Miami Heat: Did They Address The Rebounding Issue This Offseason?
Miami Heat: Did They Address Rebounding In Offseason?
Only ranked ahead of the Sacramento Kings, they finished the season averaging 41.5 rebounds per contest. Some people could try to flip the numbers, perhaps describing the scenario as one where there just weren’t that many rebounding opportunities due to good defense, single shot opportunities and possessions, or simply dumb luck.
That isn’t the case here though. The Miami Heat just didn’t seem tough enough or didn’t seem to want it enough.
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Rebounding is all about toughness and wanting it more than the opponents do. Toughness typically isn’t something that is questioned with Pat Riley-type teams, which the Miami Heat always are, of course.
That’s something that the moves seemed to explicitly and specifically address this offseason. While it took some time last season, he promptly brought back a fan-favorite in the Ded-Man, Dewayne Dedmon.
Though he proved capable of being a really good finisher at the rim and in the paint for the Miami Heat last season, his toughness, brash mentality, and ability to be physical is what got him back. Riles didn’t stop there though.
He got creative. He got really deviously creative.