comparing apples and oranges. Kaspar, JJJ and Pelle are all on rookie contracts. Powell and Wiggins are looking at $30M+ multi-year contracts. I would keep Powell and trade Wiggins.
rankem sun
giannis super competitive guy tired of losing in milw .odds on fav is nyk.heat are always in the running but never get their whale. powell is a good one on one player doesnt pass a whole lot.his d is acceptable.wiggy is alot one on one not as good as powell but plays better d.both good players at the right price maybe but at 30 mil seems like alot.id take powell trade wiggy.
That is what may happen. Powell 3 years/$90M. Wiggins for Kuminga, filler and 2026 pick. Also, a trade for another big or bank on picking one up who is released after the deadline. Long shot is a trade for Gianni’s or another ss.
Yup, the next week should be very interesting.
as artie johnson use to say very interesting
but you scwewd it up.
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Before your time.
im 69 rowen and martin laugh in was great show.i witnessed perfection in 1972 in the orange bowl.
Its good they won b2b games then 2 days rest. But guess what…2 back-to-back games, 3 straight games vs Bulls its like a playoff series already. Need to rack wins before the break. Might stay put by end of trade deadline and a lot of us here might be pissed if that happens.
Nice double digit scoring from several players. Juan wick stood out a lot with his play, i believe he has really good chance to be 6moty. bam still on his offensive tear, both powell and wiggy chipped in 10 rebounds each. Jovic had his 2nd decent game in a row. Pelle continues his grittiness, should get a face mask eventually Ala rip, and dru had his best game in awhile. We got a lot depth but still need to make a trade or 2. The Godfather is on the clock, and time is a ticking capiche.
It’s early, but it seems like Kas can be a similar player to Pelle. Tough, no fear, decent shooter, gets assists and offensive rebounds.
I feel the same, we got 2 Swiss army knives. I can’t wait to see what they become in the near future.
In the tour today, we met a super nice guy named Pedro. He said he is always standing near Jeremy Tache when Jeremy does his reporting. Have you met him?
Idk if I met him, but I probably seen him. I’m usually around by the railings where the heat players enter and exit. I haven’t tache either, but I did meet will manso, Eric Reid, and crotty.
Cool!
I haven’t seen the playmaking from him that I had hoped for. I see his future as a PG not a SG. Time will tell. Your are right. He seems to have the same grittiness that Larsson does. He had 0 turnovers tonight. He does seem to have no fear in the paint and going after rebounds. He also seems mature beyond his age I keep forgetting he is only 19.
This team has only one playmaker with a lot assists, thats Mitchell. The rest, including Kas are ranged between 1.5 and 5 assist per game.
I believe this is because type of game Miami is playing. Everybody shoots, everybody make plays.
He remind me more on Goran. But way better player then Goran at age 19.
I agree. I look forward to seeing him develop over the next few years. Goran wasn’t a big assist guy either (4.7 career average), which is what Jaime is averaging this season.