Let us now speak of the Miami Heat and welcoming on a first time guest. I'm really excited to have

him on. I've been following his work for a while. Does some of the best film breakdowns, maybe the best

film breakdowns of the Miami Heat from the Five Reason Sports Network, Brady Hawk. How are you doing,

man? Doing great. Thank you for having me on. I'm ready to dive into the X's and those of Miami Heat World. Yeah, all right. Well, let's talk about last year first. That's usually how I like to do this, is kind of talk about last year, see what we can take away as it relates to this year. So obviously they had the Jimmy Saga. He plays 25 games. They move him around the deadline, bring in bringing Andrew Wiggins and then they had that weird stretch where I think they were like two and ten in close games that kind of wrecked their season um but as as it might relate to this year or some of your takeaways from last year as we look forward to trying to project

what they're going to do this season?

Yeah, I joke around talking about the X's and O's, but it's hard, honestly, when you

talk about last season to only dive into that because there was the Jimmy Butler part of

it.

There was so much going behind the scenes that when you say, let's reflect on last season, last season felt like two seasons to me. It felt like there was that break at the trade deadline post-Jimmy that just felt like a brand new season. It just felt like almost like a new team because they had to hand the keys over to band and Tyler just in a different way, where it was more so just not having that number one guy, having to adjust the way they played. So pre-Jimmy, it was a mess, and that's kind of, that feels ancient at this point. But I will say, but post-Jimmy and things that they can relate into this season, I mean, they add Davy on Mitchell into the fold that I don't think many expected he would pop to that extent for them that season the defensive stuff the

offensive output he was kind of putting out uh you add injure wiggins which was a little

choppy because he didn't play a lot he was kind of available here and there and he just

wasn't ultra aggressive consistently for them so it kind of put them in a rough spot so obviously

they fall into that eight seed and playing uh they win two playing games in mi in Miami heat fashion and when everybody counts them out and thinks, okay, this team has no chance. They can't score. They can't defend. They can't do this. They go and win two playing games. Uh, and then we saw what ended up happening against Cleveland, which is what kind of blended into their offseason moves and why they felt they needed to improve in certain areas. So last year was just so odd because you really couldn't put your finger on anything that they were doing well. As you said, they would do things well at a certain point and they would fall apart in crunch time, where they would kind of have, you know, Bam kind of turned it around late in the season, which I thought was kind of one of the more important pieces of last season was that you had the Jimmy Butler thing hanging over. Bann was not playing his best basketball around that time pre-all-star break. He just didn't have the jumper. He didn't have the short jumper. The bunnies weren't falling. The scoring wasn't coming consistently. The big story at that time was Tyler Hero was popping. He was averaging 24, 25 points a game. It ends up being an all-. Later in the season, we just saw BAM kind of turn it up a little bit.

Kind of those jumpers were falling.

So that was kind of one of the positives.

So it was just kind of an adjustment year.

People are kind of calling this year the bridge year, but it kind of felt like post-all

survey last year was almost their bridge year because it was kind of the point in time

where they were just figuring everything out. Yeah, it really was a disjointed group and you're bringing in new guys and Mitchell and Wiggins who, you know, in theory would fit in, but also, you know, especially with the attention of detail that he'd have, it can be difficult to integrate them. And, yeah, I mean, they just didn't have the team that

they thought that they were going to have for a while. Yeah, let's look ahead, I guess, to this year.

And maybe the place I want to start, you know, is with Norm Powell, because he is the new piece

that they brought in essentially for free. I mean, they're willing to pay him. Maybe they'll extend him. I guess we'll see on that. But it was largely ancillary pieces that they set out for him in terms of the salary match, didn't have to give up much to get him. So how do you see him fitting in both in the absence of Tyler Hero to start the season and then once he comes back?

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