The Miami Heat should be reinvigorated as they enter the upcoming season. While they have a ton of new faces, which should help bring new life and energy, in themselves, the added firepower that the players can bring with their actual skillsets is something else to be very excited about.
You have a lot of different guys of note too. With all they brought in and what they were fortunate enough to bring back, such as Duncan Robinson, the Miami Heat shouldn’t ever find themselves short of options on the offensive side.
Well, at least not this year. That’s also something they couldn’t always say in the past.
Looking towards a similar scenario though, they also had trouble sometimes with the offense, where it would bog down or become completely stagnant. There is one guy, specifically, who should be a huge part of the fix to those issues himself.
That also plays right into the meat of this whole thing.
The Miami Heat got a really good player, generally, when they signed Kyle Lowry. He can do a ton for a team and Coach Spo is looking forward to it.
Not only is Kyle Lowry a three-level scorer, the kind of guy who can get his team or himself a bucket from the middle areas, in close, or from range, but he is also a guy that can do it at different speeds. While change-of-speed is important for any player and especially a point guard, Coach Erik Spoelstra actually admires Lowry’s ability to upshift things a bit.
Well, that’s what he saying. Here are a few words on Lowry’s playing tempo from the Miami Heat’s head guy, per Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald.
"“I love that aspect of his game,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “Getting easy baskets and generating a pace where guys will run and know that they’ll get the ball.If you can get some key easy ones during key moments of the game, that can be the difference of winning and losing and that can take your offense from one level to an entirely different tier.”“His pace is one of the things that I dreaded the most competing against him because it was unpredictable and unscripted moments that you can’t really scheme against.”"
It’s safe to say that Spo knows who he has now, what he has, and exactly how he plans to use him, at least, for the majority of the time. The Miami Heat tip off their preseason in just a few days and that, too, should be exciting.
If the team mirrors the pace of their new point guard, then they should be pretty exciting as well. Let’s hope the excitement can translate into winning.