Miami Heat Have No Choice but to Live and Die with Small-Ball Blueprint
Written by sidhnata
Written by sidhnata
In the wake of LeBron James’ devastating departure, the Miami Heat had little choice but to retain Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade
Dwyane Wade—to guarantee Erik Spoelstra’s “pace-and-space” philosophy remained as close to intact as possible.
Ironically, Miami’s subsequent free-agent moves may have made Spoelstra’s small-ball system, rather than his stars, the team’s most indispensable commodity.
With the NBA moving evermore steadily toward a overwhelmingly perimeter orientation,
Heat’s offseason was as much about internal continuity as it was heeding the league’s prevailing strategy.
In a recent column, Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel underscored precisely this point:
As ESPN.com’s Tom Haberstroh writes, Spoelstra was enamored by the idea of turning a “collection of world-class athletes into a merciless scoring machine."
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