Untitled project from SquadCast === eric-_3_03-29-2026_153744: [00:00:00] Week 23 of the 20 25, 26 NB. A season is over, which means it's time to run it back. This is run it back NBA week and review heat edition. I'm Eric Labrador at thePeachBasket.net covering the Miami Heat. This is to show where we recapped the week that was in the NBA, and then highlight the marquee matchup for the week to come for the Miami Heat in reviewing the week. The heat went one and two, they lost to the Spurs on Monday night showing an unhealthy fear of Victor. Victor Wema For me, I personally like the Knicks that they employ physicality against Wema, even though he continues to shoot well and not try and dribble around them, around him like some other teams like the Houston Rockets. Then on Wednesday night, they stole the first game and the two game set with the [00:01:00] Cavaliers. Jared Allen wasn't in the game on Wednesday and it made a huge difference. On Friday, the heat actually scored 128 points, which was eight points more than Wednesday, but they gave up 149 to Clee. A little perspective for the heat fans. Miami's a game behind the Sixers. And two games behind the Hawks. For the six C, they have the tie breaker against the Hornets. So they're two games up on them instead of on one. Like in the standings. They're one in one in the season series against the Sixers and two in one against the Hawks. So bottom line, the heat still control their own destiny. All they have to do is get out on the court and prove. Moving on to our power ranking segment, we start with the only objective overall, top 10 NBA power rankings anywhere. You can read more about how we get to these rankings and see the entire [00:02:00] list@thepeachbasket.net. The heat constantly have been hovering around the middle, between seventh and the east 15th overall in the NBA. That's where they are now. The top five teams are probably gonna be competing for the final fours in each of their respective conferences. The next Celtics, pistons, spurs, and Thunder in our standout stats segment. Norman Powell led the team over the last three games with 18.3 points per game. He led in three pointers made and field goals. Attempted good for Norman since he's been out for a while before this with injury. Bam, as the captain of the team didn't lead in scoring but did in total rebounds, defensive rebounds, and tied for the lead and assist with Jaime Chaquez and in Steels with Pella Larson and Andrew Wiggins. And as always, BAM leads the team in pace. [00:03:00] Kal Ware didn't end up in the rebound stats, but tied with Myron Gardner with a block of game. Hi. As I said, averaged 4.7 assists per game. And Pella Larson and Andrew Wiggins had 1.3 averaged 1.3 steals per game in our marquee matchup segment. The Heat Play a back Toback starting today on the road against Indiana and the Sixers on Monday night. They played Boston on Wednesday. And Washington on Saturday at the Kaseya Center. There's no other solution. Miami has to win every game. Indiana's coming in, losing two straight at home and finishing a three game home. Stand against the heat tonight, they beep Orlando on the road on Monday, and then against the Lakers and the Clippers. They scored over 110 points. I he has to watch out. They've never played well historically in Indiana. [00:04:00] Philly beat the Red Hot Charlotte Hornets on Saturday, and Paul George has returned from suspension to the Sixers and is playing well along with Joelle and Bead, showing what we all thought was gonna happen when he signed with them a couple of years ago, that they were gonna be competing for playoffs division titles going to the NBA finals. The Celtics beat the Thunder on Wednesday and the Hawks on Friday. They got a ways to go before they reach Miami, but as always, look out for Derrick White. Forget about Jason Tatum. Forget about Jalen Brown. Derrick White has won all the battles, even though he lost the war in the 2023 Eastern Conference finals, that he'd just have to watch out for him because he kills them all the time. And then the next segment with artificial intelligence, the number of heat [00:05:00] players that have missed games due to injury. Tyler Hi is at the top of the list, missing 47 games. Norman Powell with 20. Andrew Wiggins with 15. Bam outta Abi with nine, and Jaime Hotheads with two. Another interesting stat is that the heater 23 and two, when Kal wear has a positive plus minus in the game. The Wednesday game was better than the Friday game. Kal wear only had 14 points and eight rebounds and really didn't do much to stem the tide against. Jared Allen Colwell also got eaten up in the game against the Spurs defensively. Luke Cornett ate him up. In a defensive sequence that I posted on my Instagram page, Tyler Hi and Norman Powell, their back court. Those guys can fill it up. They score a lot, but they're very poor defensively. Even though in an article by Heat [00:06:00] Deep Rider I or Windman ProAir's Ttra is gonna continue to put that combo on the court. So that's it. That's the end of week 23. We'll see what the heat can do at the end of week 24 when we run it back. Have a good day everybody.