WD wrote:I know I said "solutions without trades, firings or demotions" - so here is an update
1. More shot attempts for JJ/Miller/Shane/Cole
2. Speed up the offense
3. Lebron is not a PG, enough is enough
4. it's ok to go one more man deeper on bench
5. Call some offensive plays, stop letting Lebron be the focal point on offense, he's getting exposed(again)
These 2 I want to address.
Yes let's speed up the offense. Don't let defenses get set. Lebron/Wade/Bosh are athletic enough to attack as soon as they get up the court. Thing is...they dont. The attack attack attack mentality has gone away it feels and they have gone back to taking turns going at a set defense and try to make something out of nothing multiple times.
What this team needs and would highly benefit from I believe would be a motion offense. Have each players constantly moving around; have screens effectively set. Use a motion offense to get each individual player in the best positions to score or make something happen. Bringing the ball up from halfcourt and running a lame set is not how this team should operate.
This goes into point #5. How is Lebron getting exposed? For me it feels like after 2 years of being together, Coach Spoelstra still hasn't created a system that puts each individual player in their best position to score or make something happen.
In the first half of the season, Lebron/Wade/Bosh worked out of the post which seemed to help the entire offense as a whole. They have gone back to perimeter ball with ugly results. Spoelstra needs to create plays that gets them in good post position without them having to work extremely hard to get there. Thats what a good coach does.
The offense the Heat have right now make it really tough on the players. They have to work EXTREMELY hard to get a basket. I bet it's just as tiresome as having to defend as hard as they do. These players are being worked and it's showing.
Something needs to change and as much as I like Spoelstra, it does feel like he has lost the team. They can say whatever they want, but for stretches at a time, Miami feels like they let their foot off the pedal and take possessions off. When that happens, they need to catch up to where they were and they end up over-exerting themselves and ultimately losing the game.
Spoelstra needs to spend this off season creating a better offensive system, hopefully watch some tape with Lebron back in his Cleveland days and Bosh in his Toronto days and incorporate plays that they can be successful in without having to work as hard as they do now. They aren't machines, they are human and as a coach it is their job to make it easy for their superstars. We just aren't seeing that right now.
Im not saying fire him, but something needs to happen.
PEACE.
