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Tuesday's Heat Links: Derrick Williams looking for breakout season in Miami

Williams hopes stability makes him more than Beasley 2.0: Success is the ultimate goal. For now, Derrick Williams is glad to start with something as simple as stability. "I've had five coaches in two seasons alone." the free-agent forward signed by the Miami Heat in July said. "So it's hard to be consistent when I've never really had a consistent head coach." While Williams attempted to find his way under Michael Malone, Ty Corbin, George Karl with the Sacramento Kings in 2014-15, and then Derek Fisher and Kurt Rambis with the New York Knicks last season, he saw players with less pedigree able to flourish with the Heat under Erik Spoelstra in a system cultivated for decades by Pat Riley.