NBA Season 2024-25

[Neurotic Guy]

Wow - Heat need to get through nearly 3 more quarters. Embarrassing. 

[Atzar]

I rather enjoy watching the Heat get splattered.

[Phantom255x]

55-21 is insane

[Phantom255x]

8-2 run

Miami roaring back, down just 39

[Who]

It is hard to see where Miami goes from here in the off-season. Little hope for a better 2025-26.

Everyone is still on the books for next season. Salary actually goes up $5mil. Bam ($48mil) and Herro ($33mil) is good money.

Then Wiggins at $30mil. He has a player option for 2026-27. He probably won't get $30mil per then but maybe he opts out to secure a longer term deal. Miami liked him a lot. I don't know if they still do. But he was the main reason they traded with GSW and why GSW didn't have to give up much young talent. He was Miami's main target - as strange as that is to say. Boy, did they get that one wrong.

Rozier at $26mil despite no longer being in the rotation. Duncan Robinson at $19mil which is about 50% non-guaranteed but they'd have to spend the MLE to replace him so MLE + his guaranteed portion is basically the $19mil he is already earning. So they will probably just keep him and wait until the following season. At that point, both Rozier and D Robinson come off the books freeing up $45mil for Miami. If Wiggins opted out, that would be $75mil off their books which would be huge for turning around the team.

Kyle Anderson is on the books for just under $10mil. They should trade him. They aren't making much use of him. Plus, they have Jovic. Spare the cash, move him on.

Highsmith ($5.6mil) and Love ($4mil). That is fine. K Ware, Jaquez, Jovic, Larsson on the rookie scale deals. They are fine value for money.

Davion Mitchell looks the only significant guy out of contract. They might as well let him leave and play Rozier since Rozier is taking up so much of their cap space. Alec Burks also out of contract at the minimum.

They look stuck where they are. No immediate cap flexability. Some cap flexability in 2026-27. Maybe a good amount if Wiggins opts out. A chance to get a 3rd star to pair with Bam and Herro then. Limited trade assets. Hard to see them netting any major return. Ware is their best (only) prospect and he looks middling. Solid starter but not more. I don't see him bringing back anything major.

G: Herro, Rozier
G: D Robinson
F: Wiggins, Highsmith, Larsson
F: Bam, Jaquez, Jovic, K Anderson
C: Ware, Love

[SparzWizard]

Why bother playing the game. Cavs up 82-38

[johnnygreen]

I rather enjoy watching the Heat get splattered.

This couldn't have happened to a more deserving franchise.  I hope this turns out to be tge biggest blowout in playoff history.

[Celtics2021]

Jaren Jackson Jr got the $345mil supermax deal.

In the series with OKC, he played 34 minutes a game putting up 16.2ppg 5.0rpg 1.5apg 0.5bpg. He shot 38% from the field, 36% fom three with about half of his shots coming from three, and was 19-19 from the FT line. 48% TS%. He had 11 turnovers vs 6 assists in the 4 games.

Ja Morant (47.5% TS%) and Desmond Bane (43.8% TS%) fared little better. It was their role players like Aldama, Scottie Pippen Jr, and Zach Edey that had acceptable scoring efficiency.

Still, that is miserable production & efficiency for a guy earning $345 million. JJJ needs to be better than that. He deserves more criticism for his poor performances than he is getting.

This is incorrect.  He is eligible to sign that deal in July, taking effect in 2026.  This year he is earning $25.3 million and next year he is getting $23.4 million, which are relative bargains.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but his eligibility for the Supermax is conditioned upon him making All-NBA, correct?

That's likely, but not a lock.

Correct, I meant to write he could be eligible, because his DPOY is too long ago.

[Neurotic Guy]

Just 25 more stops and the Heat can take this.

[Goldstar88]

Warriors off to a hot start.

[jpotter33]

Lol NBA officiating is such a joke. They give Green a flagrant there just to keep him in the game, when that?s clearly a double technical foul and should be Green?s second. Ridiculous, biased officiating.

[radiohead]

Lol NBA officiating is such a joke. They give Green a flagrant there just to keep him in the game, when that?s clearly a double technical foul and should be Green?s second. Ridiculous, biased officiating.

Exactly haha!

[Who]

Beautiful pass by a driving Jimmy to a cutting Buddy Hield for a layup.

[Who]

Nice sub by Udoka. Double big lineup.

Q Post cannot matchup defensively or rebounding wise against either Sengun or S Adams. He doesn't have the muscle. Either guy is capable of getting whatever they want against him. Have done all series.

Draymond sitting in foul trouble. Q Post as their sole big. They start going to Sengun. Then Udoka brings in S Adams. Their twin lineup against GSW's no quality big man lineup. Beat them up inside.

Kerr has got to come back with Kevon Looney. They need his muscle inside to matchup against these guys. Q Post can't get the job done.

[Who]

Kerr with TJD instead of Looney

G: Steph
G: Podz
G: Hield
C: Trayce Jackson Davis
C: Q Post

No above average perimeter defenders. No physicality on the perimeter. They sit Jimmy. They are not playing G Payton II. They are not playing Moody.

They are playing their 3 best offensive perimeter players outside of Jimmy to help compensate for the double big lineup. Interesting decisions.

Rockets are huge

G: VanVleet
F: D Brooks
F: Jabari Smith Jr (6-10 PF)
C: Sengun
C: S Adams

Only 1 capable ball-handler. Trap the ball-handler.