LeBron Injury Update and Giannis Fit! Big Questions
Oct 6, 2026 · 1h 40m · take 2 of 36
- The Heat are good defensively but run into problems on offense.
After Giannis's preseason debut with Miami.
“i think they'll be good defensively but i still think although uh quebec city look great there will be challenges offensively for them”
Make your take
In context
NashSpohr will do a great job staggering, keeping one of them on the floor at all times and finding a way of play, a style of play that they can play in crunch time, most importantly.
NashSo that, that, that I think is the difficulty of having a player who is so dominant with the ball is, is, you know, it draws so much attention as Giannis is how do you play when he's off the floor and finding as much of that chemistry and a new style of play theoretically when he's off the floor because you can't just lean on him to create advantages every time down uh and then of course you know bam as terrific
Nashas he is is is not yannis offensive he's gonna have to shoot more threes that'll be something to be determined he's showed he's capable but can he consistently get in that position where they leave him but they don't leave him and it creates more space for uh yannis or vice versa um and then like you said surrounding him with shooting seeing how some of those bench players come through with this kind of new look heat so number one uh
Nashwhat a what a great tool for to spell for spell to play with uh jan is drawing doubles and triple teams and opening it up for the rest of the team i think they'll be good defensively but i still think although uh quebec city look great there will be challenges offensively for them to see where their depth and rotations come from yeah
Lowethey they lit up the raptors on offense i agree with you i don't read too much into those results i was struck by a couple of things number one just how central not this is going to sound stupid but Giannis had the ball a lot and was the fulcrum of everything they did uh it was not like an equal split with him and bam running dho's and stuff like this is going to be Giannis's offense and bam is going
Loweto have to kind of find a way to coexist with him which is what you mentioned they ran some two -man game together which I think will be something they try to go to just put your best players in an action and teams are going to try to switch it.
LoweBut, you know, centers, some centers, slower centers, have a hard time staying with Giannis. And the Raptors wanted Jakob Pertl on Bam and not Giannis.
From the episode transcript around 00:09:20. Speaker names are recognized by voice.

Heat
Comments