We have a lot of injury stuff today! I didn’t go too deep into it in this edition, but we’ll hit it later when we have more info for the DFS show later today.
Miami Heat at Boston Celtics
Team Totals: Heat 100.5, Celtics 107
Injury Report: Marcus Smart (Q, ankle), Jayson Tatum (P, neck), Robert Williams (Q, knee), Jimmy Butler (Q, knee), Kyle Lowry (Q, hamstring), Max Strus (fake Q, hamstring), P.J. Tucker (fake Q, knee), Gabe Vincent (fake Q, hamstring)
Celtics projected starters: Marcus Smart, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Grant Williams, Al Horford
Heat projected starters: Kyle Lowry, Max Strus, Jimmy Butler, P.J. Tucker, Bam Adebayo
Udoka quotes: Said coming out flat was poor play and complaining to the refs too much, said turning the ball over was the big issue, said they know how Miami is going to guard them and they have to execute, said they talked about how Lowry was going to impact them, said they’ll continue to use Jaylen as a ball-handler and screener, said there was a little too much penetration from their offense (I think he was talking about Jaylen), said Robert Williams is day-to-day and is dealing with swelling/soreness, said he wanted to start with size and that’s why he went with Theis, said he wanted to use Horford off the ball to start, said Marcus Smart has “a pretty bad sprain” and is dealing with swelling, said Jayson Tatum is fine and the stinger basically went away, said he talked to the team about the careless turnovers, said Tatum is really good as an off-ball guy but Tucker is definitely making an impact on him, said it wasn’t just on Theis for the bad start and Bam wasn’t really going at Theis.
Spoelstra quotes: Said Jimmy didn’t need an MRI, said he didn’t play Herro down the stretch because it was “a little bit of both” for injury and play, said Bam was way more assertive on the catch and he was playing more point guard, said they needed Bam’s scoring in the early going, said Strus offers “a different part of the menu” offensively, said Oladipo got booted because of Lowry’s return and he had to sacrifice, said Oladipo in the second half brought great defense against Tatum and Brown, said they were running more stuff for Oladipo like Jimmy.
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