Ok, are you continuing to keep the faith in Dion Waiters, or are you ready to move on from him?
Tachauer: I wish I didn’t feel this way, but at this point, I’m steadily losing all faith in Dion Waiters. He’s a great scorer, and I absolutely admire his unwavering self-confidence. But him electing not to have surgery last summer, still rubs me the wrong way. As does the fact that he won’t be ready for 2018-19 play, after almost an entire season of recovery. I mean, he’s not even in near game-ready shape. This doesn’t mean I don’t want him to prove me wrong. Or that I don’t wish him only the best moving forward. But if the Heat are somehow able to unload his contract sometime soon, I won’t lose sleep over that move.
Ebrahim: The worst part about this whole situation is that he’s still the second best scorer on the team. That makes it much harder for me to say what I’m going to say: the Heat should get rid of him ASAP. He’s apparently not going to be ready for the start of the regular season and that’s been the Achilles heel of the team, starting hot. Miami is always having to play catch-up in the Eastern Conference, so if they can flip him for some type of asset right now, that’d be great. He’d be a great sixth man, instant burst of scoring off the bench for a contending team, similar to J.R. Smith and his contributions to the contending Cavaliers (clock malfunction not included). Fans have gotten to see the team play without Waiters for a while now; the game-winner against the Golden State Warriors feels like a lifetime ago now.