Miami Heat Regular Season Thread 5.0 - Somebody save us

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Need someone here to answer this question please:

Delon Wright?

Next game he might get his chance. Suspensions plus Herro's injury scare

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jimmybutler
It was all @nikolajovicc fault

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[Daffy]

What's with Jovic's regression in FT shooting this year vs last year?

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Actually almost the whole team has taken steps back with their FT shooting. That's weird.

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jimmybutler
It was all @nikolajovicc fault

[SoFlaKingReal]

These suspensions reduce the luxury tax bill or no?

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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Spos livid Herro didn’t kick it to Duncan

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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He would put up insane numbers in this era.

[IceColdCubano]

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Spos livid Herro didn’t kick it to Duncan

You know at least he gets the same reaction we all do when he goes tunnel vision....that must boil his blood. I wonder when ever he gets those feelings of wanting to kill him and bench him who does he talk to that tells him it will be fine just let it go.

[IceColdCubano]

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He would put up insane numbers in this era.

You take Herro off this team, and insert a prime Wade and there's nobody stopping us in the East or in the West for that matter.

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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He would put up insane numbers in this era.

You take Herro off this team, and insert a prime Wade and there's nobody stopping us in the East or in the West for that matter.

Wade
Duncan
Jimmy
Me or you
Bam

It would be a wrap for everyone lol. Wade legit averages like 35-8-10 in this era while being a top 5 defender in the league.

[greg4012]

https://www.nba.com/heat/news/coup-notebook-70-adebayo-pendulum-delon-wrights-hands-the-zion-zone-and-jimmy-butlers-club-access

Lots of good stuff from Coup, as always. I recommend reading the whole article for some quality Heat analysis.

On Bam:

An interesting clip of JJ Redick made the rounds the other day before Miami took on the Pelicans. We’ll just put the entire quote here.

“Where I think the HEAT are at their best is when Bam is getting rebounds, breaking out, creating pace and then he’s functioning more as a hub than as a scorer. We saw last year against Denver, they were very willing to let Bam take 25 mid-range shots and make 12 or 13 of them and have 26 or 27 points. They were very willing to let him do that. To me, when he’s functioning as a hub, he’s getting Tyler Herro threes, Duncan Robinson threes, Jimmy backcuts, he’s freeing Caleb Martin. That, to me, is more valuable to the Miami HEAT than Bam going and scoring 21 points every night.”

That’s also exactly what the HEAT’s offense started off as five years ago when Jimmy Butler came aboard, with Adebayo playing as close to a full-time hub as a center – even though Meyers Leonard was starting in those early days, Leonard was effectively playing the four – can play. And what the HEAT learned over the years, despite quite a bit of postseason success, is that it wasn’t enough. A good defense, a postseason defense – it could be a team that switches a ton, it could be a team that played severe drop coverage – could methodically strip all that easy, beautiful, efficient offense away and leave Miami back at the bare bones, can your talent create and make enough shots to win?

Adebayo, and the HEAT around him, had to diversify their menu, as Erik Spoelstra is so fond of saying. That developmental process took years, aided by Kyle Lowry’s arrival three years ago which allowed Adebayo to reduce his playmaking responsibilities and find his comfort zones. The mistake many made during that time, however, was in expecting the calls for Aggressive Adebayo to produce an All-World efficient shot creator and not the far-more-likely outcome – still an incredible outcome, given Adebayo’s beginnings as a rim runner – of a player who can get you a 45 percent jumper whenever necessary. Adebayo’s development was never about replacing what worked when it was working, he was adding options and counters for when all that other stuff wasn’t working.

When thinking about the HEAT’s offense it’s never really about how they can look their best in mid-January or what the numbers say their best actions are because nothing they do is so overpowering and dominant – beyond when Butler turns into Michael Jordan – that it supersedes a defense trying to take those things away. Miami’s scoring success, beyond whether they’re making their threes, is about whether they have enough options on their menu to counter any scenario thrown their way in April, May and June. If you have enough options, you have a high enough floor with the ball to compliment a defense that is designed to take you where you want to go.

On Delon Wright addition:

We don’t need to rehash the HEAT’s defense for the millionth time here, suffice it to summarize that they play a very aggressive style that emphasizes sending help into driving lanes and cutting the ball off from the deep paint with however many bodies it requires even if it means giving up a few open threes. Few coaches have uttered the word “disruptive” over the past five years and that’s what Erik Spoelstra is looking for – a defense that keeps the opposition on its back heel, desperately seeking an opening, working against the shot clock and turning it over so Miami can get to scoring going the other way.

Delon Wright is a defender who fits that mold. Among active players, only six – Chris Paul, Thaddeus Young, Andre Drummond, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and Russell Westbrook – have more seasons averaging at least 2.5 steals per 100 possessions, with Wright’s seven tied with T.J. McConnell, Robert Covington and Jimmy Butler. We have to use possession-adjusted numbers, and a thirty-game minimum in those seasons, because Wright hasn’t always been a full-time regular, but the point stands that whenever he has played, he’s produced steals. He has quick, precise, sticky hands which should slot right into Miami’s system of digs and stunts, where getting a steal usually means darting in and trying to catch a fish with your bare hands before retreating back to the shooter you’re also supposed to be covering. Add in the HEAT’s proliferation of zone possessions, where Wright could easily slot in up top alongside a Caleb Martin or Richardson, and it’s not difficult at all to see where the situational minutes would make sense. The hands can play.

The shooting will be interesting. Wright has been solid throughout his career, coming in at a 35.4 percent – what used to be league average, now a tick below – clip that typically works, from a mathematical sense, in lineups with at least a couple of above-average shooters. Ten years ago, that might’ve been the end of the discussion, but these days defenses respect volume as much as they do efficiency, and Wright has never been one to fire away, only attempting more than five threes per 100 possessions once in his career. Spoelstra and his staff have a way of encouraging greater volume once they get a player into their gym, but good postseason defenses will sag off a shooter even after a make or two just to make them prove that they’ll keep putting shots up. Miami’s s spacing is often dancing a very fine line.

[twix2500]

Knicks, Pacers and Heat all play today. Lets hope the Heat can gain ground. Miami Heat playoff push starts today

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He would put up insane numbers in this era.

You take Herro off this team, and insert a prime Wade and there's nobody stopping us in the East or in the West for that matter.

Wade
Duncan
Jimmy
Me or you
Bam

It would be a wrap for everyone lol. Wade legit averages like 35-8-10 in this era while being a top 5 defender in the league.

Since I can’t have prime Wade back… I’ll take Donovan Mitchell!!

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good news

[3ammy3uck3ts]

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[twix2500]

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what do they mean by zone?