\n\t\t\tDecember 20th 2025 at 11:57am CST by Dana Gauruder \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Bam Adebayo<\/a> admitted on Friday that he needs to be more efficient. As Anthony Chiang of the Miami Herald<\/a> points out, the Heat big man is shooting just 10-of-23 (43.5%) from inside the arc and 0-of-3 from three-point range in the first two games of the team\u2019s current three-game road trip. He also had three of his shot attempts blocked.<\/p>\n \u201cI got to figure it out,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t know about anybody else, but I\u2019m accepting accountability. I\u2019ve got to be better. I\u2019m letting my team down, and it\u2019s going to shift. Like I said, it\u2019s going to shift. I\u2019ve been through these times before. A lot of guys go through it. We\u2019ll figure it out.\u201d<\/p>\n Here\u2019s more on the Heat:<\/p>\n On the flip side, Kel\u2019el Ware<\/a> scored a team-high 24 points and made a career high six three-pointers in a loss to Boston on Friday. \u201cI\u2019m just getting more comfortable out there,\u201d he said. \u201cPlaying through the game, playing through the flow.\u201d
\nThe Heat only had 10 players available, which thrust rookie point guard Kasparas Jakucionis<\/a> into a bigger role \u2014 he made a good impression. In his first NBA start, Jakucionis had 17 points, five offensive rebounds and just one turnover in 35 minutes, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald<\/a> notes. Coach Erik Spoelstra believes the time he spent in the G League proved beneficial. \u201cWhat I will say is he\u2019s here for a reason right now and not in Sioux Falls,\u201d he said, per Ira Winderman of the Sun Sentinel<\/a>. \u201cI was extremely pleased with his eight games in Sioux Falls. Every game, he got in better game condition. He\u2019s in superior shape, but also more confident. He did things that contributed to winning.\u201d
\nAndrew Wiggins<\/a>\u2018 name has surfaced<\/a> in trade rumors but he\u2019s trying to ignore the speculation, Winderman<\/a> writes. \u201cI try not to think about it. I don\u2019t really go on social media and search my name or anything that has to do with me, so I don\u2019t really hear too much of anything, unless someone comes up and tells me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"December 20th 2025 at 11:57am CST by Dana Gauruder Bam Adebayo admitted on Friday that he needs to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[500,1179,7,144,229,981,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-509477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-andrew-wiggins","9":"tag-bam-adebayo","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-heat","12":"tag-kasparas-jakucionis","13":"tag-kelel-ware","14":"tag-miami","15":"tag-miami-heat","16":"tag-miamiheat","17":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115818910388639916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}