Q: That was wonderful. Where has this group been all 12 months? – Matthew.
A: It has been in a spot that when the opposition performs with extra desperation, the Heat all too usually have failed to satisfy that desperation. The 76ers entered Thursday locked into No. 3 within the East, it doesn’t matter what they did of their last three video games. And they performed prefer it. The Heat entered with way more at stake, and performed prefer it. The downside for the Heat has been dealing with groups with equal desperation. That will change as quickly as a possible Tuesday play-in opener. Win that sort of recreation, after which you possibly can speak about statements. Thursday was about one group with a playoff ticket punched and the opposite group scrambling, maybe futilely, to get there. Soon sufficient for the Heat it will likely be desperation vs. desperation.
Q: I’m a Heat fan since ceaselessly. I would like the group to play in opposition to the Celtics and get revenge from final 12 months. It’s Jimmy Butler time. – Jurgis.
A: And it would properly come to be. But first the Heat must win the Nos. 7-8 play-in recreation to get there. And whereas final season’s Eastern Conference finals went the complete seven video games earlier than Boston gained, this can be a higher Celtics roster, whereas this hasn’t confirmed to be a Heat roster as much as final season’s top-seed standing. Also, the Heat could be the highway group this time round (and bear in mind, when the Heat defeated the Celtics within the 2020 playoffs, that was on the impartial courtroom at Disney amid the pandemic quarantine, within the void of followers). The actuality is that if the Heat get to a primary spherical collection in opposition to the Celtics, they’d be appreciable underdogs, and it assuredly would take greater than even one of the best of Jimmy Butler.
Q: Ira, when you needed to guess, who’s on the group subsequent season: Omer Yurtseven, Orlando Robinson or neither. – Joel.
A: Well there’s a twist, as a result of Orlando Robinson could be eligible for one more two-way contract, in order that may very well be a workaround, except one other group affords Orlando an ordinary deal within the interim. As for Omer Yurtseven, it doesn’t seem as if he has been a precedence for the Heat amid this comeback, which raises query of whether or not they even would prolong the required $2.2 million qualifying supply to make him a restricted free agent. Ultimately, it may come right down to Plan C, with the Heat merely bringing again Cody Zeller.
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