2013 Miami’s spacing
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2013 Miami’s spacing
I often hear 2013 Miami get praised for their spacing, even called better than spacing of today’s team (how?, maybe relative to era) but what other teams during this time of early 2010’s was also running the 4 or 5 out offensive scheme (and how often was it even run in Miami?) like the Heat? Anyone have thoughts?
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The 2008 Magic were the team to put spacing on the map. They jumped from the 22nd offense to 7th offense in 2008 by going from 11 3PA/G upto 26 3PA/G, the largest, single season increase in NBA History. They went from just 15% 3PAr to 32% 3PAr from 2007 to 2008.
Miami and Spoelstra's revolution was simply moving Bosh to the corner on offense in 2012. This allowed for both Wade AND LeBron to utilize each other's slashing and off-ball strength to attack the rim. The issue with Bosh is he was a high-usage, face-up big man who loved to operate out of the high-post in isolation-like possessions. This absolutely kills spacing on a team since Bosh's playmaking isn't enough to endure high usage on a talented team.
With moving Bosh to the corner, the 2-man game of Wade/James opened up, their value as physical cutters without the ball and slashers with the ball was now optimized and we saw them cruise to a title with ATG defense and good offense.
2013 is when LeBron puts together his full arsenal offensively, his catch-and-shoot game grows and he becomes a combination of Shaq and Durant on offense. His first 6 games of the 27-game win streak he put up 31 points on 80 TS% which extended to 9 games was 30 points on 79 TS%.
LeBron had just 12 games in 2013 where he had < 50% FG%. That is unheard of in the 3P era, but he was still effective in these games averaging over 8 APG in those 12 games where his scoring dipped below 50% FG%. LeBron had more games > 68% FG% than he did under 50% FG%.
Shaq at his peak had 15 games > 68 FG% and 13 games < 50% FG%. Both era's were relatively equal in FG% [44.9% vs 45.3%].
2012 and 2013 is when we see Wade actually get to the rim more than he did since his 2006 season. We see Wade relying less on his long 2 and more on the inbetween game [3 ft - 16 ft].
But, this 2013 Miami team took just 22.1 3PA/G, which is less than the 2008 Orlando Magic who had 26 3PA/G.
Miami wasn't revolutionary in their spacing but they were revolutionary in moving a high-usage player to a lower role to optimize offensive efficiency. And what happened is Miami would try to force teams to go small, and if they went small, LeBron and Wade would simply live at the rim. And if teams went big, they need to have two-way bigs to punish the size [See Duncan], otherwise Miami's defense had enough help defense in the form of LeBron/Wade to defend the rim.
Miami and Spoelstra's revolution was simply moving Bosh to the corner on offense in 2012. This allowed for both Wade AND LeBron to utilize each other's slashing and off-ball strength to attack the rim. The issue with Bosh is he was a high-usage, face-up big man who loved to operate out of the high-post in isolation-like possessions. This absolutely kills spacing on a team since Bosh's playmaking isn't enough to endure high usage on a talented team.
With moving Bosh to the corner, the 2-man game of Wade/James opened up, their value as physical cutters without the ball and slashers with the ball was now optimized and we saw them cruise to a title with ATG defense and good offense.
2013 is when LeBron puts together his full arsenal offensively, his catch-and-shoot game grows and he becomes a combination of Shaq and Durant on offense. His first 6 games of the 27-game win streak he put up 31 points on 80 TS% which extended to 9 games was 30 points on 79 TS%.
LeBron had just 12 games in 2013 where he had < 50% FG%. That is unheard of in the 3P era, but he was still effective in these games averaging over 8 APG in those 12 games where his scoring dipped below 50% FG%. LeBron had more games > 68% FG% than he did under 50% FG%.
Shaq at his peak had 15 games > 68 FG% and 13 games < 50% FG%. Both era's were relatively equal in FG% [44.9% vs 45.3%].
2012 and 2013 is when we see Wade actually get to the rim more than he did since his 2006 season. We see Wade relying less on his long 2 and more on the inbetween game [3 ft - 16 ft].
But, this 2013 Miami team took just 22.1 3PA/G, which is less than the 2008 Orlando Magic who had 26 3PA/G.
Miami wasn't revolutionary in their spacing but they were revolutionary in moving a high-usage player to a lower role to optimize offensive efficiency. And what happened is Miami would try to force teams to go small, and if they went small, LeBron and Wade would simply live at the rim. And if teams went big, they need to have two-way bigs to punish the size [See Duncan], otherwise Miami's defense had enough help defense in the form of LeBron/Wade to defend the rim.
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They weren't really a spacing outlier, as mentioned Orlando was like a Dwight version of Giannis Bucks strategy, the Suns when they replaced Shaq with Frye in 2010 went crazy spacing, Utah had a stretch C in Okur, and Melo also moved to PF in 2013. However going from 2012 strategy with Lebron at SF with Joel Anthony starting to playing him at PF kind of helped popularize going smaller with more shooting.