• On Justise Winslow, who was limited to 18 games because of shoulder surgery: “Justise coming off the summer that he had. If was able to play a full season, not just the shoulder injury but the wrist injury coming out of preseason, would have had a major impact on this team. I thought he had a terrific summer, along with J-Rich. Everybody you talk to coming out of Orlando, they were two of the top players coming out of the Summer League. People were really commenting, ‘they followed up an impressive rookie year with a great summer league. Not good, but great summer league.
“And then a full summer of development. Both were ready to make that next jump. And both got hurt, unfortunately. I haven’t forgotten the potential and what we can build on this summer. Justise brings a tremendous amount of versatility, of defense, of toughness, of winning plays, of things we emphasize. Justise fills in a lot of those intangible gaps; he knows how to impact winning. That certainly could have made an impact.”
Spoelstra said Winslow is “way ahead of schedule” in his recovery from January shoulder surgery, though he is not yet cleared for contact work.
• But can Winslow be a three and D player? “Yes and he can create that game. People get caught up in so much of the wrong narrative. We are not trying to develop Justise Winslow to become Chris Mullin. Totally different basketball player. If you want to talk about three-and-D, one thing he can do is impact defensively and take away threes because of his ability to defend one through five and that’s unique in this league.
“He can generate threes for you offensively because he puts a lot of pressure in the paint, off the dribble, in transition. He’s an aggressive, bruising, physical type of player and he sees the floor. That helps create your three-point game.
I don’t want the focus on how many threes he makes. He will make enough. He is dedicated enough to work on them. It will be about getting into world class shape, getting healthy so he can make all the plays he needs that impact and help your team win. It will be my job to put him in spots where he can be efficient and find small victories and build on those right away. I thought we would have. Particularly if he didn’t have the wrist injury, he would have been an efficient offensive player. It might have looked differently than people would have wanted it to be.
“He will find a way to help your team. We would have found a way to put him into his strengths and build on some of the weaknesses. His weaknesses, whatever the perceived ones are, will not be our focus this summer. It will be his strengths and being in world class upper echelon shape and health will be the priority.”
http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article145007669.html
Yeah, I think I'm going with Spo's pov. Sorry, RealGMers.
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