“He’s the engine that drives this thing.” Even with the presence of a superstar like Jimmy Butler or a champion like Kyle Lowry, Bam Adebayo is clearly positioned to be the next face of the Heat’s gritty persona, RohanNadkarni writes
and Embiid. His isolations are up, both in volume and efficiency. Twenty-one games into the season, Adebayo already has three 30-point games, only two fewer than all of last year.Bam is doing most of his work in the paint. He’s one of only six players shooting at least 60% on at least 10 shots a night within 10 feet of the hoop. He’s also averaging 1.
Due to his prowess as a switch defender, teams are isolating against Bam at a noticeably lower rate than in the past. Per NBA.com, from 2020 to ’22 Adebayo guarded isolations for at least 10% of his defensive possessions every season, in large part due to the Heat’s switch-heavy scheme. So far this season, he’s guarding isos only 6.2% of the time, as even many of the game’s best perimeter scorers have not welcomed the matchup.
“Really manipulating the game offensively and thinking the game offensively, that’s much more complex than saying, ‘Hey, I gotta be aggressive and try to score 40,’” he says, adding that he enjoys the process of adding more to Bam’s plate, knowing he won’t be frustrated when challenged to do even more.
Even with the presence of a superstar like Butler or a champion like Lowry, Adebayo is clearly positioned to be the next face of the Heat’s gritty persona. “That’s one of my favorite things to observe is the genuine brotherhood,” Spoelstra says. “The mentor-mentee who is training the mentee to become a mentor. If you think about that and step back, it’s a special relationship. It’s what we’d hoped for but didn’t know with a young Bam.
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