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Wes Goldberg

👤 Speaker
792 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The Athletic NBA Daily
Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

I'm going to it's not good enough. I'm going to change all of it. I'm going to change my mindset. I think that's so hard and underappreciated that when I look at most improved, I don't know that anybody has improved from where they were to where they are now as much as Tyler Hero has.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

I'm going to it's not good enough. I'm going to change all of it. I'm going to change my mindset. I think that's so hard and underappreciated that when I look at most improved, I don't know that anybody has improved from where they were to where they are now as much as Tyler Hero has.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

I'm going to it's not good enough. I'm going to change all of it. I'm going to change my mindset. I think that's so hard and underappreciated that when I look at most improved, I don't know that anybody has improved from where they were to where they are now as much as Tyler Hero has.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

Yeah, I might go Zubach here and that I don't have a great reason other than he's been awesome. And I love watching that guy play. And he's just I'm going to put him on every single ballot. He'll be on my defensive player of the year ballot. I love the season that he's been putting together. So off the top of my head, I go Zubach.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

Yeah, I might go Zubach here and that I don't have a great reason other than he's been awesome. And I love watching that guy play. And he's just I'm going to put him on every single ballot. He'll be on my defensive player of the year ballot. I love the season that he's been putting together. So off the top of my head, I go Zubach.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Western Conference playoff race + Most Improved Player award

Yeah, I might go Zubach here and that I don't have a great reason other than he's been awesome. And I love watching that guy play. And he's just I'm going to put him on every single ballot. He'll be on my defensive player of the year ballot. I love the season that he's been putting together. So off the top of my head, I go Zubach.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

As long as something happens to the team, I don't care.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

As long as something happens to the team, I don't care.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

As long as something happens to the team, I don't care.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

It's a great question. In terms of the first part, they've finally figured out how they want to play, the rotations that they want to get to. Eric Fulcher kind of had a pretty audacious plan going into the year, playing Terry Rozier and Tyler Hero together in that backcourt, playing Nikola Jovic at that starting power forward spot.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

It's a great question. In terms of the first part, they've finally figured out how they want to play, the rotations that they want to get to. Eric Fulcher kind of had a pretty audacious plan going into the year, playing Terry Rozier and Tyler Hero together in that backcourt, playing Nikola Jovic at that starting power forward spot.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

It's a great question. In terms of the first part, they've finally figured out how they want to play, the rotations that they want to get to. Eric Fulcher kind of had a pretty audacious plan going into the year, playing Terry Rozier and Tyler Hero together in that backcourt, playing Nikola Jovic at that starting power forward spot.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

There was just so many question marks, not really knowing how that bench unit was going to look or how it was going to work. And... doing all that while also installing what was going to be essentially a five-out offense. They wanted to take a lot more threes. They wanted to reduce the amount of mid-range shots that they took. They were way over-indexed on mid-range shots last season.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

There was just so many question marks, not really knowing how that bench unit was going to look or how it was going to work. And... doing all that while also installing what was going to be essentially a five-out offense. They wanted to take a lot more threes. They wanted to reduce the amount of mid-range shots that they took. They were way over-indexed on mid-range shots last season.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

There was just so many question marks, not really knowing how that bench unit was going to look or how it was going to work. And... doing all that while also installing what was going to be essentially a five-out offense. They wanted to take a lot more threes. They wanted to reduce the amount of mid-range shots that they took. They were way over-indexed on mid-range shots last season.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

The math just was not working in their favor. And so a lot of this stuff was very much like an upheaval, even though you think of Miami typically being this team that's been together for so long, but they were trying to play in a very different way.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

The math just was not working in their favor. And so a lot of this stuff was very much like an upheaval, even though you think of Miami typically being this team that's been together for so long, but they were trying to play in a very different way.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

The math just was not working in their favor. And so a lot of this stuff was very much like an upheaval, even though you think of Miami typically being this team that's been together for so long, but they were trying to play in a very different way.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

And trying to change an identity of a team without changing very much of the personnel is a really tough thing, maybe even an impossible thing in pro sports. And so the fact that it took so long shouldn't be surprising. And then Eric Spoelstra finally found the rotations at work. Rozier to the bench. Duncan Robinson elevated back to the starting lineup.

The Athletic NBA Daily
Rockets ready for takeoff in the NBA Cup? | Jimmy Butler’s hair raises Heat questions

And trying to change an identity of a team without changing very much of the personnel is a really tough thing, maybe even an impossible thing in pro sports. And so the fact that it took so long shouldn't be surprising. And then Eric Spoelstra finally found the rotations at work. Rozier to the bench. Duncan Robinson elevated back to the starting lineup.