For Bam Adebayo, taking the shots is crucial to his next phase. Already an All-Star, Olympian, Gold Medal winner, and top player in the league because of his all-around prowess, Bam can take his game up a few notches with more aggression.
Please don’t confuse the notion. Bam doesn’t need to improve, per se, on offense, he just has to take the looks afforded to him.
Bam Adebayo is skilled. He’s big.
He’s graceful. He’s athletic.
He has nice touch on his jumper. He can finish in the paint and in traffic.
He can handle. He can defend.
There is nothing that he can’t do and there are no real flaws to his game, mechanically or execution oriented. He, simply, has to take the looks.
Again though, it’s bigger than just him. As Bosh stated, what that would do to the opposing bigs would allow the Heat, as a whole, to take things up another level or so.
Right now, as indicative by the first round playoff series and probably being directly alluded to by Bosh, Brook Lopez was able to park himself under the rim during that first round series. With seven-feet of athletic man down there under the rim, it was terribly hard for the Miami Heat to get anything going down there.
If Bam is taking his mid-ranged to long-ranged looks, then Lopez can’t just park under the rim… like a “traffic cop” does as they sit in wait for an offending patron. It’s really simple.
So, yes, CB is spot-on, but everyone knew that. The key has always been that Bam has to realize it.
Hopefully and from this messenger, he hears it. If he does, it not only takes his play up a few notches, but that of the entire team.