Bam Adebayo & Norman Powell Join NBA Nightcap | NBA on Prime

Bam Adebayo & Norman Powell Join NBA Nightcap | NBA on Prime

This here is special. They’re in town to play the Lakers and Clippers, but they found the time to stop by our studio on Halloween night. We are thrilled to be joined by Bam Adabio and Norm Powell, our first guest here at Stage 11. Give it up. Give it up. Thanks for coming. Heat culture. The heat culture is exuding off of them over there. I feel it. And you know these are your people. UD, I’m going to let you. First question. Take it away. Hold on. Sorry. Can I start? By all means. We heard UD was in training camp. How do he look? How do he look? Tell the truth. Cuz we saw him right after that. He was Tell the truth. You were you a little bit. Tell the truth. Uh he managed. That’s man that’s a perfect answer. Respect for the vet. I told him before to consult. I said, “Bro, just consult. You ain’t got to do too much.” And then he gets out there and he does too much. So that sounds like lead by example. I like he was he was after after every training camp he was running them tens with Khil getting up and down motivating. So I respect that those tens put hurt. But um since we’re talking about heat culture starting with you norm like outside, what was your definition or what was your perception of heat culture? And now that you’re part of heat culture, what’s your perception? You could be honest. You bought in honest. Um, honestly, I mean, I wanted to play for the Heat, but uh, hearing it from the outside was was nervous because of like how strict they were with the diet and body fat and, uh, conditioning test. Like that was around the league. Um, so like we knew like you go to Miami like it’s going to be military style. Like you got to be on your stuff. They’re going to hold you to a high standard. There’s nothing in between, you know? It’s excellence. Um, and that’s what they’re striving for. Um, and being a part of it now, um, honestly, it’s really amazing. Like, I can see, um, why they’ve been so successful. Um, all the players that have come through have had amazing things to say about the organization, about Spo, about Riley. Um, and when you’re there, like, you want to push yourself, you know, you want to get the best out of yourself because that’s what the expectation is from day one. And they hold that standard for everybody from the rookies coming in to me. I’m 11 years wigs uh 10 years ban been here like everybody has this standard and they have to hold themselves to. We joke about the conditioning test and how is going to run you to the ground but you are right now leading the league in pace. I’m tired just looking at you. How has that really exploded this offense, man? Uh everybody feels involved. There’s no uh we don’t run plays. Yeah. So, it’s really just ball movement and being able to execute that and knowing where everybody’s going to be because we drill it so much. Uh, it’s a free flowing offense for us. So, when we get the rebound, everybody know where to go. Everybody know where to run and uh it’s just fun basketball at that point. There is an expectation to raise a banner and if you don’t, we going to let you know why you didn’t and we waiting. We want to be say I will let you know. I would I want to be this guy sitting on the sideline with my beer halfway spilling, jumping up at the finals. That That’s what I want. And And space every night. I like Listen, I’ll call him at 2:30 in the morning. Hey, I want a ring and I’ll hang up. I won’t say nothing else. Hang up. I do have to say, you know, Bam, you and I have talked about this a few times, wanting to win defensive player of the year. I need you to know UD is your number one advocate as for how has this not happened. Norm, I’m sure you feel the same way. Yeah, I mean uh I won’t cut you off but take my bet. What he’s able to do u guard literally one through five switch um keep guys in front um is it’s a rare, you know, he’s right in the company of of Draymond, you know, and he’s a guy that’s is always in uh the talks uh for defensive player of the year. He’s right there. You know, we we plan being an opposing player going up against Miami, we plan for him. You know what? Outside corner, they know. No. Get him out. Get him out the paint. Make sure he’s in the perimeter. You know, try to not have him be in actions, you know. Um so, like for me, it’s crazy that he hasn’t been uh a top candidate to win defensive player of the year, even now what he’s doing. And you saw last night the battle between him and Wimby. Um him holding his own against that um is amazing. just testament to what he’s able to do on offense and defense. I can’t I can’t worry about that because uh it’s political. Tell him you don’t self-promote. Go ahead. Say it. I’ve been saying don’t selfromote. Also that I’m not one of them people I feel like I just can’t I don’t want to beg my way to it. Like if I get it, I get it. Cool. One of my favorite things over the years as watching your career has been the progression of offensive player to offensive hub to actually being a facilitator. And that coming from a power forward means a totally different thing than point guard, right? Because you have so many different You just alluded to it. You got to guard one through five. Now you got to come down. You got to initiate offense. You got to be handling the ball. DHO Well, you guys don’t run DHOs’s anymore or screens. Uh but but just being not just an offensive hub like most big men are, but just an actual facilitator. What’s your thought process on, hey, I got to get these guys involved. Hey, I got to get myself going because as you know, you can’t just get everybody else involved. You have to find that balance. So, how have you been able to find that balance? You really don’t. It changes from game to game. Uh some games I might start out hot and it’s like, all right, I’m cooking. Like, I’mma keep going. Other nights you might be guarding the MVP. So, it’s like on the offensive end, it’s like, “All right, let me get my guys going so then they can get me easy baskets.” Bam. I was in Paris last year. Congrats. Can you explain a little bit how what that meant to you, that experience last year at the Olympics, Asia, also winning gold last year? Uh, expand a little bit on that. Uh people don’t understand that is some of the most uncomfortable basketball because when you bring all these guys together, everybody’s the guy on their team. So now it’s one of those things where like all right, you really got to look at yourself and be like, I got to take a step back and he’s got to do this, he’s got to do this, and I got to find my way. It’s the most uncomfortable basketball, but it’s some of the purest basketball you’ll ever play because there’s nothing else involved. Like the only thing that everybody matter matters about is getting the goal. That’s a winner. That that’s it. You talked about y’all don’t run no plays. That’s what you said. Mhm. I want you to show me how you can initiate offense without running a play and how everybody knows what they doing. And you know before we go out there, you cold as hell. I didn’t know it. I had to see it before we You cold as hell. I didn’t know it. I had to see it. You’re very underrated. You can get to it. You know how somebody get to it in practice and they make it look easy. Everything’s looking easy. I’m seeing him get to it and everything is looking easy. So, obviously you being out west, I didn’t have a chance to see you up close and I heard it. You legit dog. And now you’re going to you all are going to show us how it’s working down there in Miami. You need take it away. Bam. What you got? Put us in the spot. Tell us where you got the little circles. What clap on? Dirk is going to be Khalil. Okay. All right. You got corner. Short corner. I got you. Uh Blake, you can go to that corner. Uhuh. Make sure you swing that thing over there. Wigs. Wig. You want wig? Okay. You wigs, you can be right there and right here. Yeah. There we go. There we go. So when we bring it up, we want open elbows and open space. Yep. Uh so when I’m coming down the court, I get to see this. So this is an automatic action. It’s open space. One-on-one. You can go. or if we dribble this way, he back cuts cuz it’s some random statistic that if you get the ball below the free throw line in the NBA, that’s a real stat. It’s a real good things happen. If you get good things happen, so you fill over Yep. and then swing it back. I fill up and now he can go or if he go that way, you keep filling. Durk, you gonna end up cutting cutting from slot cutting behind and it’s a con it’s a constant movement. Y so there is no play to this. As soon as you deep swings here, Blake go back over you you Da’Von. So you I’m cutting weak and we’re here cutting and then I’m just following behind you. Yep. So this So this is shot catch or go or I swing it to him and he can go baseline. The person who cuts or dribbles through is kind of like sit and see waiting. So when you pass me the ball and you’re sitting there, you’re seeing what I’m doing. So if I pass it to Dirk and he goes baseline, you feel you did, you going to cut and we just keep feeling behind. So it’s just constant movement. Bam. And it turns into drive kick swing. When every time that paint touch, we’re looking. I’m pulling behind here. Oh no. You got drive kick swing. Touch the paint and we going. And we initiate it either by a cut, by dribbling out somebody, but we’re just looking for constant action. Whenever the ball is moving, body’s moving. We can start it like this. So we’ll dribble up. UD, you just cut through. So it doesn’t really matter who’s in what spot really. It doesn’t matter. Yeah. I dribble him through. I cut. He could swing it to Blake. Blake could back cut. You can do whatever you want to do right now. Whichever way you drive, we going to move. So we going to move this way. You D, you go that way. And we just going to keep moving. Yep. This guy, he passes. He gets to the middle and cuts out, I’m just cutting back out. After you pass, you going to go right back to sit and see. Cuz a lot of times we don’t like double driving cuz it just brings bodies in the paint. So once you pass it out to me, I’m either going to swing at the norm, I’m swinging at the dirt, and then he’ll make the deciding fight. Swing, catch, drive, swing, drive. So there’s no there’s no play to this. It’s it’s literally au basketball. I’m Taylor Rooks with NBA on Prime. Thanks so much for watching. Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button to see interviews with your favorite players, experience the most exciting moments from around the league, and see what the NBA on Prime crew is up to all season long. 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Miami Heat stars Bam Adebayo and Norman Powell sit down with NBA Nightcap to discuss Heat Culture, championship expectations, and they break down their new-look offense on the NBA on Prime LED court.

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