Erik Spoelstra takes blame for Bam Adebayo's lack of touches, Does the Heat have "too many weapons?"

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We continue to attempt to figure out why Kel'el Ware isn't getting playing time. Erik Spoelstra took blame for Bam Adebayo's lack of touches after the game... this didn't sit well with Tobin. Does the Heat have "too many weapons?"

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00:00He said, Oh, I got Bosch roar face.

00:02Good to hear from him.

00:03Long time listener.

00:04Yep.

00:04He says, uh, not playing where it makes no sense.

00:07Town's grabbing offensive rebounds all over the place on us.

00:11Nico shouldn't be starting.

00:12He's not a difference maker on the glass or defensively.

00:16He would need to shoot near 40% from three to justify starting, but

00:20he's not in there to get rebounds.

00:22See, here's what I don't, here's what I can't figure out.

00:26A lot of the guys that have size in this current lineup situation

00:31are all playing on the perimeter.

00:36I that's, you see what I mean?

00:37So you have Nico BAM spends a boatload of time in the, on the perimeter.

00:44And so who does that leave?

00:47So I don't, you know, when, when you try to go positionless, I get it.

00:52I don't know.

00:52But you need to bang bodies up inside.

00:55Yeah.

00:55And their defensive rebounding numbers have stunk so far this year

00:58because all their bids are out on the perimeter, but you just got your

01:01first round pick just sitting there.

01:03And I, and like, I get it.

01:04Everybody's like, what are you getting mad about this?

01:05Tobin?

01:06You know what it is.

01:06I told you what it was.

01:07I know.

01:08I know.

01:09I understand.

01:10I know.

01:11Here's why I'm yelling.

01:13I'm yelling at a wall right now because it's pointless to get mad at this.

01:17And I'm not even saying this is the difference in them losing against

01:20the magic or beating the Knicks, but I'm just, I'm here to talk about.

01:25What are we doing?

01:27What's the point of it?

01:29We're going to do this.

01:29What to drag through it.

01:31When eventually somebody twists an ankle and then he'll finally get out there

01:35and then we'll be like, Oh, he's tall.

01:39Um, here's, here's, here's why is frustrating for us is that we watch

01:46these guys in summer league.

01:48We watched these guys, um, you know, in preseason, we watched the way

01:54they talk about these guys.

01:56And I don't know how you could speak so highly of Pella and Kalel.

02:02Right.

02:03And, and, and I know that you drafted him to have some size.

02:08We talked about it when they drafted him.

02:10Oh, now Bam can play the four.

02:13And you'll still have size.

02:15We talked about, Hey, this team got more link this off season and younger

02:21two birds with one stone, and then we went back to what we were doing last year.

02:25I'm like, I thought all these things we saw were moving things forward.

02:31Yeah.

02:32The thing is like, it's frustrating with Spoke.

02:35We all know that he's an all time great, and nobody will doubt that the guy can

02:39make chicken salad out of chicken bleep.

02:41I mean, probably better than anybody in the league, but now you're in this

02:44situation where it's like, all right, how do we get this all now?

02:46Everybody's here.

02:47How do we get it all to work?

02:49And then, but he, but he'll also have some stands on some things that

02:52are really, really frustrating.

02:54Not playing young.

02:56Yeah.

02:56Well, even like, I remember like Jimmy's first year where like, they were making

03:00a point, like they were down to like no bodies and they were still not playing

03:03James Johnson or Dion waiters until like, it was absolutely, and they could have

03:07helped and then like, they played games and they actually like did stuff.

03:10And you're like, Oh yeah.

03:11What a crazy concept.

03:13You know, like we we're making these weird stands and I don't understand.

03:16I just, I don't understand who this is benefiting.

03:19Is this benefiting club?

03:20Where is this benefiting the Miami heat right now?

03:23I don't understand it.

03:25Here's how much, but the downfall of that is this, the way basketball works and

03:33when you have to extend guys, you would think that you want to get your money's

03:37worth up until that extent.

03:39Oh yeah, for sure.

03:40You're right.

03:41This team has paid more guys after one year or one and a half years of service

03:49because you sat him on the end of the bench for a year and a half.

03:52So at least like, like if he starts playing now and he struggles, those

04:00are teaching moments, but you got, what are you teaching?

04:04You teaching them going up against the cones in practice, especially when I

04:09can just sell cologne.

04:11Hey, just go in there and be tall.

04:14That's it.

04:16No, like you show six files.

04:18We'll correct it on the field.

04:21I don't like, and I know they're putting in positions and I don't like the

04:23bullying that he nation does to him, especially froggy, but give me the same

04:30reason why drew Smith gets to go out there and try and defend one of the

04:37best players in the league.

04:38Take his lumps.

04:40Can't do nothing on offense.

04:42Yeah.

04:42He had a great first run where he got some strips.

04:45Good for drew Smith.

04:46But why does he get to have the bumps and bruises?

04:49Why does he get to go throw into the fire?

04:52And Colette, where just gets to sit on his ass.

04:54I don't understand where we're missing something.

04:59And I don't know if you'll ever get an answer.

05:01What are you looking at me for?

05:02What is that?

05:03Yeah, no, no, no, no.

05:05You're a bully.

05:08He knows something about that.

05:09I don't know what he knows, but it's not like secret information.

05:14Here's Eric Spolsa.

05:15This is him after the game.

05:16Let's hear from him.

05:17This is where you got annoyed.

05:19I got annoyed.

05:20I got very annoyed.

05:21In fact, I got quite annoyed.

05:24You know, not necessarily.

05:26We were able to turn the corner, make some plays in the first half.

05:29And you know, we scored 56 points, 58 points, whatever it was.

05:35You know, but obviously we need to get the ball to BAM too, you know, and that's on me.

05:41I have to find a way.

05:42This is not about a new offense.

05:44This is not, this is about having all of our guys healthy.

05:46We have the most weapons that we have and we score, you know, 107 points.

05:52You know, that's, that's not what we're aiming for right now.

05:57You know, everybody's got to be able to feel aggressive.

06:00They got to be able to feel like themselves.

06:02Uh, and you know, we'll get there and, um, that's on me, you know, to get BAM, uh, in

06:08the spots where you can feel more comfortable, whether it's pick and roll, whether it's

06:10flashes, you know, elbow, whether it's, uh, in the posts, all, all the different

06:15areas where he can, uh, you know, we'll just, uh, we'll get better with that.

06:20Cool.

06:21Well, I'll leave it when I see it, dude.

06:23So, I mean, it, it, it took you, uh, you know, shagging, shagging balls in

06:29Harris from Bama to buy a shooting threes for even to think about letting him shoot

06:33threes.

06:34And now like two things into this, he's like, ah, you know, we're not getting

06:37anybody open.

06:38The office is struggling.

06:39Nobody's getting the damn basketball.

06:41It's already short circuiting.

06:43And then maybe Jimmy will give a horse's a rat's ass tonight.

06:46Who knows?

06:49That's see, that's a, that's a, uh, tough, that's a tough thing to, to

06:59to handle or to, to, to, it's not that Jimmy can't play, but you don't want to

07:07go from night to night wondering if he's engaged, you see what I mean?

07:13Because it's, it's one of these things where you have two guards who, yeah,

07:18they seem like they have a very effective chemistry with each other and Tyler and

07:21Terry, like they're getting to the paint, kicking out to each other.

07:23They're chucking up a lot of threes, but like, what's the balance of that?

07:28Because maybe they got it one night and you need to be able to shoot the ball.

07:32But there's two guys on this team that have been the pillars of

07:36you getting far in the playoffs.

07:39Bam and Jimmy.

07:41I don't want to hear anybody who wants to say anything about what you think

07:44their ceilings are or what the, this team has had playoff success on the

07:49backs of two people that are still on this roster, they can't be afterthoughts.

07:55They can't, and you can't make them not engaged.

08:00Well, I think you're going to have any shot now.

08:03Maybe that's just not good enough anymore.

08:04I don't know.

08:05Cause certainly the results against actual teams that look of quality hasn't,

08:10but I don't know how this is the recipe for success.

08:13I don't know.

08:14It doesn't seem like it doesn't seem like a formula, but what do I know?

08:17Cause they have too many weapons.

08:21Too many.

08:22Two.

08:23That's what he just said.

08:23His quote, he didn't say they had too many weapons.

08:27He said, everybody's here, dude, run that back.

08:31Did he not use the term?

08:32We've never had this.

08:34Why are you so run it back?

08:38Not necessarily.

08:39We were able to turn the corner, make some plays in the first half.

08:41And, you know, we scored 56 points, 58 points, whatever it was.

08:47Um, you know, but obviously we need to get the ball to bam too, you know?

08:51Um, and, and that's on me.

08:53I have to find a way.

08:55This is not about a new offense.

08:56This is not, this is about having all of our guys healthy.

08:59We have the most weapons that we have and we score, you know, 107 points, you know,

09:05that's, that's not what we're aiming for right now.

09:09Um, you know, everybody's gotta be able to feel aggressive.

09:12They gotta be able to feel like themselves.

09:15Uh, and you know, we'll get there and, um, that's on me, you know, to get bam, uh,

09:20in the spots where you can feel more comfortable, whether it's pick and roll,

09:23whether it's flashes, you know, elbow, whether it's, uh, in the post, all, all

09:27the different areas where he can.

09:29All right.

09:30McDaniel, we got, you know, Marco, he said most too many.

09:34I apologize.

09:35Semantic Sam, too many.

09:37It's different than most saying we've had the most weight saying we've had the

09:42most weapons that we've had and saying too many weapons is too different.

09:47Hey, he didn't say it.

09:52You're quibbling.

09:53You're quibbling.

09:56You are the worst.

09:58You are the worst.

09:59You, you are being a bastard right now.

10:03Did he, or did he not say it?

10:06I think Tobin took a little bit of liberty.

10:12He's not the only one I'm pissed at, by the way.

10:14QB one.

10:17We're just going to just jump it right into football.

10:20Oh, dude.

10:22He annoyed me yesterday.

10:24Now, can I ask people?

10:27Let me say this.

10:29Did he annoy you after the heat game or before the heat game?

10:33Tua?

10:33Yeah.

10:34Before.

10:35Okay.

10:36So, okay.

10:36Cause I was going to say you already annoyed and you were just listening

10:40for things to be annoyed with.

10:42No, it was before.

10:43All right.

10:43I was actually in a good mood after the heat game.

10:45Cause I watched that Yankees collapse.

10:46It was great.

10:47Hey, dude, dude, it was five.

10:51Nothing.

10:52I know I went outside.

10:58Walk the dogs.

10:59I come back in.

11:01It's bases loaded.

11:02I'm like, Oh, now we got to watch because we know how this is

11:06going the whole world series.

11:08That's bad, man.

11:09Then they got the lead back five, nothing.

11:13And you, and you yak it up.

11:15Should've gotten it.

11:15If you.

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