I hate this style of basketball. It’s a track meet where everyone is out of control. More points doesn’t equal better to watch

This is out of context. Riley would have traded Caleb Martin for Dame in a second, but Portland wasn’t interested in Miamis players, and Miami was hesitant about trading everything for Dame.

Herro was averaging 26/6/5 before the ankle sprain. Duncan is averaging 14/3/3 on great efficiency. Jaquez is averaging 11/4/3 on great efficiency, and 15ppg over his last 10 games.

Caleb has been injured most of this year, but he’s coming off a playoffs where he could have been ECF MVP.

You also have Jovic and multiple picks that could end up being good and it’s understandable why Riley wouldn’t want to give it everything up for a 33 year old pg, even though he’s great.

Kyle is playing 30mpg and Josh 28mpg. I expect both to have their minutes cut by about 10 per game. Then it will be a few from other guys like Duncan and Love

Gotta disagree, Celtic fans are the worst. So many of them act like we won’t even make the playoffs even after beating them last year

Anyone else hate this starting lineup?

Need to get healthy ASAP

Jordan Poole is the reverse Javelle McGee. Career started winning a ring and then ended up Shaqtin MVP

The depth on this team is insane. It’s been a great start to the season and should be a great year

Shaq averaged 37/17/2, 33/16/5, 36/12/4 on close to 60% shooting and 3 blocks in each finals when most teams struggled to score 90.

He’s number 1 and it’s not close

Trae has had the best career but I think Brunson has been better than him starting in the 2022 playoffs. I’ll put Lamelo 3rd for now but the way he may end up first on the list if he can sustain his recent performances.

Brunson, Trae, Lamelo, Garland

Herro was averaging 26/6/5 with improved defense before getting injured, Duncan is averaging 15/3/3 on 65% TS, and Jaquez is averaging 10/3/2 on over 50% while playing great defense.

Yet those guys were called garbage all offseason

Nah Herro was averaging 26/6/5 before injury. Lowry is averaging 7/4/5 playing starters minutes, he’s the one who’s gonna see his role reduced.

I think he’s earned a starting spot. Herro, Duncan, Jimmy, Highsmith, Bam is the most spacing we’ve had in a starting lineup and Lowry can play with the bench where he seems to be best.

Jovic turned 20 recently and is coming off a very good FIBA run. We’re deep and power forward and Spo turns to the guys with more defense over weaker defenders.

What are the other prospects we held on to for too long? Winslow is the only one I can think of since the big 3 era and that was almost a decade ago.

Have patience, he likely won’t play many minutes this year but next year the logjam will clear and he will have his opportunities.

Bulls need to blow it up

Duncan is more valuable to this team because he’s a better shooter and more efficient scorer. Max is the better defender but Duncan hasn’t been a big liability this year

Really strange. He shot about league average from 3 before coming to Miami and continued to shoot about average in the playoffs but was awful his first 3 regular seasons here.

Last year he was at 35% and this year his shot looks good so hopefully he ends up shooting mid-high 30s.

Best 2 is the Suns. Booker and KD is the only top 10 duo in the league.

Wade. Allows Jimmy to cruise through the regular season and both have a history of being able to hit threes at an average rate in the postseason, and are good mid range shooters, so the spacing would work. Wade, Herro, Butler, Highsmith/Caleb, Bam is also the best defense in the league.

He plays like a 10 year vet not a rookie. Every thing he does is under control and he almost never makes mistakes.

I think the big area for improvement moving forward is his 3 point shooting. He’s been willing to take them but isn’t very accurate yet, if he can improve he will have a very good career.

That was a brutal half. Were lucky to only be down 3