Miami Heat Preseason action has us excited for the future

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Tobin was boots on the ground at the Miami Heat's matchup against the Pelicans. Can the Heat maybe take a peak at Brandon Ingram's availability? Tobin tries to have a little fun, is he once again whaling?

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00:00I was in the building for the heat, uh, preseason home opener against the Pels Leroy. You know,

00:07it's very weird about this. What's up? They're just not playing Brandon Ingram. Like it's just

00:14odd. It's such a weird thing. Like, I don't know if they're looking for a last minute trade partner,

00:19but like, I was like, is he, cause I, you know, I was, wouldn't say I was, wouldn't say I was

00:24whale watching yesterday, but I was down on the hardwood yesterday to watch a little Brandon

00:29Ingram action on the court. We size them up a little bit, Leroy. And coincidentally, I mean,

00:36you can say it's coincidence or not a coincidence, but did happen to see a certain heat general

00:40manager, uh, lingering on the court at the same time. I saw you, Andy Ellsberg doing that side

00:47either Ingram given a little look. He goes, Hey, he told that guy with the beard. He goes, Hey,

00:56act like you're having a conversation with me. While I take a look at Brandon Ingram over here,

01:00little look Lou, but I'm like watching, I'm like, Oh, this looked like a normal pregame workout.

01:06Like why isn't he, is he not held? Why is he not playing? Why is he not playing very weird?

01:14What's going on there with the Pels? I know it seems like there's a couple of guys. They kind of,

01:20why would they do that? It's kind of like how they got rid of, uh,

01:24Oh boy. And Minnesota just kind of, it ran its course. Did you see what happened yesterday? No.

01:32So yesterday it was preseason. I was watching part of it, Minnesota, New York, New York.

01:38Very testy yesterday between Dante DiVincenzo and, uh, what is Jaylen Brunson's father's name?

01:46Is it Rick Rick? A lot of chatter, Leroy, a lot of chitter chatter.

01:54That was going on. Well, they made this whole thing about the Villanova guys all there together.

02:01And then all of a sudden, well, which one's the worst of the Villanova guys?

02:08DiVincenzo sent him out. And so they send DiVincenzo out. DiVincenzo was talking that

02:16talk as the kids say Leroy and was not happy with all Rick Brunson out there.

02:23He, uh, he was like, that's what happens when you run things.

02:30That's what happens when they let you run the show spicy. Yeah. It's your friend's dad.

02:35It's a little weird. I mean, you know, I didn't like all my friend's fathers.

02:41That's fair. I mean, uh, but like, did you, you know, have them as one of your coaches

02:46and disrespect them as they were on the court, you know, and then I saw like Jalen Brunson,

02:53you know, like calming him down after two. And I'm kind of like, man, this is weird. You got

02:57your dad. Right. So your coach, your friend, former teammates, so weird, weird area to be

03:06in for Jalen Brunson. It was, it was, uh, I think it was in the, it was, it was frosty.

03:11It was, it was frosty. Like not everybody, everybody else was cool. And Carlin,

03:15towns, dab each other, switching jerseys here with love.

03:23I didn't see that. Uh, I think if anything, it's great news because it sounds like he

03:30doesn't want to stay in Minnesota. So like some guy yesterday was like, Hey, you better come to

03:38the Mecca and play with Carl Anthony. That's how he sounded. That's how he sounded.

03:48Retire Sprewell's Jersey for you. And like, we didn't retire Sprewell's Jersey.

03:52I did. We should have, we haven't done that. Sure. We should, uh, we should retire it.

03:59And so, uh, and so he goes, Oh, I'd love to play with Carl, but that's a polite thing that you say

04:05the real thing. Minnesota should be worried about is he's already thinking about leaving.

04:12Yeah. I just never seen a superstar just flat out say, yeah,

04:15I would love to reunite with my former teammate.

04:21What you want to know else is his former teammate.

04:24Bam on the bio. That's his Olympic teammate. So, you know, if he's about, you know, if he's

04:35you started off by saying I'm not whaling, but guess where we end up.

04:41I wasn't whaling. I was not. I just want to be clear last night. I was not whaling. Did I spend

04:45an inordinate amount of time near Brandon Ingram last night? I can't say that. I can't say that I

04:53wasn't spending it in an order, but look at this Andy Ellsberg. He thinks he's cute. Look at him.

04:57Look at Leroy. He's sitting here. He goes,

05:00Mm-hmm. He's looking in front of him, but he's looking at that stick over there.

05:05He got that side. I got that side. I going here for old BI, you know, they're not playing them.

05:15So why not just take a gander? Now I will say

05:21that quote, look at last night for the old Miami heat, the starting lineup, the starting unit.

05:25I'm a liking what I'm seeing. All right. Well, I'm liking what I'm seeing. It looks great. If

05:31everybody participates, that's all I'm going to say. That was nice. Everybody playing first

05:35time. We got to see it healthy together. Okay. You know, I'm just saying,

05:40what's the harm, baby? A little Brandon Ingram seeing what he's at. He's having a good time.

05:45So are you confirming that you were whaling? I wasn't whaling. I was just perusing J fig.

05:51That's what I would say. That's the new word for it. I was just perusing,

05:55you know, you're going to a store every once in a while. They're like, what are you doing here?

06:00Window shopping, little window shopping, just taking a little look at Lou.

06:04That's all I was doing. Nothing to it. No harm, no foul.

06:10Yeah. But you know, then you're going to come over here. You're going to talk about it. You're

06:13going to get some more ideas. That's how it all starts. You know, we're all just having a little,

06:18we're just taking a, just taking a gander at things. Now I don't even want them. I mean like

06:22this team, this heat team is as deep as it's ever been. We got everything working for us.

06:27Jimmy's telling everybody this past weekend, he goes money money. He doesn't even care about the

06:33money. He's being honest. I don't know, but he said it. And so like, he doesn't even worry about

06:38the money. He's just here to play as many games as possible. We're Kumbaya right now, baby.

06:43Everything is working for us. It's all happening. Nico yesterday. Oh,

06:51there it is. Let me just say this Nikola Jovich, he should do taxes. He's so he's so accountable.

07:00You know, yesterday he was so frustrated with himself because he couldn't get his threes to

07:05drop. And really, you know, what he should have been saying is to a perfect love. Jimmy Butler

07:12couldn't get it down, buddy. It's gold, man. Get your hops up because he loves Jimmy Butler,

07:18but he got mad at himself. It took him four attempts to hit his first three. And then he

07:22got, you know, hands to the heavens and I, and he's beating himself up afterwards. And I'm like,

07:27yo, dude, you don't have to be so hard on yourself. It's just a preseason game,

07:32but he knows he's the connective tissue to make it all this thing happen.

07:36He is the engine to the transition machine. That is the Miami heat.

07:40You think that's what he's thinking? I don't know.

07:44Like how old is he? 21. And you think he's thinking that depth or he's just thinking,

07:50Oh, I screwed up. I don't know. Oh my goodness. No, he's thinking that the bush is going to go

07:56ham on him. No, no, he's not. Nope. Suspended for three more weeks, but

08:02she was thinking it. No, no, no, even no references. I want to say nothing.

08:09That new jumbotron, that new jumbotron, that look good. What is, what is your,

08:16what's his mom's name? You just calling her Babushka. I'm not allowed to make references.

08:21You just said I have three weeks suspension. Can't talk about it. I'm like two. There's no

08:27timelines right now. Can't even talk about it. You're the worst. I'm in the Babushka protocol.

08:38You guys are the ones who suspended me because you're a fraud. You're a fraud. You try to put

08:47this on us. You're the one you suspended yourself. No, you suspended me. No, you suspended yourself

08:55by, by, by not doing ridiculous. I mean, you want to ruin professional relationships. You

09:00want me to be a carnival? Me and Bam play dominoes. So what?

09:08If anything, you guys bonded over that experience. Exactly, dude.

09:13Although he did look at me yesterday while he was warming up and he went like this.

09:16Oh, did he? Nah, he didn't do that. Oh my goodness. I'm Leroy, huh?

09:38I almost cussed. I had to regain my composure over this nonsense. What are you doing?

09:46Oh man. It was fun. It's great fun. Just a little preseason fun. I hope when he plays tomorrow,

09:53I missed the Wimby game. You were at the Wimby game last year. Yeah. Yeah. Tall.

09:57You look like a wind sock. I want to see. I hope he plays 25 pounds of muscle in the off season.

10:05Wendy. Yeah. 25 pounds of hype. Well, I don't know. He's really good.

10:11He's really good. Everybody's acting like he's going to be LeBron this season. I'm like,

10:15all right, let's calm down. He's got a Chris Paul now who's going to be able to just throw balls

10:20like 20 feet. He's got Chris Paul while his hamstrings work. Wait, I didn't even Chris

10:28Paul is in San Antonio. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, he just bought two years by

10:35using the Wimby card on the way out. He goes, Oh, you need somebody to throw those lobs to one

10:42banyama. Yeah. I don't even know any others. You know, what sucks is that every year, a certain

10:48time of the year, Chris Paul just starts lighting it up. Right. And you're like, this is the Chris

10:55out for the rest of the year. Pull a hammy. I mean, dude, menu says toe wants to see where

11:01versus Wimby. I'm not getting my hopes up, dude. Suppose a suppose got him with the Rooks

11:07got him in that third unit man. Spo was that starting center. It's still Bam

11:16starting lineup. Tyler Terry, Jimmy, Nico Bam. Told you. Isn't Nico tall and Bam.

11:25Hmm. Probably now. What do you mean? Probably still growing. He's growing. He's a growing boy.

11:32Do you understand? That's not how it's decided. It's not decided. I know it's not. I know it's

11:38not. When you're a six, nine guy kicks it out to a seven footer for three,

11:43Jimmy Butler was taller than Kayla Martin. Kayla Martin was the power forward.

11:47Like I thought we, I thought, well, force feeding this tiny ass lineup.

11:55It's not tiny. It's bigger. Cause cause yo, which is bigger. That's it.

12:01But you should have, dude, you should have seen this. Am I the only one that has a problem with

12:06this? Dude, I'm with you. Hey, I'm with you. I want to say, I agree with you. All right.

12:11But Ben Wallace was shorter than received. But Leroy Wallace didn't shoot a damn three.

12:18Leroy, you should have seen Wallace. Didn't have handles. Check out this. Uh, let me see if I get

12:23this, this video here. This was from a last SPO is losing his fricking mind last night on these

12:30rookies in the last possession. Cause none of them knew what they're never going to play.

12:33They are never going to play him. They never going to play him. He's, you know, he's, he is,

12:39he is dazzle me rook. And then I'll get you out there. That's exactly how this is going to go.

12:44That's exactly how this is going to go. And then he's going to say that he earned this

12:4712 seconds. Exactly. Make me watch you make me watch you. Yeah. This is from, uh, this is from

12:54Brady Hawk from five reasons. Check out, just look at Spolster. He'll be in the bottom, uh,

12:58the bottom left corner and you'll see him lose his mind.

13:02Wow.

13:16Do you think he noticed that he did that? No. Would he deny that he did that? Yes.

13:21A hundred percent. Yeah. I, uh, I absolutely

13:31like last possession of the game. And then he was even like, at the end, he was like, yeah,

13:37Pella kind of bailed us out there at the end. He's a maniac. Have you ever,

13:42what has ever made you react that way before? I think if I stepped on a nail,

13:52so I can tell you what happened to me is, uh, I was in a preseason game, just preseason game.

14:00And I didn't try to run over a guy. I went out of bounds. I took like three steps out of bounds.

14:05Then a guy came in and got me. All right. We got, I went after him, man. We gotta get out of here.

14:13Panthers coming on up.

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