The Miami Heat team have had a pretty rough past couple of weeks. It started with a drubbing at the hands of Detroit.
They were able to turn around the next night and pay them back for that one, but then they would have to face Toronto. Beating the Raptors in their first contest, they would then turn around a lose the second one to them.
After all of that, they then earned the right to face the new look Brooklyn Nets twice in a row. We all know how the first one went by now.
Aside from a herculean effort given by Bam Adebayo, doing everything he good to give the Miami Heat a chance, the Brooklyn Nets game was one that we all want to move on from by now. Luckily for them, they get to do it all over again Monday.
The kicker to it all, they have had to do it all without Jimmy Butler and most of it without another top four player in Tyler Herro. That’s a good thing though when you look at it from the outside looking in and here’s why.
The Miami Heat are a better team than they were before Jimmy Butler went out a week or so back.
They say that innovation is the first cousin of necessity. What that means is that people in need are the most creative and effective in figuring out new or “innovative” means of accomplishing things.
In this sense, it means that the Miami Heat and their players, specifically, had to find a new way of winning or competing. For the Heat, it looked like Bam Adebayo finally emerging as a dominant offensive force and Kendrick Nunn re-emerging as the microwave of a scorer he can be when he gets it going.
Think about it though. It all boils down to this.
Though we would have loved for Jimmy Butler and Tyler Herro to be in the lineup over the past few games, because that means at least one or two more wins, their absences have allowed this team to get better while they weren’t there.
This is the Bam Adebayo we need to see moving forward and as far as Kendrick goes, he just needed another shot it seems. The absences of Jimmy and Tyler provided that shot, he just maximized that opportunity.
I am not sure if we trade Nunn, because we absolutely need, could use, and should love what he’s doing right now. As far as Bam, well, this better not be a teaser.
That’s why, if both of those above things hold true, the Miami Heat will be a better team than they were before once Jimmy Butler and Tyler Herro finally return to the lineup.