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Rudy with the exclamation point! He's playing some awesome basketball.

Joan Beringer time?

Crazysauce wrote: ↑Tue Jan 06, 2026 9:16 pm Love the effort tonight. I want to see this type of effort every night.

That's three straight games of high effort! Sadly, that's something to be celebrated.

Miami is a damn good team though, so this is an impressive win.

Joan!

Beringer seriously needs minutes.

I'm on the road like Tim, so missed this one...turned it on late to see some promising offense from Joan! I just breezed through the thread, and it sounds like we brought our effort on defense tonight...love it! When we play defense like we all know we can, I think we're a tough matchup for anyone.

Spurs lost (Memphis caught a break with Ja out hurt again) so we're only a game and a half out of second with 2 winnable games coming up against the disappointing Cavs. Might we be playing for second place when we host the Spurs Sunday?

Crazysauce wrote: ↑Tue Jan 06, 2026 9:27 pm Beringer seriously needs minutes.

I'm starting to come around on Joan after listening to what Q and Tim are saying about his improved play in Iowa. We didn't need him tonight, but one of our three bigs is going to miss a game (or more), and it's good to know he might be ready.

Joan looked great in his limited minutes. Very excited for his future! Rudy has been awesome this year. Dilly really is a great passer, but I’ve never seen an nba player have so much trouble getting his shot off

THAT was a professional tea-bag win.
I really felt that our first 9 played about as well as we can play, especially when so few shots were falling. PRO WIN

Abe's Contrived Statistical DVR Review:

- The Heat shot only 12% in the paint over the final three quarters. A decent amount of that had to do with very good defense from the Wolves.

- Nobody enjoys watching Rudy Gobert play basketball. At least not really. But damn, he's really good sometimes. He's on a nice run right now. Opponents are shooting 17% against him this season.

- Good to see Donte break his 2 - 47 three-point drought.

Donte hitting that first 3 must have been like winning the lottery for him. You could see how frustrated he was. You know everyone on the team was telling him to keep shooting it. The next 3 were WET.