Miami Heat comprehensive 2025-26 offensive preview | Five on the Floor

Miami Heat comprehensive 2025-26 offensive preview | Five on the Floor

Welcome to the latest episode of Five on the Floor, the Five Reason Sports Network. Thanks for joining us on your favorite podcast app on Apple, Apple Podcast, on Android. We recommend Spotify. Also check out the Five Reasons YouTube channel for all your South Florida sports content. And of course, Off the Floor link right here in the description. You’ll bypass the Apple Upcharge. You get access to everything there. 10 different channels, plus the stage shows, the most heat anywhere, the most heat information or conversation. It’s off the floor. We’re coming to you today from the 135800 pain studios. We’ll be here a lot this season. Available 24/7. Always ready to take your call after an accident. Fast connection with trusted doctors and attorneys. A Better Business Bureau rating of A+. Can’t get better than that. Car accidents, personal injuries, and related legal matters. Again, check them out at 135800 PAIN. Again, that’s 305800 PIN. And now today’s episode. Uh-oh. Yeah, it’s mercy. Music by Mercy again. Keep nation the culture. Yo, I need you to call time out radio blanket. Open for the shot. Still five on the floor. Still ride for my doom on the court. Still survive in the wall. Keep your eye on the ball or get burn. Keep this mic off the wall without turning a cheek. From night to day, no sleeping pads or allowed to mourn us. The nut is sleeping us. Never catch us more alive from Miami. We pour in the heat with five reason sports from the court to the streets. [Music] Hey, we’re carrying be patient. [Applause] Welcome to Five on the Floor, a daily insider show on the Miami Heat and the NBA featuring Ethan Skolnick, Greg Sander, Alex Toledo, Brady Hawk, and others from the Five Reason Sports Network. Also, make sure to subscribe to Off the Floor for the most heat anywhere. All right, welcome back to Five on the Floor again. We’re coming to you from the 305 800 pane studios in Dorado. Yes, I found my way into Dade County during the offseason. That’s a new thing. I’ve got Alex Toledo. You can follow the Tropical Blanket. Our floor plan, we’re going to get you ready for training camp. We do not expect more changes before training camp. If Andrew Wiggins is traded for some reason, we will scrap this episode and start over, but we’re not anticipating that. So, what we’re going to talk about today is the Miami Heat offense going into training camp. We have again done a million episodes about what they may look like, but we’re going to try to consolidate it all into one. So, if you didn’t pay attention to us for 3 months and based on the download, you didn’t. And you’re just joining us today because you f Media Day is on September 29th, which it is. And then training camp is going to start on September 30th in Boca Raton at Florida Atlantic University. You can go PF Changs at a break or something like that right across the street. Go say hello to everybody over at FAU. Uh, and then of course they’re going to be starting their preseason in Puerto Rico. I’ll be down there. The Heat are playing the Magic. Uh, down in Puerto Rico. They open the preseason with the Magic. They open the regular season with the Magic. And yes, I’m managing the Sports Illustrated sites for the Heat and the Magic. So, we appreciate them doing that for us. But, we’re going to get into the offense today and we’re going to have Alex take you through it here a little bit. Um, let’s start here. The Miami Heat have not been a good offensive team for a very long time. They weren’t even that great an offensive team during the Big Three era in some of those seasons. Uh they have not been a consistent top 15 offense, let alone top 10. This was brought up at the press conference after the season with Pat Riley about how they get to be at that level. And of course, they don’t have Jimmy Butler, who was one of their two leading scorers each of the past four seasons. They have added, however, they added at the deadline Andrew Wiggins, who had a game of 42 points and another of 30 points, although none of those came in the playoffs. And they’ve added Norman Powell, who was a 20 plus point scorer for the Clippers last year, was actually producing an even higher rate before getting injured towards the end of the season and was close to being an all-star. So they they are bringing back two guys who did score over 20 last year and another guy in Bamabio who’s capable of doing that as is Wigan. So they have four potential scorers and yet we’re still not expecting them based on track record to have a great offense. Let’s go through it, Alex. Before we get into what this is going to look like this season and how Eric Spolster can try to maximize what he has, can you go through the reasons why they were not a very good offense during the Jimmy Butler era even though he was a guy who was capable of getting to the line and getting you we saw 56 against Milwaukee in a playoff game, but also he was consistent 20 to 22 points when he cared. Well, I do think it’s tough to I mean, look, tough question, right? I got to say here at the top of the show. No, but like trying to now sum up those five seasons or so, five and a half seasons with Jimmy on the team, the offense, like when Jimmy was at his best, when he was getting to the line, when he was getting to the paint at will, playmaking for others, and really like trying on defense, right? Um, and this is not me taking a shot at him. I just think like when they were when Jimmy was playing at his best, I thought they were a competent offense, right? And I’m not trying to just dumb it down, but I do think that’s one of the bigger reasons is like the the varying levels of engagement from Jimmy. Like some even on some nights where he wasn’t as engaged as others, he was still, you know, a very very good player for them. So, I’m not trying to shade him here, but look, like he was their number one. He was the guy who he was the only guy on the team who could generate consistent rim pressure, who can generate free throw, you know, um, touches, and just in general, like they don’t have another guy. They didn’t have another guy who could generate that consistently. Like Bam had his flashes, but he’s not a guy who’s going to create a bunch of, you know, self-created looks at the basket. Tyler, we’ve known, you know, um his issues with getting to the rim, even with the improvements, like he was a outside in guy. And I think when the structure was there with Jimmy being the guy helping them play inside out, I think they just looked like a better offense. Now, they weren’t awesome, but I do think they were better. when Jimmy was kind of not playing as great, I do feel like other guys were maybe trying to do a little bit too much and you’re kind of seeing it here like you’ve seen it in the postJimmy era is that their offense doesn’t have that much of a structure or at least it didn’t without Jimmy, you know, in the tumultuous circumstances that they were in after they made that trade. like the even with Wiggins like kind of surprising me personally with some of the stuff that he could do offensively, you know, after they traded for him, it just, you know, it wasn’t enough. Even even when you try to compare like the individual numbers of Wiggins with the Heat in that short time versus what Jimmy was doing before he got traded this season, it still wasn’t the same impact, right? Because he doesn’t generate those easy paint touches. He doesn’t generate, you know, looks for others, right? Because he’s not that that level of passer by any means. And I just think, you know, now that they’re they’re they’re in this era where they’re going to try to find a new like a new identity, a new structure for their offense because what they had at the end of last season post Jimmy just was not working. Well, I think you look back at various iterations of Spolster offenses since he’s taken over. And you go to the big three era and everybody talked about what they were going to look like offensively because you were putting three guys together who could get you 30. uh consistently, you know, got 20 to 25 uh in their various stops. And Dwayne, of course, was close to 30 one year. He wasn’t quite that level at that point, but he still could on occasion. And everybody talked about, oh, they’re going to be an offensive juggernaut. And they weren’t. Uh they were a defensive juggernaut. They were a team that forced turnovers. Spolster called them skirmishes, got out in transition, and it was hell basically for the opponent because you had two guys who absolutely were going to finish, okay, on the break. And that was the entire game plan. And then it became, okay, beyond that, pace and space, spread it out to the three-point shooters. And, you know, you had guys like Badier, you had Allen, you had even James Jones, Mike Miller, obviously all of these shooters that they could go to. Uh, but they were never they were never really beating people with offense. They they would beat bad teams on occasion uh with it, but the good teams were they were they were struggles at times, and they had to rely on their defense to kind of kick in. Then you go past that. They tried to formulate an identity with Bosch after LeBron left. They were going to play through him more than Dwayne. Of course, Chris got sick. Those plans went out the window and then they ended up playing basically through Dwayne’s creation and sort of old man game for a period of time. Didn’t really have an identity offensively. He found an identity with the post Dwayne team with that drive and kick stuff with Waiters and Dragage. 7-Eleven. It took him half a season to find it, but then he found it. Uh, and they were a very good offensive team the second half of that season with a roster that you would not think would be great offensively beyond Dragitch and Waiters. Uh, but since then, you’re right, it basically has become, it basically became, okay, defend your asses off. Uh, put yourself in position in the last six minutes when Jimmy comes back in the game to win the game. Jimmy, slow everything down. Get to the line. And if you look at their clutch numbers when they were good during the Butler era, it was mostly because they defended and they made free throws and they didn’t turn the ball over, right? They protected the ball, defended, made free throws. It again was not because of offensive explosions. It was they had a controlled explosion basically with their offense. Like they they knew what they could and couldn’t do and they got to those things in the clutch, right? And now here we are. And last year there was supposed to be this transition that was talked about at training camp where it was going to be about threes and and basically rim and basically not rim pressure necessarily because it’s not a team that gets a lot of it but essentially layups and threes. That’s what they were trying to go to. Trying to get Hero more off the ball. Jimmy recoiled at the entire strategy. Very first day of training camp. I’ve reported this since he calls his agent and he says they’re trying to get me out of here. Okay. He says they don’t want. He says I’m like the third or fourth option. Okay. And we know how everything spiraled after that. But one of the reasons it spiraled was I believe based on love I talked to Jimmy felt that they were basically trying to suppress his his uh income power, okay, or his earning power by changing the offense away from him even though he had said repeatedly throughout the time that he was in Miami he did not want to have the offensive burden on him. So they were trying to do something again to be more modern. Okay. and also to uh to to sort of seed to his wishes and yet he didn’t end up liking it. And it didn’t work for a lot of reasons. One of which was his lack of engagement. But another reason was they were trying to lean into Hero and Rosir and one of those guys toppled over. Okay. The the other one Hero stood up to it. Okay. And whatever you want to say about Tyler, he he met the challenges that were were thrown his way last year. Terry did not they did not have a plan B after that. And and then when you had other you had the struggles of guys like Hakez who were supposed to provide offense off the bench. You had again Jimmy kind of walking out. You had Yoic getting injured which was a player the offense was pretty much garbage for most of the year. But on the other side of this as we pivot into what this might look like this year. I want you to get into a little bit more because you mentioned this with Wiggins, but what the addition of Powell and now having Wiggins for a full season after a training camp where he seems engaged and we’ve talked about pecking order and I still think it’s going to be Tyler first. I think it’s it’s likely going to be Powell second and then we’ve debated Bam or or Wiggins maybe after that and I think there’s a role for Yovic in there somewhere as well. But I just want to ask you after we as we get to it here, what this may look like with Norm sort of filling the Terry role from what was supposed to happen last year. So, we’re going to get to that. Uh we’re going to get to that on the other side of this. Before we do, want to mention a great sponsor of the Five Reasons Sports Network. And this one, look, you got to make sure that you’ve got Cash App. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why you need to have Cash App, but one of the major reasons is it’s safe. Okay? You don’t want anything fraudulent. you you don’t want to deal with any of that stuff. When it comes to your money, you deserve to feel safe from fraud and in control. And that’s what you can expect from Cash App. When you get the Cash App card, not only do you get access to a ton of perks and benefits like exclusive early access to nationwide concept concert pre-sales or discounts on popular brands, but you also get that extra security with the power to instantly lock or unlock your card right away and right from your phone in just one tap. So with Cash App, you can spend, save, and live your life knowing your money is right where where you need it and where you left it with advanced built-in security protections you can count on and help when you need it as well. So you can order a Cash App card in the app or at cash.appcard or another thing you do for first do this first, okay? Go download Cash App now because we have a promotion with them. New Cash App customers can use our exclusive code to earn some additional money. That’s right, some additional cash. Just download Cash App. Use our exclusive referral code on the floor in your profile. Send five bucks to me. No, I’m sorry. Send five bucks to a friend within 14 days and you get $10 dropped right into your account. Terms apply. That’s money. That’s Cash App. Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partners. Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank member FDIC. Instant discounts provided by Cash App, a Block Inc. brand. Visit cash.applempodcast for full disclosures. We also again want to thank the folks over here at 305800 paying. We got a great studio here. We’re going to play some foosball afterwards. They got Pac-Man machine. I got to bring my daughter down here. Uh they’re in Dorado. But the most important thing, of course, is if you have a car accident, you need to reach out to them right away and they will they will get you to somebody to help you and solve your problem and get you the most money that they can. So 305800 pain. Again, we’re going to be down here at the studios many times this season. All right, so let’s get into what happened afterwards and now what this Powell edition means. And it’s funny as we evaluate the Powell edition because, you know, this offseason looks a whole lot better that that happened. And I just wonder what this training camp would have looked like if the Clippers hadn’t called. If the Clippers hadn’t called and they were going into this training camp with Kyle Anderson and Kevin Love on the roster. I know everybody loved both. was particularly Kevin. Uh, but if that had happened, right, like what would Let’s get into that. Let’s What would this have looked like? Yes. What would this have looked like without Nor? Honestly, that’s like a world that I don’t even want to live in, man. It’s like things are already bad on in itself, right? So, it’s like when it comes to the Heat, they made this move where they got a 22 points per game type of player for next to nothing relatively, right? Like no no no shade towards Kyle Anderson or Kevin Love, but they they got a guy and in this move that is like universally loved by Heat Twitter. Even the guys who like specifically wanted them to take as far we know they’re not going to do that, right? So once you put away like those feelings of like what you want, if you’re somebody who feels that way, like this is one of the best moves they could have made in that sense, right? Like value-wise, they they did a lot there. So I don’t even want to think about, you know, how upset people would be if they didn’t make that move. I’m sure they they probably would have made another move, probably smaller most likely. Um, and of course, like I can’t help but feel like wonder what it would have looked like if they had pulled the trigger for KD and then, you know, still had more than enough to make this move for Pal. But you know what? We don’t even have to go there. KD when he’s 45. Yeah. U next year. No, because I don’t know what’s going on with that Rockets uh lack of extension, by the way. But we’ll just talk about that next summer for 50 different episodes. But look, when I was just looking at the stats here for their offense and trying to think about where Pal can affect things, right? I did a quick gander at their offensive rating pre and post Jimmy, right? So this season during, you know, the the the the small portion of the season that Jimmy was here and playing games, you know, it wasn’t good. said like they ranked 19th in offensive rating and then they also ranked 19th in offensive rating post Jimmy except it was two points better believe it or not which is actually very hard to believe in my opinion because I I it didn’t feel like an an offense that was two points better than it was previously it felt just as bad if not worse the defense was almost identical right and then what you look at in like the shot profile stuff is what kind of stood out to me here right dur in this season with Jimmy right even with Jimmy not kind playing at his best. They were still bad in rim pressure. Not much changes there. They went from 25th to 23rd post Jimmy and and shots taken at the rim, right? What changes is the shot profile between the mid-range and three. So this season with Jimmy, so this is not taking into account other seasons with Jimmy, which we can look that up at another time, but with Jimmy, they were 15th in shots taken in the mid-range. Post Jimmy seventh. The thing is the with Jimmy they were seventh in in threes attempted post Jimmy they were 20th. So in essentially they traded their threes for mid-ranges and I think that’s kind of what we were trying to get away from. Um and I think now with a guy like Pal who is obviously a high volume three-point shooter like you’re going to get some of that stuff back. He he of course is like not afraid to take shots in the mid-range but he was one of the best shooters in the league last year. Has been for a while now especially when you account for frequency. I I do think although they didn’t replace the inside out aspect that Jimmy brought to the game, they they strengthened the outside in part of it with Pal. I do think it’ll help take some of the pressure off of Tyler as we’ve talked about in the sense that especially without Duncan, you’re going to need another guy to really take a lot of threes. I think we’re going to see a lot of threes taken by Norman Pal. he’s not only going to be a three-point shooter, like they’re going to need him to do more, but I I would not be surprised if you hear from Spo even on media day when he’s asked about Pal inevitably, um that they’re going to, you know, they’re going to use him in that way. Like he is a they they need they they need that, right? Because if they’re not going to get the, you know, the guy who creates easy looks at the rim, they need the guy who can play outside in and a high level. And that’s exactly what Norm does. he, you know, he gets um because of the leverage that he has as a shooter. I think that’ll create good looks for not only himself when teams, you know, close out uh to be able to get to that little floater that he likes to get to. Um but also for his teammates just in general. We’ve seen what three-point shooting um gravity can do for teammates with Duncan before. And although he’s obviously a much better player than Duncan, you’re going to see some of that stuff and more. So, I do think they’re going to lean heavily into the Tyler and Norman Pal um offense there and really lean into that outside in portion that they were kind of trying to lean into at the end of last season, but to no avail. I think they’re a little bit more equipped with a POW to kind of tend to that identity now offensively. You know, it surprises me that their mid-range shots would have gone down with Jimmy Gone actually. um because that was obviously his that was a lot of lot of ways when he got hot that was his bread and butter in addition to getting to the line. I I think what why this makes sense for them and why it could work and we’ll talk at the very end of this episode about whether it will work is is because I think in the modern NBA and and Oklahoma City is is an exception to this because their best player is a mid-range assassin. Okay. uh in shim he he gets to the rim, but we talk about his three levels. His his the level that he’s least adept at is the one that the league has pivoted to, which is or at least in the regular season has pivoted to, which is from behind the three-point line. But if you look at at most teams that have had success offensively, it is because their best players shoot threes. And one of the issues that the Heat had, I think, with their offense over that period of time, we talked about it a lot, was that their two best players, okay, were not three-point shooters. Jimmy and Bam were not spacers. Now, I know Bam has added to that to his game. We’ll see how much he adds to it. Now, uh, you know, my feelings on that. I’d prefer he put the ball in the deck and get to the basket. But look, him becoming a competent three-point shooter is not a bad thing. I just don’t want them to rely on it too much. But but their two best players were not that. Now the two their two best offensive players, okay? Because Tyler is a better offensive player than Bam. Okay? Bam obviously is worlds better on the other end, but Tyler is a better offensive player than Bam. No matter what you want to say about Tyler, again, he’s a highly skilled offensive player who has made up for his limitations to become a highly efficient player for his archetype, okay, in terms of a score until they throw three defenders at him in the playoffs and then everything goes to hell. And that’s what they’re trying to avoid here by having Powell there to help him. But the fact that the two guys are going to be taking the most shots most likely are also high volume or will be high volume uh and high efficiency somewhere around 40% for both of them. Three-point shooters is my biggest green shoot for this offense. Okay. It is going to have to work with them leaning into the two of them as three-point shooters. what Wiggins and Bam get as in terms of their aggression, which you want to see consistent aggression from both of them, and what they get from Yovic as a creator and maybe a little bit of pop from Larson if he can shoot. Maybe Hakez, you know, get gets things right and maybe DaVon, you know, doesn’t regress all the way to the mean, okay, while continuing to improve his playmaking because he ain’t shooting 45% again from three. But if he can shoot 37% from three and and continue to make the improvements that he made, then he can be an effective offensive player for you. Like this whole offense to me comes down to to hero and Powell. Like how how efficient can the two of them be together? How well can they play off of each other? How can they take the pressure off of each other? How many threes they can they get up and how many can they make? That’s where they’re going to be. And I prefer that ultimately to having two guys offensively, Jimmy and Bam defensively, another story. But having two guys offensively who were limited as three-point shooters and having to rely on specialists, which is what they had to do with Duncan and for a time, although he became a more wellrounded player, Streus, you don’t need specialists as much. If your two highest volume, highest usage offensive players are going to be shooting a ton of threes. And that’s why although I know Brady has leaned into Fonteio possibly getting minutes, I don’t know that it’s necessary provided that again Hero and Powell can be both be healthy and stay on the floor. Does that make up and then we’re going to give our thoughts for where this offense ends up. Does that make up for the fact that they don’t have a lot of guys who can get to the line? I don’t know. Okay. Or a lot of guys who can go get their own. I don’t know. Okay. But that to me is again the single biggest hope that this offense can crack the top 15 is it’s it’s on it’s on Tyler and and Norm to to make this thing work. I mean I’m with you. I think it’s going to be real interesting like you mentioned what they do with the rotation of Fontio and all that. It’s going to be interesting to see where Spo leans when the two of them are not playing together and they can’t lean into that fully outside in look that that I’m talking about here. And look, like taking threes can’t replace the paint touches and the easy looks that you create for others off of paint touches, right? That that I think that’s the key thing with um the Jimmy era versus the the small sample that we got post Jimmy is that they just weren’t creating um like I think the three-point attempts went down, not because Tyler stopped taking them or Duncan stopped taking them. They just weren’t creating the easy ones that their mid to non-shooters were comfortable taking before. I just think even when guys were left open like there there comes a certain point where the the possession every single time can’t just be give it to the open Pella Lararsson give it to the open HIS and just hope to God that the percentage is playing in your favor that night, right? Like I think there has to be more to their offense and I think that’s why they were so like I’m sure they pounced on this opportunity when they got that call like cuz that is 100% such a heat move in the sense of like they got the guy at value. That is like that that has been the qual that we’ve been talking about for years now in different situations. Way better than value actually. They didn’t it wasn’t even like we talk about how they don’t have a price that they go over. Like there was no price. Like there was no like I’ve asked internally. I’m like okay what was the catch here? And they’re like well there really wasn’t one for us but the catch was it seems like the Clippers wanted Beal at less than half the price of Powell. And they kind of knew that they could do that. And by the Heat kind of taking Powell off the Clippers hands, so to speak, so that they didn’t have to pay him long term, it cleared up some some some money issues, but also they were able to get uh Collins, who I know they wanted another big in the situation. The Heat basically were just this is a scavenger move. Okay. And that’s the kind of move that Pat used to be so great at. And it is a little bit because the Clippers didn’t want to PayPal. Now, we’ve got we’ve got to consider this though going forward. Why did the Clippers not want a PayPal? um and his defense slipped last year and we’re going to get to that on the other side another episode, but I’m not really concerned about his age or anything like that. Uh I I think this is just such a lowrisk move for them. All right. Well, let’s try to put a capper on this and we’re going to try to actually rank their their their offense this season. Let’s do this. Let’s do this assuming relative health. Okay? I I mean, if if Tyler misses 50 games, no, it’s not happening. If Norm misses a ton of time, if Bam, they don’t have any replacements up front. We know that. We’ve talked about, we haven’t mentioned Kell Wear’s name. If they could actually throw a lob then and get Kell some easy ones, then maybe he’s a guy who could get to the line consistently, also finish some three-point plays, that kind of stuff. Uh, I’m going to I’ll start. Okay. I I’m going to say I think they could be middle of the pack this year. I I’m going to go more into the I’m going to say 15th or 16th in the league, which by the way would be a win compared to where they’ve been. But I think just at least knowing what they have going into camp, using a philosophy that they pretty much tried to use last year, but now with a much more consistent, reliable, better player in Powell as opposed to Rosier. Yoic’s development in the off season. uh again getting some easy ones from where and I think Bam just being better offensively because he he kind of came into the season and he was not all there for the first couple of months. We talked about that. Uh but he doesn’t have to be a first option or second option now. He can be a third or fourth option on this team which is really what he should be. I’m going to say I’m going to have him at 16th in the league on offense. I think that’s pretty fair and I guess I I kind of come down in the same place and it’s almost like an average of kind of what I think can happen with them. I think like the best case scenario that you kind of laid out there where you know you have good health, let’s say like the hero and pal thing work, they work great together. Um, but then they can also work without each other as well, right? Like those, you know, they find their units and and their identity there with what lineups they like. You get Bam kind of, you know, playing, you know, um, sort of a point BM role with that starting lineup. Maybe in some of those bench units, he’s more of a scorer, right? Like I think that might be the balance that you see with Bam as far as trying to get him some of those self-created buckets um ideally at the rim, but we know there’s going to be plenty of them in the mid-range, which he’s good at, right? So, you’re getting that. Let’s say you’re getting more Wiggins, right? Cuz that was that was a huge factor. He missed half the games. Um True that he was available for after they traded for him. And although he’s been great at that in the past, I know the season before he only played 43 games and and he’s he’s dealt with a lot of stuff. So, if you can if you can account for Wiggins playing, you know, being somewhere close to the best version of himself, I don’t know if that’s going to happen, but we’re laying out the best case scenario here, right? And I do think, you know, Yoic being healthy for a season, let’s say Hakas is playable again offensively, and he’s just, you know, he he’s he doesn’t he he’s making a decent amount of threes. He’s he’s sort of playing like himself as far as getting to the rim and all the stuff we liked him for in the rookie season. There is something there. I think they can get to that upper half as far as like 12, 13, 11 if everything goes right. Um, that’s not what I would bet on. I don’t think I would bet on the worst case scenario, which for me would be like somewhere kind of in that similar range, but just better like 19, 20, 18, right? I I think that would suck because Pal is somebody who’s really supposed to boost your offense and you can’t put the pressure on one guy, especially like as we discussed here in the show, he’s such a different player than Jimmy. like this is a completely different type of offense that they’re going to try to run one one that we really haven’t seen right for years and years and years cuz as you mentioned like before Jimmy it was the driving kick Goran Dion era where and Hassan would get his occasional post touches and stuff and then now like with Jimmy right that he was the guy now like this is a completely different look than I think we’ve ever seen for a spo oriented offense and I’m kind of in I’m I’m excited to see that part of it right like what can Spo do with this sort inverted offense. And look, I don’t know. I think 14, 15, 16 is kind of right. I think that’s that sounds about right. And maybe we’ll look back on this episode towards the end of the year and be like, what were we thinking? Like they’re just not a good offense? Like the the rim pressure is not going to be enough? They still have too many mid shooters? And I do think that’s going to be a big question is like are guys just are their best players going to struggle because their non-shooters like Hakez, Larson are being left wide open, right? um that um those guys need to hit a baseline level of threes at league average more or less, right? And I do think like the BAM thing is for sure a big part of it. Like can Bam and wear like can they figure out that spacing part of it where like I I did there was flashes for it for sure. Like there was positives but can you really figure it out and then you you kind of have like the staggering figured out. I they have a lot of things individually that they need to figure out and that’s why I don’t think it’s going to end up probably being around 12 13. I think there’s going to be a little bit of a transition period and I think once they get going it’ll start looking better and it’ll probably come out to like what you said I think around 15 16. I think one one of the things to consider here and I know you’ve addressed this a little bit as well is that simply getting a couple guys out of the rotation probably helps here. Um Rosier submarine their offense last year. The the numbers were way different when he played than when he did or than when he didn’t. Uh, also, you know, you removed Haywood, who was a limited offensive player, even though he made improvements there, and now you don’t have to force Hawz in if he struggles as much as he did last year. So, those were really the three guys, if you look at it, that hurt the offense in a lot of situations and they don’t have them anymore. Um, they also were trying to play Kevin Love at times last year and he was way past it. So, if if the current rotation that we’ve talked about can stay healthy, I do think it has more potential than last season. But again, I’m always in a wait and see mode with these Heat offenses because like you said, just a a random fun fact here, the Clippers offense was about six points better per 100 possessions last year when Powell was on the floor. And actually, their defense was better by about two next two points. Next, next episode. Also, Norm Powell was their best clutch player by a long shot. Uh not surprising that he was better than James Harden, but that’s whole another conversation. All right, we want to thank the folks here at 305800 pain car accident slip and fall. Reach out to them right away. You can trust them. And again, we’ll be doing a lot of stuff down here at their studios this year. Also, as I mentioned, check out Cash App. Download the app. Use the code on the floor. And we always tell you uh about prize picks. Use the code FIVE to get your football plays in. Now, we’ll be back with another episode. We’re going to focus on the defense in the next one.

In the first of a two-part series, Ethan Skolnick and Alex Toledo dissect the Miami Heat’s offense, with Tyler Herro, Norman Powell and the rest of the group. Can they finally get in the top 15? From the 1305800PAIN studios.

Sponsors:
-PrizePicks (FIVE)
-CASHAPP (code: ONTHEFLOOR)

Join us on our Off The Floor Discord server for the most Heat anywhere! Get exclusive insider information, along with updates/stats/insights from the 5OTF crew and hang out with other Heat fans. https://discord.gg/5otf (Scroll down after clicking)

Follow Ethan, Alex and Brady’s writing for Sports Illustrated here!
-https://www.si.com/nba/heat/author/alex-tol
-https://www.si.com/nba/heat/author/ethan-skolnick
-https://www.si.com/nba/heat/author/brady-hawk

5OTF Special Offer:
* Check out Mood and use my code FIRST20 for a great deal: https://mood.com

If you want more exclusive Miami Dolphins content, join OnlyFins on Discord: https://discord.gg/onlyfins

If you’re interested in sponsoring Five Reasons, contact us at fivereasonssports@gmail.com