Haliburton on His Return, Preseason Thoughts, and Most Intriguing Players!
Oct 8, 2026 · 1h 53m · take 13 of 45
- If Giannis plays about 68 to 70 games, the Heat are a very good team.
“If he plays 70 games, whatever, 68 games, they're going to be a very good team.”
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Duncanagain it's preseason but like that's kind of what you wanted to see multiple drives clean catch -a -shoot looks created not a lot of like redundancy in the half court the defense was switchable and active but you still had a presence at the rim on top of that it's not going to be what they shot from three every night but like that's kind of the formula you wanted to see so I just wanted to give a quick hat to
Duncanthe Heat for what they
Lowelook like.
LoweYeah, I mean, if Giannis is healthy, they're going to be a very good team. If he plays 70 games, whatever, 68 games, they're going to be a very good team. He's got to be healthy in the playoffs, which he hasn't been.
LoweI'm still interested in just sort of the what is Bam doing when Giannis has the ball question and how they work that out. But there's a lot to do. There's a lot of places he can be. They can play two -man game together a little bit.
LoweAgree.
LoweFirst sign, encouraging. All right, my turn. uh two minnesota observations okay number one jayden mcdaniels looks ready for a big season he's just playing and has played for a while but these these preseason games he's been playing with just a level of like bravado and confidence on offense that feels even a little bit amped up to me and i just think the cominga fit it's been two preseason games i was kind of pessimistic about the spacing of it on
From the episode transcript around 00:27:36. Speaker names are recognized by voice.

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