Cuts don’t matter, but Chalmers and Anthony do

With Monday’s excising of Anthony Mason Jr. and Mickell Gladness, the Heat is essentially where it stood entering camp.

Mason and Gladness were the final two added to what became a 20-player camp roster, now the roster is back to the 18 the Heat had been working with prior to camp.

Joel Anthony  and Mario Chalmers still have something to prove this preseason.

While the next debate will be which of the three remaining players will be cut, that is relatively meaningless in the big picture.

Whether Patrick Beverley, Kenny Hasbrouck, Shavlik Randolph or Da’Sean Butler remain is superfluous. All it means is the survivor will have to go shopping for sports coats, inactive on most nights.

But there is a significant matter that remains these final two weeks of camp.

Or, more to the point, a significant matter that needs to play out.

Joel Anthony and Mario Chalmers have to have their moments.

Essentially gifted starting roles in camp, neither has had a moment this preseason that justifies such a guarantee.

Anthony has started three games, grabbed exactly one rebound in each.