Magic at Heat - Monday, January 27th @ 7:30 P.M.

[TrueMagicFan07 661]

 

Monday, January 27, 2020 @ 7:30 P.M.

  American Airlines Arena - Miami, FL

 TV:  Fox Sports Florida

 

  31-14,  1st in Southeast Division    |   21-26, 2nd in Southeast Division   

GO MAGIC!

[Jay Magic 1,233]

 

[Jay Magic 1,233]

Butler, Nunn & Dragic are questionable

Bam is probable

[3rd Quarter Collapse 50]

Interesting to see what happens tonight. Blew Miami last time out. If we win again, I’m going to start getting optimistic about a 2 vs 7 matchup between us and Miami. I think we match up well with them, but obviously playoff basketball is a different beast.

[Spaceman 58]

40 minutes ago, 3rd Quarter Collapse said:

Interesting to see what happens tonight. Blew Miami last time out. If we win again, I’m going to start getting optimistic about a 2 vs 7 matchup between us and Miami. I think we match up well with them, but obviously playoff basketball is a different beast.

Playoffs!! you're talking Playoffs?

[3rd Quarter Collapse 50]

10 minutes ago, Spaceman said:

Playoffs!! you're talking Playoffs?

It’s going to take a pretty big collapse to miss the playoffs. Both Detroit and Chicago are in the top 10 for strength of schedule. Both Detroit and Chicago already face an uphill battle in catching Brooklyn for the 8th seed. It’d take a dramatic losing spell for us and a stretch of great play from Chicago/Detroit for us to fall outside of the top 8.

This season hasn’t been a building block or anything, but barring disaster, we’re making the playoffs.

 

Edit: We also have the 5th easiest schedule in the league, so there’s that as well.

[Spaceman 58]

i know there is still half a season left to play but it seems kind of futile unless there are some roster changes made.

[TrueMagicFan07 661]

JIMMY BUTLER

(Injury Update - Knee and Ankle)

Questionable Monday

January 26, 2020

Butler (ankle) is considered questionable for Monday's game against the Magic, Andre Fernandez of The Athletic reports.

ANALYSIS
The 30-year-old entered Friday's game against the Clippers nursing a sore knee but ended up sustaining the right ankle sprain and was unable to return. The Heat are dealing with a multitude of injuries as Goran Dragic (calf) and Kendrick Nunn (Achilles) are also questionable while Bam Adebayo (ankle) is probable.

 

Link:    https://www.rotowire.com/basketball/player.php?id=3231

 

**Butler is 30 yrs. old, DJ Augustin is 32

 

 

Edit:   Fultz needs to test Butler's knee and ankle with some 'crossover' dribbling.

[Just a regular Magic fan 38]

5 hours ago, 3rd Quarter Collapse said:

It’s going to take a pretty big collapse to miss the playoffs. Both Detroit and Chicago are in the top 10 for strength of schedule. Both Detroit and Chicago already face an uphill battle in catching Brooklyn for the 8th seed. It’d take a dramatic losing spell for us and a stretch of great play from Chicago/Detroit for us to fall outside of the top 8.

This season hasn’t been a building block or anything, but barring disaster, we’re making the playoffs.

 

Edit: We also have the 5th easiest schedule in the league, so there’s that as well.

How disappointing. At least with the lottery, we have a small chance to get lucky. The way we are going we will never get out of the quagmire we are in. [sigh]

[Tank Vogel 191]

Yeah we are basically gonna see if we get annihilated as the 8 seed, or maybe steal a game from the 2 seed before losing in 5 again.

Pretty much exactly where we thought we would be after last season ended and we ran it back.

[Jay Magic 1,233]

As long as we didn't play the Bucks I'd actually fancy our chances against any of the teams ..

[Jay Magic 1,233]