The Miami Heat are currently playing their best stretch of basketball across this season. On a four game winning streak, they most recently beat the Rockets in Houston to get it to four.
Here’s the thing though, they still have a few kinks to work out. That’s a good and bad thing.
That means that there is still quite a bit of meat on the bone, as far as how good they can be at some point this season but it also means this. They aren’t tapping into their full potential yet and it could cost them a few consequential games before they figure it out.
While they can click on all cylinders at some points throughout each and every game, they don’t do it regularly from game to game yet. For the Miami Heat, that problem manifests itself in the fact that when one of their guys is going good, their man guys, the others aren’t or at least aren’t going full throttle.
This mostly speaks towards Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro. Jimmy Butler is partly the blame though and here’s why.
The Miami Heat need Jimmy Butler to find a better balance between empowering and imposing.
Jimmy Butler knows how good his teammates are. With that, he empowers them to be as good as they are because he can see it.
Well, if they can’t see it, which often shows itself in a lack of aggression or confidence, then it doesn’t mean a hill of beans. While we know both, Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro, surely don’t lack for confidence, we do see a bit of timidness at times on the court.
Jimmy has to impose his will on them and the game more often, as oppose to always empowering. He continues to do what’s necessary, while only encouraging them.
That’s fine and we love the way he leads, however, perhaps he needs to be a bit more demonstrative at times to get through to them. The Miami Heat are a consistently aggressive Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro away from being a top seed in the Eastern Conference again, right now.
They will make it to a top 3-5 seed anyway, regardless of if anything really changes from now or not, however, they can lock in a top-3 seed if this can be changed. It’s not something that’ll change overnight and it’ll take work, but that’s why for right now, Jimmy just needs to work on finding a better balance between when he motivates and when he constructively criticizes.
Because they all follow him and if he says it, they’ll do it.