The Miami Heat have started Andre Iguodala and played him off the bench this season, but he’s making shots wherever.
With every Miami Heat game, you can certainly count on a few things. You are typically going to get a ton of Jimmy Butler if he’s playing and healthy.
You are going to be played tough from a defensive perspective, as though the shots may not be falling, they are always going to try hard. Lastly and again, whether they are falling or not all the time, the Miami Heat are going to get up a ton of looks from range.
It never fails. They have been that way since the Big 3 era and they continue to deploy the philosophy when they have the shooters to do it.
They have the shooters at the moment and that’s exactly what helped to propel them to their NBA Finals run last season. While they haven’t quite fully activated yet this season, Duncan Robinson specifically and though Jae Crowder moved on, the Miami Heat can still throw a few shooters at you that will simply make your eyes pop.
Andre Iguodala is shooting well for the Miami Heat this right now. Can he keep it up?
That’s the case with the usual suspects for the Miami Heat, the guys we expect to be lights out from range, but there is a guy shooting the ball well from deep that we don’t expect it from. Andre Iguodala has seemingly found his stroke for Miami and it has showed over the last few contest.
When you look at his numbers, they tell the same story you see when you watch the games. On 3.3 attempts per contest this season, Iguodala is making 45 percent of those attempts.
For a guy who shot 29.8 percent last season on 2.2 attempts and has shot 33 percent across his career, that’s a massive improvement and a welcomed addition to a Miami Heat team that will depend on key minutes from the veteran, even if only 20 or so per night.
In the last game against Boston, his proficiency from the corner with the three point shot was especially noticeable. There were a couple of them where it just seemed like he waited for the defender to get into optimal defensive position to add to the difficulty factor of the shot before rising up and knocking it down.
They were pretty shots and really showed you that he was feeling it. He has total confidence in that shot.
That makes me believe that he can keep it up. The confidence, along with the fact that he seems to have found something from the corners.
We sure hope so because, as we said, he should be a pretty decent part of the Heat’s rotation this season. Having him be a threat from out there only opens it all up so much more for him and everyone else.