Miami Heat: Bam Adebayo continues to tease with offensive ability

The Miami Heat are tipping off training camp, like every other NBA team and in every other year before an NBA season. That’s a custom, a standard.

What has also become custom, it seems, is Bam Adebayo teasing fans and the Miami Heat alike with his offensive ability in the preseason days, only to show only mere increments of it all during the regular season.

It’s not unlike any other offseason and preseason before.

You take the most recent examples though in this particular year and case.

If you look back to this summer during the offseason at the height of the Donovan Mitchell Sweepstakes, before he was ultimately shipped off to Cleveland, Mitchell and Bam Adebayo had themselves a time in a Miami ProAm league.

Showing off all of his offensive game alongside one of his very best friends, from all we know and have seen between the two over the years, Adebayo put on display what you want to see from him in The Association on a night to night to basis.

Miami Heat: Bam Adebayo Continues To Tease With Offensive Ability

And no, of course, it doesn’t just stop there. As he also does in a lot of moments immediately prior to a season tipping off, he continues to tantalize the imagination of what could and should be when it comes to his offensive game.

Check out this move from some of the early action at Miami Heat training camp.

You first take the battle for positioning against a bigger man, though, likely, not stronger but more of a human being nonetheless.

Then take the controlled catch and posture, prior to the quick and decisive faceup into the triple threat, a position from which Bam Adebayo should be an absolute mauler, by the way.

He then turns again to keep the defender off of balance, Omer Yurtseven here, before bumping to feel him and simultaneously set him up for what is to come.

And just as the defender thinks he has a beat on the rhythm, timing, strength, and perhaps nature of what Adebayo is trying to do—Bam flips the script on him by using his own leverage to get by him and right to the cup off of the quick move as the defender acts on what he thinks he knows.

Miami Heat: More Iso From Bam Adebayo Should Only Mean Good Stuff For All

It’s a thing of beauty from the big man, indicative of the types of things he should be doing, and what you have seen from him in the times before a season begins before. This year though, you just hope that it continues to translate.

Listen, Bam did average 19.1 points on 55.7 percent shooting across 13 attempts per game last season, while making just over 75 percent of his free throw attempts. One thing is that he only averaged 6.1 free throw attempts per game last season and could average more.

The biggest thing though is that he could, not only, increase his overall averages by getting to his own offense more, taking advantage of his offensive skill set and abilities but it should, by nature of simply being more involved on his own accord, increase his opportunities at the free throw line.

Plain and simple, the man is capable. So, that means that he should, correct?

That could only be good for him and only be good for his team in the long run. So, hopefully, this season, the tease turns into real deal offensive action from the defensive dynamo.

And if it does, that same two-wayedness can easily propel him to becoming a top 10-20 player in the league.