Miami Heat Rotation: Erik Spoelstra Not Sure, But Who Get’s First Crack?

Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra calls a play in the second quarter(Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports)
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra calls a play in the second quarter(Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports)
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Erik Spoelstra of the Miami Heat reacts to an official during the first quarter against the Oklahoma City Thunder(Kevin C. Cox/Pool Photo-USA TODAY Sports)

Miami Heat Rotation: Erik Spoelstra Not Sure, But Who Get’s First Crack?

Fortunately, Erik Spoelstra has an answer for that question. Well, sort of and it comes from Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

While that may be the case, there can always be assumptions garnered from the things that a team, coach, or player may put on display. That’s what this whole thing is about, right?

Perhaps, but either way, that’s the scenario at play here. A scrimmage day for the Miami Heat, you typically get your main unit against the other units on these occasions.

With that and where you see the other four projected starters on the floor, that fifth guy with them can only, logically, be assumed as the fifth guy, right? That is typically the case.

Where “scrimmages” are where you simulate real-game action and sequences, you want to be as consistent and symmetrical with real-game scenarios as possible. It seems elementary because it is, as far as laying out the definition of a scrimmage, but all that goes to say that the following assumption is a pretty logical one.

The guy must be the guy that played alongside those other four guys that are presumed to be the starters during the “scrimmage”, right? Again though, who’s that guy?