Miami Heat: Do The Milwaukee Bucks Have A Better Big 3?
Miami Heat: They Have The Second Best Big 3 In The East… Even Over Bucks
When it comes to the Milwaukee Bucks and the Greek Freak, they are the current title holders, so there is that. You have to give them that respect.
Speaking of respect, earlier it was noted that though the Miami Heat being ranked at six isn’t “disrespect”… it is an underrating. To begin to illustrate why they should, not only, be a top-two ranked Big 3 in the East but especially better than Milwaukee (and of course Philly), travel back to the NBA Bubble situation.
Listen, the only difference between the team that the Miami Heat dominated in the bubble and the team that dominated them this past season is Jrue Holiday. It’s almost fair to say that if the Miami Heat added a Jrue Holiday-comparable piece to equate for the difference that he is to Milwaukee, as a difference-maker against teams like Miami, then they would pull back ahead or equal… at the very least, right?
Well, they did. Kyle Lowry is a Jrue-equivalent piece… and thus pulls then back even, at the very worst.
Though there may not be total agreement there, the logic makes sense, right? Even outside of that though, take it like you were at the playground.
Giannis is the best player, hands down. Betwixt the two teams, he’s the number one guy.
That’s a given. However, the next two… or three, are all Miami’s.
For all Khris Middleton did in this past playoff run and if GM’s had a choice, you have to believe they take Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo over him. Call it crazy, but that’s a fact.
On Middleton and Lowry, there could actually be a conversation to be had. While Jrue Holiday and Kyle Lowry are of the same tier, to a logical mind such as this one, it’s fair to say that what Kyle has done in the league and his better offensive game, slots him higher above Jrue.
Jrue’s physical gifts make him, a bit more, of a pesky defender but as far as performance, he and Lowry are both defensive bulldogs. They are about even and even if you say that you take him over Lowry, it’s so close that you slot them beside one another, not ahead or behind one another.
With that though, two of the first three players chosen are Miami Heat’s and three of the first five chosen are, likely, the same. If that is the case, then how can they have a better Big 3?
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You can make that case that their best player is “so much better” that it accounts for the difference and that is a logical case, but he is only one guy. This is a ranking of trios and when it comes to the best ones in the Eastern Conference, only Brooklyn can out and out say they have a better one than Miami.
This was why.