With the exception of Bam Adebayo and Max Strus, who would almost look like “iron men” in this squad, all the players of miami have missed at least ten games this season. The more or less long absences of Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Kyle Lowry, Gabe Vincent or Duncan Robinson are also not unrelated to the mixed results of the Florida franchise (38-33).
One could also mention the name of Victor Oladipoknown for his physical fragility for a few years and who appeared 37 times (out of 71 possible) with the Heat so far (for 10.3 points, 3.4 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.4 steals average).
But this total may not change much in the coming weeks, because the soldier “Dipo” seems to be out of the rotation of Erik Spoelstra. In any case, this is what we observed last night, during this reception of the Grizzlies where the “combo guard” inherited his first “DNP (for Did Not Play)” of the season.
” The first guy I spoke to was Victor », confided precisely the Miami coach, when talking about his rotations reinforced by the recent returns of Kyle Lowry, Duncan Robinson and Ömer Yurtseven. ” We haven’t been in this situation for three or four months. But I had every intention of playing him in the first quarter. »
Nothing is set in stone
The situation Erik Spoelstra is talking about is that of a group finally complete (or almost, because Cody Zeller was still missing due to his broken nose).
Against Memphis, the Heat were actually able to rely on a rotation of… ten players (eleven with “garbage time”): Gabe Vincent, Tyler Herro, Jimmy Butler, Kevin Love and Bam Adebayo in the five, with Kyle Lowry, Caleb Martin, Max Strus, Duncan Robinson, Haywood Highsmith and Ömer Yurtseven off the bench.
What have a good indication of the future tactical intentions of Erik Spoelstra?
” I don’t have a definitive answer for you right now, just like I don’t have one for my locker room or anyone else. “Explained “Coach Spo” to journalists at a press conference. ” I talked about it at the shootaround, but the way things went [hier] evening don’t necessarily look like what I had in mind. »
| Victor Oladipo | Percentage | Bounces | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Crew | GM | Minimum | Shots | 3 points | LF | Off | Def | Early | pd | party | Int | bp | CT | Points |
| 2013-14 | ENT | 80 | 31 | 41.9 | 32.7 | 78.0 | 0.5 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 0.5 | 13.8 |
| 2014-15 | ENT | 72 | 36 | 43.6 | 33.9 | 81.9 | 0.7 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 0.3 | 17.9 |
| 2015-16 | ENT | 72 | 33 | 43.8 | 34.8 | 83.0 | 0.7 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 2.1 | 0.8 | 16.0 |
| 2016-17 | OKAY | 67 | 33 | 44.2 | 36.1 | 75.3 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 2.6 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 1.8 | 0.3 | 15.9 |
| 2017-18 | IND | 75 | 34 | 47.7 | 37.1 | 79.9 | 0.6 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 0.8 | 23.1 |
| 2018-19 | IND | 36 | 32 | 42.3 | 34.3 | 73.0 | 0.6 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 5.2 | 2.0 | 1.7 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 18.8 |
| 2019-20 | IND | 19 | 28 | 39.4 | 31.7 | 81.4 | 0.5 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 0.9 | 2.5 | 0.2 | 14.5 |
| 2020-21 * | All Teams | 33 | 33 | 40.8 | 32.6 | 75.4 | 0.4 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 2.5 | 0.4 | 19.8 |
| 2020-21 * | HOO | 20 | 34 | 40.7 | 32.0 | 78.3 | 0.4 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 5.0 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 2.6 | 0.5 | 21.2 |
| 2020-21 * | IND | 9 | 33 | 42.1 | 36.2 | 73.0 | 0.1 | 5.6 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 2.0 | 0.2 | 20.0 |
| 2020-21 * | MIA | 4 | 28 | 37.2 | 23.5 | 66.7 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 1.8 | 3.5 | 0.5 | 12.0 |
| 2021-22 | MIA | 8 | 22 | 47.9 | 41.7 | 73.7 | 0.4 | 2.5 | 2.9 | 3.5 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 2.0 | 0.1 | 12.4 |
| 2022-23 | MIA | 37 | 27 | 39.2 | 31.6 | 76.1 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 2.4 | 1.4 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 10.3 |
| Total | 499 | 32 | 43.6 | 34.6 | 78.9 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 2.5 | 0.5 | 16.9 | |
