Miami Heat Rumors: Why best potential player addition is currently the opposition
The Miami Heat have been in the thick of the rumor mill for a while. With a few names out there, here’s why current opposition, Victor Oladipo, is best option.
The Miami Heat are two games into their first-round playoff series with the Indiana Pacers. With two games played, the Miami Heat have managed to win both of those contest.
That is a great thing for the Miami Heat, as it precedes them potentially making a run all the way to the NBA title. Even with all that going on though, there are still those rumors out there about what the Miami Heat may do in the coming offseason, as far as player acquisitions and transactions.
There have been a few names that have stood the test of time across this season, while there are a few of those few that have risen to the top of the heap.
Those names are Giannis Antetokounmpo, Donovan Mitchell, and Victor Oladipo. While The Greek Freak and/or Spida Mitchell would be great additions, here is why the current opposition, Victor Oladipo, would be the best fit of the three.
When you think about this Miami Heat team, they are as good as they are because of the sum of their parts, more so than any one individual part. Even though Jimmy Butler is the team’s leader and best player, the lot of the team is the reason for their success this season.
That’s a two-fold bullet point that covers two areas. Let us explain.
The Miami Heat will be looking to make additions soon. Victor Oladipo should be the target and here’s why.
When you look at this team and what it might take to snag Victor Oladipo from Indiana, with him still having a year left on his current contract after this season ends, it would seem to be exponentially less than either the Bucks or the Utah Jazz might ask for their star players.
With the Pacers’ and Oladipo’s current scenario, potentially losing him for nothing after next season, they are a team that can be swayed with less. Let’s say with a Kendrick Nunn, the 20th pick in this year’s NBA draft, and further cash considerations and/or pick compensation, I believe a deal can be struck for Dipo’s services.
While that is what it might take to get Oladipo from Indiana, you also look at it on the flipside. By only potentially having to send out Nunn, a player that hasn’t even played in these playoffs yet for the Miami Heat, you decrease the damage that you could potentially do to the chemistry that this Heat team has built.
Thirdly, when you look at the team and offense specifically, Oladipo is a better fit. Whereas the Miami Heat doesn’t have a true point guard now, where all of those in the rotation are capable of handling, to add Oladipo wouldn’t change that all.
If you added Donovan Mitchell, a true point guard type, then you change the offense to one where he starts most possessions with the ball. He can play off-ball, but if you have him, you put him on the ball.
If you are talking Giannis, then there is a similar phenomenon. You don’t have him as the lead guard or anything, but at least 50 percent of the possessions would start with the ball in his hands. That’s not the way that the Miami Heat went about achieving maximum success with this newest group and why go away from what’s working?
To again piggyback off of one bullet point to make two issues, this loops right over into how the team would look with a new guy in the fold. You wouldn’t have to change a thing if Dipo were that guy.
He can not only step right into that Kendrick Nunn role as an off-guard, but he can actually run the point as the main ball handler if need be. That would be the brilliance of a move such as that.
He makes your team more dynamic by increasing your options of attack while exponentially increasing your multipleness, but he simultaneously does it all without severely impacting or throwing off a single thing that’s already in place and proven to be successful. He can take what Nunn did up two notches with this current group and in this Heat system.
Next. Are they willing to trade any two for Giannis?. dark
Look, Pat Riley will ultimately do what’s best for this team, we trust him to do so as we always have. However, these have been the reasons why if a transaction does take place in the coming offseason, the best potential player addition is currently apart of the opposition in Victor Oladipo.