Miami Heat 1-on-1: What does the future hold for Justise Winslow?

And what were you most and least impressed by regarding his 2017-18 performance?

Ebrahim: First of all, it was really good to see that he rebounded from his shoulder injury. After playing just 18 games in 2016-17, I wanted to see if he could get back to play 60-70 games and he did. The other good thing is that he had his best year when it came to effective field goal percentage and true shooting percentage. However, his carelessness with the ball was something that irritated me to no end. It’s no secret that head coach Erik Spoelstra wants Winslow to start running with the ball in his hand (particularly because of his lack of shooting), but it doesn’t help when he’s creating turnovers to this level. If you look at turnovers per minute of possession, Winslow averaged 0.48 per minute. Compare that to Dragic, who had the most time of possession on the team, whose turnover ratio was 0.36 per minute possession. Then compare that to MVP James Harden, who had the ball over four times more than Winslow, and had a turnover ratio of 0.49 per minute possession.

Nurse: The most impressive thing about Winslow’s 2017-18 was the bump in his 3-point shooting, once he had his feet set. With a percentage of 38—up from 28 and 20—Winslow was the second-best deep ball shooter of all the regular rotation players. Least impressive was his defense. What was supposed to be his strongest asset looked like it regressed, as his defensive field goal rating on 2-pointers went from giving up 46.1 percent shooting during his rookie year, to allowing 51.9 percent to the opposition. It’s bad enough to have James Johnson and Josh Richardson called upon to guard the other team’s best scorer, which all culminated with Winslow trying to disguise being a playoff irritant as being a stopper. Some may have bought it, but the Philadelphia 76ers did not. That was evident when Ben Simmons fell short of averaging a first-round triple-double by one rebound.