[Brady Hawk] Crazy Heat stat of the day: The Miami Heat are 9-1 when Kel’el Ware attempts 10 or more field goals. When he is involved offensively, the Heat are a better basketball team.

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  1. 😂😂 this shit just seems like common sense. When you get one of your best and most talented players the ball good things will happen? No reason why he shouldn’t be getting 12-15 attempts a game

  3. I’m telling you; we aren’t winning in the current state of the nba with Bam and Herro, we just aren’t ever going to beat okc or the spurs. We should really consider moving those 2.

  5. Can we convince the team that getting a 7-footer involved would actually make a lot of other things easier offensively?

  6. Given how many of his shots are putbacks, I feel like this is more of an indicator that when he’s engaged & successful on the boards we’re a better team. It’s not like we ran actions for him against the Nets, he got 3 or 4 putbacks and caught a couple lobs in transition after we got stops.

    I think adding some more PnR can benefit him, but’s it’s going to hurt the weak shooters who rely on drives & mismatches like Mitchell, Jaquez & Bam so you need the right lineups where it can benefit everyone, but half our team is hurt.

    I still think right now, the best way he adds to our offence doesnt require us feeding him shots, the offensive rebounds, the baseline slips & the transition opportunities created by his rim defence are what help us the most and its just about helping him be consistent in those roles

  9. A lot of those attempts are super high value. Meaning they aren’t schemed but they’re coming off a miss, that contributes more to W-L than shots that are schemed in the offense, it also means Ware’s value is less when the rest of the team is making shots. With the slump we are in shooting, I’d say Ware needs to be on the floor more than anyone.

  11. This needs context because the games where ware attempted that many shots could be against bad teams or mediocre players

  13. Been saying this for awhile but fans kept telling me that Ware has to earn more touches. SMH.

  15. Stats like this are kind of bullshit.

    When a bench player takes a lot of shots – tends to be in games where that bench player gets a lot of minutes. The rub being: bench players don’t tend to get a lot of minutes in close games, but in games where they are blowing out the other team, when they empty their bench.

  17. I’ll take it one step further–Kel’el operates as a significantly better defender when he is involved in the offensive flow of the game.

    In the 10 games Kel’el has attempted 10+ FGA, he has a DRTG of 105.5 in his minutes played.

    In the 14 games where Kel’el played 15+ minutes but had less than 10 FGA, his DRTG was 118.9.

    The Heat as a team narrowly have the 3rd best DRTG in the NBA at 111.2. Bam (106.7) and Jaime (105.4) have the best individual DRTGs on the team this season, as a whole.

    Surely matchup has something to do with it. But I believe it’s more than that. You can just see when Kel’el is shrinking on the floor and out of the flow vs when he’s taking up space and establishing position on both sides.

  18. Athletic 7 footer who can shoot actually gets involved in the offense and we win?

    Color me shocked.

  19. He’s an elite vertical player and lob threat but has absolutely 0 self creation at this point of his career and he’s also not a good screen setter which adds even more difficulty in getting him a lob.

    Obviously not running a Pick & Roll heavy offense is a big hit for him but idk what people expect for us to do? He’s not the type of player you run a post up for and even when we ran pick & roll last year he doesn’t set solid screens so the big can just stick with him since the guard rarely gets freed up.

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