▪ The Heat needs to somehow add not only an elite scorer, but a supreme shot-creator, someone who can draw fouls, as well as finding a better floor general to rescue a team that was the league’s worst late in close games.
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Among the highest-volume three-point shooters in the clutch [</= 5 point game, 5' left] this year, the worst percentages were by four All-Stars: Tyler Herro (12 for 63, 19%), Jayson Tatum (6 for 31, 19.4%), Devin Booker (5 for 27, 18.5%) and Damian Lillard (4 for 27, 14.8%).
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You know what five-man lineup had the best plus/minus on the team this season (including the Butler groups)?
A quintet of Anderson, Mitchell, Highsmith, Adebayo and Herro, albeit in a small sample size. Miami outscored teams by 37 points in their 34 minutes, shooting 67% and 11 for 16 on threes.
Mitchell was a godsend — credit to Pat Riley and Andy Elisburg for flipping P.J. Tucker for Mitchell — and not only set his career mark for three-point shooting since the trade (44.7% compared with 34.4 in his career) but also improved his assist-to-turnover ratio (5.3 to 1.7), while defending with zeal.
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▪ Erik Spoelstra stuck too long this year with Rozier, apparently convinced he couldn’t be as bad as he showed, [😂] and didn’t use Alec Burks enough.
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Ultimately, there was no justification for Rozier finishing fifth on the team in minutes (1,658) and Burks 10th (863).
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As Heat TV announcer Eric Reid said Sunday, it’s difficult to think of a good player who had the sudden in-his-prime regression to the extent Rozier did.😳
▪ Besides needing to get to the line more, the Heat must either finish more efficiently in the basket area or find players that do.
Even with Ware (128) and Adebayo (125) combining for 253 dunks, Miami made the third-fewest shots within five feet of the basket and shot just 62.5% on those shots (22nd in the league).
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Wiggins, a skilled scorer, doesn’t fit what the Heat ideally needs: someone who can finish at the basket, draw fouls, get Miami into offense and take over games late. The view here is Miami should offer Wiggins, multiple first-round picks and two of its first- or second- or third-year players (not Ware) for an All-Star if one becomes available.
All-STAR? Fuck all-STAR. ALL-NBA! GOOD article by BJ.
