CONCERN: Miami Heat REELING as Bam Adebayo SLUMP, Kel’el Ware RISE Sparks Questions | Heat Podcast

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1. Giving bam over the last 6 years the feeling of being the only untradeable player on the team is the worst decision the heat has ever made. We have built around a sub par player on offense. You can’t win building around Joel Anthony!!

2. I strongly believe Bams playing awful cus he wants to get traded. I think he gave up last year and its been the same since, cant defend him anymore, trade for Giannis at this point i dont care.

3. Trade bum and herro and wogs

4. So Bam. Tyler and Norm aren't franchise players?

   It's almost like this franchise should be tanking for a top pick!

   Look how that worked out for OKC, Houston, SA and Boston…

5. The Heat won’t win a championship for the foreseeable future because they’re content with being in the middle, too afraid to tear things down to build it back up. Any other franchise would be looking to trade Bam, Tyler, Norm and Wiggins for assets

6. I hate having to say nice things about the Celtics but they always had two number one options on that team. That's why they are surviving. We have a team of 2's and 3's.

7. We need to address the coaching. Ware never is to come off the bench again. Small ball is dead and only this coach plays it. Look at our record. Does it work?

8. Why doesn't spo call out bam the way he did ware?

9. David is as bad as the fans in being a prisoner of the moment 😂

10. TRADE BAM!!!

11. you might as well offer bam to teams for a trade. you'll probably get a lot more for him than tyler or anyone else. this team very much goes as the team captain goes. any adversity and he and the team folds. brilliant idea to max him. i know you want to be loyal but c'mon. not being able to rely on your max player. having to bench him? that's ridiculous. you know im starting to think spo was benching ware just so HE WOULDN"T EMBARRASS BAM TOO MUCH!

12. Bam is not producing like a max player. We can get that kind of production for $30 million less a year.

13. This why jimmy wasn’t happy, they keep trying to run offense through Bam. He is a role player at best, clearly Kel’el is our best player and he isn’t even close to his prime.

14. Trade Bam for Giannis. He's more concerned with showing off Aja Wilson😒

15. They will not win until they have a number 1 scorer. This is very complicated. Instead of fontechio driving to the basket, it will be your number 1 taking over the game lmao

16. The Bam apologist show…

17. Hey David, keep Tyler Herro’s name out of your mouth. We all know that you want him traded so badly….

18. I'd rather just rebuild at this point man. I'm kinda just done with staying in the middle of the conference and hoping that a star will come here. I would not trade all of our assets just to get Giannis and have no depth at that point. I like Bam, Herro, Powell, and Wiggs, but I think it's time to just move on. Trade them all and get as much assets as possible and let's just rebuild and find our franchise guy in the draft. Build around them, Kel'el, Kas, Jaime, Pelle, etc. I'd rather buy in to the young core than buy in to compete now and hope that we're good enough.

    I know it's not going to happen though cause we seem to be content with staying the exact same.

19. I’m glad we all finally agree that bam can go

20. WHY THE HELL IS FONTECHIO EVEN ON THE TEAM ?!!!

21. Bam and Tyler are Privileged by Spo at this point. Let’s work a trade for Giannis including Bam and Herro. The Bucks won’t get a better offer than that and we can keep our draft picks and keep our youth movement!

22. Ware has arrived. Thanks for everything Bam.

23. TRADE BAM

24. Bam has to go he will never lead a team or put a team on his back herro always hurt smh Big splash Comeing at the deadline 😮‍💨

25. They letting lil Bronson kill them smh the heats need to really work on defense

26. Ware is our best player period!

27. Wes talking straight BS, Ware is much better next to Giannis

28. Kel' lel shooting 48% from 3 for the season. That'll work well next to Giannis. Js

29. Bam is an overpaid role player trade bam keep ware

30. If you think we should trade bam before herro you’re on meth

31. Bam literally forgets how to score or dribble and it's so frustrating

32. Jesus! Bam is pretty much invisible and god!!! We can’t defend the 3point line

33. And for god sakes!!! Get rid of Fontequio!!!

34. Miami paid Bam like super star and is not, Miami overpaid, we need to trade him and also Hero to and rebuild around Were and JJJ

35. Idk how this is surprising with bam smh bam been like all his career but ya keep think his the face of the Miami Heat and that’s why we never win. Bam is a roll player since day 1

36. Bam is an incredible player, an incredible defender. He does a lot on the court… sometimes he's asked to do too much. With that said, what hurts Bam is that contract. As good as he is, giving him a max deal was a mistake. A mistake that can hurt this franchise in the long run because if you're trying to get a #1, that player will also want max dollars. Ware is 21… Kas is 19… maybe you reset and start young? If you can't get Giannis, blow it up and get draft picks

37. Heat fans; Good afternoon and Happy Holidays! During the Boston game, White Mamba (Brian Scalabrine) hit the nail directly on its' head. Bam should be much Better than what he's exhibiting. The team is cooked, it's time to reset the entire organization starting with Riley. His inability to land "stars" speaks volumes to where this team has landed over the past ten season. I know, folks will potentially claim Jimmy as a "star" which he never has been (Chicago or Minn). So we'll be back in the play-in-tournament once again for the third/fourth consecutive season. The fan based deserves BETTER than what this team is giving. Keep Ware and JJ; everyone else is trade bait, Spo and the staff INCLUDED!!!!

38. Bam terrible….repeat

39. Dennis Rodman was 6'7" and 210 lbs. He had four seasons where he averaged over 16 rebounds a game, and two of those he averaged over 18. He blocked shots. He won DPOY twice I think. Bam, at 6'9" and 260 lbs. can't even average over 10 rebounds. Why? Because he REFUSES TO. Rebounding is a mindset. I DGAF if he can guard 1-5. That's NOT what we need from him. He thinks he deserves the DPOY just because he can guard smaller players? That's not how it works. A player needs to DOMINATE defensively and make an impact day in and day out. I really thought he finally got it when he he had 19 rebounds 3 games ago. But nope. Same old Bam.

40. Giannis doesn't get to decide who Miami trades for him. He said he wants the sun and a big market. He said nothing about wanting to play with Bam.

41. The Knicks aren’t healthy, they are missing Deuce and Shamet.

42. It’s no injury! This is who he his! A month of good numbers then back to this! He been like this for yearssssssss! Stop the damn excuses! It’s been 7 damn years

43. Wes you act like a groupie fawning over stars for what they've done in the past, if they're present play doesn't match their previous play when they were voted to the All-Star team, then they're not Stars anymore. Bam is on a down trajectory and Ware is on a ascending trajectory. Sure I don't think Ware is a 50% three-point shooter but he's a top 10 rebounder even with limited minutes. I don't think we can question that and if he's not a 50% three-point shooter, I would say he's at least a 41 or 42 percent 3-point shooter which is great for a big man and I don't think that's changing anytime soon except getting better. That percentage is better than Wemby's. Ware is clearly a better 3 pt shooter and isn't that far behind as a rebounder with less minutes. You can probably argue that per minute he's the best rebounder in the NBA.

    And David don't back down to this guy still stay professional and everything cuz he's kind of young he thinks he knows everything but stick to your guns right now where is headed to be a better player than what band is his defense on five spots is not an excuse anymore for his lack of offensive prowess. But we're both in agreement that Giannis will most likely choose to play with Bam because he's a veteran and he knows him and so and so and so forth, but it doesn't mean that that's the right choice. And no, it doesn't mean that's because Bam is a star now, because he's not playing like one, it will be because of what Bam has done in the past not what he's currently now doing. Bam is NOT the better player in this instance.

44. Simone hasn't played well in quite a few games now. I think Mr. "Mamathreea is gonna have to get the boot.

45. Trade Bam,Herro and Wiggins ASAP

46. Kelel isn’t putting all star numbers because he isn’t getting all star minutes lol. Give him a consistent starting role (without spo randomly hardly playing him and stunting his growth and confidence) and 30+ minutes a night, and he is easily an 18 and 12 player.

47. This dude take: “the Knicks didn’t win this game, Heat lost it.” Man, STHU. Your team lost. Ban stinks, Miami’s defense stinks. Powell is good, but not a closer. Accept the L and shut up.

48. No need to defend Bam… We give that grace to young players

49. So are they still better without Tyler?

50. So tired of Bam's inconsistence. Theres always an excuse for him. He is what he is. A 3rd option. He's been showing us that for years. As fans we just keep waiting for it to be the year that he can be more. Not going to happen.