Miami Heat: The Litmus Test Of Correctness On Letting Jae Crowder Walk

The Miami Heat flame-throwing version of Jae Crowder was not the same guy that Memphis sent over. Does he change back into a pumpkin in Phoenix?

The Jae Crowder Regression?

Look, he doesn’t have to shoot as well as making nearly half of every six and a half threes he shoots, but he at least need to be somewhere between 35-38 percent, minimally, right? If he shoots in that range, it’s a fair call to go either way on the assessment on this end.

If he shoots below that, then the Miami Heat would be proved right in not giving him exactly all that he wanted. If he outdoes that percentage range, remaining close to where he was in Miami, then Miami may just have failed on that transaction.

If that type of shooting is who he is now, then the Miami Heat should have done whatever they might have needed to do to bring him back. We shall see though, but there is one more part to this all, either way.

The Miami Heat have another portion of this litmus test to analyze before making the call on whether they were right or not. Here’s the thing, they can pass with flying colors, just pass, fail by a little, or fail miserably.

Yes, there are four different alternatives. It sounds confusing, but it isn’t.

Let’s go into them a bit here.