- The Heat could finish as the seventh or eighth best team in the East.
“they're going to shake out as like the seventh or eighth best team in the conference”
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Mahoneyyear.
MahoneyIncredibly generous of you. I mean, I'm going to start with the muse of my personal cognitive dissonance, which is the Miami heat.
We are all for, we are all for one, right?
MahoneyLet's go, let's go clean boards all the way through. Let's, let's talk about as many teams as possible. But my first instinct is to say that the heat, look, the East is going to be stacked, that the reality is they're going to shake out as like the seventh or eighth best team in the conference, right?
MahoneyThere's so many good teams here from the Knicks all the way down. We talked about the Sixers. I mean, you got the Cavs and the Celtics, you got the Raptors, you got this, like, there's so many teams are going to be in the mix that it makes sense that the heat could wind up as the seventh or eighth best team.
MahoneyAnd then there's another part of my brain where the alarms are going off and saying, wait, you're telling me a team with Giannis, who is still one of the five or six best players on the planet and bam and good defense and enough shooting and Eric Spolstra, that that team is going to be a play in team.
MahoneyAnd it's like the war that is constantly happening within me as far as trying to understand what the nature of the East pecking order is and where the heat fall in it. That is what is loudest in my mind at this point. Well,
From the episode transcript around 00:24:26. Speaker names are recognized by voice.

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