The Miami Heat are back and ready for action! Well, that’s at least what you gather if you are following along with all the latest developments and happenings.
Tipping off their training camp on Tuesday, things are starting to ramp up in, both, the NBA and in Miami Heat Land, specifically. With that though, you start to look at specific areas or things, as oppose to the generalities of the season.
A running theme for some time now, it seems, especially this past offseason, and as the new season gets underway, shooting the ball for Bam Adebayo is the next step. This doesn’t mean, simply, taking a few looks, here or there.
This, in fact, means that he needs to take a ton of looks and more than he typically has. For me, he needs to average at least 15 field goal attempts per game this season, by hook or by crook and one way or another.
That’s the only way that the Miami Heat can reach their full potential. Yes and by that, it does mean that with an aggressive Bam Adebayo in tow, the Miami Heat are title contenders, surely.
The Miami Heat are contenders right now, outright and as is. With a more aggressive Bam Adebayo though, they’re surely in upper echelon of the league.
Well, he declares that this season will be a different one. According to the man himself, he will be more aggressive and “assertive” this season, surely.
He needs to be though. If you look at his past performance and specifically on last season, there were way too many occasions where he was comfortable, it seems, not being as aggressive as he could.
To be specific and though there were only 72 games in last season for each NBA team, Bam Adebayo took fewer than 10 shots in over 15 percent of the Miami Heat’s games last year. That’s a pretty sizable number and especially considering that means that he took fewer than 10 attempts in about 11 of their 72 games.
If you give them half… or even a third of those games back via a victory, which you can only assume an aggressive Bam leads to, that’s about four more wins total, minimally.
While it seems like only a few in the grand scheme of things, that may have been the difference between being swept by Milwaukee in the first round of last season’s playoffs, having to battle the Hawks, or having an easier first-round against the Knicks.
It all does matter. That’s also why it matters that Bam Adebayo be aggressive and take his shots.
It has a massive impact on the team and will continue to have a massive impact on their trajectory for this season. He, again, vows to be a more aggressive player.
That’s Great, because the Miami Heat need him to be, like… now.