Miami Heat Rumors: 3 reasons Jerami Grant shouldn’t be in play for them
The Miami Heat need help in the paint, but is Jerami Grant able to be that? Well, if not, where does he fit?
The Miami Heat need certain things. As mentioned, they need help scoring in multiple facets and help in the paint, mostly.
Jerami Grant, again, is capable of helping to defend the paint, but is he the end all be all to that problem? No, by no means he isn’t.
Let’s just deal with the obvious first. He’s actually smaller than Bam, so if Bam needs help, it can’t be a guy smaller than him.
He is a 3 & D type with size, so there is always a role that can be found for him, but don’t we have a few of those guys with defined roles already? Is he going to take Jae Crowder’s minutes?
Is he going to take Duncan Robinson’s minutes? Is he going to take Jimmy Butler’s minutes?
He can’t play the Bam position, because that leaves us small in the paint. He can’t play the Tyler Herro, Kendrick Nunn, or Goran Dragic position either, as he isn’t a point or combo guard.
It would have to be at the sacrifice of either of those three middle positions, the one, two, or the three. You also have to account for the fact that all three of Nunn, Herro, and Dragic can also slot in as the two.
It’s just not the best fit, as far as where and how he gets his minutes.
Listen, Grant is a good player. He just isn’t worth it for the Heat.
That entails the salary they would have to compensate him, the tinkering to a rotation that seems unnecessary, as he isn’t even what we seemed to be missing in the Finals, and the fact that he is only a slightly bigger clone of someone we already have.
He is a bigger and more athletic Jae Crowder, position-wise, not game-wise. Here’s the thing though, with the way that Ja3 shot the ball this past season, I’m taking him every day right now and twice on game days.
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Grant will find a home and they will pay him what he wants, I am sure of it. For our sakes, let’s just hope it isn’t Miami because at best, it’s a lateral move that’ll cost you valuable cap that could be used to actually fill in holes.