After their first overtime victory of the season on Thursday over the Charlotte Hornets in a hard-fought comeback victory, the Miami Heat exited the first part of the season as the number one seed in the NBA’s Eastern Conference.
Edging out the Chicago Bulls by way of the head-to-head tiebreaker, with whom they share an identical record, the Miami Heat can carry all sorts of good juju into the break.
Not only did they show all of the grit that exists in their win that sent them on vacation, but they have overcome to lead their conference.
Throughout the first half of the season though, the Miami Heat have turned to their reserves quite a bit, a huge part of the “overcoming” they’ve been doing. One guy that has really stepped up is Omer Yurtseven.
He’s making you ask the question of if he should be the backup big man—or is it safely Dewayne Dedmon‘s role? Here and in the following, we will explore that concept.