Tuesday, October 27, 2026

Ditto

Anyway, Miami lost to the Dallas Mavericks on Monday night and dropped to 0-4 for the season. Worse than that, the team has looked lost and overwhelmed in every single game.
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Let's start with the (slightly) less worrying side of the ball, the defense. In theory, adding a former Defensive Player of the Year like Antetokounmpo to a team that had a player who should have, in my opinion, won at least one of those awards himself (Adebayo) should have made the Heat a nightmare to play against. That's a lot of length and switching ability for teams to contend with, and it felt like the two of them could work together to wall off the paint and force teams into contested jumpers. In practice, though, it's a bit of a "hat on a hat" situation, as both Antetokounmpo and Adebayo look consistently confused about where each should be at any given time.

Ditto. Ditto.