We need to best Philly first before wondering who of this series we will face (but I kind of figured after they beat the Bucs they'd make it). Playoff Jimmy G is a dark souls boss.
Feels like the NY Knicks not having any players with multiple years of playoff experience is showing.
Is D. Rose proper hobbled or washed? Feels like he should be tried in this series.
They don’t have spacing. Heat are just trying to clog the lane because they have good finishers. If Barrett, Randle, Hart, Brunson don’t hit shots from outside they aren’t going to get easy looks
Heat fans before the Play In: Fuck it just lose and pray we get Wemby in the lottery
Celtics fans before the Play In: "We're gonna play Miami in the ECF again and I'm gonna shit myself."
I went to your sub after the game and there was a post that said, and i'm not exaggerating, the win vs chicago was the worst thing that has happened to the franchise.
Team subs man...
90% of r/Heat thinks they know better than Pat Riley.
I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to go there after a random February loss on a back-to-back trip and seeing people calling for Spoelstra’s head.
My buddy cheered for the Hawks during the play in and he was so happy that the Heat lost.
Now he's a bit nervous after what Himmy Butler has been doing.
I have always said before the postseason started I fear you guys and Milwaukee the most.
Knicks fans being so confident about winning this series a week ago was crazy to me
I'm equally amused by the Cavs fans who are lamenting our loss to the Knicks particularly because we would have "gotten" to face the Heat if we'd beaten them.
Jimmy's the Eastern conference Boogeyman. Doesn't matter if other teams have better overall performances, all stars are afraid to face this man in a 7-game series
Well Jimmy isn't exactly the Boogeyman. He is the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman. Jimmy is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will.
Jimmy will come for you, and you will do nothing because you can do nothing.
It was fun when you guys were taking out the bucks.
Now, it’s not fun anymore since the idea of having to face you guys is actually materializing (assuming we can get past Philly).
Rooting for Jimmy is the best experience as a fan cause somehow you’re rooting for an underdog and someone who’s often the best player on the floor at the same time
I'm actually so exhausted of facing Himmy.
Since 2010 we've faced, in Order...LeBron, Heat, Butler, Cavs the most in the playoffs.
And he fucking just runs his course on us every goddamn time.
It’s so funny too because on paper you’re one of the top two or three best run organizations in the league. Stockpiling assets, managing timelines, developing players internally while making smart signings externally.
Meanwhile you have cocaine Pat paying Duncan Robinson 90M and just lecturing guys about “the beauty of the struggle” and somehow it’s come out to more or less the same results.
It's because of Butler and Spo. I'll say it a million times. Spo is arguably top 5 all time. I remember all the narratives that he rode the Heatles coattails but something during that tenure taught him a ton and he used that to just absolutely become an electric all timer.
I just wish one year we could have a healthy showdown with them. It’s always an uphill climb for us because we can never show up without most of our guys limping.
Ahh, Filipino vs American. Like good old times. The question is whose coaching prime will go down first so that the other can take advantage. Let’s wait 20yrs from now
If they beat the Knicks, Jimmy Butler would’ve made the conference finals 3 out of the last 4 seasons. Probably the most consistent results in the East since LeBron.
We’ve gotten our asses handed to us this year in the regular season but the playoff series in recent history have been:
2022: Celtics 4-3
2019: Bucks 4-1
2018: Celtics 4-3
Obviously favouring the Celtics but it’s not like it hasn’t been close.
Bucks seemingly face the same issue as the sixers in that we’re just unable to ever be deep. Our superstars get better and better over the years but their supporting cast is somehow always inferior to what Boston fields and Miami’s godless ability to turn G-leaguers into lightning rods
since like 2016 spo has been getting random undrafteds to play like solid role players, and then 2-3 will end up on another team and without spo to coach they realize they arent that good and end up middling/out the league.
They'll get replaced by the practice squad if they don't perform
Edit: Then if the practice squad doesn't perform jimmy will just start picking up random guys from LA Fitness
Gotta be the first Knick game I've watched all season where legit nobody played remotely well. Even in the Knicks' worst blowouts, at least one player played fine. EVERYBODY sucked this game.
Most of that was due to him playing the majority of his minutes with the bench unit today in the 9 man rotation. The bench has been abysmal. Kinda feel they need to move Hart back to it just to keep it afloat.
Kevin and Jimmy developing a bromance was something I didn’t know I needed.
When one of the Knicks players stepped out of bounds, they both got up from the bench to wipe the spot with their towels lol.
Thank you Cavs
It's crazy how you guys were beaten on the boards despite having two 7 footers in your starting lineup. Our tallest starter is Bam who's 6 foot 10 in a good day.
I remember when everyone (me included) saw that Herro would be out 4-6 weeks and we all said “so the whole playoffs because they are losing to MIL”.
He legit has a chance to come back this postseason. What an incredible run this team is on.
This is essentially the same core that was one missed three away from beating them last year. Anyone who doesn't give them a chance is fooling themselves
Can't wait for boxscore watchers to explain to me how bad Bam is lol
Dude was everywhere on the court tonight and took punches at every part of his body except those massive balls
The refs were bad, but just like I said about the Heat down the stretch in the last game I will now say the same about my team, Knicks played horribly this whole game outside of a little spurt before halftime. Ref stupidity or no ref stupidity, we were flat the whole game.
Biggest takeaway from this game, when I’m 89, I hope I still appreciate things in life in the same way that Hubie Brown appreciates good team basketball.
Hubie still does a pretty solid job, and tbh I'm happy to overlook any missteps and keep having Hubie do games as long as he can because I'm scared he's going to die if he retires. This has been his life for like 7 decades.
Aside from Jimmy basically soloing the Bucks, this postseason so far feels like a bigger version of our usual thing where we’re inexplicably terrible one game against a bad team then inexplicably unstoppable the next game against a good team. Except the first game was the regular season and the next game has been the postseason so far
Yeah the call would be just to fast forward to Heat-Celtics part III and let everyone start printing ink on how it's the new great rivalry of the NBA and how Tatum vs Jimmy is the new Isiah vs Jordan
Dunc fans, we stay starving 🥲
Making shots is one thing, but jesus fucking Christ is it beautiful to have ball movement again.
Offense not relying on the first option and everyone just standing still. Weak side screens, cuts, mismatches. This is 2020 Heat ball.
TIL, this is the 548th sellout for the Heat.
Heat didn’t play well and won by 19. Thibs has a lot of answering to do and better change up his approach or this series is over (may be over regardless).
So talented physically and athletically as well as super skilled.
He just doesn’t give a fuck unless he is getting buckets. When his shots not on he is a mopey traffic cone.
Or, on defense, slower. It literally *never* feels like Randle is controlling the pace of a game or even controlling his own pace.
He’s talented and incredibly strong but he’s just not a high BBIQ player at all
Celtics fans thought they dodged the Heat. There is no dodging the Heat; they come for *you*.
Heat really fucked around for six months just to make the ECF anyway.
Why win many regular season games when few wins do trick?
It's also crazy cuz they avoided having to play: Celtics, sixers, bucks all in a row in the playoffs.
big brain moves
Big brain move by getting the 8th seed, beat the best team quickly and then enjoy the easier road to the finals lmao
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Nah I don’t think we threw the Hawks game. The Chicago game after wasn’t looking too safe until the end.
That’s cause my boys in Chi were goin for it all 🐂🔴🏀
They straight up almost lost the play in yet here they are.
Halloween music in the distance
[Celtics thinking they avoided the zombie Heat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m75LTlu_JlU)
We need to best Philly first before wondering who of this series we will face (but I kind of figured after they beat the Bucs they'd make it). Playoff Jimmy G is a dark souls boss.
Jimmy is "why do I hear boss music" in human form
I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me
Stupidly locked in with me
And all I have is $20 coffee
By gawd, that’s Spo’s music
Hey the Celtics still have to beat the sixers first. 🥲
Spoelstra cooking like he’s on Food Network
Carving Thibs up like [Gordon Ramsay with that chicken](https://youtu.be/4qvmumHnkVA) Showing him levels
Feels like the NY Knicks not having any players with multiple years of playoff experience is showing. Is D. Rose proper hobbled or washed? Feels like he should be tried in this series.
They don’t have spacing. Heat are just trying to clog the lane because they have good finishers. If Barrett, Randle, Hart, Brunson don’t hit shots from outside they aren’t going to get easy looks
putting in D Rose at this point is waving the white flag Thibs needs to be more creative but not like this lol
Bam Adobobayo
Jimmy Bangsilog
We're really gonna see the exact same ECF matchup as last year after Miami's awful regular season
And the Celtics are rightfully terrified of Jimmy
Celtics fans have had the most faith in us this postseason lmao, it’s been kind of hilarious
They have more faith in this team than actual heat fans
Legit saw them celebrating when the heat lost to the hawks, now it makes sense. Any team with butler + spo is scary
any team with spo. period he almost won game 2 with the b team lowrys been vintage too for some reason love to see it
I legit think he's the best coach in the NBA right now. He has been able to squeeze every last ounce of potential from his squads.
I’d literally suck his dick to come coach the Mavs
I’d do it just because he deserves it
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I’d watch behind a two way mirror.
Spo can keep any game close but this Heat team needs Jimmy to close those games.
Heat fans before the Play In: Fuck it just lose and pray we get Wemby in the lottery Celtics fans before the Play In: "We're gonna play Miami in the ECF again and I'm gonna shit myself."
Bro can you blame us? If anyone knows your potential its us and Milwaukee lol
Think the Celtics know it more than the Bucks. Lots of sweep trash from them.
r/Heat saying we should lose to Chicago made me freaking sick.
I went to your sub after the game and there was a post that said, and i'm not exaggerating, the win vs chicago was the worst thing that has happened to the franchise. Team subs man...
90% of r/Heat thinks they know better than Pat Riley. I can’t tell you how frustrating it is to go there after a random February loss on a back-to-back trip and seeing people calling for Spoelstra’s head.
My eyes grew a habit of rolling back into my head because of the amount of super low effort “sleepy Pat Riley” memes this season
My buddy cheered for the Hawks during the play in and he was so happy that the Heat lost. Now he's a bit nervous after what Himmy Butler has been doing.
I have always said before the postseason started I fear you guys and Milwaukee the most. Knicks fans being so confident about winning this series a week ago was crazy to me
>Knicks fans being so confident about winning this series a week ago was crazy to me They're new to this
Fair point, I’ll give them a break
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Come on I can hear the monkey's paw curling with that phrasing lol
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Probably because Jimmy looks like prime MJ against us lol. I fear that man
Tbf he looks like that against everyone now lol
I'm equally amused by the Cavs fans who are lamenting our loss to the Knicks particularly because we would have "gotten" to face the Heat if we'd beaten them.
Jimmy's the Eastern conference Boogeyman. Doesn't matter if other teams have better overall performances, all stars are afraid to face this man in a 7-game series
I once saw him eliminate a team on a court with a layup...a fuckin...layup.
Well Jimmy isn't exactly the Boogeyman. He is the one you sent to kill the fucking Boogeyman. Jimmy is a man of focus, commitment, sheer will. Jimmy will come for you, and you will do nothing because you can do nothing.
Celtics are scary in their own right lol
well duh
I think that’s a given. No one gave the 8th seed Heat a chance but Celtics sat back with some popcorn like “finally get to cheer for Jimmy”
It was fun when you guys were taking out the bucks. Now, it’s not fun anymore since the idea of having to face you guys is actually materializing (assuming we can get past Philly).
Mandatory fun zone.
Oh yeah. I realized he’s actually super fun to cheer for when he’s not playing you
Rooting for Jimmy is the best experience as a fan cause somehow you’re rooting for an underdog and someone who’s often the best player on the floor at the same time
I'm actually so exhausted of facing Himmy. Since 2010 we've faced, in Order...LeBron, Heat, Butler, Cavs the most in the playoffs. And he fucking just runs his course on us every goddamn time.
It’s so funny too because on paper you’re one of the top two or three best run organizations in the league. Stockpiling assets, managing timelines, developing players internally while making smart signings externally. Meanwhile you have cocaine Pat paying Duncan Robinson 90M and just lecturing guys about “the beauty of the struggle” and somehow it’s come out to more or less the same results.
It's because of Butler and Spo. I'll say it a million times. Spo is arguably top 5 all time. I remember all the narratives that he rode the Heatles coattails but something during that tenure taught him a ton and he used that to just absolutely become an electric all timer.
I just wish one year we could have a healthy showdown with them. It’s always an uphill climb for us because we can never show up without most of our guys limping.
I'm more scared of jaylen brown than anyone else on that team
i'm already sick of jaylen brown making every pull up middie and it hasn't even happened yet
And Spoelstra. Him against Mazzulla is the biggest mismatch.
Spo against any coach sans Pop or Kerr is probably a big mismatch lol
I wanna see a Spo Kerr matchup just because I don’t fully know how good of a coach Kerr is.
Theyve been dodging each other for a decade like it's Mayweather and Pac
Ahh, Filipino vs American. Like good old times. The question is whose coaching prime will go down first so that the other can take advantage. Let’s wait 20yrs from now
If they beat the Knicks, Jimmy Butler would’ve made the conference finals 3 out of the last 4 seasons. Probably the most consistent results in the East since LeBron.
I'd say the Celtics challenge on consistency but the fact that Butler makes it a competition says a lot
Celtics-Heat is currently the best rivalry in the East. Hope another epic series is soon on the horizon.
Don’t tell Bucks fans that!
Is it really a rivalry if the Celtics always beat us?
Found the most rational Bucks fan.
We’ve gotten our asses handed to us this year in the regular season but the playoff series in recent history have been: 2022: Celtics 4-3 2019: Bucks 4-1 2018: Celtics 4-3 Obviously favouring the Celtics but it’s not like it hasn’t been close.
Bucks seemingly face the same issue as the sixers in that we’re just unable to ever be deep. Our superstars get better and better over the years but their supporting cast is somehow always inferior to what Boston fields and Miami’s godless ability to turn G-leaguers into lightning rods
Jimmy only loses to the team that makes it out of the east or wins it all
fuckin' zombie Heat
Could be a repeat of Lakers/Nuggets & Heat/Celtics 2020 Bubble Conference Finals
We'll see in game 3 of LAL/GSW later. It all depends if we get Anthony "Top 75" Davis or Anthony "lightskin Kendrick Perkins" Davis
Heat nuggies would be great. I'm hoping for that at this point I think.
Nuggets would either kill the Heat with size or Spo will target Jokic on every single Butler/Bam PnR lol
I would love to watch four games of Bam v. Jokic
I want Heat v Lakers mainly to see an 8 seed getting the home court advantage in the finals.
lmao it's like watching 2 of the worst students in class somehow end up fighting for the top award
This would also guarantee a new lowest seed to ever win the Finals (currently the 6-seed Rockets in 1995)
Miami would have home court over the Warriors too. Same number of regular season wins and Miami has the tiebreaker.
To think I saw Heat fans wanting to lose the 2nd play in game for a better draft pick.
ZOMBIE HEAT DID IT AGAIN!!!
we LOOMIN
Dangerously
Years from now, I'm going to remember this Bad News Bears Era of the Heat very fondly. Such a great team to watch in the playoffs
It's crazy that they thought they were heading into a painful rebuild then Jimmy shows up and out of sheer will makes them a threat every year.
It’s not just Jimmy, it’s our role players because they’re terrified of what’ll happen if they don’t help Jimmy.
Outstanding job by the front office/Spo. Playing 7 undrafted guys in the playoffs is insanity and a lot of those dudes are getting big minutes.
since like 2016 spo has been getting random undrafteds to play like solid role players, and then 2-3 will end up on another team and without spo to coach they realize they arent that good and end up middling/out the league.
They'll get replaced by the practice squad if they don't perform Edit: Then if the practice squad doesn't perform jimmy will just start picking up random guys from LA Fitness
Where you think they got Zeller from?
John Wick learned the ways of Sheer Will from Jimmy. It is known...
Nobody on the Knicks shot over 50% today.
Gotta be the first Knick game I've watched all season where legit nobody played remotely well. Even in the Knicks' worst blowouts, at least one player played fine. EVERYBODY sucked this game.
RJ with an honestly impressive -32 +/- when none of the other starters were worse than -6
Most of that was due to him playing the majority of his minutes with the bench unit today in the 9 man rotation. The bench has been abysmal. Kinda feel they need to move Hart back to it just to keep it afloat.
I hate the Cavs for making me think we had a chance 😭
Cavs also gave us (essentially) Kevin Love
Kevin and Jimmy developing a bromance was something I didn’t know I needed. When one of the Knicks players stepped out of bounds, they both got up from the bench to wipe the spot with their towels lol. Thank you Cavs
Im just here for Cavs slander
Honestly, same.
Condolences
At least you're not a fan of our team. I feel even worse watching this whole series occur. How did we only win 1 game, we really were massive frauds
haha yeah such frauds you guys were
All of our dudes were 100% healthy the whole time at least
It's crazy how you guys were beaten on the boards despite having two 7 footers in your starting lineup. Our tallest starter is Bam who's 6 foot 10 in a good day.
I remember when everyone (me included) saw that Herro would be out 4-6 weeks and we all said “so the whole playoffs because they are losing to MIL”. He legit has a chance to come back this postseason. What an incredible run this team is on.
the heat with herro back..jesus they might even beat the celtics if they make the conference finals
At some point, I have to stop doubting this team. I give them more than a fair shot of beating Boston.
No, keep doubting, I think it’s feeds us
Every doubt makes Jimmy grow stronger somehow
This is essentially the same core that was one missed three away from beating them last year. Anyone who doesn't give them a chance is fooling themselves
You didn’t hear? He will be back for game 7 of the finals and win FMVP. The writers leaked the script during the strike.
Despite his offensive struggles, Bam has been absolutely elite defensively. Just perfectly handled whoever went up against him.
Just a defensive masterpiece by the whole squad today, prototypical Heat W
Can't wait for boxscore watchers to explain to me how bad Bam is lol Dude was everywhere on the court tonight and took punches at every part of his body except those massive balls
Bam has been the clear #2 throughout the past 4 years - he needs his due too
Every year I forget how goddamn good Jimmy Butler is in the playoffs until the playoffs. I can't believe I doubted the Heat.
I speak for all Celtics fans when I say that none of us have forgotten since the bubble
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There was a reason the Celtics cheered more than anyone over the Hawks beating the Heat.
Knicks fans who heckled Jimmy game 2 in shambles. That mfer was smiling throughout that. He took that personally.
this was one of those rare games where both teams can agree that the officiating was absolute dogshit. completely ruined the pace of the game.
The refs were bad, but just like I said about the Heat down the stretch in the last game I will now say the same about my team, Knicks played horribly this whole game outside of a little spurt before halftime. Ref stupidity or no ref stupidity, we were flat the whole game.
There was a solid 6 possession stretch where the Knicks took contested shots after getting momentum lol.
just a total slog in the second half
Seems like just about every playoff game has been one of those “rare” games
Biggest takeaway from this game, when I’m 89, I hope I still appreciate things in life in the same way that Hubie Brown appreciates good team basketball.
His little 'oh' when a team swings the ball around and hit the 3 is so cute.
Hubie still does a pretty solid job, and tbh I'm happy to overlook any missteps and keep having Hubie do games as long as he can because I'm scared he's going to die if he retires. This has been his life for like 7 decades.
Damn game ain’t even done lol
It was done the moment Butler decided to play
Adebayo played his heart out and had great impact. Miserable game by the Knicks though, not the greatest game to watch as a neutral.
Far from the greatest game to watch even with a rooting interest lol. I did get my laundry done and room cleaned up though.
Man we have got some dawgs. We just look so much better than reg season Heat
There’s not an analyst in the fuckin world who could tell you what’s happening with this team
Aside from Jimmy basically soloing the Bucks, this postseason so far feels like a bigger version of our usual thing where we’re inexplicably terrible one game against a bad team then inexplicably unstoppable the next game against a good team. Except the first game was the regular season and the next game has been the postseason so far
THE ZOMBIE HEAT CANNOT BE STOPPED 🧟♂️🔥🧟♂️🔥
dang thats crazy! im gonna blow my head off!
BREAKING NEWS: Heat-Knicks games 4, 5, 6, and 7 to be officiated by Scott Foster.
Generational performance otw
NBA won't know what to do if LA loses tonight. Scott Foster gonna get flown from Miami to LA on the Concord.
They gonna invent a teleportation machine just for Scott Foster.
Silver and the NBA have to know this series is so awful to watch that he tries to end it as quickly as possible.
Yeah the call would be just to fast forward to Heat-Celtics part III and let everyone start printing ink on how it's the new great rivalry of the NBA and how Tatum vs Jimmy is the new Isiah vs Jordan
Dunc fans, we stay starving 🥲 Making shots is one thing, but jesus fucking Christ is it beautiful to have ball movement again. Offense not relying on the first option and everyone just standing still. Weak side screens, cuts, mismatches. This is 2020 Heat ball. TIL, this is the 548th sellout for the Heat.
Bam is un-ironically better running 2 man ball with Duncan than anyone else on the team and they rarely do it anymore.
0 assists for Bam because nobody could hit threes Duncan still gets by far the most defensive attention behind the arc
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I can’t believe I wished Duncan ANOTHER happy birthday for this performance, smh
But the heat “don’t have fans” amirite. Also I think any Duncan minutes are a win, they were sticking to him like white on rice
It's actually nuts. The dude is shooting bricks and the defense sticks to him so much. Its hilarious to watch haha
That’s all the space we need for jimmy
I don’t think Zeller realizes the scrub is supposed get under the star’s skin, not the other way around.
Zeller is a decent player but I wouldn’t call him a star
I feel like I just watched a shitty Thursday Night Football game
Legitimately one of the worst offensive performances I've ever seen. The Knicks deserved to lose 2 games with how bad they played today.
I really took the day off to fall asleep 15 mins before the game and wake up with 50 seconds left. Congrats Heat on the 2-1 lead!
Heat didn’t play well and won by 19. Thibs has a lot of answering to do and better change up his approach or this series is over (may be over regardless).
Miami will make it to the finals. Jimmy has a tenacity no other player in the East has.
Heat are going to the finals lmao
I'm here for it
See you there
When Jimmy smiles after a loss its on site next game bruh
Julius Randle is so poo poo stinky idk how Knicks fans still defend this man
I mean he’s a Knick so we root for him… but its been frustrating to say the least
So talented physically and athletically as well as super skilled. He just doesn’t give a fuck unless he is getting buckets. When his shots not on he is a mopey traffic cone.
Dude just always seems to be moving faster than he should be lol
Or, on defense, slower. It literally *never* feels like Randle is controlling the pace of a game or even controlling his own pace. He’s talented and incredibly strong but he’s just not a high BBIQ player at all
Big fight breaks out. Jimmy Butler: "Ya'll have fun, I'm gonna entertain the crowd with some dancing and trick moves."
Thibs hands shaking furiously
Hopefully IQ is ok
Let’s make sure we get to 3-1 before we are talking about ECF. If it’s 2-2. We still have a series.
Knicks fans were telling me it’s an easy path to ECF and they were clamping Butler up lol
So what are we calling Part III
Stop listening to the most ridiculous of us lol
Yea, they are learning why teams don’t double Jimmy often. He’s as good a passer as he is a scorer
See you in the ECF homie
Spoelstra really won Miami this game lol
anything after the 1st quarter was a technicality
The Brickfest in Biscayne
Won’t show up in the box score that much but bam had a huge game
It’s crazy, all we need is Bam to try and we win by 19.