{"id":21764,"date":"2025-10-27T01:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21764\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T01:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T01:51:09","slug":"an-analysis-of-sunday-nights-miami-heat-new-york-knicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/21764\/","title":{"rendered":"An analysis of Sunday night&#8217;s Miami Heat-New York Knicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI \u2013 Observations and other notes of interest from Sunday night\u2019s 115-107 victory over the New York Knicks:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 This Jaime Jaquez Jr. thing is real.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Cast one moment Sunday at power forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Another at point guard.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Versatility on demand.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 And efficient versatility.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has made it very easy at the start of this season to forget who he is not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 (Enough about the 3s.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 (And enough about the comparisons to Jimmy Butler.)<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 He has made it about what he stands as.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 An embraceable attacking presence.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The very type of energy this roster and this system needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Of all the factors in the Heat\u2019s opening week, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2025\/10\/23\/ask-ira-is-jaime-jaquez-jr-to-the-rescue-a-winning-heat-formula\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jaquez might be the most encouraging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The Heat for the second consecutive game opened with a lineup of Kel\u2019el Ware, Bam Adebayo, Andrew Wiggins, Norman Powell and Davion Mitchell.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With Miles McBride not with the team due to personal reasons, the Knicks opened with a lineup of Jalen Brunson, Mikal Bridges, OG Anunoby, Karl-Anthony Towns and Ariel Hukporti.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Inactive for Heat were Tyler Herro, Kasparas Jakucionis, Terry Rozier, Vlad Goldin and Myron Gardner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 That saved the Heat one game apiece on their limit for two-way players Goldin and Gardner.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jahmir Young was the lone active Heat two-way player, with only 12 in uniform, three shy of the active-roster game limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Jaquez was first off the Heat bench, entering midway through the first period for Ware.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Dru Smith entered when Ware returned, after Mitchell was called for his second foul while defending Brunson.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 With Nikola Jovic third off the Heat bench.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Followed by Simone Fontecchio for nine deep.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Eventually the Heat made it 10 deep, when Pelle Larsson entered midway through the second period.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Albeit only for a token appearance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 That left Keshad Johnson and Young as the only available players out of the rotation mix.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Adebayo in the second period connected on a 3-pointer in a career-best 15th consecutive game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Powell addressed the crowd just before tipoff,\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a great year. Let\u2019s get it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Powell then converted the Heat\u2019s first two 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Introductions opened with a chant of \u201cLet\u2019s Go Knicks!\u201d that then was drowned out by \u201cLet\u2019s Go Heat!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Heat coach Erik Spoelstra welcomed the rivalry when asked about being poised for another home opener.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cFor me,\u201d he said, \u201cI think for everybody in our locker room, it\u2019s exciting and it\u2019s even better that it\u2019s the Knicks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Of the Knicks, Spoelstra said of the night\u2019s opponent and Brunson, \u201cThey\u2019re a well-schooled team. They know how to win games. So even if they don\u2019t necessarily play well, they know how to put themselves in position to win, and that\u2019s because they have an elite decision-maker that can control the tenor of the game at any point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Spoelstra was asked pregame about the Heat announcing Saturday that longtime public-address announcer Mike Baiamonte would be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2025\/10\/25\/booming-baritone-michael-baiamonte-to-retire-as-heats-pa-announcer-at-seasons-end\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">retiring at season\u2019s end<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u201cMy kids and my household, when we\u2019re trying to leave or go somewhere, \u2018Dos Minutos!\u2019 in our house,\u201d Spoelstra said of one of Baiamonte\u2019s signature calls. \u201cYeah, it\u2019s awesome for him. I\u2019m happy for him. Hopefully we can convince him otherwise. We\u2019ve got a season to convince him to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Spoelstra added, \u201cBut, yeah, what an iconic voice. It\u2019s been a lot of fun over the years. He\u2019s really a special guy and I\u2019m glad we\u2019ll be able to celebrate him for a whole season. Kind of sad about it, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Former Heat guard Goran Dragic was among those in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Videos in the first quarter honored Heat owner Micky Arison for his Hall of Fame induction and Spoelstra for two weeks ago being named USA Basketball Olympic coach.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Baiamonte was honored with a video in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: October 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2013 Observations and other notes of interest from Sunday night\u2019s 115-107 victory over the New York Knicks:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[114,123,125,2490,16151,124,2295,110],"class_list":["post-21764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-heat","tag-miami-heat-blog","tag-miami-news","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}