The Miami Heat are on the road to redemption for this past season. While it’s alright to lose, sometimes, the way that they lost needs atonement and that’s what they must do.
Fortunately or unfortunately for them, depending on whom you ask, the team that sent them packing in disgusting fashion this past season is none other than the newest NBA Champions, the Milwaukee Bucks. Have no fear though, as the Miami Heat not only can compete with the Bucks as a currently constructed title team, they have what it takes to beat them.
While Jrue Holiday and a title is what separates them from the Bubble Bucks team, a team that Miami handled, a Jrue–equivalent addition should be all it takes to maintain that pace. There is also something else that’s going for the Miami Heat.
They have one of the most optimal matchups for Giannis Antetokounmpo on their team. Bam Adebayo would have to be that guy, having the quicks and size to matchup, perhaps as well as anyone.
While all of that is important and surely what the Heat are up against, that is only the ending part of accomplishing the goal. One of the beginning parts is fielding the best team to begin with and that includes bringing back certain guys.
Miami Heat: 3 Goals For Victor Oladipo’s 2021-22 – Stay Healthy
The Guy in question here is Victor Oladipo. Changing agencies recently, Oladipo might’ve thought a shakeup was best for him moving forward.
Whatever that means for him and his future, hopefully, it means great things for Miami. In whatever city he finds himself next season, though hopefully his current one, here are the three goals he should look to accomplish.
Stay Healthy
You had to have known this one was coming, right? Before he can accomplish anything else that might be on this list or anything else at all, for that matter, he must first stay on the floor.
Playing in just 88 games over the past three seasons, just four for Miami before being injured this past season, he hasn’t been able to string together a lot of healthy time. Hopefully, this last procedure is the one that sets him fully back on track.
If he can get and stay healthy, there is a good chance he could get back to his former level, or close. First though, he just has to stay whole.
Miami Heat: 3 Goals For Victor Oladipo’s 2021-22 – Team Production & Top-Tier
Oladipo has been a top-level player in the NBA before, so that’s surely on his mind. However, after and if he can stay healthy, a huge “if” at this point, then he can begin to climb that ladder again.
That starts with the following goal.
Be Meaningful Part Of Title-Contending Rotation
If he is right and healthy, Oladipo can certainly be a meaningful part of any rotation. Though this sounds like good health again, overall, it isn’t.
Not only must he get back physically healthy, but he then must show the work, patience, and faith that it all will happen as it should. His team must gain that trust that he’ll be there and healthy for them.
That stands from a teammates perspective, a coaches perspective, and a total organization perspective. He has to get healthy, once again prove he’s reliable, productive, and make a sizable impact in that role for a meaningful team in meaningful minutes.
Hopefully, again, that team is the Heat. Then though and only then… will those top-tier questions come up again.
Get Back To Top Form
This is ultimately what it’s about for Dipo. As stated, he has all the talent in the world when right, meaning he can be a top-level guy again by staying that way.
After he is able to fully assert himself again off the injury, hopefully with higher production and outputs than he did across his small tenure for Miami this past season, then those talks and chatters should start to bubble up again. That talk is that of him being back to his old self.
He must first show that he can stay healthy, be reliable, and conducive to the team while he’s proving it. Then, he can shoot for the third and final goal, to prove that he’s fully back, healthy, and that star player he’s been seen to be at his peak.
These should be the goals for his 2021-22 season.