Five On The Floor: Miami Heat/NBA

Personnel? Effort? Scheme? Pace? What's the major problem with the bottom 5 in the NBA Miami Heat defense? And who are the major problems? Ethan Skolnick and Brady Hawk try to find solutions for a defensive group that hasn't had many.

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Miami couldn't do anything with Luka Doncic -- or anyone else -- as a defensive meltdown leads to a loss in Los Angeles. Ethan and Alex went live after the game.

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Five games, five chances to show the turnaround is real. The Heat start in Los Angeles against the Lakers and then the Clippers. How many of these games can they win? Ethan, Greg and Brady went live.

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Five games, five chances to show the turnaround is real. The Heat start in Los Angeles against the Lakers and then the Clippers. How many of these games can they win? Ethan, Greg and Brady went live.

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Surprise! Alf954 joins Greg Sylvander/Lefty Leif to discuss their early season observations on all things Miami Heat.

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Giannis had a triple-double, Bam scored 27 and Klay Thompson made seven 3-pointers in a rout of undermanned Indiana. Ethan and Adel went live after the win.

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As the Miami Heat were getting their first win, ESPN was reporting that the team still has some interest in Kyrie Irving, the Mavericks former All-Star. Would he fix all the Heat's creation issues? Can that be done in-house? And what would it take to get him? Ethan and Alex discuss.

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Greg and Alex go over the positives from the Heat's first win and which of those positives is most repeatable as they go forward.

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Erik Spoelstra made adjustments, Bam Adebayo found his spots and Andrew Wiggins found his game as the Miami Heat won in Atlanta. Ethan Skolnick and Brady Hawk went live after the victory.

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As the winless Heat visit Atlanta on Wednesday night, many in the national media are blowing up the team already. Too soon for that kind of alarm? What do the stats say? And how can the Heat fix this? Ethan Skolnick is joined by Amir Motameni of OnSI.

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With the Miami Heat at 0-4, Bam speaking on being a "scapegoat" and only three players in the rotation playing up to expectations, Ethan Skolnick and Bryan Fonseca sift through the wreckage. (With a little winless Knicks talk thrown in).

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Greg and Digital Adel go LIVE after another disappointing loss.

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In the latest Sunday night LIVE show on Five Reasons YouTube channel, Ethan, Greg and Brady go through the top 9 players -- and the coaches -- and what can be done differently to rally from an 0-3 Miami Heat start.

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The Heat are 0-3, so we can't sugarcoat any of it. But were there any green shoots in the fourth quarter comeback against the Hornets, even if it fell short? Ethan Skolnick and Digital Adel search for something.

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No one expected this start. The Miami Heat fell way behind an undermanned Charlotte Hornets team that had just lost by 47 on its home floor -- and after tying the game late, let it slip away. Giannis fouled out, Tim Hardaway Jr. couldn't guard anyone and lots of other stuff went wrong. Ethan, Alex and Greg dissect another defeat.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo's Miami Heat look to bounce back at home against Cade Cunningham and the Detroit Pistons on Friday night at the Kasaya Center. Greg Sylvander & Digital Adel will recap the action from Game 2 of 82 of the Miami HEAT's regular season on this episode of Five on the Floor.

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It’s no secret the Miami Heat were very disappointing in the first game of the season, losing handily to the Minnesota Timberwolves 131-106. Greg Sylvander & Sean Rochester review some key home opener blowouts from the past to see if history tells us anything about this team based off the opener.

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There's been plenty of talk about how dynamic the Miami Heat defense would be this season, and there it was passive and porous in the opening loss to Minnesota. How much of this was the drop scheme? How much was on the players? And what will we see against Detroit. Ethan Skolnick and Brady Hawk discuss.

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That went about as poorly as it could have. Giannis scored plenty in his first Miami Heat regular season game.... but the Heat's defense was subpar throughout against Anthony Edwards (45 points) and others, and then the offense collapsed also. Ethan Skolnick and Digital Adel recapped it live (an hour after the buzzer).

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As Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Miami Heat welcome Anthony Edwards and the Minnesota Timberwolves to being the 2026-27 season, Ethan Skolnick and Greg Sylvander take a big picture view as the franchise's latest major build officially begins.

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