The Miami Heat prides itself as team where defense leads to offense to win games, but what happens when the offense gives the ball right back to the other team with turnovers?
Talented two-way players are great in theory, but all too often the great players on defense don’t know what to do with the ball when on offense.
To paraphrase the classic rant by the late Dennis Green, the Heat are who people thought they were.
For example 7’0” Kelly Olynyk is suited more to orchestrate a triangle offense from the elbow than copy the pull-up jump-shooting style of a 6’3” Damian Lilliard, yet Olynyk attempted more 3-pointers (181) on the Heat than anyone not named Josh Richardson.