The Miami Heat had, seemingly, chased Victor Oladipo for forever. After finally landing him, it didn’t last long for the 2020-21 season.
Injuries are huge part of any sport and the Miami Heat know that first hand. However, this next situation was just a bit much, an extra little jolt of pain, which is a part of how it ended up here.
Victor Oladipo
After playing in nine games this past season for Indiana and then 20 games for the Houston Rockets, the Miami Heat were able to bring Victor Oladipo into the fold. They were able to land him for a package that was mainly focused around Kelly Olynyk and Avery Bradley, with Bradley being another guy who was a strong candidate for this list.
Well, it wasn’t to be this past season for the Miami Heat and Oladipo marriage. After playing in just four games for the Miami Heat, Dipo would go down with what was eventually to be a season-ending right quadriceps tendon injury, for which he would later have surgically repaired.
Though he had managed himself all season long up until that point, he still wasn’t able to escape that massive injury bug. He was just beginning to look as though he was settling in when the injury happened too.
Across those four games, he was nothing spectacular though. Across around 28 minutes per contest for the Miami Heat, he shot just 16/43 from the field or 37 percent.
He also went 4/17 from deep or 23 percent. He did add an all-around floor game and help in other areas, such as rebounding, playmaking, and the steals department though, so you could see it all, potentially, coming together.
That’s what the Miami Heat needed and still do. That’s a playmaker at the lead guard spot, who can also just so happen to get it done, offensively, from all three levels more times than not.
Oladipo was supposed to be that and might still be, if the ask is right. As far as this past season though, he didn’t meet the expectations.