Should Miami Heat peruse the buyout market thoroughly before thinking trade?
The Miami Heat are in the middle of a pretty interesting season. Starting off rocky and actually progressing through it that way for much of the first half, until a week or so ago, they’ve managed to somehow gather themselves a bit.
With that though, they are still in need of something. Well, they could use a little help, at the very minimum.
That’s at least the indication you get when you take a general look at the perspectives of experts, pundits, and supporters. Most actually seem to think that the Miami Heat should be looking to make a trade.
While that may be the most immediate and controllable mechanism in order to go about adding talent, there is the NBA Buyout Market.
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Should the Miami Heat scour the buyout market before seeking a trade?
If you look at what the Heat are missing, that would be rebounding, perimeter defense, rim protection, and perhaps one more person that could attack the middle of the opposing defense. There might be a guy on the buyout market that could fulfill at least two of those needs at once.
While Blake Griffin has yet to sign, he isn’t a preferred of mine, but you would think he could at least grab you a couple of boards per game in a backup role. While Andre Drummond is still more likely to be traded at this point, he is also still in limbo, so there’s that as well.
You do have some other names that fulfill some of the needs the Miami Heat might have as well. If you hop over to Hoops Habit, they think guys like George Hill, Tony Snell, or maybe even Otto Porter might be on the move.
The Miami Heat could certainly use one of those guys if they were to become available. With that, I would think that the Heat would prefer that option over making a trade that would ultimately require them to give up a potential asset.
That’s at least for a while or until time becomes of the essence. Hopefully, they do begin to at least make some moves at all because they do need something.
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We shall see how things progress with teams getting active with the dismissals and the March 25th trade deadline approaching. Things with Pat Riley, and the rest of the league, should begin to get very interesting pretty soon.