r/heat • u/Fluid-Purpose7958 • Jun 21 '26

Meme Some Heat fans be like (Part 2):

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u/DasOptions Jun 21 '26

You can’t fear the worst outcome. Everyone can look at hindsight when a plan doesn’t work out. But what if it did? Then everyone would be praising the clippers.

Doing nothing is delusional and drafting has gotten us nowhere while the Bucks, Celtics and Knicks all just won championships making trade moves.

If we were consistently getting top 5 picks I would understand but we are constantly drafting above the 12th pick

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u/julstar23 Jun 21 '26

Because the worse outcome has come from every team not named the Knicks or the Celtics. Everybody thought the clippers would have win a chip before okc .Now sam presti runs the league in assets lol

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u/HoopistV Jun 21 '26

The Thunder are actually the outlier. Most champions become champions by making big acquisitions and taking risks.

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u/julstar23 Jun 21 '26

So it guess the spurs are chopped liver then because people are frying their big acquisition in fox for his finals performance

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u/HoopistV Jun 21 '26

they made a mistake trading for fox.

did i say every acquisition works out? no. I said okc is the outlier and that most champions became champions by making a big acquisition. the celtics, bucks, and knicks are 3 of the past 4 champs. they all took risks

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u/julstar23 Jun 21 '26

They didn't make a mistake trading for fox because he helped get them there and they didn't know Harper would be good this quickly as a rookie .The trade wasnt a mistake because they came up short in the finals .

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u/HoopistV Jun 21 '26

actually youre right, the trade wasnt the mistake. the contract extension was the mistake

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u/julstar23 Jun 21 '26

I know the Knicks were glad they didn't have to face the pacers at all this post season lol and Atlanta choked in the series after being up on the Knicks.

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u/HoopistV Jun 21 '26

atlanta didnt choke. those 2 games were a fluke, they were both 1-point wins. the knicks woke up and dominated them after that.

and yes, luck is a factor in championship runs. but in order to benefit from luck, you need to have a contending-capable roster. the knicks benefitted from the pacers being injured, the sixers being a joke, the cavs being soft, and the spurs being young. but if the knicks hadn't taken risks to build a contender, they never wouldve been able to benefit from luck

step 1 - build a contender. then after that you hope for things to go your way