The Miami Heat needed a big man to add to their rotation and they seem to have found a pretty good one on the scrap heap.
Since joining the Miami Heat, Dewayne Dedmon has been one of their best players. When you look at it from a statistical standpoint, he’s been one of the best players in the league across his six-game stint.
When you look at his numbers for the Heat so far, he’s averaging 6.8 points, 5.5 rebounds, and 0.7 blocks across only 13.3 minutes per game. While the points aren’t a massive figure, if you look at how he’s getting his buckets for the Miami Heat, they are the most effective kind.
He’s capitalizing on the easy looks. He’s making it so that even when Bam Adebayo isn’t in the game, you can’t leave the paint to crowd the shooters, while he’s also a threat as a roll man on the pick and roll.
The other stuff is where he shines though. The top rebounder in the league, Clint Capela, averages 14.7 boards per contest across 30.5 minutes per game.
If you extrapolate out to an equal amount of minutes for Dedmon and to be fair yet conservative, say you even double it to just 23.6 minutes per contest, the math and the logic says that Dedmon pulls down 11 rebounds per contest himself. That figure would put Dedmon in ninth place, alone, on the top rebounders per game list.
Running the same exercise for his blocks, if you doubled it, he would be at 1.4 per game. That number would put him in a tie for the 10th and 11th spot, where either would take one or the other.