2023-24 Season Outlooks: Miami Heat with Ethan Skolnick, Brooklyn Nets with Brian Lewis

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Nate Duncan

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Longtime Miami scribe Ethan Skolnick of Five Reasons Sports guests to discuss the Heat’s chances of returning to the NBA Finals. Ethan discusses why he thinks this Heat roster is improved over the one that started the regular season a year ago, what the plan is for Erik Spoelstra’s rotation, and whether Jimmy Butler can do it again at age 34. Plus, is the Heat organization doing enough to support Butler’s pursuit of a championship? And, of course, we make our predictions for the Heat season. Nets beatman Brian Lewis of the New York Post is our guest to hit on a Nets team that we really haven’t seen together yet. How does Ben Simmons look, and how will he be used by this team? What are the expectations for Mikal Bridges after his breakout a year ago? Why wasn’t this team good defensively last year despite all their talent, and can they improve for this year? What are the chances of them moving some of their veterans? And, of course, we make our predictions for the Nets season.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this free episode of Dunk Don Prime. If you'd like to get all of Nate's team previews
0:04.8	in addition to his and Danny's coverage throughout the season, you can subscribe to Dunk Don Prime at
0:09.9	dunkdon.supportingcast.fm. That's dunkdon.supportingcast.fm.
0:16.6	I welcome on to longtime Miami fixture of five reason sports, Ethan Skolnik, to discuss the NBA
0:25.8	finals runner up. Miami Heat, how you doing, man? Good. It doesn't feel like that their NBA
0:29.9	finals runner up the way they've been discussed all off seasons. I'm sure that's one of the things
0:33.2	we will get into today. I mean, let's just do it right now. Well, it's been a weird off season.
0:39.2	I mean, you don't typically see teams that win the conference. Well, first thing, teams that finish
0:44.4	seven in the conference end up dropping an eighth in the play and don't typically make the NBA
0:49.9	finals. But then when they do, there isn't usually such consternation about, you know, a player they
0:56.3	didn't add in the off season. And I think that's what's made this kind of weird is because we all
1:01.9	anticipated once Dame Lillard made his trade request and made it clear that there was one place he
1:08.2	wanted to go that he would figure out a way to make that happen. But, you know, there was not a
1:12.6	willing partner on the other side. Dame Relented a little bit in terms of the teams that he was
1:17.9	willing to go to. And now, not only, you know, did they heat and not get a target, but the target
1:23.5	went to one of the other two teams in the Eastern Conference that they likely have to get passed.
1:29.2	And then the chain reaction to that was another player went to the other team of the Eastern
1:36.6	Conference that they need to get passed. So, you know, I think that they're after the letdown
1:41.3	phase down here. I think we're starting to kind of figure out what they do have, what they are
1:44.9	capable of. And I think their team is better than it was last season. I know that most don't agree
1:49.9	with me on that, particularly in the national space, but I think more in the local space have come
1:54.1	around to that. So, that's what I'm curious about is, you know, can they be better than the
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