{"id":519036,"date":"2026-10-22T06:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=519036"},"modified":"2026-10-22T06:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:55:53","slug":"giannis-claims-heat-need-to-trust-each-other-more-after-blowout-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/giannis-claims-heat-need-to-trust-each-other-more-after-blowout-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Giannis claims Heat need to trust each other more after blowout defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an opening night 131-106 defeat against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Giannis Antetokounmpo demanded trust as the primary area that needs improvement for his new-look Miami Heat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most important thing is to trust each other. When things don\u2019t work out on the court, we must dig in. Unfortunately, that didn\u2019t happen in this game,\u201d Giannis shared. \u201cThe effort that we put in must be improved. It begins with me. I needed to be better at that. I set the tone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lack of trust and waning effort was on display were on display against the Wolves as the team\u2019s new duo of Anthony Edwards and LaMelo Ball were unstoppable from the 3-point line.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony scored 45 points against the Heat on 9-of-17 shooting from 3, while LaMelo had 21 on 5-of-13 shooting. Timberwolves scored 21 3s as an organization.<\/p>\n<p>Giannis finished with 35 points in his debut as the Greek player was very aggressive on offense and was on the free-throw line 14 times. But despite that, Antetokounmpo wasn\u2019t happy with his performance.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Giannis in his Heat debut:<\/p>\n<p>35 PTS<br \/>\n6 REB<\/p>\n<p>His 35 PTS are the most points scored by a Heat player in their team debut, surpassing LeBron James who scored 31 PTS on October 26, 2010 \ud83e\udd2f https:\/\/t.co\/zLOIZoMr0b<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NBA\/status\/2113147571187143159?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">October 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an opening night 131-106 defeat against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Giannis Antetokounmpo demanded trust as the primary area that needs improvement for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":519037,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17010,17159],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[17912,18338],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"Antetokounmpo spoke after the loss in his debut for Miami.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519040,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/519036\/revisions\/519040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519036"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=519036"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=519036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}