Burning Questions: Who's the Heat's Closer? Third-Leading Scorer?

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1:01Zeni.com slash podcast, code podcast 15 for 15% off your first order, plus free shipping over $65. Zenni.com slash podcast. As the heat looks to solve their offensive issues this upcoming season, who will step up as Miami's closer? You are locked on heat. You're daily Miami heat podcast. Part of the locked on podcast network. Your team every day. All right, West Goldberg here with David Ramell with Welcome to Lockdown. He thinks for making us your first listen as always every single day. It's Friday, so we're going to hit you with some burning questions. We're going to be talking about who's going to be Miami's third leading score this season. And we also have a question from a listener about experimenting with some lineups. But let's start here. David, we were talking about some questions before we started recording here that we wanted to answer. Something that we've touched on but haven't really dived into is who is

2:01going to be Miami's closer? And maybe even more importantly, does Miami have a closer problem? As we kind of talk through some of the options here, I think you look at Yannis. Certainly, you know, a 30-point program score, a former regular season MVP, a finals MVP, somebody who can get it, but you know, you know, you're going to be a finals MVP, somebody who can get it done in big moments. There's no question about that. But there are questions about like he's not really your prototypical closer type of guy. The guy is going to go get his in the mid-range or create his own shot off the dribble. That's not really Yannis's game. So I, and we've even heard Pat Riley talk about the need for guys who can make shots at end of game. So who do you think is Miami's closer? And do you think they have an issue there? Yeah, I don't know that there's a clearly defined role yet. And I think we'll probably see that play out over the course of the season because it's not going to be Yannis. And I think it's the lack of a reliable jump shot that will keep him from being that person throughout his career. It's been that case throughout his career. It will continue to be that

3:01way, even in this day in Miami. I think Miami's best chance of trying to avoid putting Yannis in those situations is having their defense be so good that they won't have to worry about too many, too much situations. But you know then, variable those situations will arise. We saw them during the jibby ballerara. Jibby was the first time in the game. And I think that there's a lot of other teams that are going to be there. I think that there's a lot of other teams that are going to be there. I think we need to be able to do a lot of other things with them during the jibby ballerara. Jibby was that guy. He was the one who would step up, whether it was getting to the basket forcing his way there, getting free throws or being able to knock down a shot. You could count on jibby more often than not to be able to come up in collect situations. And so for the heat, you look at who's on roster and who's going to be available in that regard. I think it might be Clay Thompson. I think he's going to have those open looks. He's It was often Steph Curry for good reason, but something like Clay was without his opportunity from time to time. So I think he'll be the one who's going to have the ball on his hands as they look for a three-point shot because you're going to have Janus be able to draw the defense in.

4:01You're going to have Bam out in the corner, is probably looking to knock down that shot from the perimeter. So it's a matter of one pass, one pass, find Clay out in the wing and have him knock it down as the clock expires because I think that's probably your most reliable go-to player in those situations. So when I think about a closer, I'm not necessarily thinking about who's taking the final shot, but who's creating it. And for Clay, I have no doubt that he could be taking those final shots. Just like Ray Allen took those final shots, oftentimes for those big three-heat, not just, you know, game-sick against the Spurs, but a lot of times he was that guy. He wasn't creating those shots, and I would never have considered Ray Allen the closer of those teams. I just think he was sort of the beneficiary of guys like D-Wade and LeBron James creating shots for him. I don't want to throw the ball to Clay Thompson and make him go to work in the final couple minutes of a close game. I want to get him the ball eventually in a spot-up situation coming off of a hand off something like that. But in terms of, okay, it's, we're bogged down, game is slowed down, it's in the mud,

5:03half court possession, 24 seconds on a shot clock, got to get a score. You don't really see teams and coaches run plays like that. You usually, what they want to do is be able, okay, like, when the clock is draining, we need this guy to just, I got to throw a guy a ball and have him go make a decision, take some time off the clock and get a decent look. That's not Clay's game, right? And so I think, I'm trying to figure out who it would be because it's not really Yannis' game either, like we were talking about. You look back on those Milwaukee Bucks teams and Yannis's usage rating in the clutch was very high. They would go to him often, which is not surprising, but the other guy that they used to go to all the time before they traded him was Chris Middleton. And he was just an underrated pick and roll ball handler. He was able to get it to his spots in that mid-range area. It was just sort of his bread and butter. He wasn't Milwaukee's best player, obviously, that was Yannis. But his game was just more prototypically that of your traditional type of score, right?

6:07You think about the guy that you want at the end of the game like a Dwayne Wade, a Michael Jordan, a Kobe Bryant, a guy who could just dribble, dribble, dribble, crossover, in an out dribble, get to his mid-range spot, turn around, fade away jumper. That's more of a Chris Middleton game. I don't really know who's on this roster that does that. I don't think it's Clay. My initial reaction was Andrew Wiggins. I do want to... Wiggins has a little bit of that shimmy turnaround stuff to his game. If you look at a guy who... Who is... I'll just ask you this point, Blank. Who on this roster is the best player at creating their own shot other than Yannis because he just... It's a unique way in which he does it. Who is the best player at creating their own shot? It's probably Wiggins or Bam. Bam, I think, struggles in that regard at times. I don't think either of them is a perfect answer, but I'd probably have to say Andrew. That's why I'm going Wiggins. I don't know that that to your point. I don't know that you want to be put in those situations, right? Wiggins is really solid, but I don't know that I really want to be relying on him in those clutch moments. That's when you start to get in trouble with Andrew Wiggins.

7:08Yeah, that's why I tend to think it'll be Clay who takes the shot in those situations. I think Yannis will be the one who still has to create the shot because he is the one who is the greatest force offensively on this roster and for good reason. Yet, I think if the initial shot isn't there, he's defended well. What are they going to do? They're going to foul and put him on the line. That's not a situation he'd want. I think it's up to him to create the shot and then it'll be up to Clay to knock it down. That's just how I see those clutch situations playing out with him as the creator and Clay as the finisher. I think that's the reputation of Ray Allen. It's a great comparison to that you made because I think Ray does have that reputation. A lot of the buzz or negative buzz about Yannis joining Miami is, oh, well, he's not a closer. We heard Doc Rivers say at some point, there's a feeling from a lot of people watching this team that they don't have an established closer on this team. Maybe that's the case, but I think a guy like Ray, while he may not have the reputation

8:11necessarily as the closer in terms of creating his own shot, something he was capable of doing earlier in his career, I still think he's recognized as a finisher, not just because of game six, but because he was able to do that frequently during his Celtics tenure and even before that with other teams. I think Clay can still be that guy for this team. I'm not so interested in who's going to be creating the shot because Yannis can't create any shot. He can always get to where he needs to get to. He just might not be able to finish. In that regard, that's why you need a guy like Clay who can finish, who can't shoot that. He has to step up inside the three-point line. He's capable of it. I feel like that's another area where Miami was being looked at as, oh, they don't have enough shooting. Well, they addressed that. Miami doesn't have enough depth. Clearly they addressed that. Now Miami doesn't have a closer. I think it's not necessarily who closes, but who finishes it. I think that's where Clay will certainly help Miami's chances. I guess the way that looks, if your spools throw is, let's put the ball in Yannis's hands.

9:11Maybe run Clay as the screener. Have Yannis get downhill, force the defense to make a decision. Either we're going to follow Clay or we're going to follow Yannis with an extra defender. Do we foul Yannis? Now you're sending him to the line, depending on time and score. That's situationally, you've got to make that decision. I guess even if you're down one, you can still kick out to Clay and have him hit a three-point or who cares. He's as good as a three-point or as he is a mid-range two-point or you don't want him putting the ball in the floor and getting to the basket. Not at this stage of his career. That's probably the play. I think the other way that you could look at it is those Davian Mitchell draw. The one thing Davian does well and he's really underrated at this is he can get two feet in the pain. He's a downhill driver. Now what he does after he gets two feet in the pain is a different story. But he can get two feet in the pain and is there a Yannis in the Dunker spot situation or is there a Clay right off the wing that he could pass out to? Do we put multiple shooters?

10:12Are those the situations we were asked about playing Clay and Tim Mardewa Jr. at the same time? At the end of the game, is that when we see them together? Where you have your best two shooters out there on the floor and that forces the defense to scramble and make some tough decisions. I think it'll be a lot of air expulsory coaching. This is by the way why I was sort of pro signing Demardewa Rosen. It's because he's the obvious answer to this where the one thing Demardewa Rosen can do is still at the stage of his career is get a shot off. Now obviously, the Rosen's not available and I don't think anybody close to that is available right now in free agency. But look, I think the heat have some things to work through. And if they can't figure these questions out, maybe that's something that they try to address in the middle of the season as we've talked so much about. To your point about Wigs though, like, can well, do you think that we're going to see Eric Spolstra put Wigs in those kinds of situations like in the expiring moments of a game? We know he's capable of it. He's got the size of the length. Maybe he's not necessarily a knock down shooter in those opportunities.

11:12But I mean, in terms of being able to create a shot, yeah, I think he's got enough size and physicality where he can, you know, we saw his back to the basket game. I think it depends on the matchup, right? Like if you're playing Cleveland and they plant Jared Allen and Evan Mobley in the paint, you might just be like, I don't really want you honest doing that. I tell you. Right? But if I can get Wiggins on James Hardin or Donovan Mitchell, I feel a lot better about that. So yeah, maybe for James, your question, I definitely see Wiggins doing it sometimes. We saw Wiggins doing it a couple times over the last two seasons. Like, he'll definitely have his moments. These might be the things that Eric Spolstra experiments with the first month or two of the season, right? So. Davey on Clay Wiggs, Bamyonis, that's a closing line up, right? That's what I mean. We talked about, yeah, we talked about hard away, you know, being in there occasionally, but we need to step out. Can you take Davey on out if you need shooting? Like down. I feel like Davey on can hit their shots. We've seen him, you know, in close situations. Yeah, he does. So. I'm not going to take him out.

12:14No, you can't take Bamyonis out. Do you take Wiggs out if you need like a three at Wiggs? It's a shot 40% from three. I don't know. To me, that's a, that's a, I think you close with your starting lineup, but maybe if there's a certain, you know, Davey, if we need spacing in particular, like Davey on can hit the shot. Is anybody defending him at the beginning of that shot clock? That's probably more a situational question. Speaking of the offense, who will be Miami's third leaving score? We have a pretty good idea of who the number one score and the number two score is going to be, who is going to step up to be third on the heat in scoring? We're going to talk about that next here on Locked On Heat. Today's episode is brought to you by Odo, running a business. Shouldn't feel like you're trying to connect a bunch of systems that were never designed to work together. One app for accounting, another for inventory, another for sales, and somehow none of them talk to each other. Well, that's where Odo comes in because Odo is an all in one business management software

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15:22to be their third leading score? We imagine the honest will be the number one leading score. Bam will probably still be the second leading score, but before I, I mean, maybe before we go any further here, any chance that it's not bam as the second leading score on the heat. I can't imagine that it will. I don't think he's going to defer to anybody. I don't see how the offense. I think he's going to be the second most reliable option and you'll have the opportunity. The second most opportunity, certainly. I just, it's bam on a bio. I mean, he's been their leading score for a while or tied to or close to where Jimmy was able to produce. I just think that that's his role and it will continue to be, you know, so I don't think that's going to change. Yeah, I just think from a usage rate from an opportunity standpoint. I mean, even those minutes where he honest is off the court and bam is on. You imagine the offense will be, you know, bam will be very involved in the offense when he honest is out there and even when he's out there, he'll be involved in the offense. So I'm going to go ahead. Bam is, you know, face of the franchise type of thing.

16:23So is he honest. These are the two stars on your team. So I'm going to, I'm going to assume that these two guys are one and two. But if somebody could chase Bam for that number two spot or just who is going to be the number three score, I do think that there are some clear candidates. We have to include Dave Young Mitchell in this conversation, which sounds crazy, but he is going to have the ball in his hands a lot. For better or for worse, he's going to have the ball in his hands a lot. And so you just think about a guy who gets to make that kind of decision, basically, in every possession, he's going to have an opportunity to get shots up. It's not really Dave Young's game. So I don't think this would be my number one choice, but he has to be mentioned. The other one would be Clay Thompson. Is he just feasting on three after three after three? I mean, if he makes three, three pointers a game, that's nine points right there, you know, by itself. So he has to be included. And I think the other one is Andrew Wiggins, who is steady as they come, right?

17:25Between 15 and 18 points per game, basically, for his career, every single season, that might be enough to be the third leading score on this team. If Janus is averaging 30 and BAM is averaging 19 or 20, maybe maybe it's Wiggins at 16 points per game, 15 points per game, that could be enough to be the third leading score. Did I leave anybody out? You could probably make a case for Bobby Portis, I guess, as the guy who comes off the bench. You know, he's been a pretty steady score for those Milwaukee teams. And that was the guy who just came off. And you know, you're getting pretty much instant offense. He's going to have that three in a corner. He's going to have some opportunities at the basket due to his rebounding. I think he'll be productive enough. I don't think that that role is going to change because I don't think there's anybody in Miami's bench who's going to be able to contend or take that away from Bobby. So I think he's certainly a guy. He would probably be in my guess closer to your fourth leading score, but I think he's going to be right there next to somebody else, like as far as the third leading score. And to answer your question, I think it's Andrew Wiggins.

18:25I just think that's how it's going to shake up. I mean, if he had told me that at the start of this episode, that would be talking about Andrew Wiggins this much, we probably should have named it how vital is Andrew Wiggins to Miami's success because he's potentially closer. He's probably going to be the third leading score. He's just going to have those opportunities. He's the guy who can't create a shot as you pointed out earlier. So I think he'll have more chances than anybody else. You know, you're going to have ways of maybe limiting Yannis a little bit. Bam might not always be able to get his shot going, but you know that Andrew is capable of creating that shot. And I think his three point rate is going to be as good as it was last year because he's going to have more space to be able to knock down those shots. And as such, I think that's just a recipe that's all going to add up to him being the third leading score. That's probably the safe guess. There's just so many ways for Wiggins to just get his shot off whether he's getting three, he's off of Yannis and Bam, whether he's kind of creating for himself in the moments where Yannis and Bam are off the court, things like that.

19:28It's probably Wiggs because he's just so steady. He kind of lacks those big explosive games that's sort of the knocking on his way. He's never going to take over a game, but there's a bottom of the ledger production sort of quality to Andrew Wiggins this game where it's just like pouring a couple points in every quarter. And at the end of the game, he woke up and he's like, oh, wow, he had 17 points tonight. Okay, those are helpful. And so I would, if I had to bet a dollar, I'd bet on Wiggs, right? Now Tim Hortley, Jr. averaged 13 and a half points per game last year playing alongside Nikolay Yokech, Jamal Murray, Aaron Gordon for some of the season when he wasn't hurt. You know, Cam Johnson, like Tim Hortley, Jr. also has that way about him of just getting his points. I think he's at another door course candidate here, maybe not third leading score that might be too much. But like you mentioned Bobby Portis, there's one other door course candidate here that I think we should talk about. If Pell Larson takes the kind of leap that I think you and I both agree that he's capable

20:32of, it might be too much this year. But if he really becomes, I think there's a world where Pell Larson is so good on the ball and training camp that suppose just like, you know what, he's our backup point club. Basically, the way that High Mayhack as Jr. was essentially their backup point card last year. And if that's the case, maybe Pell Larson can get in this conversation. That three point shot would have to like really, really improve within a matter of a season for this to happen. But I do wonder if there's a world where it happens. I might be asking for too much here. It is a lot. I just, it's not even necessarily that he's not capable of the leap because I think we've seen him already. It's just, it almost feels like it's reductive of who Pell Larson is and this impact to say you just have to be a better score. Like that's obviously what we want from him too. But he does so many other little things that it's almost like the scoring isn't superfluous. It's just, it's almost limiting to what his impact in his game is to just say you have to be a better score. And again, I think with Hardaway, Bobby and Pella coming off the bench, I don't see a

21:37world where he's going to be the top score among those three. I just don't think he's going to get that opportunity as often as he would need to in order to be that guy. And that's not a knock. I mean, like, again, as I said in the first segment, Miami's lack of depth was widely overstated. And I think now we've seen that with the additions that they've made, it's actually a pretty solid strength of theirs. And I think based on what we saw from Pella and that's somebody I think that's widely overlooked also, you know, that's also why Miami's depth is actually one of their strengths is because Pella's a guy who can do a lot off the bench, make an impact for a certain over, get an easy layup off those turnovers. We've seen him do that. He can't handle the ball. He can knock down the shot on occasion. If he's a more consistent three-poch shooter, and I think that's the next step for him evolutionarily, like I think that's what's important for him to be able to continue to expand his office and be more reliable from that regard. But it's not like he's going to get so many shots coming off the bench along with those

22:37other players that I think he's going to be able to propel him to that next level. I think you make a great point. It's like Pellarsons game isn't necessarily just scoring, right? It's all the other things that he does at such a high level that he might not be Miami's third leading scorer. He could be among Miami's best players holistically. I won't go so far as to say he'll be their third best player. I think that again is asking way too much. But yeah, a little too to use your word reductive to just kind of think about the scoring with Pellars. I think that's probably a fair. I think that's fine, right? I mean, this is, I always say this, the superpower is consistency. That is the superpower. And that's the superpower with the honest. He's consistently giving you 25 to 30 points per game. He's not out there scoring 50, 60, he said, I mean, he can, and he has. But it's not the big explosive nights that stand out the stars. It's the consistency with which they attack every single game and they produce every single game.

23:38And the honest is consistent and Wiggs not a superstar, but a consistent role player in that he's just always going to clock in 15 to 18 points per game seemingly every single night. We have another question about some potential lineup experiments that Eric Bolster can run with next year. We're going to talk about that on the other side of the break. The problem with finding clothes that you can live it all day, be comfortable and do whatever you need to do, whether it's just chilling, go into meetings, playing golf, being on the move. That problem has been solved by Kozierth. The everyday polo is the answer. It's lightweight, built to move with you, just easy to wear wherever I've got it on right now and it's fabulous. Plus the Kozierth essential socks, they're exactly what the name suggests, soft, supportive, comfortable enough that you stop thinking about them halfway through the day. Plus Kozierth backs everything with a 10 year warranty and hassle free returns.

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25:42Let's wrap up our burning questions here on a Friday with a question from a listener, Chase Denow writes in on Twitter. Could you see Miami experimenting with a big lineup like Yannis, Bam, Yovich, Wigs, and Pella, or maybe do you add on Davey on Mitchell to have a ball handler out there. David, you've talked about wanting to see a big lineup a little bit like this. Is this what you had in mind? Yeah, I mean, I think that's perfectly, I think that's the way to go. You know, we talked about potential light ups or light ups we'd like to see. I think when you have a guy like Yannis who is the four-city is who can do so much, he's going to be asked to bring the ball up. He's going to be able to drive to the basket. He creates so much and draws so much attention and just happens to be stepping feet tall. You know, I think you're going to be able to do so much more. You're going to be more versatile and you've got two of the best, most versatile bigs in the NBA and Bam and Yannis. Why wouldn't you experiment? And it's not like Yovich is this loud in that regard too. Like we haven't seen that potential, but you know, we're haven't seen it realized

26:47anyway, but at 6-11, a legit 6-11, why wouldn't you want him out there to create opportunities offensively as well? So between those three guys, that's 6-9 or better or taller that can create offense. Okay, so first of all, this lineup is wild. Yannis Bamiovitch Wigspella, to your point, everybody's huge. There is almost no perimeter ball handling to speak of unless we think that Pelarcent is going to be there. You know, I understand the pushback is, well, Nicolay Yovich, this is what he's supposed to be, Point Nico, Point Yovich, all these things. Okay, fine. He has to earn these minutes, doesn't he? Maybe he does. I hope that he does. You and I, you know, I think I'm a little bit more bullish on the bounce back, but you know, we'll see. But right now, isn't that Bobby Portis's job? You know, by the way, a lineup of Pelarcent, Andrew Wiggins, Bobby Portis, Yannis, and Bam. Portis. I think that's what the point shooter, it works, or it could at least theoretically work.

27:48I do have a concern about the lack of ball handling and spacing, right? Because I think you could give the ball to Yannis and have him operate. Yannis is an underrated ball handler and passer. And I think that gets lost in the conversation of Miami's lack of ball handling is that Yannis is going to be handling it a lot. But if it's Yannis with a bunch of Biggs, Pelar and Bam, I don't know. Even with Yovic and Wiggins and Portis being capable three-point shooters, none of them are hard away or clay. So now you're asking Yannis to handle in those kind of constraints. I just don't know if the spacing works. And I don't know, like, what are you getting out of this lineup that you wouldn't be getting out of a small like what? What's the point of it? I guess is my question. Is it just to be big? Like, what are we getting out of a Yannis Bam, Yovic, Wiggs, Pelar lineup that we wouldn't be getting out of the starting lineup, for instance? Well, you know, I don't know that you can necessarily pin it on any one thing.

28:48I just kind of want them to hammer people out there. Like, you're already going to have so much of your identity based on what you can do defensively in your strengths in that department that sometimes I just want them to be a little bit, you know, you add Yannis and part of what makes him the great player that he is as well as the consistency that you pointed out before. It's just the sheer physical dominance, like, we've never seen anybody, maybe Connie Hockens, like, you don't see six 11 guys with that level of athleticism in burst and everything else that tie it all together so well. And yet, you know, why not use them? Like, among the many things that you can do this season, and I think versatility and optionality are going to be the driving themes of what this team is can do. Like, you've got one of the most versatile weapons in Yannis and corporate all those pigs out there. Hammer the hell out of people just making feel like they can't do anything because they just feel small out there in comparison to this big lineup that has versatility defensively.

29:51Because I don't think it's going to be a problem defensively necessarily because again, you got two of the best switching pigs. You got wigs who can switch, you know, Pella can pick up a big of necessary. I think it's it works on both ends and then offensively again, I think, you know, it's basketball. We don't have to over think it's you're probably going to have an easier time scoring of your six 10 than if you're six feet tall. And as such, if you have five guys that are among that upper echelon of height, it's going to be that much easier, at least in my opinion, I really think so. And you have three point shooting to like, it's not going to be not an option, you know, maybe it's not the best option, but you know what, that's another line up for another time, put your shooters out there because you've got big enough shooters with bam leading the way and then you can put hard away and, and, you know, Clay, et cetera. That's why not like just do honest, bam, porous, yo, vitch, Nick Richards, the hell with the missions who cares, who cares about shooting? Remember the buzz and excitement at the start of last year, like we were seeing fun again.

30:52And we're like, wow, we didn't think Spowe had it in him. I want Spowe to go crazy. Let him do what he does best, be the mad scientist tinkering around and is a, you know, basement lab and have him figure things out. And one of these things is like, yeah, just go out there and punch the hell out of you. I'm looking big. I'm fully. I'm here for fun. I would love to see a lineup like this. I would love to see a lineup just like, let's just who knows, right? And I'm sure Spowe's thought about it. But my question always is, for what purpose are we doing this? What are you getting out of this group that you wouldn't otherwise be getting? Like you said, like they're, they want to be physical. That's starting lines with plenty of physical. That starting lineup is not going to have a rebounding problem. That starting line is not going to have a defensive problem. Like I don't look at, like, oh, yeah, we need more rebounding. Let's put Nikolai Yovic in the game. You know, that's not really what he does. I guess you're right. Yeah. It's, I, I don't want to be like the poo poo guy here, but I, I, this screams to me. Oh my God.

31:52Clay and Tim Hardaway, Jr. hurt. We need to put a lineup out there at the beginning of the second quarter. Y'all go have fun. Let's figure this out together. And that's maybe what this lineup is. But you know what? That said, I hope we see something like that. So we'll see. That's going to do it for us today. Thanks so much for making Lockdown heat. Your first listen every day. For your second listen, find the Lockdown NBA podcast where there is no offseason over at Lockdown NBA Daily Matt Hayes and I. Keep you up to date on all of the offseason news and rumors. Everything you need to be the most informed NBA fan. Lockdown NBA game night every night. David is co-hosting that on Thursday nights. You can find Lockdown NBA on YouTube and wherever you listen to your podcast, part of the Lockdown podcast network, your team every day. CBS Sunday, September 13th, the new season of 60 minutes begins. Okay, let's go. Every second, a story unfolds. This is one of the great mysteries of human nature. Every minute, a new question.

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