Run it Back! NBA Week in Review, 2025-26 Miami Heat - Week 17

Run It Back_ Heat Week 17 Review === Speaker: [00:00:00] Week 17 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 a show where we recapped the week that was in the NBA and then highlight the marquee matchup for the week to come here. That in week 17, Miami went two and one with a loss to Utah and wins against easy teams, Washington and New Orleans. Now, with the jazz game, many people were saying that this was a bad loss, that Jaren Jackson and Lori Marketing were sat out in the fourth quarter. Uh, I don't think so. Uh, Jaron Jackson did his damage. In the second quarter, that was the key, uh, to [00:01:00] them getting ahead and staying ahead. He had nine points, uh, six rebounds. Uh, Collier had a good game. Uh, they pulled ahead of Miami, and Miami fought in third and fourth quarters. Uh, but it gave the young players of the jazz, uh, a chance to make shots, uh, and win the game. Uh, it was, uh, a bad loss in the sense that they lost and they should have won the game, but, um, it wasn't a complete collapse. Utah is, uh, a lot better, uh, than a lot of people say, uh, in the Washington and New Orleans games. You see what. Eric's Ttra is trying to, to kind of, uh, capture in a bottle. Uh, in both cams you saw bam out a bio and another person scored 20 points, 20 plus points. You saw Kal wear with double digit rebounds. [00:02:00] Uh, you saw Caspers Ja contributing, uh, the heat this season. Are kind of similar to the 99 Yankees. Nobody knew who they were. Uh, there wasn't like a major star, but everybody, every single player contributed. Uh, if Coach Foster can capture lightning in a bottle. Uh, then Miami is not only gonna make the playoffs, but as Jeremy ache on, uh, the Dan Lebatard show said, uh, and they get, uh, a lot of, uh, their injured players back. They could probably skip the play in and make the sixth seat or higher. I believe that. Uh, moving to our power ranking segment, we start with the only objective, top 10 NBA power rankings. Anywhere. You can read more about how we get to these rankings and see the entire list@thepeachbasket.net. For the heat, they stay at seventh in the power rankings [00:03:00] and 14th. Overall, two teams of note that are going in opposite directions. Cleveland. Uh, is go is moving up in the power rankings. I saw that they blew out Washington and they beat Denver, which is a definite good win. Philly is coming back to the heat. Uh, they are at 30 and 25. The heater at 29 and 27. Uh, Philly had bad losses to Portland and then they got outclassed and outplayed by the Knicks so that he'd have an opportunity there. Uh, to move up some slots and our standout stats segment, uh, bam. At abi leads again and points field goes. Attempted total rebounds and defensive rebounds. That's your all-star, that's your cornerstone. Uh, Andrew Wiggins as he had a announcer, Eric Reed calls him the quiet storm tied kelle ware averaging three offensive rebounds per game. The guy is. A glue guy. [00:04:00] He's not gonna be, uh, your leader, but he's a guy that sets the tone, uh, for everybody else. Quez led and assists and blocks. The guy can, he has court vision, he can pass the ball. And together with Davion Mitchell, uh, that's pretty good. And then Simon fio, uh, making a comeback. Uh, now in the, um. Close to the, the second half of the season in scoring, and this week he had two steals average per game. So in our marque matchup segment, it's gonna be to win every game this week, uh, the heat have a short week. They play at Atlanta and host Memphis. Now Atlanta has and always will be. Miami's play in nemesis. Uh, Atlanta beat Miami earlier the season. Um, so the heat gotta do a big get back game in Atlanta. Uh, if they're going to convince, uh, the fan [00:05:00] base that uh, it wasn't just wins against Washington and New Orleans that they should be excited about, uh, you beat Atlanta, uh, gain some momentum and then you get some quality wins against better teams. Memphis is on the way down. They traded everybody. So the heat, uh, they're gonna play them at home, uh, on Saturday. So the heat should, uh, should, is being operative word. They always gotta play the games when that game and go two and oh. In our viral pressure, uh, full court segment. Uh, did a search for the Miami Heat on Google and, uh, came up with some, uh, news articles. Uh, the first one that I saw that was of interest, it was in the All The Smoke Podcast. Uh, this was, uh, a piece on heavy.com. Chris Boss says he was super pissed at LeBron, uh, when he left in 2014. Uh, [00:06:00] I agree. 'cause LeBron shut everybody out. He knew he had to make that decision to go back to Cleveland. Um, but I, I know that he would've won at least two more championships, uh, if LeBron would've stayed. And the, uh, famous Pat Riley press conference of you don't run out the door. Uh, you stay and fight if you got the guts, um, to LeBron's credit, I mean, good for him. Created his own production company. He went to Cleveland. Uh, they had those, uh, famous battles with the Golden State Warriors, uh, went to Los Angeles. But how many championships has he won? Two. So he didn't really do that much better when he left Miami. Um, and I think, uh, it would've been a lot different, uh, if he would've stayed. But that's just me. Uh. Kisha Johnson won the Slam Dunk Competition and the All Star Saturday night [00:07:00] Beyond, uh, the Allstar Saturday night. Um, it needs to be changed, rethought, something else done. Uh, because I mean, when you have Matt McClung winning it three times in a row and all the credit to him, he has a tremendous vertical. But Matt McClung. Isn't a starter in the league. I mean, the, the, the dunk competition was lost when La, LeBron, and Kobe, uh, didn't compete in it in the mid two thousands. Uh, finally a Miami Herald article, uh, came out from Anthony Chang saying that the heat are going to try to make the double big lineup of Babi and Kal wear work. Now, this is like Hamlet says, I, there's the rub. Uh, coach Spra is saying, well, you know, I think, you know, these guys were coming together. You know, like the, you know, for the old heads, uh, major league, the first one when, [00:08:00] uh, Lou Brown says cup starting to come together, pepper starting to come together, uh, for it to really come together, Kal wear has to make a leap in productivity. Not only against Washington and New Orleans, but with, uh, with good teams. And he has to get those, he has to be averaging, uh, three offensive rebounds. A game he has to be picking up, uh, defenders and letting bam get his, uh, 20 70 14 like he got against New Orleans. Um, that's where the rubber meets the road. But the heat, uh, as I have written they have. Role players, a lot of role players that could be included in a trade package, but they have guys that can overachieve and probably get the heat into a succeed. Uh, Jaime Haki, Junior's a keeper. Um, if they can get anything out of Nicola Jovic, it was a big mistake to, to give him an [00:09:00] extension, but the heat can be like those Yankees and sneak up on people. Uh, because, uh, they can light it up. Uh, and if they can put it together on defense and rebounding, they can really make something happen. So that's it. Uh, my take on week 17 of the NBA season is over. Join me next week for week 18 when we run it back. Have a good day everybody.