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Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA

Has the Play-In Tournament been a crutch for the Miami Heat?

Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA

Five Reasons Sports Network

Sports, Basketball

4.6633 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The Miami Heat will be in the Play-In Tournament for the fourth straight season. This season and last, they won't have made the playoffs at all with the old format of each conference seeding the top eight teams, and eliminating the others. Ethan and Greg discuss whether the absence of such a tournament would have been a good thing for the Heat franchise, even with the Finals appearance that it produced.


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0:00.0

Welcome to my latest episode of five on the floor on the five reasons of sports network. Thanks, join us in your favorite podcast app on Apple Apple Podcasts on Android to recommend Spotify. Also check out the five reasons YouTube channel for all your South Florida sports content. Also off the floor, that's where we're going to be during draft season, which looks like it's starting here pretty soon. We've got a draft channel there, two bucks and 99 cents per month that gives you access to every channel, not just one. Also to our stage shows, the host updates, contests, and more. Check it out. Again, link is right there in the description, the place for the most heat anywhere, most heat information and conversation. It's off the floor. Also check out prize picks. Use the code 5, FIVE. We'll be doing daily shows during the playoffs. use the code 5, F-I-V-E, or delete the one that you see there and add that one. You get $50 of free lineups. Those will be on the explore page. There's literally giving you $50 to just give it a shot. So give it a shot. Legal in the state of Florida for all the pro sports. You can combine pro sports and teams together. And it's prizeb.com. Use the code F-I-V-E.

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And now, today's episode.

0:59.3

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1:02.1

Yeah.

1:03.5

It's mercy.

1:05.6

Music by mercy again.

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Keep nation.

1:09.7

You the coach you. I knew you were caught some out. Me ready to set the full pen. Tropical blanket. Open for the shot. Yo, Greg, set the pick. Still five on the floor. Still ride for my dog. Zoon battle on the court still survive in the wall. Keep your eye on the ball. Or get burned friendly. Keep this mic off the wall without turning the cheek from night of day no sleepy pads or allowed to mourn us

1:31.3

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1:39.3

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1:41.3

Wade County Hey, we're counting. Heat Nation, you're so proud of it.

1:47.0

Welcome to Five on the Floor, a daily insider show on the Miami Heat and the NBA,

1:57.0

featuring Ethan Skolnik, Greg Silvander, Alex Toledo, Brady Hawk, and others from the Five Reason Sports Network.

2:04.6

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2:12.5

All right, welcome back to Five on the floor. Here's today's floor plan. I'm Ethan Scholnick and follow me to Ethan J. Scholing again at five reasons sports i got at greg salvander you can follow them at greg slander even though the season is feeling a little futile at this point we're trying to give you as many episodes as we can the heat are in the 10 spot that won't change by the time that you hear this it looks like they're going to get stuck in the 10 spot they are definitely stuck in the play. There's no question about that. That is now official. That's a fourth straight year. This is the second straight year that they will be in the 10 spot. So I went through this with Alex on a podcast and it is depressing. There are only four teams that kind of tried this season that the heat are going to finish ahead of. And they and they might not even finish ahead of one of them because they, I don't know that

2:53.7

they're going to finish ahead of Portland.

2:55.6

But they're actually tied right now with the Clippers who started six and 21.

3:00.4

They are, they are, they're ahead of Portland by one game.

3:03.5

They're ahead of Golden State, but it's only because Curry and Butler had their injuries.

3:09.2

They are ahead of New Orleans. They did try, I mean, because they have their own, they don't have

3:14.6

their pick. So they did try, but they're just awful. And then I'm missing another, oh, Milwaukee,

3:19.9

and I don't know if you say they tried or they didn't try. I mean, they certainly didn't do

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