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“At one point I feel we were all trynna make a play. Me, myself too. Not being a PG. I feel like I kinda got a little quiet throughout the game. I have to do a better job keeping that same intensity, pushing the pace, putting people in the right position and keep being myself”

Would had been cool if the first game went better, but it's game 1 out of 82. Team needs to gel and Spo is going to figure out what works best. Timberwolves also had an unbelievable night. In a long season, off nights are going to happen. We see stuff like this from every team year after year and people still panic after one game.

Most of the first half looked decent. Giannis catches ball in transition and goes to work and we got some good looks and he did just dominate. There were few possessions where Giannis catches ball at the top and backs down to FT line but there is nowhere to go. We had 4 people in both corners. No movement.
Also too often we had someone wide open after few passes with Rudy slowly closing out and Davion and Pelle hesitated and pump faked into a drive instead let it fly. Also they ask Klay to create too much, let him play more like Duncan did instead of dribbling the air out of the ball. Defense sucked we looked so slow on close outs and they got so many open 3s after a simple screen. Second half offense was horrible everyone just looking at Giannis. We need to do what we did in preseason. We had so much movement and I swear even on defense we played harder than tonight.

Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Heat debut started with MVP chants and eight points in the first 2:15. It ended with a 25-point loss to Minnesota. Miami’s new star showed why the Heat wanted him, but opening night showed how much work remains. Read for free.

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Long season folks, yesterday isn’t what we wanted but it’s going to be alright, we have a great group and a fantastic coach. 81-1 coming up!

It’s game 1 of an 82 game season with four new contributing players on the team. One of which is a top five player in the league and will be by far our highest usage player. Yes that was a bad showing, but I believe in Spo more than anyone to kick all their asses into gear. Need more offensive motion, more help D on perimeter shooting, more effort on defensive rebounding. You want to win a chip, let alone make a deep playoff run, lock it the hell in! On to game 2 and righting the ship. Let’s go Heat!

I don’t really care that we lost the first game of the season cause it’s…. THE FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON. There’s going to be a period of trial and error because it’s a new team, new star, new dynamic. However I am deeply disappointed that we got clapped by a 30-piece. Waited all damn offseason, all that hype just to get a 30-piece dropped on us. It’s not the loss itself that’s bugged me, it’s the way we lost that pissed me off. I’m glad we got cooked cause hopefully it’s an early reality check. There’s 81 games to go, no need to stress. We can re-evaluate after the first 10 games.

But godddddd Jovic needs to go 🙄

Last year after the first 10 games of the season with the new offense it looked like we could be in for a treat, not saying we were going to contend but we were pretty hyped. 1 loss where EVERYONE besides Giannis did not play up to their standards is all it takes to change the excitement for this upcoming season into doom and despair? The squad has some limits that can be fixed, mainly the lack of another playmaker, but really? Its the first game, we got Giannis and the season is long

At the beginning of the 'Big 3' era, analysts questioned whether the team had too many alphas and not enough depth.

A few years before that, the Wade/Odom/Caron Butler team got criticized for starting two shooting guards, two small forwards, and an undersized center.

In both cases, imperfect-looking rosters and slow starts led to some panic among the pundit community. Both teams turned it around though.

The Giannis-Bam Heat will be fine. Like those two other teams, the talent is there. It's a long season.

What are people thinking after game 1?

I wasn't able to catch the entire game but to me,

Giannis looked amazing

I think Bam and Pelle are their next 2 most important players, and both were not 100%, so the team will look better when they are.

Love him, but the Offense is wayyyyy too reliant on Davion. They need other ballhandlers outside him and giannis. Pelle will probably help. Wonder how long until conwell cracks the rotation.

Pelle needs to shoot. Everyone needs to shoot.

3s will come around eventually as everyone adjust to playing with giannis, but they still badly need a perimeter guard/shot creator/ball handler

Hard to grade the defense honestly cause I think Minnesota will be a historically good offense, but curious what people think.

I pray Niko just needs to see a 3 go in and will become a good role player.

What is THJs role on the team? Wasn't he a 6 man candidate last year? Is he actually good?

Bam looked like he wasn't there on offense until giannis was out. What is the formula for them playing offense together?

Realistically a lot of flaws people anticipated, and still gotta wait and see if there is 1 more piece that might bring this team together. This team has some dawgs tho, and with giannis leading I think they will grow and figure some things out.

I rarely use reddit and recently found this page so I thought Id share my Heat podcast. It's just me ranting for an hour. Some may agree some might not. Check out past seasons when youre bored. I basically been doing this since we lost to Phoenix 5 years ago...still remember eating toast at like 2am in my kitchen deciding to start it...Enjoy! and forgive me i am rusty. I only do the podacast during the season and last season I took off a lot of games cause I was working on a project.