Miamis run was truly something to marvel at coming from a Heat fan. We could not figure it out during the regular season and we just rallied together during the finals due to some pick ups in free agency, incredible coaching, and Jimmy G Buckets.

Heat run to the NBA Finals was exceptional. Miami lost Herro and Oladipo and were bad offensively in the regular season. Also, winning 7 games being down double digits and winning 7 road games is impressive. Heat playoff run was impressive.

hating on the heat's run this year is some pure hater shit it's kind of respectable

Bro that 1st hot take was like the eqivalent of saying, "If the Houston Rockets players played better, then Houston would be a better team."

Heat's run was so amazing that made me and 2 coworkers start rewatching the NBA after 7 years

We really just had a tournament to prove who the best team in the league this year was and people are really like "this proves nothing"

Hot take of the year: "iif something else happened then something else would happen" 😂😂😂

Hot take: If Denver had lost the finals against the Heat, then the Miami Heat would have won the NBA finals.

To add to the take about the Heat: imagine looking at the literal story of Cinderella and saying “well her step mothers and step sisters shouldn’t have ever disrespected her and gave her a fair chance.” If that was the case, it becomes a very different and MUCH less interesting story. The story of Cinderella is what it is because all that stuff happened and critiquing it with what “should” have happened is ridiculous. Miami was awful in the reg season and if they played how they did throughout the season, Milwaukee probably packs them up in 5 tops regardless of Giannis’ injury. But they didn’t. Simple

It was the closest thing to the 04 Pistons and honestly the 04 Pistons started 5 all stars and three lottery picks.

If what Miami did was so unimpressive why didn't any of the other teams make it

I think you could make the case that Brunson had a better year than Young, but Trae is imo still comfortably the best PG in the East

I don't mind the negativity about my team, as a fan from Miami, there is nothing special about us, at all.😑😑😑 I didn't ask my team to make the biggest move to go to the finals at all.

My biggest concern going into the playoffs as a Bucks fan was the age of the roster and that concern proved to be very valid. They looked so old and slow in that series.

Don't know how you can say that the Heats run wasn't special. As a fan I expected a first round exit. Once Hero went down, I was for sure it was over. But the fact we made it to the finals is something that doesn't happen. Only the Knicks in 99 did that.

I have another "hot take" similar to first ones: "If you would have changed your t-shirt in-between recordings, the clarification wouldn't have been necessary"

Joel Moran on rusty buckets. What a crossover

Guarantee the guy that tweeted the heat take is either a bucks, Knicks, or Celtics fan

Actually, you could very well make an argument that like the other pointguards mentioned, Trae Young wasn't great in the postseason either. Sure he was good offensively, which is his strength, but his defense is always a liability, which especially hurts Atlanta in the postseason. I would say that Harden was so-so, varying wildly in consistancy, Young was subpar and Holiday was about equally bad. (in his case offensively) Jalen Brunson though, while carrying more load than in the regular season, still managed to keep them afloat scoring-wise. Even though their games were defensive slogs, the brunt of the offense relied on him for creation or scoring. To add a little side-note to this: The criticism on Randle is valid, but a big part of his efficiency being down was him getting the ball very late in the offensive play, forcing him to create something with too little time on the clock. This mostly resulted in him making an extremely tough, well defended shot. On the plays where he got the ball earlier, the efficiency was much better. He could make a pass for a short roll, cutter or threepoint shooter, or spin away for a much closer midrange, where he was in shooting rhythm. This is to blame on the coach more than anything, maybe a tiny bit on Brunson for putting him in this situation. However this speaks more to the excellence of Brunson, as he was put into the same situation even more and still managed to create more often that not, a good shot.

how can someone say that about the heat

I’m generally a rusty bucket man but this guy is good too.

rusty argues with the most intelligent stephen A enjoyers for ten minutes

Hey Rudy! Placing the Hot takes in the bottom of the screen puts them behind the subtitles, which I have on because Rusty is a master mumbler. Consider placing them in the top instead. We don't need to see the microphone anyway 😅 Thanks for your great work!

3:04 I'm glad someone else is saying this.

He said buckers 😂😂😂

Respect for the Pink Floyd shirt . Favorite album from them ?

I think Haliburton is at or near the same level as Brunson. The Pacers way outperformed expectations when he was healthy this season

I get he won a ring but damn the Jokic glazing😭

Regarding the first take id just like to say that if draymond hadnt punched poole, if klay hadnt lost his shot in the second round and if the nuggets werent such a damn good team, then the warriors wouldve been in the finals and those guys wouldve gotten ring number 5....😂

I've been subscribed for 2 years now and it is always going to be slow in content and views around this time THE WNBA HIGHLIGHTS ARE ON KZfaq. I understand the full games are hard to watch and that would make delivering quality analysis impossible but there isn't a single channel covering anything about the league! I'm also fully aware of the backlash those videos would get but those people simply aren't real basketball fans who want as much of the sport as they can get.

“What miami did wasnt special” -a dude on his couch

Serious question and I don't mean to be inflammatory just curious, what do you think makes Jalen Brunson better than Tyrese Haliburton? I'm a Pacers and Mavs fan so obviously I love both players and think both are amazing.

Shes a queen, doc

I know you directly told us that you recorded mad videos in one day, but I choose to believe that you have like 13 versions of the same shirt that you wore over consecutive days 🤔

About this Jaylen Brown situation: The max and superman salaries will be the reason of many problems on teams. It's like a punishment for teams the build good teams and develop great talent. Other think, it's bizarre that Jaylen Brown is eligible to a higher salary than an 2-time-MVP. On the Celtic's case, both Brown and Tatum will be eligible to a Supermax. The two will eat 100-120M from a 135M cap space. These eligibilities are insane and Boston would be forced to get rid of a player that they developed.

JOEL MORAN stans assemble

So it starts

The heat were originally a 7th seed. Play-In made them the 8th seed

What Miami did was a complete accident and will never happen again

I don't understand people that don't watch 100% of Rustys videos.

8:22 nah these warriors bandwagons are the worst with the excuses, the only reason they even won last post season was because injuries all over the playoffs, Middleton injury, Ja Injury and most importantly the reigning champs rn where missing 2 of the key pieces this post season, they don’t beat a healthy Nuggets either time.

“I dont think the Celtics should blow it up” … “SPLIT UP THE JAYS” Bro 💀

Spoelstra is a better coach than Popovich as Pop never had any playoff success post Tim Duncan but Spo manage to make it to the finals twice with subpar allstars and undrafted players.

so basically people are saying "if shit was different, shit was different"

KRISTAPS IS A CELTIC

It was special but the gassing ive seen it a bit crazy

i bet it's KAT who said that

Seems like lately every team that has a good playoff run that doesn't have Steph, LeBron, or KD gets a completely unnecessary amount of hate. NBA fans are super annoying.

These takes were more warm than hot honestly

I mean they are a great team. They’ve been a top four team every year for the last three years.

6:20 that is very, very disturbing. The idea that teams are making trades because they're listening to social media hot takes, absolutely insane that anyone would gamble their multibillion dollar organizations on listening to the "wisdom" of Twitter.

I can sort of understand the Heat take only if you consider that if the Lakers had made the finals, that would've been a bigger cinderella story. Instead of sucking in the regular season and barely scraping in, they sucked, changed the team, made it work and charged back up the standings to make the play in. It would've been a more complete story. But as you mentioned multiple times in the video, no point talking about what could've been if things were different, they aren't and Miami's run to the finals was still impressive.

Miami make it to the finals with a virtually worst team than all of they rivals and even won against denver that if you compare one on one player vs player all denver players were better than their match except for buttler Jamal>lowry Kcp > or = than caleb martin Aaron gordon> kevin love (at this point of course) Jokic> bam Braun and bruce brown> vincent and robinson Finally butler > michael porter junior who is a pretty good damn player anyways so was kinda impossible for them to win

If cade played like magic Jaden played like Jordan and jalen during played like Shaq the pistons would of won the championship this year

Miami's run is overrated simply for the fact people tend to forget that they finished the season as the 7th seed and were only the 8th seed because of a loss in the play-in.

Even if that Miami take is idiotic is not hard to understand where it comes from when you consider that the current generations of fans has been raised by the constant "jOrDaN 6-0" droning. In that realm of basketball, and sports, "analysis" anything that is not a ring is considered worthless. People joke about guys like Barkley, but at least he is respected as a great player. Great players of the current era like Harden and Westbrook will retire with nowhere close the respect prior ringless superstars got.

I don't think it's possible for a Cinderella team to exist unless they underperform or are hurt. A legit 8th seed can't accidentally make the jump to 1st seed talent. There must be something holding them back or the teams they beat back

Heats run was nice. But then they got stifled by the Nuggets Sometimes its fun watching the cinderella team fans get arrogant then watching them when their team finds the champs I do think the heat did get glazed too much sometimes but i resoect them

If it wasn’t for the play in to even be a thing, they wouldn’t even be in the playoffs in the first place

JALEN BRUNSON BETTER THAN HARDEN??? OH MY GOD!

i don't think you understand the heat 8th seed take. The 99 Knicks comparison had a lot of injuries while Miami just underperformed.

tyrese haliburton underrated

Do we fault Lebron for making his teammates “better” we don’t cuz that logic doesn’t make sense it’s redundant

Bucks injured, Knicks and Celtics not good, and Nuggets whooped em. Half joking but I do believe that the run is a little overrated. Good run though.

Hot take: coming back from down 3-1 is overrated

Heat will never win with Jimmy as the best

Hot TAKE: The Nuggets had an Overrated playoff run, The nuggets played, an 8th seed missing their best wing defender, a 4th seed that played 8 games together missing their primary bull handler, a 7th seed that also was thrown together at the deadline and played almost no games together and another 8th seed that would of lost round 1 with a healthy Giannis but still overachieved greatly. They played the lowest average seeds of any champion ever and context only makes it less impressive. Come at me

Jalen is 100x worse ball handlers than jayson? Didn’t jayson lead the playoffs in turns overs just in 2022? Lol

Bam was dreadful on both sides of the ball in the playoffs, recency bias will say but he scored heaps of points in the finals, and yet Jokic still played better defense than Bam did in the finals this Bam is elite on defense nonsense has to stop

Brunson isn't better than Donovan Mitchell

Deandre Jordan was better after cp3 left

Rusty your Cinderella argument makes no sense at all

Your take on Brown/Tatum is horrible. What team blows up their squad that repeatedly makes it to the Final Four? Please tell me who did that and went back to the chip?

Haliburton is best PG in the east and its facts I'm not a pacers fan but nuggets fan Trae young is just empty stats and bad defense most overated player not underrated!

Trae is not better then Brunson

I kind of agree with the Heat take, the Heat were only a 8 seed because they didnt care about the regular season they were more like a 4 or a 5 seed only impressive series was the Bucks one Holy shit I said this before I watched the video and was basing this on the thumbnail did not realize at all the dude had the exact same take as mine

Rusty doesn’t know ball and he can’t play ball. Why do people even listen to him ?

The Heat had an impressive run but I would agree that it was overblown. For the Bucks series there was the giannis injury, coach Bud choking as usual, the fact that Milwaukee isn't good at defending the three-point line while Miami couldn't miss and Butler going off. The Knicks were never that good to begin with, and you mocked the Celtics enough to know that they choked the first 3 games basically on their own. This is not hating on Miami, it's just facts that are necessary to understand what really happened. I saw some people comparing what Miami did to the 04 Pistons ! There seems to be this idea going around that Miami had really tough competition and it's just not true. The Pistons beat one of the greatest teams of all times with 2 all-time greats in or around their prime. The Heat lost to the first coherently constructed team they met. If people didn't paint the Heat as this massively overperforming underdog, people like me wouldn't have to point these things out and look like haters.

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Your knicks hate is cringe bruh

wtf is that shirt yikes

Brunson isn't better than Donovan Mitchell