Jimmy is this perhaps the quintessential Heat box score,
your team doesn't even have a leading scorer, you have five guys- six guys in
double figures, all within five points of each other.
You've told us all season, it doesn't have to be about you,
it doesn't have to be about one guy.
How rewarding is it to close out a series with this kind of "everyone involved
performance"?
We love it that way.
It's a team game.
We've been that way all year long.
But a win is a win and we take it how we can get it.
We talked about one being out the mud.
I think this was the one cuz so many guys stepped up for us in so many ways, y'know.
And I applaud everybody for being ready to neck.
>> And then just to talk to one guy in particular because you're probably gonna
talk about him anyway.
20 year old Tyler here.
The minutes he played, the job he did, the shots he made.
He's not just your typical kid is he?
>> Tell him that.
I tell you all that as often as I can.
He's a professional.
He's gonna be in his league for a very long time since he's 20 years old.
But he's just so comfortable, so confident.
He played with the swag that you think he was going on 31 like me and
we love him for that we wouldn't change him.
We want him to stay that exact same way moving into the history cover funds.
Tim Reynolds.
Jimmy those last three words.
You said Eastern Conference Finals.
You've waited a long time to get there.
What is, I know that's not the ultimate destination of course but
to be able to say that you're in that round finally, what's it mean to you?
Like you said, that's not my goal, that's not my guys goals,
that not the organization's goal.
We wanna win here, win a championship and I think that's what we're focused on.
These next eight are gonna be much harder than the previous eight.
We know that already.
On the day that was coming much after the trade, but
when they introduced you in Miami, you said that this culture has always spoken
to you that you needed to know what it was like, is it as good as you thought it was,
[LAUGH] [CROSSTALK] or is it is it better?
>> Yeah, it's better.
Like I always say, we just, we just work here.
We're so honest with one another.
I mean, if you watch the game because I see guys going back and forth, but
nobody's taking it personally.
You say what you gotta say, and you move on from it.
But that's what I love about these guys is, you can always be honest with one
another nobody's saying anything personal no hard feelings, y'know.
Everybody works.
>> Mike Cunio.
>> Hey, Jimmy, a lot of people would have said that Miami he had to play their best
basketball to take out number one seed, Milwaukee Bucks,
the team with Giannis Antetekounmpo on it.
Do you guys feel you guys have played your best basketball at this point?
>> I don't think so.
I don't think we've played a full 48 minute game yet.
And that's what's promising, is that we do lock in and
decided to buy from start to finish the way that we're capable and
the way we're supposed to- I think the game would be a lot easier.
But to see that to happen, we gotta have to have it in the next round.
>> Ray Ferraro.
>> Hey, Jimmy, congrats.
First, that shirt is awesome.
>> Thanks. Secondly,
I think I know the answer to this but I have to ask,
Is this any sort of validation to get to this point when, you know,
so many people question the move you leave a team like Philadelphia,
is this any sort of validation or are you even thinking about that at this point?
>> Nah, I really don't.
You know, you can't help but to hear what people say, but as long as [INAUDIBLE],
people don't mind their own business.
Everybody always got something to say, and you're right.
You know, you have your own opinion, but what I think is best for me, what's best
for these guys, and as long as I'm happy, those guys are happy, I'm content.
So I don't pay attention to what anybody says.
I just try to live my life the best way I know how.
>> Vince Goodwill.
>> Jimmy, you've had some second round heartbreaks in Chicago and in
Philadelphia, did you feel any anxiousness tonight yourself to try to get it done?
It seemed like you were pressing a little bit early and
then sort of settled down as the game got on.
>> No, I wouldn't say I was pressing, I was just turning the ball over.
>> I'm trying to make the right play, going bad passes.
It is what it is, part of the game.
I definitely I got to be better because,
if I start that way to games normally gonna start that way.
But now, I wanna say I was present,
playing well always playing it even out in the end.
>> Nick Friedell.
Jimmy, you've said all along throughout the season,
you believe in the culture you believe in, in the players within the group.
As you sit here now, heading into the Eastern Conference Finals,
are you even a little surprised at how quickly everything's come together, for
this group this year?
>> Not at all.
We're a close group.
We like being around one another,
constantly talking about how we can make each other better.
And what we see out there on the floor.
We just, we legit in it to win it.
We don't care about stats.
We don't care about fame we don't care about none of that.
All that we all care about is winning a championship and
I'm telling you, that's why we're playing this style of basketball player right now.
>> Rodrigo Lazarini live basketball Brazil.
>> Hey, Jim, congrats on the win.
And how confident you are going now to the Eastern Conference Finals?
We're very confident.
We don't wanna be too confident.
We know, either way it goes,
we got a really good team that we have to play against.
But we still have to play our style of basketball, focus it on us and
worry about them at the same time.
But we're not discouraged, we're not scared.
We're not running from any match-ups.
You know that's what makes it such.
>> Manolo Rodriguez from TAB Deportes.
>> Thank you, Jimmy.
Congrats on the wind from Puerto Rico here.
I want to know what are your feelings because you have gone
through a lot of things not only in your career but in your life.
And now being in the bubble, there's a lot of time that you can meditate on your
past and on your future and what you're doing right now how it impacts the kids.
I want you to give me your thoughts on it.
>> I don't worry too much about my past.
And I'm sure don't know what the future holds.
To the best of my ability, I try to stay in the now, and
try to enjoy the world that I'm in, the life that I'm able to live,
my family now, because none of that is promised tomorrow.
But I'm glad that I get to do it with a group of guys that I have,
with the coaches that these guys are all about to now, to embrace it.
But by now, we're about the future when it gets here.
Andreas Lopez, Cultura Sports.
>> Thank you, Jimmy, at the very beginning of the season,
I interviewed Coach Spoe, and I asked him what he thought about all
those people that didn't see you guys as a real championship contender.
And he had a choice of words for me that day, in his response.
Today, you guys have qualified to the Eastern Conference finals.
Is it any and if it is how much of a motivating factor is it for
you guys to prove all those people wrong out there?
>> We we don't care.
We really don't.
And more than us proving them wrong, which is proven ourselves, right.
That's what it's all about.
Everybody's entitled to their own opinion and I've already said, but
we know what we've been doing day after day, month after month, all of that.
And we like it that way.
We weren't able to continue to count us out.
We're just gonna keep moving and
keep playing our best basketball and keep being in Miami.
>> And last question, David from LA Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy.
Hey, Jimmy, I'm looking at your team,
which is the thing you're most proud of in the series, but Milwaukee?
>> How comfortable everybody is at any point in time in the game.
Now everybody knows what their role is, where they're supposed to be on the floor,
and what it takes to win.
I think we've been working on that all year long.
And it's it's showing You never know what role you're gonna have night in and
night out.
Like Tyler didn't know he was gonna have to play making and make shots like he did.
But as soon as the coach said, this is what you have to do, he was ready for it.
So, that's what I'm most proud of is everybody's comfortable everybody's
confident.
And of course, we won.
>> All right, Jimmy, thanks for your time.
Appreciate it.