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Chapter 1: What is the current status of the Miami Heat's playoff run?
Shadow Show. Shadow in it. Billy, traffic was super bad today, so you were able to miss everything that broke out before you got here on just hockey enthusiasms and heat calamity, and there were a lot of people bouncing into each other, yelling at each other, and we're four games into the playoffs.
Chapter 2: How did the Panthers perform in the playoffs?
Well, playoffs are over for one of the teams.
That is correct. That's part of what's happening. And the other thing that's happening, though, is that after a really magical, like truly magical, seems like the loudest sound I've ever heard in South Florida, 11 seconds of Panthers hockey, there was a brawl in here in which a bunch of people were arguing about whether Marchand had a good game last night or not.
And it was just a strange argument to break out. And I think it's because everybody's crazy.
It's weird. I mean, everybody needs to kind of keep their heads on straight and realize this is going exactly as the script foretold. Panthers covered last night, as we said they would. Panthers are up 3-1 in this series, as we expected them to be. Heat were out in the most lopsided playoff series in the history of the NBA, as we were told yesterday would be the case by Greg Cody.
Crazy.
Things are happening exactly as we said they would, so I don't know why people are getting crazy. This is level-headed. This is the script, and we're following it.
Even crazier. Greg Cody was in the building last night for the game and stayed the entire time. Wow. Yeah.
Greg Cody said, as the resident South Florida historian, that that's the worst playoff game of any kind played in South Florida since Dan Marino retired his final game because he was losing 62-7 in Jacksonville in a playoff game. That that's the most apocalyptic thing. And beyond that, I guess probably a lot of people will be here for tears today. that feels like the end of all things.
It doesn't mean that they won't go get a whale or Antetokounmpo or Embiid or somebody, but it felt like the whole thing collapsed as you watched the Celtics, you know, they were even with the Celtics, the Celtics have expanded beyond them, and the Heat are now a 10 seed. And that's what happens when you allow 10 seeds to play a team that won 60 games during the season.
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Chapter 3: Why was last night's Heat game described as historically bad?
Shout out to Tim Alcorn, play-by-play man for Cleveland Cavaliers Radio. No, Dan, it was incredible because you mentioned that play, and somehow the Cavs extended the lead after that. Every single quarter, it got worse.
We kept waiting for, like, okay, you're up a zillion, and then at some point, like, the bench guys get in, and then the bench guys are like, oh, I gotta prove to Coach Spoh I deserve to play. And it got worse. We were joking last night, said it took the Heat getting down 50 for Duncan Robinson and Hami Hakas to get in. And then they managed to play worse than the guys that they replaced.
So this is the historic stuff that happened. The 122 points, the largest difference ever in a four-game series. The 122-point differential between the Cavs and the Heat. The 55-point loss, it's fifth worst in the history of the sport. And it's the first time that a team has lost back-to-back games by more than 30, playoff games by more than 30 points. And they did it at home. At home.
It's not just that it happened. It's the first time it's ever happened, but it happened to them at home. So that is the worst punctuation on a heat season there has ever been.
Dan, they were down 60 at one point. It took Nikoliowicz having like a hot streak at the end. He had a couple threes, had a put-back layup. That's what got it to 55. At one point, they were down 60, which would have been the largest playoff loss in NBA history. And also, and also, it was approaching the worst loss in NBA history, which I'll give you three guesses. Who has that one?
1991.
He went into great detail how they lost by 68.
Do you know the indignity and insult it is that Ernie Johnson has called as much basketball as he has and he says that that's the worst thing that he's ever seen?
Can we remember this feeling, though? Like, can we bottle up this feeling that we're feeling today and remember this in the offseason when there will be trade speculation and everyone under the sun will be fighting to get to the heat and every superstar, Giannis, will want to come here and Kevin Durant will want to come here and everyone will want to come here in our heads.
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Chapter 4: What were Jimmy Butler's contributions and challenges this season?
Why does Jimmy Butler after the game say, I found my joy, I got my joy back, as they say? No, not as they say. You said that, Jimmy.
You said that. The thing that's interesting about this, and it's why it's such a cool thing to watch the gas pedal pressed on it, Jimmy, Draymond, Steph, can you do it 12 more times? It's just 12 games. The hot streak you had at the end of the regular season, can you put it together right now? I guess it's 13 more times, right? Can you do it 13 more times?
Will Jimmy's body hold up if that's what it looks like? and win number three, and that's what it takes. It's gonna take the road of, the Rockets are gonna be the easiest thing, you see.
And the road they have, because they got in on the play-in game and they didn't get the rest and everything else, the road they have makes it physically harder for that team to make it through, like the Clippers and some of these old teams, specifically because of what's being asked of Jimmy at this pace.
The bet for the rest of this season is the Heat saying he can't do it for 13 more victories and Golden State saying we'll give you an extension to do it for 13 more victories.
Well, I don't think the Heat were saying they don't believe that he could do it for, you know, throughout this year's playoffs. They were saying he can't do it through the year 2028, right? Isn't that what the Heat were saying in getting rid of him?
They were saying that and also they don't believe that he wants to do it here anymore. That's right. The part about 2028 is last summer when they're like, I don't know if I want to sign that extension. The part where they traded him is where it's like, oh, he's not going to do that here anymore.
Do you guys understand, though, why that night? as punctuation for the last 15 years, and I understand you can hope that they'll get someone else, but this feels like the tires blowing off of the vehicle, everything quits at the end, whatever it is that you thought of annoying Billy for how many years with culture, culture, culture, ground to a big puff of dust.
As everyone now believes the punctuation, oh, it wasn't Riley. Culture for 15 years. Jimmy took that with him, and look at how it plays now, late-night television in Golden State, because it is something that the crazy can take with them, and it wasn't about your team or your organization or your principles. It was about the guy who now plays for a different champion.
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Chapter 5: What does the future hold for the Miami Heat after this disappointing season?
Chapter 6: How did other sports events like Marlins vs Dodgers affect the mood?
That doesn't make me late. I didn't go to the starting lineup in studio.
You weren't on your car phone. Yes, I was. I heard you stationary.
No, I was absolutely on my car phone. I wasn't in the studio with starting lineup.
You got, Zazz has got some affluence now in the ESPN deal. He's got a car, Dan, where it's very soundproof.
My driver had me on speaker in the car.
Yeah, it really was professional sounding studio for someone who was in his car. But okay, regardless, you were late and he's excited because there aren't a lot of things I don't think that you can do in 11 seconds. And I saw them happen a couple of times. During last night's Panthers game.
What a night.
Who was it that was quoted after the game? Was it Seth Jones who was saying, I could feel the hatred on the ice. I could feel the hatred in the locker room.
It's the best sport like that. Like what other sports do they still talk like that? It's why I've loved these NBA playoffs because the team seemed to be hating each other this year. But it's always like that with the hockey. They hate each other.
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Chapter 7: What role does competition and toughness play in the Heat's team dynamics?
Chapter 8: What changes are expected in the Miami Heat roster going forward?
Yeah, like I think he meant specifically they lost 10 in a row and they still managed to make the playoffs.
Sure, sure. But last night there was no resilience. None whatsoever. Not from the opening tip. I mean, there were moments early in the first half. It's a big deficit. I get it. But this NBA, you get a couple of threes, all of a sudden it's not a big deficit. And the way they were playing was 1-2-3 Cancun.
I've never seen a Heat team playing as if it didn't want to get on a flight. I've never seen that before.
Dan, it will be erased in history. No one will remember this. But there was a play where Max Strews, sideline out of bounds, inbounds the ball, steps right in. They pass it right back to him. There's not a single Heat player within 30 miles of him. He's wide open for three. He misses the three, so it won't be remembered. But it's just like, what are we doing here?
At what point does execution on the defensive end, effort, making the extra rotation, making the extra effort, all those things went out the window. And it went out the window very early in that game. It was 30-8. I mean, look.
I think we kind of knew that, or at least I felt going into the game yesterday, we were going to learn a little bit about this Heat team. What I mean by that is not that we're going to learn, oh, can they win the game? Okay, send the series back to Cleveland.
But we're going to learn a little bit about this version of the Heat because if you get down early, they all know they're not winning the series. Maybe they win the game, they're not winning the series. They know that, okay? So we're going to learn a little bit about this team where if they get down early, which...
Do they start thinking to themselves, all right, is it even worth trying to put a thousand percent effort to get back in this game than to just get on a plane for one more game and get killed in Cleveland? Like, we're going to learn a little bit about this team. And we did learn, which was, yeah, we don't really think it's worth the trouble. And that's the part that's different, right?
Well, that's also what's going to spark the change. The change that the fan base has wanted. I don't know that I want to sit here and do silver lining today, but losing that game by one point yesterday is not the way to go into the offseason.
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