Miami Heat: Defining Max Strus’s Role In Rotation… Reserve Volume Shooter

Miami Heat: Defining Max Strus’s Role In Rotation… Reserve Volume Shooter

He highlighted it a ton this past summer, while excelling on the NBA Summer Circuit and catapulting into the minds of NBA fans that aren’t die hards or that watch a ton of Miami Heat basketball.

That guy would be Max Strus. Shooting the light outs during the NBA’s Summer League situations this summer, he also excels in other areas of the game.

While a ton of people see him and want to compare him to another Miami Heat sniper, Duncan Robinson, he’s not quite the same type of talent as Duncan.

While they do share a ton of similarities, such as their path through the levels of basketball and then to the league, Strus is a more multiple and versatile player than Duncan is.

Though Duncan is the better shooter, flat-out, Max can get his shot off from more platforms than Duncan can and can get to those many platforms by himself. Duncan needs help, such as the much-debated, dribble-handoff action between he and Bam.

Though Robinson is also beginning to try and show a bit of versatility to his game, driving and dishing off of those drives in some instances (if he could just stop the jump passing, you know, where he goes up for the layup and kicks it out… sometimes for turnovers), he isn’t as naturally gifted or athletic as Max is, to be honest.