Miami Heat: 1st Period Ending A Perfect Illustration Of Bench’s Explosive Duality

The Miami Heat got a colossal victory on Thursday night in their opening contest. While the word “colossal” describes the margin by which they won by, 40 points, it also describes the magnitude of the win for the psyche.

While the Miami Heat would have you to believe that they weren’t thinking about this game in the fashion of a bit of payback, they are human, so they most certainly were and thats, at least, a little bit.

With that though, they came out and they handled their business. The game wasn’t ever really close, as they jumped out to a double-digit lead and had scored 20 points of their own before the Bucks got to four.

While the Miami Heat starters had a huge part in it, the rejuvenation of Jimmy Butler, the playmaking pace of Kyle Lowry, and the newfound but loved aggression of Bam Adebayo, Boy Wonder, Tyler Herro, and the rest of the Miami Heat bench unit had a huge part in it too.

Miami Heat: 1st Period Ending A Perfect Illustration Of Bench’s Explosive Duality

Making plays of their own on opening night and as they need to do for the remainder of the year for this Heat team to reach its full potential, the Miami Heat reserve unit really showed up on Thursday.

Though a lot of the heavy lifting was done by their starting guys, the bench unit showed you why, how, and just how important they’ll be.

Tyler Herro’s scoring and craftiness, Max Strus‘s shooting, offense, and overall athleticism, and Dewayne Dedmon’s scrappiness, toughness, and no-nonsense mentality for the Miami Heat were all on full display on Thursday.

The entire team and bench unit came to play, doing their parts, but these three really showed their stuff. The night featured Dedmon doing Dedmon things.

He’s the tough guy and the physicality. He showed you that he doesn’t mind getting a little rough and tumble, plus the fact that he plans on using most of his fouls on any given night.

As far as the other two, this play from the end of the first half that features Big Max Strus and Tyler The Baby Goat Herro, really illustrates the kind of explosive dual natured impact this bench unit can, should, and needs to have for the Heat on a game to game basis.

While the blurb about the score, itself, is certainly noteworthy, Tyler Herro gets all the credit above for the amazing shot. Don’t get it twisted and as he should get a ton of credit, the shot was huge and amazing to end the period.

Miami Heat: Tyler Herro, Dewayne Dedmon, & Max Strus Will Feast This Year

However, he doesn’t get that look in transition without the hustle of one Max Strus. Think about it.

Where Jordan Nwora of the Bucks thought he had an easy open-floor layup or dunk, Strus’s hustle not only challenged but forced a miss (maybe a block, but probably a foul no-call, but who’s counting). This is what wound up giving Tyler the time and the ability to get the quick but optimal defensive look to get that shot off in time.

It was the perfect sequence of events and a perfect illustration of how this bench is not only explosive, but multiple and capable of making an impact for the Miami Heat on both sides of the ball on a nightly basis. Coach Spoelstra must’ve shed a tear watching it all play out.

While, again, everyone on that bench will be huge and depended on to do their part, Dedmon, Herro, and Strus really stepped it up in the first game of 82.

Everyone up and down the roster showed their stuff though and hopefully, they can keep it up as they head into their next contest on Saturday against Indiana.